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- #84—Four normal men selling ordinary horses sleeping zero feet apart because they’re not gay
We get to one of Caoimhe’s favourite chapters, in which the four pilgrims decide to go into completely heterosexual business selling normal horses with the correct amount of legs and such.
Links:
Episode artwork by Chen Huiguan: https://web.archive.org/web/20190810053814/http://www.innerjourneytothewest.com/english/en-resource.html
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
51 min - #83—Bisected Guanyin
Today Sun Wukong threatens to sue someone and we learn of the white rodent’s many sickass names.
Links:
Episode artwork from the 2011 TV adaptation of Journey to West.
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
40 min - #82—Stag Do Behaviour
Wukong tries to free Tripitaka from his would-be wife.
Links:
Episode artwork is a photo of Xiaozhai Tiankeng from Wikimedia Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xiaozhaitiankeng.jpg
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
33 min - #81—We Probably Aren’t Going to Play Black Myth Wukong
We return to the pilgrims, who are currently escorting a demon who wants to fuck Tripitaka. She also attempts to seduce a minor. Not our favourite demon.
Links:
How Black Myth: Wukong Developer’s History of Sexism Is Complicating its Journey to the West on IGN :https://www.ign.com/articles/how-black-myth-wukong-developers-history-of-sexism-is-complicating-its-journey-to-the-west
The Doctor Who liveblog thread mentioned in the epsiode: https://twitter.com/daemonsmatt/status/1825577720224370859
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
33 min - #80—Unrealistic Beauty Standards
Caoimhe and M.J. talk about ADHD diagnosis before having to dive into a chapter where we have to bring up kidnapping of women and rape again.
Links:
Episode artwork is a cast iron scuplture of Buddha’s head circa 1500: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E6%98%8E %E9%91%84%E9%90%B5%E4%BD%9B%E9%A0%AD%E5%83%8F-Head of Buddha MET DP170188.jpg
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
46 min - #79—Back Pain
Caoimhe and M.J. talk about back pain, unions and at the end, fascists. We talk about some kind of book in the middle of it too?
Links:
Episode artwork is a Ming era acupuncture chart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acupuncture chart, dumai (Governor Vessel), Chinese Wellcome L0037827.jpg
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
47 min - #78—Der Roman mit dem Affen
The Pilgrims arrive the the Young Master’s City (né the Bhikṣu Kingdom) where they find a mass of young boys imprisoned and with their lives threatened.
Links:
Arcade Game: Monkey Magic (1979 Nintendo) on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wL-vWIVo4Y
PET-Recycling for Die Sendung mit der Maus on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3O5afnnMo
Episode artwork is a photo of a Chinese goose taken by Daniel Ullrich and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anser_cygnoides_dom_Hoeckergans_2.jpg
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
37 min - #76—Der Roman mit dem Affen
The Pilgrims arrive the the Young Master’s City (né the Bhikṣu Kingdom) where they find a mass of young boys imprisoned and with their lives threatened.
Links:
Arcade Game: Monkey Magic (1979 Nintendo) on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wL-vWIVo4Y
PET-Recycling for Die Sendung mit der Maus on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3O5afnnMo
Episode artwork is a photo of a Chinese goose taken by Daniel Ullrich and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported licence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anser_cygnoides_dom_Hoeckergans_2.jpg
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
37 min - #77—Meat Head Buddha
Wukong is tricked into thinking that Tripitaka is dead, but he knows who to blame: Tathāgata Buddha.
Links:
Episode artwork is a photo of a carving of Buddha at the Tapa Shotor monastery taken by Marek Gawęcki and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and photo of meat taken by Issac Gyamfi used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tapa_Shotor_seated_Buddha_(Niche_V1).jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raw_meat.png
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
32 min - #75—Meat Head Buddha
Wukong is tricked into thinking that Tripitaka is dead, but he knows who to blame: Tathāgata Buddha.
Links:
Episode artwork is a photo of a carving of Buddha at the Tapa Shotor monastery taken by Marek Gawęcki and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license and photo of meat taken by Issac Gyamfi used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tapa_Shotor_seated_Buddha_(Niche_V1).jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Raw_meat.png
Journey of the Monkey King on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod
Journey of the Monkey King on the Fediverse: https://mastodon.ie/@monkeykingpod
M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes
Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie
Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod
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About Journey of the Monkey King
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Journey to the West is one of the most influential books ever written and has inspired countless stories, including Monkie Kid, Dragon Ball and BBC’s Monkey, but has…
been obscure in the West. Caoimhe hosts a lighthearted chapter by chapter discussion of the novel with her friend, comedian M.J. Stokes. New episodes come out every second Wednesday.