WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:11.000 Weird things happened in the Weird. 2 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:34.880 Weird Weird. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome one, Welcome all to another 3 00:00:35.039 --> 00:00:38.640 episode of Blesso said, so, thank you. 4 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:44.880 Who who is that the happy Buddha? Oh, the enlightened one? 5 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:46.960 Is that me? Yeah? Okay? 6 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:47.280 Cool? 7 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:50.880 Uh? What's up everybody? How are we doing? 8 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:52.079 Doing good? Man? 9 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:52.399 Yeah? 10 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:53.039 Doing good? 11 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.200 Alex? How are we doing fantastic? 12 00:00:55.280 --> 00:00:56.679 We just cut up for an hour or so? 13 00:00:57.079 --> 00:00:59.719 Yeah, we really did. I'm riding high, like I know, 14 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:02.520 my face is probably red and my eyes are probably 15 00:01:02.560 --> 00:01:05.000 red because I've been laughing really really hard. 16 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:06.319 For the business too. 17 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:08.840 Yeah, it was business. 18 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:11.319 It's business. 19 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:11.640 Yeah. 20 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:13.599 A lot of cutting up in this since then. 21 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:18.319 Yeah. But also right before we started, Ryan showed me 22 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:22.599 some gameplay of Black Myth Wukong, which is on theme 23 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:23.200 for today. 24 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.920 Yeah, I said, the Ami Taba because there's a boss 25 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.040 you fight kind of like early in the game, and 26 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:32.079 I think it was this I can't remember the name 27 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:34.400 of it, but you've probably seen videos floating around of 28 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.439 these big headed baby monks. Yeah, you fight one and 29 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:42.280 he's like, O me Tapa is It's just cool, man, 30 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:47.040 It's it's like the the Great Savior Buddha. 31 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:45.560 M M. 32 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.560 Okay, well Black Myth Wukong is on theme for today's episode. 33 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:53.680 Yeah, do you want to talk a little bit about that? 34 00:01:54.480 --> 00:01:55.000 What part? 35 00:01:55.359 --> 00:01:57.920 Well, just like the vibe of it, it's very cool because. 36 00:01:57.879 --> 00:01:59.640 The game Yeah oh yeah. 37 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:02.760 So for those who don't know or are not like 38 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:08.439 gamer people in general, nerds, Yeah all right, I'm listening. Okay, 39 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:12.599 I was gonna, you know, throw up my little nerds 40 00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:17.719 sign of people, but you'll just have to miss it anyway. No, 41 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:19.759 it's a cool game. But for those who aren't like 42 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:22.240 gamer nerds and they're not like aware of the significance 43 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.719 of it, it's the first ever like mainstream Chinese game, 44 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:27.080 so it's like, oh cool, you know, I can't wait 45 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:29.120 to see what it's like. But honestly, even though I 46 00:02:29.120 --> 00:02:31.439 expected this, I think think about it like this, Nick, 47 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.439 most games we've ever played have been American or Japanese. 48 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:37.360 Right, the vast majority, I mean there are outliers, but 49 00:02:37.439 --> 00:02:40.319 the vast majority. Yeah, exactly, Like like by I mean 50 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:44.199 we've lost triple A games ever, with a few exceptions, 51 00:02:44.240 --> 00:02:46.159 are either American or Japanese. 52 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:50.759 Right, So imagine a game where it's literally set out 53 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:54.639 to be the first mainstream Chinese game, right, the first 54 00:02:54.680 --> 00:03:00.479 Triple A game, Dude. The vibe is Buddhas statues every bro, 55 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:03.400 the Buddha chants, Like a lot of your enemies are 56 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:07.280 like just these Yao got yao guays, which are like 57 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.520 you know, Chinese demons and they're like, you know, seeking 58 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:13.759 enlightenment and they're talking about the the elixir of immortality, 59 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:15.639 and it's just it's on vibe, dude. 60 00:03:15.639 --> 00:03:19.800 It's the music. The music is sounds like very authentic, 61 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:24.599 like ancient Chinese, like the flu, the bamboo flu sounds 62 00:03:24.599 --> 00:03:31.120 and it's it's amazing and it's gorgeous, oh God, like 63 00:03:31.120 --> 00:03:33.560 like this is the first, like you said, Triple A 64 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:40.080 Chinese title, and they came out swing in. Ryan and 65 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:42.280 I have been following this game for since it was 66 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:44.360 first every announced, which is probably like two and a 67 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:45.199 half years now. 68 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:46.520 I feel like it's been more, dude. 69 00:03:46.520 --> 00:03:48.879 It was my first apartment, might have been since I 70 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:54.159 saw this trailer. It has been like my most anticipated game. 71 00:03:54.599 --> 00:03:57.560 I'm just so hung up on Elden Ring DLC still 72 00:03:57.680 --> 00:04:00.439 at the moment, but I'm buying it like next week probably. 73 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.919 I feel like it definitely lived up. Like I'm a 74 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.719 little over halfway through the game, and I still feel like, ah, 75 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:08.120 I just got to keep going. I got to keep 76 00:04:08.120 --> 00:04:09.000 seeing what happens next. 77 00:04:09.039 --> 00:04:12.400 Like, yeah, we should probably say it's it's called Black 78 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.800 Myth Wukong. If you don't know, it's about Journey. It's 79 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.279 based off of Journey to the West, which is like 80 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:23.639 one of the most famous mythology stories of all history, right, 81 00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:26.680 it is one of the very most famous. It's an 82 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:33.480 all ancient, ancient like Taoist slash Buddhist Chinese myth novel. 83 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:37.560 Yeah in confusion too, Yeah, yes, yeah, so I didn't 84 00:04:37.600 --> 00:04:40.040 know this obviously until we started doing research for the episode. 85 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:43.920 But in Chinese literature it's either four or five. I 86 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:46.120 can't remember the number. I want to say four, but 87 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.879 in Chinese culture there are considered to be let's just 88 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.079 say the number four. It could be five, but four 89 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:59.000 great works, like great classic Taoist and Buddhist works, and 90 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:02.120 one of them is Journey to the West. It's literally 91 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.399 one of the most prolific works that has ever come 92 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:05.360 out of Chinese history. 93 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:09.079 Yeah, ever and not so like not only is it 94 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:15.319 is it like groundbreaking legendary fantasy, it is also legendary 95 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.240 like religious text like it is, I mean we'll go 96 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:21.519 into that a little bit later. And not only that, 97 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:26.920 the cultural impact of Journey to the West, but also 98 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.319 the historical truth in it. It's based on a real story, 99 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.639 yes it is. Yeah, it's like an it's like a 100 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:40.759 mythologicalized that's like philosophized, mythologized, that's the word. It's like 101 00:05:40.800 --> 00:05:44.439 a mythologized version of a true story. It's like they couch. 102 00:05:44.519 --> 00:05:45.399 I didn't know that at all. 103 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:48.079 I didn't either until I did research for this. They 104 00:05:48.160 --> 00:05:52.000 like built a myth around a true story, which is 105 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:56.920 like so epic. But I mean the cultural effect, like 106 00:05:57.439 --> 00:05:59.160 I don't know you ever heard of dragon ball z. 107 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:02.240 That's what I'm saying, dude. I was reading parts of 108 00:06:02.279 --> 00:06:06.439 the novel Journey to the West today and I didn't 109 00:06:06.439 --> 00:06:08.160 realize it was a thousand pages. So I was like, 110 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:10.439 there's no way I can finish this, you know, in 111 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.360 one day. I would like to read it though it 112 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:14.439 reads really well, like I read parts of the first 113 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:19.639 chapter and yeah, too long. But something that's really cool 114 00:06:19.879 --> 00:06:23.560 is there is a king Yama who is like the 115 00:06:23.639 --> 00:06:28.199 king of Hell, who checks his ledger to let spirits 116 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.319 cross to and from the afterlifs so familiar yeah. King Yima. 117 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.000 Yeah, King Yima. He's got horns and everything. He's like 118 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:37.800 a big giant demon guy. He sits at a desk 119 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:40.600 and he has his Ledger of souls. You know what 120 00:06:40.680 --> 00:06:43.839 I wonder, I wonder if that's the Book of Life 121 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:45.120 and Death? Is that what that is? 122 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:47.720 I'm not sure that's a good point. We'll have to 123 00:06:47.720 --> 00:06:49.800 read the novel. But I just had a memory. I 124 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:53.639 recently read the first episode, I mean the first issue 125 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.560 of Dragon Ball, just out of nowhere. I was like, 126 00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:57.759 I want to read the first ever dragon yeah, like 127 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:01.000 with a few months ago, and I want to say 128 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.680 it's at the end of it or at the beginning. 129 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.439 I'm gonna show you real quick. It basically says like, 130 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:11.120 here's you know, Goku based off of the Chinese legend. 131 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:13.240 Let me see if I can find it. But Goku 132 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:15.279 based off of the what do you mean, like when 133 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:16.839 it's introducing dragon Ball. 134 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:22.439 Oh? Oh, it actually acknowledges I'm pretty sure in the manga. Yeah, so, 135 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:27.959 I mean basically like the Dragon Ball parallel thing is okay, 136 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.480 So in Journey to the West, just to like jump 137 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.360 ahead a little bit, Wu Kong starts as this. 138 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:35.000 I found it. 139 00:07:35.120 --> 00:07:38.000 Oh, you did. Yeah. He starts as this little stone 140 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:42.720 monkey inside of a stone who like the stone is 141 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.800 actually an egg and it hatches and it's the stone 142 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.279 monkey on top of this waterfall. 143 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.560 What's it called, like the Mountain of Fruit and Flowers? 144 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:54.160 Yeah, the Great Mountain of Fruit and Flowers, which is 145 00:07:54.199 --> 00:07:58.920 so cool. And in dragon Ball, Goku he like crash 146 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:02.399 lands by a waterfall. Yeah, you know it's right there. 147 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:04.319 He's got the little monkey tale. He's like a little 148 00:08:04.360 --> 00:08:09.600 baby monkey thing flying nimbus uh Wukong like has this 149 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.839 he flies around on clouds. He can like travel on 150 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.839 clouds and stuff like. And then the power pole. You know, 151 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:17.879 we'll go into that a little bit later. But like, 152 00:08:17.879 --> 00:08:20.040 like Goku is kind of. 153 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.360 His name is Sun Goku. Yeah, like he's listen. Look, 154 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.319 this is the very first ever issue of dragon Ball. 155 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.600 This is the last page. When you get you know, 156 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:28.759 you read right to left. When you get to the 157 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:31.040 very end, there's a little banner. It says, remember your 158 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:34.159 Chinese fairy tales. You don't not even the impish monkey 159 00:08:34.279 --> 00:08:37.240 king and his magic staff the nioibo. Oh well, drop 160 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:38.799 in next time and you'll learn. And then it says, 161 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:43.879 next my balls are missing obviously the dragon Balls. But 162 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:46.879 you know that's cool though, right, Like we never read 163 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:48.440 the original growing up. 164 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:51.080 No, I I definitely never did. I never know. I 165 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:54.440 never knew they explicitly acknowledged it. Yeah, I didn't even 166 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:55.759 in Dragon Ball. 167 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:58.159 And they don't in the anime, which I've seen multiple times. 168 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.799 So that's that was cool little sinkerity there. But yeah, 169 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:03.519 I mean, I guess I'll go into that for a second. 170 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.360 But even though I've never like read Journey to the West, 171 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:09.200 Son Wukong has always been one of my favorite characters 172 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.720 of all time. And I know you never played this 173 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.240 game because I showed it to you before, but enslaved 174 00:09:15.679 --> 00:09:18.879 no which game? Monkey Magic? Oh, it was from like 175 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.360 twenty five, almost thirty years ago. I think it was 176 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:24.440 on the PS one. It's one of the first PS 177 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:27.159 one games I ever had. And you play a Sun 178 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.759 Wukong and it's called Monkey Magic. 179 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:30.639 Right you told me up? 180 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:32.159 Yeah, and you have the little power pole. It's like 181 00:09:32.159 --> 00:09:33.200 a two D platformer game. 182 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:34.440 Yeah, it looked awesome and when you. 183 00:09:34.360 --> 00:09:38.200 Fight bosses, you fly on the cloud and it's just amazing, dude. 184 00:09:38.320 --> 00:09:40.000 And I thought that was cool because I was doing 185 00:09:40.120 --> 00:09:42.840 obviously like I was trying to see every adaptation of 186 00:09:42.919 --> 00:09:46.240 Wukong ever made in like movies, And apparently there was 187 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.720 a show through like the eighties and nineties in China 188 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:51.840 that I can't remember what it was called, but the 189 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:53.279 theme song was called Monkey Magic. 190 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:57.519 Hmmm. Oh that's cool. That's awesome. There's been so many 191 00:09:57.840 --> 00:10:01.039 they've done games. Did you know the game I'm talking about, Enslaved? 192 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:01.279 Yeah? 193 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:05.840 I was watching videos of it today. Andy serkis voicing him. 194 00:10:06.120 --> 00:10:10.159 No way, Oh my god, it's been such a long time. 195 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:12.480 I played that demo when it came out. I never 196 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:12.960 played the game. 197 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.600 Oh yeah, in like Xbox three sixty I think, huh yeah, 198 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:17.600 I played the game at some point. I think it's 199 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.679 actually on game Pass. Oh sweet, it might be, but 200 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.879 and then smite. I love playing as Wukong and. 201 00:10:23.879 --> 00:10:26.440 Well the Legends too. That's like the first character I 202 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:28.120 ever played in Legal Legends. I didn't know that it's 203 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:28.840 Sun Wukong. 204 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:29.159 Yeah. 205 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:32.559 Oh yeah, that's sick the clones and everything. Yeah, so 206 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:35.159 this this is like one of the most adapted characters 207 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:38.399 in history. Obviously, Like if you really think, I mean, 208 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:42.559 you could say, okay, well Naruto is you know, Japanese, 209 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:44.440 and that's fair, but it's also like one of the 210 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:48.240 most ubiquitous fiction shows on the planet. I mean, for sure, 211 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.559 millions and millions of people have consumed this material. I 212 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:53.039 mean even he has on the surface has nothing to 213 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:55.960 do with uh, you know, Sun Wukong and Journey to 214 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:58.480 the West, and even his main ability is shadow clones yep, 215 00:10:58.679 --> 00:10:59.360 like Wukong, you. 216 00:10:59.360 --> 00:11:03.440 Know, And there's there's references to Wukong all throughout. I mean, look, 217 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:04.080 what was. 218 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:06.840 It, the foretail or the his name is sung Goku, yeah, 219 00:11:06.879 --> 00:11:09.399 which I mean you know, technically he is an ape. 220 00:11:10.200 --> 00:11:13.159 Yeah. Yeah, there's tons of references at one piece. Oh 221 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:13.600 my god. 222 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.519 Really, oh monkey do loofy Yeah. Yeah, I thought about 223 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:18.200 that today. 224 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.600 And then like spoiler alert, Gear five is like is. 225 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:23.559 It monkey related? 226 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.600 I mean no, but he if you think about it, yeah. 227 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:27.279 He is kind of like Wukong. 228 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:27.519 Yeah. 229 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:30.440 I didn't think about that until now, but yeah, yeah, 230 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:31.320 that does make sense. 231 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.600 There's a lot of parallels. But also his personality is 232 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:38.919 the biggest thing. Yeah, because that's true. So Wukong's personality, 233 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:43.440 he's like very like reckless but rebellious, but also he 234 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:46.559 is like he fights for freedom above everything else, like 235 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:49.200 that's his like major price. He wants everybody to be 236 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.519 free and like liberate people, Like that's his big thing. 237 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.720 But he's also like he wants to smoke all the time, 238 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:57.559 and he he wants to fight. 239 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.159 Bro the game is like that too. 240 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:01.879 Yeah, I mean that's that's sick. But like it makes 241 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:07.559 sense that like Goku and Loofy what they want to smoke, like, 242 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:10.519 they they don't just like not shy away from they 243 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:12.960 are ready to scrap all the time. 244 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.240 That's something that I appreciate about like martial arts culture 245 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:19.639 or you know, just anime or Chinese movies because there's 246 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:22.759 tons you know, Helo kung fu movies and stuff like that. 247 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.159 It's it's always about just like you know, won the smoke. 248 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:28.559 You know, I love that. I really love that. 249 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:32.559 Yeah, that's like yeah his character, Lufy's character is very 250 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:34.960 much like inspired by wuk So. 251 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:37.840 I never realized I had a misunderstanding about the journey 252 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.840 of Sun Wukong. I never again, like I said, I've 253 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:44.240 never fully read the story. I've just always like loved 254 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:46.840 this character and seen the many different adaptations and I'm 255 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:49.480 like that's cool, but never read the thousand page novel. 256 00:12:49.879 --> 00:12:51.720 But then today, you know, I had the luxury of 257 00:12:52.200 --> 00:12:57.120 like reading tons of you know, explanations and watching you know, 258 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:00.320 YouTube documentaries, you know how it goes with research where 259 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.519 you're condensing all this information. And I learned so much 260 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:05.759 about Wukong's lord that I was never aware of the 261 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:08.120 fact that he becomes a Buddha, that. 262 00:13:08.080 --> 00:13:09.879 Is the victorious fighting Buddha. 263 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:13.759 Yeah, it's like it's like victory over strife or something 264 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:13.919 like that. 265 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:17.799 Yeah, he becomes a Buddha. And even before he became 266 00:13:17.960 --> 00:13:22.519 a Buddha, he had power that rivaled the Buddha himself. 267 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:24.279 Wow, did you did. 268 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:26.360 In your research? Did you come across the thing where 269 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.759 he was locked into that eight trigram crucible m hm 270 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:33.000 and like burned for forty nine days. They were trying 271 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.240 to melt him, Yeah, and turn him into an elixir. 272 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:39.159 The reason the fire didn't burn him is that that 273 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.480 fire can't burn people that are like on Buddha's level. 274 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:44.559 Oh that's so cool. 275 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.639 He's that Like I. 276 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.279 Read the part where he was like seeking immortality through 277 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.720 various means, and we can go a little more into that. 278 00:13:51.759 --> 00:13:56.080 But yeah, he apparently ate this peach that was you know, 279 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:58.720 in the land of the Buddhas. I guess they call 280 00:13:58.759 --> 00:13:59.919 it like the pure lands. 281 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:02.600 And it's basically like Heaven, right, and. 282 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:06.360 When he ate this peach, it gave him immortality. Fun fact, 283 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:09.000 when you start Black Myth, you play the prologue, which 284 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:12.559 is where you're like the fully realized Sun Wukong and 285 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:16.559 you're fighting basically the gods up in Heaven, the Buddhas, 286 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.919 and you know, you know how it goes in video games. 287 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:21.960 Sometimes you start full power and then you get nerved 288 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.399 and you go all the way back down to level one. 289 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:26.919 It doesn't really like explicitly explain the lore, which I appreciate, 290 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:30.200 just kind of moves you along. And so when you 291 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.559 start off for the first time as the Wukong that 292 00:14:32.600 --> 00:14:36.000 you actually play throughout the game, a peach drops into 293 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:38.279 a little field and this wolf, which is the very 294 00:14:38.320 --> 00:14:40.639 first enemy that you fight after the prologue, bites the 295 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:42.720 peach and he's like and he throws it down and 296 00:14:42.759 --> 00:14:46.559 then poof, out of a cloud comes You're a peach, 297 00:14:47.759 --> 00:14:49.200 just like in the myth. I didn't even know that 298 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:51.799 till today. He eats the peach and he achieves immortality. 299 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:55.240 Yeah, in the in the myth, he is like he 300 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.600 at one point becomes the guardian of like the Great 301 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:04.279 Peach Tree in Heaven, like how do you think do 302 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.240 you think we should like go chronologically like this. 303 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:09.320 Yeah, let's just do like we do with other myths 304 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.039 and just kind of like start from the beginning. 305 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:15.159 Okay, cool, I have bullet points like on the beginning 306 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:19.279 of because essentially the first like seven or eight chapters 307 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:24.720 of the story is like is like everything leading up 308 00:15:24.759 --> 00:15:28.360 to the actual journey to the West. It's like his 309 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:32.039 kind of origin story. Wulkong's like or how he became powerful, 310 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:34.240 how he became what he is, who he is whatever. 311 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.480 So basically I already said he was born out of 312 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:41.039 like this magical stone right on top of a and 313 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:44.360 it's said that the stone is imbued with the energy 314 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:48.639 of the five elements and the yin Yang energies, which 315 00:15:48.679 --> 00:15:51.679 is heaven and earth. It's like heaven and earth energies. 316 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:56.559 That stone was apparently at some place where it absorbed 317 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:59.159 all of those energies, giving it the ability to like 318 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:06.399 create life, and it created a little stone monkey, right. Yeah, 319 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:09.320 so he's he started as just like this little stone monkey. 320 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:13.720 He like finds these other monkeys they play in this stream. Ah, 321 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:16.960 he's being a monkey whatever, blah blah blah. They tell him, 322 00:16:17.639 --> 00:16:22.000 if you can find the source of the stream, you 323 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.200 can be our king. Right, he goes and he finds 324 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.080 the source, and he becomes their king. 325 00:16:28.080 --> 00:16:30.200 And then I read that in the first part of 326 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:30.879 chapter one. 327 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.799 Yeah, he becomes their king because just because he found 328 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:36.480 the source of the water that they could never find 329 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:36.840 for whatever. 330 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:38.639 It's like it was like on the other side of 331 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:42.039 a waterfall. Yes, he had to cross through this waterfall, yes. 332 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.200 Which is like the the symbolism is already starting, you 333 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:47.919 know what I mean, It's it's like it's it's so 334 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:51.480 this whole story is so chock full of symbolism. And 335 00:16:51.480 --> 00:16:56.720 then basically kind of his like heroes journey catalyst is 336 00:16:56.759 --> 00:17:00.279 that one day one of his like monkeys in this 337 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:05.759 kind of like adopted monkey family dies and he's like 338 00:17:06.079 --> 00:17:09.200 just he's like heartbroken by it, and he goes on 339 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:14.279 a quest to learn how to defeat death, which is like, 340 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.680 that's a story we've heard so many times. It's it's 341 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:21.799 like there are so many parallels to that. The symbology, 342 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:25.480 like the going into the underworld, like it's it's already 343 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:33.839 a typical legendary like origin myth type thing. So he 344 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:38.039 travels across an ocean. He makes it like a little raft, 345 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:43.000 and he eventually comes across a magical Taoist martial artist 346 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:49.680 named Putizushi, who gives him the name sun Wukong. Yeah, 347 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.400 there's like a few different vers Yeah, I was gonna say, 348 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.960 there's a few different like versions. It's it's been translated 349 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:04.440 many times. We're talking about an age story. Yeah, there's 350 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:08.000 a lot of like varying names of things and that 351 00:18:08.039 --> 00:18:13.240 sort of thing. But yeah, basically, this uh Puti Zushi, 352 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:21.440 he teaches uh the stone Monkey, the the art of 353 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.240 like Daoism, and he teaches him martial arts, and he 354 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:29.680 teaches him all of these like mystical Dallas practices, including 355 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:30.759 the Way of Immortality. 356 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:32.920 Subputi is the name that I saw. 357 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:40.039 Saputi Zushi. Yeah, yeah, And so after he teaches him 358 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.599 all of these these Dallas principles and like the Way 359 00:18:43.640 --> 00:18:47.359 of Immortality and stuff, he names him sun Wukong. 360 00:18:48.799 --> 00:18:49.519 What does it mean? 361 00:18:49.759 --> 00:18:56.079 It means the monkey awakened by the emptiness m And 362 00:18:56.119 --> 00:18:58.960 there's like, again, there's a few different translations of that, 363 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:01.759 Like some of the ones that I saw were like 364 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:07.160 meaning in the nothingness. There's a few different Like, so I. 365 00:19:07.119 --> 00:19:09.839 Wonder what that means awakened to the emptiness like awakened 366 00:19:09.880 --> 00:19:12.000 to his like he's. 367 00:19:11.880 --> 00:19:17.160 Aware, awakened by the emptiness ah awakened. But but again, 368 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:20.160 I've seen like a few different versions. Let's let's read 369 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:21.920 a couple of the different versions. Let me find it 370 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:22.400 real quick. 371 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:25.880 To me, that makes me think death like awakened by 372 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:28.039 the death right because it was the death of his 373 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:30.880 friend or family member that sent him down the path. 374 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:32.440 So it's a good one. 375 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:34.920 The cool thing while he's looking for this, I want 376 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:38.519 to say, like, something that I realized is that the 377 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:42.839 story of Sun Wukong. So without knowing the story in 378 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.400 great detail, I thought it was just a story, but 379 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.799 I came to realize that it's actually like an allegory 380 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:53.240 about awakening absolutely becoming enlightened one thousand percent. That is 381 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:57.440 imagine that. Yeah, it it actually is, Like that's the thing, 382 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:58.400 like it actually is. 383 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:02.799 So check this out. His name literally translate as the 384 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:04.839 monkey awakened by the emptiness. 385 00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:05.359 Wow. 386 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.960 Wukong's name is meant to represent his spiritual journey from 387 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:13.079 an ignorant, short tempered monkey to a benevolent, enlightened being 388 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:17.559 monkey mind. In Japan, he is known as Sun Goku. 389 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:23.319 Oh wait a minute, oh hallelujah, think about it, dude. 390 00:20:23.400 --> 00:20:26.599 That makes me just go, what is Goku at birth? 391 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:31.319 He is a saying, he's a rash little punk, and 392 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:35.160 then he crash lands on earth and his mind is empty. 393 00:20:35.640 --> 00:20:38.759 He has brain damage, he loses his memory. 394 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:42.519 This ah, I mean, I don't necessarily believe this, but 395 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:43.319 this is. 396 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:48.799 Making me think of the stoned ape theory because he's 397 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:50.559 a monkey that gains consciousness. 398 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:53.000 That's actually kind of crazy. 399 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:55.240 That theory only came out like forty or fifty years ago. 400 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:58.319 Which is the interesting thing because this story has existed 401 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:00.720