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In this episode, the Jing River Dragon King tries to avoid Heaven's wrath and we sleepily discuss the new video game based on Journey to the West - Black Myth Wukong.

We will be switching to a monthly upload schedule for a while because.... well, if you listen to the episode, you'll know why.

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In this episode, a fisherman and a woodcutter get into a sing-off. (Don't worry, we don't sing.) We chat about one of our favorite topics - food!

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⁠⁠In this episode, the young Tang monk, newly named Xuanzang, seeks to avenge his parents, and we discuss dreams, premonitions, and superstitions in Chinese culture.

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Who will undertake the Journey to the West? We get into the backstory of the Tang Monk and chat about why education is so highly valued in Chinese culture with our friend Felicia Tang.

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Welcome to Season 2 of Journey to the West. It's been 500 years since we left off in Part 12. The Buddha and Sun Wukong are both back, and the Boddhisatva Guanyin is sent to China to find a faithful pilgrim to undertake the Journey to the West, and on the way, she recruits the rest of the crew.

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Sun Wukong has been captured, but it's not the end of the line for this Monkey King. We wrap up Season 1 with conversation about Wukong's bet with the Buddha and the culture of humility with our very first guest, Vicky Liu.

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The Jade Emperor's nephew, Erlang Shen, is brought to have a battle of transformations with Sun Wukong. It seems that he is still not quite powerful enough to capture the Monkey King, but maybe the founder of Daoism can help?

*Our conversation afterwards contains a few words not appropriate for younger listeners that we did not censor. Apologies, parents! We were tired.

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The bodhisattva Guanyin arrives to attend the Immortal Peach Festival and finds Heaven upturned over a stone monkey. We discuss the portrayals of Buddhism and Guanyin in the media that have made the deepest impression on us, given that we both have very little personal experience with Buddhism, as well as the propensity of Journey to the West to write fight scenes as poetry.

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The heavenly army is back to try and capture the Monkey King, but what makes them think things will go differently this time around? Join us as we discuss the siege of Mount Huaguo and Wukong's famous cloning ability.

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