PODCAST · comedy
Finding Monster Right
by Finding Monster Right
Join Adam and Allie as they answer questions you've never asked about monsters from folklore, pop culture, and our own world.
Episodes
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Monkey Trial: Custody Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Do humans deserve to keep ruling Earth, or is it time to give the apes a chance? Or is there a secret, third, weird option? Your not one, not two, but THREE hominid co-hosts put their heads together and decide the fate of the Planet of the Apes! Discord (“Happy Bug Catching Contest Day,...
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Lost and Found World: What Happens After Discovering The Primevals?
It took over half a century for the stop-motion movie The Primevals (2023) to finally get released. This grand tale of lizard men, yetis, different lizard men, and different yetis (who are also lizard men) left us with a concern that rarely gets addressed in "lost world" media: What happens next?...
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Systema Kaijuum: Fixing the MonsterVerse's Broken Taxonomy (FMR: After Dark)
In Monarch's defense, how do you house a type specimen that's larger than the museum? Discord (“Pirates of the Cambrian: Curse of the Black Uh Do Pearls Exist Yet Hang On Let Me Check”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email: [email protected] Bluesky: @monsterrightpod.bsky.social...
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Our Episode About My Dinner with Andre: They Said It Couldn't Be Done!
A realistic, two-hour dinner conversation doesn't look like the kind of movie where you'd find a monster, right? But looks can be deceiving. This week, we're going where no monster podcast has gone before! Discord (“Yardwork is just an excuse for adults to play dinosaur.”):...
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Angels in the Job Field: Payday in Heaven
Be not afraid! Eternal bliss doesn't pay the bills, so it's time for the heavenly host of angels to proclaim with unending hymns the reason for the 6,000-year gap in their resumé. Dust off your halo, preen your wings, and call your optometrist, because this week we're getting biblically accurate!...
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Fortune Pteller! Van Meter Visitor: Omen or Flown In?
Way back in cowboy times, a small town in Iowa was visited by a pterodactyl with laser vision. What better way is there to start the morning than by unpacking that? Discord (“[recent quote from Discord]”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email: [email protected] Bluesky:...
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You Can Never Go Back in the Water: What Are Jaws 5-19 About?
In 1975, Universal Pictures released Jaws, the birth of a new shark-centric media landscape. But after the critical and financial failure of its three subsequent installments, the franchise was indefinitely abandoned. Now, in 2025, the powers that be have called on two snarky monster devotees to...
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No One Mourns the Wicked: How to Find Monster Right (FMR: After Dark)
This episode may contain some politics, mission statements, and broad generalizations. My road of good intentions led where such roads always lead. Discord (“Look into the dark of what you do not know and feel hope instead of fear.”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email:...
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Glamour and Song: Adam's Labyrinth (The Allie Files: Finale)
Adam was missing for several weeks in 2023. Upon his return, something still felt wrong. Imagination, it turns out, is a very dangerous thing. Discord (“Unfortunately, it is possible that being in such proximity to me scrambled Yarrow's brain, cosmic horror that I am.”):...
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Petting Out Fire with Cats-oline: Can Any Pets Be Cat People?
More people are familiar with the David Bowie song "Cat People" than they are the 1982 film for which the song was written. This tale of sex panthers, melting corpses, and unethical zoos has us wondering exactly how uncomfortable we should be the next time we find ourselves in a pet store.…
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The Vincent Price is Right: No Mere Mortal Can Resist the Evil of The Thriller
Do you have the soul for getting down? Is Michael Jackson supposed to be a werecat? Who taught the zombies all this choreography? All these questions and many more will be answered in our examination of the spookiest music video of all time! Discord (“I should curse more stuff”):...
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Deepfake Feyfolk: Can YOU Solve the Case of the Cottingley Fairies?
As a kid, did you ever tell a whimsical story to explain why you got so dirty playing outside? In doing so, did you ever convince Arthur Conan Doyle that you could manifest fairies with your mind? Well, that extremely specific scenario did happen to the elementary school-aged perpetrators of one…
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Ogtha Wrong Places: One Redditor's Cockroach-Wife (FMR: After Dark)
It's time to check in on someone who's clearly checked out. Discord (“WE'RE ON A BOAT”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email: [email protected] Bluesky: @monsterrightpod.bsky.social DISCLAIMER: By listening to this podcast episode, the listener forfeits all right to their immortal…
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Hasta la Vista, ChatGPT: Can We Take Skynet's Job?
The timeline has changed quite a bit since we went on break, so now we're back to save humanity from the rise of the machines! AI can't take our jobs if we take AI's job first, and the most prominent of those jobs is sending Terminators back in time to kill John Connor. Come with us if you want a...
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Through the Fire: Lay Down Your Weapon
War! The Merchant Church has begun its full assault on the Falcon Corps. Their ultimate weapon is ready to reduce Cay Caldera to a scorched rock upon the Stygian Sea. Is this the fiery end of the last free city in the world, or will our heroes find the way out of the danger zone? Discord (“I will...
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Through the Fire: Every Moment Counts
Our heroes Wren and Fletcher are joined by their friend Impik on a mission to deal with the vampiric banker Count Esvanni... And that should give his evil plan just enough time to go off. Discord (“hater's will say its photoshop”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email…
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Through the Fire: Right the Ship
In their ongoing quest to stop the Merchant Church from obtaining a weapon of mass destruction, our heroes reconoiter with Wren's ex-wingmate, the Falcon Corps deserter Drusilla, to rescue a hostage from a ship in the Merchant Church's blockade of the island. Discord (“This server is five cowards...
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Through the Fire: Swimming with Sharks
Continuing our high-flying D&D adventure, Wren (Allie) and Fletcher (Ben) keep a promise they made ten years ago to Demetria the sphinx. However, it looks like she may have some other, more selachian guests. Discord (“You Are Not Immune To Gothaganda”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email:...
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Through the Fire: As the Crow Flies
We're proud to present our first-ever FMR Special Event! Ten years after Wren (Allie) and Fletcher (fiend of the show Ben) completed basic training, the Falcon Corps convenes in a tower high above Cay Caldera to discuss an existential threat to their island home, the last free city in the world....
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Mew Is Your Daddy and What Is Mewtwo?
Pokémon turns 40 this year (Not really)! And Adam is about to become a dad (Really)! Before his paternity leave, it's the perfect time to go back to the '90s and re-assess Mewtwo, everyone's favorite evil clone of a psychic cat-thing. Discord (“WHO'S THAT POKÉMON? It's Tom!”):...
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Gorgon-ization: Medusa Gets Her Schist Back Together (feat. August Hakvaag)
Our fourth Pod-iversary is the perfect time to gaslight, gatekeep, and girlboss our way through Greek mythology, because we're helping Medusa get her life back together! Our guest this week is our friend August Hakvaag of the podcast "Wing Women", a queer-led actual play podcast about Soviet...
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A Brood Awakening: Could the Cicada God SCP be a BFF? (feat. kinchtheknifeblade)
Dealing with the SCP Foundation can be a grim affair, but it helps to bring an expert. Kinchtheknifeblade, the creator of SCP-3004 (among many others) joins us on our first trip to the Foundation to seek out a peaceful resolution to the threat posed by the cicada-shaped deity known as Imago (who...
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The Tooth Will Set You Free: The Great Tooth Fairy Conspiracy
We hope your ready to brush up on tooth fairy lore, because we have questions! What's the point of collecting children's teeth? What does the Tooth Fairy even look like? What do different cultures do with their teeth? Elephants? The Easter Bunny? This episode fully got away from us, to be honest....
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Too Cool for Nazgûl: Who Can’t Kill the Witch-King?
The Witch-King of Angmar talks a big game for someone prophesized to not fall "by the hand of man" in a world filled with many people who fit the bill of "not a man." We know about one loophole in this prophecy, but just how many are there? Discord (“I'm going to steal the Akashic Records.”):...
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WHERE IS THE WIZARD? (FMR: After Dark)
Apparently you can do better than Esrahaddon. Discord (“Everything is strictly ecclesiastical here...”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email: [email protected] Bluesky: @monsterrightpod.bsky.social DISCLAIMER: By listening to this podcast episode, the listener forfeits all right to...
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Calling Your Bluff Creek: We're Busting the Biggest Name in Bigfoot Footage
The Patterson-Gimlin film is the most famous video in cryptozoology, but how many old white men with ridiculous cowboy names could possibly be responsible for it? We dip one big toe into true crime as the case takes as many twists and turns as could possibly be expected for a single Wikipedia…
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Thy Kingdom Kong, Godzilla Done: Can a Kaiju Movie Work with No Humans?
Ape-ril is back and bigger than ever! We just saw Godzilla x Kong: A New Empire. While we loved to see our boys getting along (mostly) and the screenwriters cribbing ideas from our goofball monster show (VERY allegedly), it got us thinking about the perennial complaint about this kind of movie.…
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Tom's Great Muppet Caper (FMR: After Dark)
Tom is back to talk Muppets, and we've never felt more alive! Discord (“Sexy minotaur love is FORBIDDEN.”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email: [email protected] Bluesky: @monsterrightpod.bsky.social DISCLAIMER: By listening to this podcast episode, the listener forfeits all right to...
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Azula Oblongata: Don't Go to The Spirit World for Therapy
There is a gulf of understanding between humans and spirits in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Crossing that gulf to provide relief for troubled mortal souls is a noble goal. But maybe you shouldn't start by trying to be an unlicensed therapist for Azula, the final boss of therapy patients. Discord...
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Letter to the Predator: Getting a Yautja to Hunt Us (feat. Dylan Roth & Dalton Deschain)
There's no way the Predator would consider two chaotic podcast hosts to be worthy prey. How about four? Dylan and Dalton from "Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe?" help us think of ways to get an intergalactic hunter with glowing lube in his veins to notice us! Discord (“'Would you still love me...
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Monster Lover Bingo (FMR: After Dark)
I think we may have gone too far this time. Discord (“Finding Conster Right (The Con About Finding Monsters, Right?)”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email: [email protected] Bluesky: @monsterrightpod.bsky.social DISCLAIMER: By listening to this podcast episode, the listener forfeits...
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Talking Monster Right: A Dungeon Master's Guide to Cay Caldera
Oh, hi! We didn't see you there. Come on in! We were just talking about our D&D episode. Adam has a whole setting that we barely scratched the surface of, so for our 150th episode, we'll be going Inside the DM's Studio and discussing the ins and outs of Cay Caldera. Discord (“Text Channel Where…
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XXXtraterrestrial Beings: The God of Love is Real and Dead
From the fruitylicious mind of Erich von Däniken, author of Chariots of the Gods?, comes a Valentine's Day episode that asks a question: Is it possible, as Adam and Allie suggest, that Ancient Aliens is real and all the gods are extrateRestrial beings? And if so, does that mean Aphrodite was real...
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The Meesa-lorian: Making Jar Jar Binks Less Embarrassing
Last year was a bad year for franchise films. That can only mean one thing: it's Jar Jar's time to shine, baby! That's right, we're calling in the muy muy bombad huge-o guns. But before he can save blockbuster geek cinema, we have to the last of June-uary's beachy vibes to save Mr. Binks. Discord...
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The Commotion in the Ocean: Moby-Dick vs. OceanGate vs. The Yacht Orcas
We start the year with the aquatic monsters and beachy vibes of June-uary. But a lot went down in the ocean last year, and there's no better time to pit 2023's greatest marine combatants against the white whale who always prevails, the cetacean sensation, the odontocete that can't be beat, the...
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You Can Put a Horse in Water: The Hippocampus and Other Wrong Centaurs
We've done centaurs, but we've never done them with (say it with me) beachy vibes! That's right, it's June-uary 4: The Revenge! Our centaur episode is one we think we could've done better, so we're dedicating the first episode of 2024 to equine hybrids, wet and wild alike. Discord…
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Mothman Saves Christmas (feat. Paul Matijevic)
Ah Dang, Mothman Won't Move Out (He Said It Was Just For The Weekend) creator Paul Matijevic (@ettin64) joins us for a deluxe-length session of his TTRPG! But will it be enough to save Christmas (and a bridge) from the forces of chaos? Discord (“Me and the boys boutta get spaghettified”):...
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Boy, Let Me Tell You What: The Devil Went Down to Georgia (And You Can Too!)
Listeners, rosin up your headphones and play this podcast hard, 'cause Hell's broke loose in Georgia, and the Devil's on FMR. If you listen, you might laugh or your eyes might roll, but either way Allie gets your soul! Discord (“Season's Greason's”): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2 Email:...
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Wake Me Up Wendigo-Go: We're Disentangling Algonquin Snow Woes
A deer skull perched atop the body of a furred, carnivorous cryptid. For many, that is what a wendigo is. We're looking for a deeper meaning as we take a look at some more mythologically accurate interpretations of everybody's favorite cannibalistic spirit. North American Indigenous Tribal Food...
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Over the Garden Wall: I'mma Build the Best Dang Mini-Mall This Side o' the Mississip!
A nostalgic, classic Americana pervades the Unknown, the liminal realm where forgotten stories go. And what could be more American than tearing down a magical forest to build a monument to capitalism that will be profitable for about 30 years? It's not exactly paradise, but we're paving it…
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I Can Fix Her: Jennifer's Body (2009)
We're ringing in Halloween with a cult classic, some late '00s nostalgia, and our least subtle episode title yet! Join us in looking back at toxic friendships, the misogynist hate-boner that society had for Megan Fox, and a criminally underappreciated horror-comedy. Adam made an appearance in The...
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Pyramid Scheme: Making a Good Deal with Bill Cipher
At one point in this episode, Adam says "Let's get fucking wrecked!" in a passable Bill Cipher impression. Folks, if that isn't worth the price of admission, I don't know what is. (No refunds, though!) Discord (“She can't find out that we're DEFINITELY three sea otters.”):...
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50 Feys of Fey: Fey-r and Loathing in Las Fey-gas
Adam makes his glorious return just in time for our favorite month! October, you see, is a time of year when the boundaries between the planes are thin. And what happens in the realms of the fey doesn't always stay there... Find resources for abortion and pro-choice advocacy at: podvoices.help...
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Ghost Dogs, Bad Luck, and the Discovery of Magic (FMR After Dark: The Allie Files)
Will you follow me into the dark? The podcast we’re spotlighting this week is Bone & Sickle, a celebration of the intersection of horror, folklore, and history hosted by Al Ridenour and Sarah Chavez. I've basically been doing a poor imitation of it all month; check out the genuine article!...
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The Silurian Hypothesis: Pre-Human Civilizations (FMR After Dark: The Allie Files)
To boldly go where someone has gone before... The media we’re spotlighting this week is that Matt Smith Doctor Who episode about dinosaurs on a spaceship, entitled "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". Look, the episode is late enough as is. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mm5c9 Discord ("Eat fruit."):...
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Cyclopes and Searching for the Origin of Myth (FMR After Dark: The Allie Files)
Let's talk about the elephant in the room. Or is it "the Cyclops in the cave"? The media we’re spotlighting this week is Cyclops: The Myth and Its Cultural History, by Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=WSPdDwAAQBAJ Discord ("Baby Lugia"):...
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Carmilla and the Art of Adapting Broody Gay Vampires (FMR After Dark: The Allie Files)
Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood. Buckle up, Creampuffs. The media we’re spotlighting this week is honestly everything on this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmilla#In_popular_culture Discord ("All anime girls are just cats?"): https://discord.gg/Y5Uw6sdmU2…
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Grey Aliens and the UFO Abduction Narrative (FMR After Dark: The Allie Files)
Every grey cloud has a silver lining. The podcast we’re spotlighting this week is Oh No, Ross and Carrie, the show where they don’t just report on fringe science, spirituality, and claims of the paranormal, but take part themselves. They show up - so you don’t have to.:...
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No Sleep 'til We Accurately Recall All of Shapeshifter (1999) (feat. Up All Night)
Panpsychism is the view that “the mind or a mindlike aspect is fundamental and ubiquitous to all reality.” Consciousness is the means by which the universe understands itself. So when we say we’re going to try and recall everything that happens in Shapeshifter (1999), we’re doing a service to the...
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Isn't She Loki?: Putting the Miss Back in Mischief
ᚱᛖᛏᚢᚱᚾ ᛟᚢᚱ ᚲᚹᛖᛖᚱ-ᚲᛟᛞᛖᛞ ᛚᛟᚲᛁ, ᚦᛟᚢ ᚲᛟᚹᚨᚱᛞ-ᛗᛟᚢᛊᛖ! Does anyone read these descriptions? ᚹᛁᛚᛚ ᛊᛟᛗᛖᛟᚾᛖ ᚲᚨᚱᛖ ᛁᚠ ᛁ ᚹᚱᛁᛏᛖ ᚦᛁᛊ ᛁᚾ ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛊ? The podcast we’re spotlighting this week is Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe?, a podcast where Dylan Roth and Dalton Deschain are tasked with raising the Dark Universe...
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