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Myths and Legends

253-Monkey King: Severance

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, Arts, Books, History

4.825.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We're back on the road on the Journey to the West and our heroes are starving. The solution? Some murders, some personnel changes, and human buns.

The creature is a devil fish, a not-so-friendly businessfish.

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All music by Blue Dot Sessions

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Cast Media presents Invisible Choir, a true crime podcast that explores the most

0:06.9

heinous murders through investigative storytelling and primary source audio.

0:10.9

The hatchet came so fast that I don't think I had time to think, but when it hit my head

0:15.6

all of a sudden I said this is something really serious that's happened in here and

0:19.2

just about putting those thoughts together and I heard the gunshot.

0:22.2

We'll take you on an unforgettable emotional journey to the crime scenes themselves.

0:26.7

This week explore the individual and community impact behind some truly horrendous and

0:31.0

often preventable crimes.

0:33.1

Subscribe, listen and review Invisible Choir on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:38.4

New episodes air every other week.

1:04.1

The creature this week is a business fish, who will either hug you, drain your bank account,

1:09.2

or drag your neighborhood into the sea.

1:17.3

This is Myths and Legends, episode 253, Severance.

1:25.8

This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore.

1:29.1

Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with sprizing origins

1:33.1

and others are stories that might be new to you but are definitely worth a listen.

1:36.9

This week we're back in the story of the Journey to the West.

1:40.2

This is very episodic so surprisingly you don't need to have heard the previous episodes

1:44.9

to jump in here.

1:46.3

Basically, Invisible China, a monk, Chuan Zeng, was recruited by the Tang Emperor to

1:51.6

journey to a temple in the West to retrieve scriptures that would redeem humans from death.

1:56.9

Their true purpose doesn't really matter, it's just sort of a magical mcguffin to give

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