414: Monkey King: Ham-bushed
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
🐷Sun Wukong is a bad friend🐷
😈 The Creature: Each Tened
A horse committed to justice. If the punishment for every crime was searing thigh fire.
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"Low Coal Camper" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Morning Antic" by Chad Crouch
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in the Journey to the West with Sun Wu Kong, |
| 0:05.4 | the Monkey King, and we'll see why you should avoid that all-you-can-eat buffet. |
| 0:09.9 | That seems like it's just a bunch of demons on a mountainside. |
| 0:13.6 | Because it's actually just a bunch of demons on a mountainside. |
| 0:18.1 | The creature at this time is why you shouldn't steal your brother's horse on a Sunday, because |
| 0:22.7 | the punishment in no way |
| 0:24.6 | fits the crime. |
| 0:31.0 | This is Myths and Legends, |
| 0:32.8 | episode 414, |
| 0:34.8 | Hambushed. |
| 0:40.4 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:44.4 | Some are incredibly popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:49.0 | Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 0:53.1 | We are back in the story of the Journey to the West, or we follow Schwanzong, the human monk, |
| 0:58.5 | who was tasked with retrieving holy scriptures from the Thunder Clap Temple in the West. |
| 1:03.9 | Since the road is impossibly long and dangerous, he was granted four guards, essentially |
| 1:09.4 | monsters on a redemption arc for his trip. |
| 1:12.4 | There was Sun Wu Kong, the Monkey King, a superpowered monkey who turned against heaven, |
| 1:17.9 | and nearly won hundreds of years prior. |
| 1:20.8 | He was imprisoned and granted to Shwanzong as a bodyguard, and he can create doubles from |
| 1:25.2 | himself from the hair on his back, as well as use his |
| 1:28.3 | shape-shifting rod. |
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