This week on Myths and Legends we're wrapping up part one of the monkey king from Chinese folklore

We'll learn how being able to tuck a Mack truck behind your ear can solve most problems and how crashing a party

Stealing all the hors d'oeuvres and taking a wine nap might just get you and your friends immortality

Then on the creature the week it's an angry

Surly unicorn with a long hairy horn

This is Myths and Legends episode 148B leaps and bounds

This is a podcast where I tell stories from mythology and folklore

Some are incredibly popular stories you think you know but with surprising origins others are stories that might be new to you

But are definitely worth a listen previously on the show the monkey king Sunwoo Kong

was born from a rock on the flower fruit mountain and quickly rose up to be the king monkey

He learned martial arts transformations and he elixir of immortality from an immortal sage and came back to make alliances with the dragons

Unicorns and everything else surrounding his mountain

He coerced the dragon king into giving him the monkey king equivalent of Thor's hammer a golden staff that could change size and weight

And that only he could lift the four dragon kings of the sea had a problem with this though

And they had even more of a problem when the monkey king beat their teeth from their heads

Things were going well for the monkey king until the gods of the underworld decided he was getting too powerful and sent their generals to bring him in

Stand down

The handsome monkey king commanded confused his generals held up their paws a whole rippling through the ranks like a beastly set of

40,000 monkey soldier dominoes

The troops obeyed though clearly up in arms

Wasn't their leader immortal and if so why was he now being captured and dragged behind agents of the gods of death

He would handle it some woong assured them all

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