Why Mountain Monkeys Live Forever

Today's episode is a story written for you by Daniel Hinds. Billy, a boy who feels insecure about being shorter than his classmates, meets a gnome named Snailpail. Billy goes to the magical Land of Lummp with Snailpail, where Billy is treated like a giant and asked to help with v ...  Show more

Today we're doing a throwback episode to one of our favorites from the early days of Stories Podcast. The Know-It-All! Abdul is pretty sure he knows everything. His favorite sayings are "half your life is lost without knowledge" and "well, actually..." (and everyone is pretty sic ...  Show more

Two fairy tales from Southern China. In the first, a man is lost in the jungle, and is crowned King of the Apes. The second is a little like a romantic fairy tale that is well known in the west. Sponsored by Kaboom! Kaboom: An Audio Adventure Podcast An audio adventure podcast fo ...  Show more

Born from a stone egg atop a mountain, the magical Monkey King stops at nothing to learn the secrets to immortality. As his strength grows, he proves a challenge for the heavens—forcing the Jade Emperor and Buddah himself to teach this irresponsible monkey a lesson. Learn more ab ...  Show more

We return to the stories of the Monkey King and pick up at the end of his long imprisonment under a mountain, for trying to overthrow everyone and everything. Meanwhile, a messenger from heaven is on the move, looking for a pilgrim to make a dangerous journey that will bring them ...  Show more

Sun Wukong, the (Handsome) Monkey King, is both an actual monkey and an actual king…and presumably handsome according to whatever standard that is judged. One of the most famous anti-heroes of Chinese literature, we start his story, and the story of the extremely famous “Journey ...  Show more