Journey of the Monkey King

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.

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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

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M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes

Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie

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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?

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Episode artwork is a Ming era acupuncture chart: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acupuncture chart, dumai (Governor Vessel), Chinese Wellcome L0037827.jpg

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M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes

Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie

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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.

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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

Wukong is tricked into thinking that Tripitaka is dead, but he knows who to blame: Tathāgata Buddha.

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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

The pilgrims face off against three brothers who get along a lot better than they do.

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Episode artwork is this Tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/journeytothewestresearch/740387923787218944/my-mind-boggles-at-the-number-of-interactions-that

Which is an ad for this article: https://journeytothewestresearch.com/2023/12/28/how-to-kill-sun-wukong/

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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

The podcast is taking a break till the new year.

If you want to hear more of Caoimhe before the first episode of The “the Ring” Podcast is now available: https://oakreef.ie/ring

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Episode artwork is a photograph of a bow drill taken by Yannick Trottier and used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_drill_01.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

Sun Wukong teaches the monsters of the Lion Camel Ridge lessons in solidarity.

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Episode artwork is a modified version of the logo of Industrial Workers of the World.

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M.J. on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emjaystokes

Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie

Buy us a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/monkeykingpod

Two star crossed lovers. Will Pepsiman and Sun Wu Karen be able to make it in a world that wants them kept apart? When the restaurant only has coke will she demand to speak the manager? None of this will be answered in this episode of Journey of the Monkey King, where the pilgrims come across a Daoist abbey with connection to their latest foes. Featuring special guest Rita.

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Episode artwork is a picture Sun Wu Karen art made by Janet O’Keeffe and also Pepsiman.

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

This chapter the pilgrims find themselves in a sticky situation. Because of the spiderwebs. Because of the spiders. There’s spiders in this one.

Also Caoimhe is starting a second podcast with her friend Jen, called The “the Ring” Podcast. It’s about The Ring! Those movies with the tape that kills you. The first episode is going to be released for patrons of this podcast on Halloween and publically about a month later.

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Episode artwork is a poster for The Cave of the Silken Web (1927).

The “the Ring” Podcast: https://oakreef.ie/ring

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

We close off our story of the Scarlet-Purple Kingdom and talk about a local mural.

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Episode artwork is a photo of the utility boxes outside of the Peace Park in Cork.

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