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Mar 2025
40m 43s

404: Monkey King: Not Found

Jason Weiser, Carissa Weiser, Nextpod
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? The Monkey King and friends are making money and staying in fancy hotels?

What is this that you heard about them being monks? What? No. That's ridiculous. They don't know why you thought that. So weird. They are horse traders who trade horses while they pass through this city that murders monks. Wait NO DON'T TOUCH THEIR HATS.

? The Creature: The Cinnamologus

We meet the cinnamon bird, because who doesn't love their cinnamon sticks covered in bird poop and lead? 

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