426: 1001 Nights: Djinning Up Some Trouble
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
🧞♂️Trying to meet the love of your life? Maybe ask for help from two genies trying to kill each other.🧞♂️
Even if you're not trying to meet the love of your life or, like the characters in today's story, actively trying to avoid meeting the love of your life because you really don't want to marry, you still might end up falling for someone anyway. And then maybe dying of a broken heart because that's apparently actually a thing.
😈 The Creature: Ebu Gogo
They will take your stuff and your children...and then ask the children how to cook themselves because no one wants to eat raw children, not even hairy monsters with (maybe) dog teeth.
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🎵 Music Credits
"Cabana Flats" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Ilustrad" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Lana Minor" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Scallat" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Shepman" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Steady Now" by Blue Dot Sessions
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Quick disclaimer, there's the threat of sexual assault at the end of today's episode, as well as some other brief, adult-ish stuff. |
| 0:07.1 | Please see the post on mythpodcast.com for more info. |
| 0:10.4 | This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in the stories of 1001 nights, and you'll see what to do if your kid doesn't want to get married. |
| 0:18.0 | Jail. |
| 0:18.8 | Or, if they get sick, jail. Or if they fall in love. |
| 0:23.2 | Jail. But jail with leather couches, apparently. And we'll see how leaving your spouse alone in the |
| 0:28.6 | desert on your honeymoon might actually be a bad idea. Surprise. The creature this week is one who |
| 0:35.3 | might steal your kids or your stuff, but who you may be able to kill with kindness, literally. |
| 0:44.0 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 426, jinnying up some trouble. |
| 0:57.2 | This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 1:01.0 | Some are incredibly popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 1:05.6 | Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 1:09.4 | As I said, we're back in the tales of 1001 nights, |
| 1:12.9 | the origin of Alibaba, Aladdin, and Sinbad, among others. |
| 1:16.8 | And today we're telling a story of love, and hate, |
| 1:20.9 | and hate that turns into love. |
| 1:22.8 | We'll jump into today's story with a sultan, |
| 1:25.4 | who has the one problem all middle-aged rulers seem to be fixated on |
| 1:29.7 | you know okay just i don't get it i I have four wives. I have three-score concubines. I lie with a different one each night. |
| 1:51.2 | Why don't I have an air yet? The sultan shook his head. I don't, that's a lot of information we really don't need, the vizier grimaced. |
| 2:00.2 | He knew better than to state that |
| 2:01.7 | there was a single common denominator in all the sultan's couplings. So he shrugged. Had the sultan considered |
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