428: Monkey King: The Pride
Myths and Legends
Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser
4.8 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
🐺Inside each of us there are two wolves. They are named 'Shifty' and 'Freaky'.🐺
Which one wins? Well it doesn't matter because they're both demons so maybe try to starve both of them out. Or spit in their faces and steal their name tags, like Sun Wukong does. No wrong answers because, in the world of the Journey to the West, anything goes.
But for real, we catch back up with Monkey, Sandy, Pigsy, and the Tang Monk on their travels as they enter year 14 and the final leg of their journey. But are they ready for what awaits them?
😈 The Creature: Intulo
An evil walking and talking lizard who just wants to watch the world die. But only if he has to die, eventually. He does? Ok, then bye, world.
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"Deacon Jeanie" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Galoshes" by Poddington Bear
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This week, on Myths and Legends, we're back in the stories of the Monkey King, |
| 0:04.4 | and we'll learn that if you're jacked and oiled sons only think about martial arts, |
| 0:08.9 | maybe don't let them make friends with a supernatural monkey. |
| 0:12.2 | That'll just encourage them. |
| 0:14.4 | Also, you'll see why you should microchip your pets, |
| 0:17.2 | because they might start a gang and terrorize the countryside. |
| 0:21.0 | The creature of this time is an unwelcome lizard man, |
| 0:23.5 | who's the reason we all die, |
| 0:25.3 | and that's also probably why he's not very welcome. |
| 0:32.9 | This is Myths and Legends, episode 428, The Pride. |
| 0:41.9 | Thank you. This is Myths and Legends, episode 428, The Pride. This is a podcast where we tell stories from mythology and folklore. |
| 0:45.5 | Some are incredibly popular tales you might think you know, but with surprising origins. |
| 0:50.0 | Others are stories that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen. |
| 0:53.8 | We're back in the stories of the Monkey King. |
| 0:55.9 | No worries, if you haven't heard the other ones. |
| 0:57.8 | They're really fun and episodic. |
| 0:59.8 | Basically, a monk in medieval China, named Shwan Zong, was tasked with retrieving some |
| 1:04.1 | holy scriptures, and Heaven saw fit to give him some bodyguards in the form of supernatural |
| 1:08.4 | monsters, trying to redeem themselves, the most famous of which is the monkey king, Sun Wu Kong, |
| 1:14.5 | a monkey with seemingly countless powers who was imprisoned under a mountain for hundreds of years. |
| 1:19.9 | He fights with a rod that can grow and shrink. |
| 1:22.6 | Next up is Pigsie, a stinky pig man who does not value intelligence or hard work, |
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