This week, on the Myths and Legends podcast, we're finishing up the story of Honkildong.

And you'll see how you can turn your next potluck dinner into a fantastic heist

and had a deadlift to 1,200 pounds. Spoiler alert. Magic helps. Then, on the

creature of the week, we'll meet Cactus Cat, who despite a scary appearance with this armored,

spiky tail, and Wolverine-style bone claws, he just wants to get drunk in the desert.

This is the Myths and Legends podcast, Episode 38B, Master of Two Worlds.

This is a podcast where I tell stories from folklore. Some are incredibly popular stories you

think you know, but with surprising origins. Other stories you might not have heard, but really

should. Previously on the podcast, we met a young man named Honkildong. He was born to

High Minister Honk. Then the third most powerful person in the Kingdom of Josian,

encompassing modern-day North and South Korea, and Minister Honk's serving girl,

in Konkibai. Because of his low-born status, Gildong wouldn't be able to sit for examinations

to become a government official and rise to fulfill his lofty ambitions. In addition,

Minister Honk loved him and his mother, which led to some jealousy from the previous senior

Konkibai, Trong, who conspired with three other people to kill Gildong. Weeks later,

those three people were dead on the floor of Gildong's shack. Trong was implicated,

and Gildong had gone into a self-imposed exile. Oh, and Gildong knows a lot of magic.

High Minister Honk looked at the three headless bodies. On the floor of his son's old shack,

the shack they had essentially imprisoned him in because of a lie, a lie from the fisiaminist.

One of the bodies on the floor, his eldest son had told him everything, how Trong,

his senior Konkibai knew these three, and had been all too eager to play in Gildong's death.

High Minister Honk chastised his son for being so stupid that Minister was furious,

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