00:05okay everyone has been obsessed with punch the monkey yes of course yeah as we should be as we
00:17should be if you haven't been caught up in this whole monkey drama here's the story just to catch
00:25everybody up the internet is losing its mind over a tiny baby monkey named punch the japanese macaque
00:33was born in july 2025 but was abandoned by his mother and had to be hand reared by staff at
00:40the
00:40ichikawa city zoo to ease the little one's loneliness the zoo staff gave punch a small
00:46orangutan plushie images of the baby monkey with his plushie toy have warmed the hearts of social
00:53media users but it hasn't completely translated to any sort of popularity amongst his monkey
00:59playmates his failed attempts to find a surrogate monkey family and make some friends has been
01:05documented online with the hashtag hang in their punch oh this guy i literally will beat that thing
01:12right to death i'll beat it right to death it's hand-to-hand combat relax come on i'm telling you
01:21dude i'll kill that thing
01:27thankfully on february 6th 2026 the workers at the zoo posted to social media saying punch is
01:35gradually deepening his interactions with the troop of monkeys he's getting groomed playfully poking at
01:41others getting scolded and having all sorts of experiences every day steadily learning how to live
01:48as a monkey within his troop with some acceptance from his own kind he is gradually finding a way to
01:55move on from his plushy friend i also saw that he did get a big monkey hug he got a
02:01big monkey i've been
02:01watching it almost non-stop and um it's a 24-hour stream of of just pain is really what it
02:09is let me
02:10turn that off i'm sure oh my god yeah yep stella just checking in on the punch she loves punch
02:15just
02:16so you know um yeah no and uh i'm ready like let's go over there and why aren't they protecting
02:24punch a
02:24bit better i guess is well i thought it's not all fun and games right now well it never is
02:31though
02:31no no monkeys always act like that one guy spun him around like a wwe move and i'll kill that
02:38monkey
02:38i really will i i can't he's little he's not accepted i've texted someone to allow court back
02:45into the building because i had to talk to him for a second okay all right um court you went
02:51out of
02:51your way to buy one of these stupid plush monkeys not the stupid one the cute one yeah yeah so
02:58they're
02:58sold at ikea yes and there was something online saying they all sold out immediately when this
03:04story went viral but you got your hands on one like you bought one like a guy had one in
03:09his coat
03:10outside and you my boyfriend had one yeah oh nice nice no ikea had it like i was reading exactly
03:18that
03:19that they sold out and i was like oh that's a bummer let's go see and it's like yes in
03:23stock at your
03:23local ikea order and i went and picked it up yeah that's awesome you went just to get and what
03:30are
03:31you doing with it do you he's kind of like punch the monkey here are you hugging it right now
03:35i'm
03:35using it as an emotional support monkey dave is that mean monkey that spins and punch around
03:42where do you think i was when i got ejected i ran right to my monkey exactly went and bought
03:46it
03:47yep this all makes sense he basically is out of punch the monkey i bought it and i was like
03:52you know
03:52a couple times i'm like i give him a hug every once in a while give him a hug barley's
03:57not getting
03:57this you know no way and thank god he got that plush monkey because he used to run in here
04:02and hug
04:02me yeah after after dave spun him around exactly dave's always spinning him around and poking him
04:09throwing him down courts on the floor it's not great oh look there's dave right there there's dave's face
04:18because he said something that bothered me there's dave's face oh look at that dave look at that
04:24there's dave with poor punch there goes court run court run i like how we we changed the context
04:32of the little guy's court and the big guy's dave and dave all of a sudden was like i see
04:36it i
04:36understand maybe this stupid monkey's annoying yep he's in his court cave with his little monkey
04:42it makes sense i really related to this monkey oh yeah how much is this monkey going for ikea is
04:49pretty cheap it mustn't be too much 20 bucks 20 bucks isn't bad i guess to me i didn't do
04:54any deep
04:55dive into like where the plushie was from you know like court did well they like went viral because
05:01like then they donated a bunch to the zoo that's nice that's nice i had to pay for mine yeah
05:07yeah
05:08i'm not going to donate it to you he's not living in the zoo yet but um you know so
05:14he does have to
05:15well i mean kind of it was he had a hole in the wall and oh yeah this is pretty
05:19much okay you are
05:20living you are the monkey is caged you're right it's so the similarities are so i now understand why
05:30court bought it and why he has it and he has given it hugs and carries it around by his
05:36radio family
05:37yes i've been going through it i know it's been tough i bet so you hug your monkey yep
05:44my goodness at least your monkey loves you you can always do that right he's always there for me he
05:49is did they look at you weird as a grown man buying a monkey no the person who brought it
05:55out to me i'm
05:56pretty sure also has one oh yeah okay all right i understand yeah yeah outcast i was gonna say what
06:05word is yeah going to use a fellow outcast give me a wink oh it'll be okay did you get
06:12while you
06:12were there with your monkey did you get one of their new what was it like two foot long hot
06:16dogs
06:17you know i thought about going in for the food court but i put it on pickup so i just
06:22didn't even go
06:22inside that was your smartest move yeah to not go in there because a man with a monkey eating a
06:27two
06:28foot winger wow and trying to feed the monkey yeah take a bite that is a sad day at ikea
06:37i feel like it was the cafeteria and there was actually full of exactly that i was taking pictures
06:44with it in the parking lot and i'm sure somebody saw me taking a hundred photos of this monkey yeah
06:50it
06:50is funny to witness someone else doing stuff for social media you know because we look asinine
06:58when we're doing it like as you imagine court was like probably took like 10 different shots to get
07:04the perfect like oh yeah the monkey looks perfect i look great you know had to take it again because
07:10there was like a you could see a beverage in my cup holder exactly all that stuff it's just
07:15interesting to watch people is this guy in the car over buckling the monkey in
07:22yep yes he was apparently according to his social media so yeah poor punch and poor court
07:28poor punch in court i really relate to this monkey yeah every once in a while i just pop my
07:35head in
07:35there i'm like hey punch how you doing bud how are you in there we know we know dave was
07:41real rough
07:41on you that last time you can't you can't worry too much about how dave spins you yeah three
07:46ejections is nuts yeah open the door and pee on him and then leave that's what i do yeah if
07:52you throw
07:53your poop at him that's it that's it that's next get out of here punch that's it it is look
08:00at that
08:00cute little face though you know why the internet fell in love with him yes that's adorable yeah he'll
08:06be you know running around jerking off in front of everybody in no time for sure in no time
08:11near the monkey that's let's hope the monkey let's hope the monkey
08:15monkey
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