This week on myths and legends, we're back in the stories of the monkey king.

We'll see how, if you're being attacked by bandits, the best solution is always a nice,

friendly chat. And how, when fighting a vicious doppelganger,

you need to take a moment for a bathroom break.

The creature this week is a real life dinosaur who is just own worst enemy. This is myths and legends episode tell stories from mythology and folklore.

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

Others are stories that might be new to you but are

definitely worth a listen. Okay so real quickly in the story of the Journey to the West we follow

Schwann Zong the human monk who was tasked with retrieving holy scriptures by the Bodhisatva

Guyan from the Buddha and the Thunderclap temple in the west.

Since the road is impossibly long and dangerous, he was granted four guards, essentially monsters on a redemption arc for his trip.

There was Sun Woe Kong, the Monkey King, a super-powered monkey who turned against heaven

and nearly won hundreds of years prior. He was imprisoned and granted to

Schwansong as a bodyguard, but to control him, Monkey has to wear a golden headband that can

tighten. There's also Pigsy, a stinky, appetite-driven pig-man, for whom intelligence is a dump

stat, and Sandy, a Dower and Indigo Sandman. There's also their horse, which is actually

a dragon, but who almost never leaves the form of a horse.

We will catch up with the party on the road, you know, basically as always. Monkey I'm not going to lie. I'm nervous. Schwann song, looking at the mountain ahead of them.

Son Wu Kong, the Monkey King, took a deep breath.

It was the third time this morning that Master's reservations had stopped their progress. He heard all about it before.

Mountains meant demons, demons meant kidnapping and preparing Schwansong to be

eaten, and then a somehow more traumatic rescue, where the monkey king,

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