383: Monkey King: Food Fight (part 2 of 2)

Myths and Legends

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser

Fiction, History, Arts, Books

4.8 • 25.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is dead. For real. He was eaten by a lion and is gone for good because we can all trust Pigsy because he's so honest and not looking for a reason to cut and run.

The creature is Ugallu, a demon from Babylonian mythology, who might be your hero.

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"Etude 11" by Blue Dot Sessions
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Transcript

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0:00.0	This week on myths and legends, it's the second part of our Monkey King two-parter in which the titular character, the Monkey King, is dead. He's gone.
0:09.0	Why did I even put Monkey King in the title? He's no more and we know this happened because the most
0:13.9	reliable and diligent character saw it through his tiny pig eyes. It's over.
0:19.8	The creature this week is an ancient Babylonian demon who was way ahead of the curve on the whole
0:25.4	anti-hero trend. This is myths and where we tell stories from
0:33.2	legends episode 383 food fight.
0:37.0	This is a podcast we tell stories from mythology and folklore.
0:45.0	Some are incredibly popular stories you might think you know, but with surprising origins,
0:49.0	and others are tales that might be new to you, but are definitely worth a listen.
0:53.2	Last week on the show, Sun Wuh Kong, the Monkey King, went up against three demons at the
0:58.0	Lion Camel Cave. A Green Lion Demon King, an Elephant Demon King, and an ROC
1:05.3	Rock Demon King, basically a big bird of prey.
1:08.9	In the fight at the end of last week's episode,
1:11.1	the Lion Demon King took aim at Piggsi, and to save his
1:14.9	little monk brother's life, Monkey launched himself in the air and became lunch for
1:19.8	the lion. Piggsi watched the Lion eat Monkey before running for his life down the mountain, back to Sandy
1:25.9	and Schwann Zong at camp. Monkey, son Wu Kong, older brother, is dropping now, Piggi said, pulling the bags from you long the dragon horse.
1:45.8	What are you doing, Pigsy?
1:48.3	Shwanzong demanded.
1:49.7	Pigsy had come back in a panic and got right to work with the bags.
1:53.2	Oh, I'm robbing you, Piggi said with a smile.
1:57.1	What?
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