Journey of the Monkey King

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

Links:

• 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/

• 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 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

Links:

• 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.

Links:

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

• 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

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.

Links:

• 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.

Links:

• 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.

Links:

• 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

We continue the story of the Scarlet Purple Kingdom, which unfortunately is going to touch on kidnapping, rape and femicide.

Links:

• Episode artwork is a cropped and edited photo of a stoat taken by Peter Trimming under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 generic licence: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:’Sybil’ the Stoat - geograph.org.uk - 2988524.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 continues to perform medical malpractice. Horse piss is involved.

Links:

• “Interesting TCM Facts 101: Pulse Taking with a String” on drxiangjun.com: https://www.drxiangjun.com/blog/interesting-tcm-facts-pulse-taking-with-a-string

• “Xiezhi” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiezhi

• 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 arrive into the Scarlet-Purple Kingdom where Sun Wukong practices medicine without a license and Zhu Bajie misgenders some eunuchs.

Links:

• “Interesting TCM Facts 101: Pulse Taking with a String” on drxiangjun.com: https://www.drxiangjun.com/blog/interesting-tcm-facts-pulse-taking-with-a-string

• Artwork is a depiction of Sun Simiao taking a woman’s pulse with thread.

• 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 encounter their worst obstacle yet: A mountain pass completely filled with rotting fruit.

Links:

• Artwork is a cropped and edited photo of persimmons by Frank Schulenburg under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fuyu persimmon fruits, one cut open.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

Also a Discworld-heavy episode. Also a technical difficulties-heavy episode. It’s got it all! Including self-disembowelment. So be aware of that.

Links:

• “Xuanwu (god)” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xuanwu_(god)

• “Yu Xin” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Xin

• “Wuzhiqi” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuzhiqi

• “Maitreya” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya

• Artwork is a photo of a statue of Wuzhiq: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wuzhiqi, spirit of the rivers Huai and Guo, China, Song dynasty, 12th century_AD, cast iron - Ethnological Museum, Berlin - DSC01979.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

Or maybe they don’t. Look, we were both very tired when we recorded this.

Links:

• Artwork is a cropped and edited photo of a jolly chimp toy from Wikimedia Commons user YuMaNuMa under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Musical_Jolly_Chimp1.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

The pilgrims try to cross the Bramble Ridge but Tripitaka is kidnapped by some vogon ents.

Links:

• “Monk’s Spade” on Wikipedia again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk’s_spade

• Artwork is Yan Huaili as Sha Wujing carrying said spade in the 1986 adaptation of Journey to the West by China Central Television.

• 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

A clip from out Patreon bonus episode where Caoimhe invites her friend Jen on to talk about Dragon Ball. Subscribe to MonkeyKingPod on Patreon to hear the full thing.

https://www.patreon.com/monkeykingpod

Links:

• Caoimhe now has another podcast with Jen about The Ring called 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

Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie decide to mutilate some prisoners to send a message to the All Saints Dragon King and Nine-Heads, who does, in fact, have nine heads.

Links:

• “Monk’s Spade” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk’s_spade

• Episode artwork from A Modern Journey to the West by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: https://yoshitoshi.net/series/journeywest.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

The pilgrims make their way to the Sacrifice Kingdom, where MJ sacrifices their innocence and learns that the Hogfather is not actually a hog.

Links:

• “Cangue” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangue

• Episode artwork is a photograph of a man in a cangue taken by John Thomson: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:THE_CANGUE.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

We can finally put all this bull behind us as Wukong recovers the palm-leaf fan and puts out the Mountain of Flames.

Links:

• You can see Elementaller at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on the 11th and 12th of February: https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873633108

• ”Táin Bó Cúailnge” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Táin_Bó_Cúailnge

• Episode artwork is Shuming Lu as the Bull Demon King in A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella.

• 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 are back and continue the story of Lady Iron-Fan and the Bull Demon King.

The chapter has a lot of misogynistic language, drunkenness and a character tricking another into thinking they’re their spouse.

Links:

• You can see Elementaller at the Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin on the 11th and 12th of February: https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873633108

• Transy on The UK Comic Database: https://comics.bournemouth.ac.uk/story.php?title=The+Computer+Wore+Pigtails

• Transy scans on Cohost: https://cohost.org/sapphicfettucine/post/857541-transy-update-two

• Episode artwork is a Tang dynasty bronze mirror https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tang_dynasty_bronze_mirror_with_moon_goddess_and_rabbit_design,_HAA.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

The pilgrims come across a mountain that is four hundred kilometres across and always on fire that proves to be something of an obstacle to progress, so Sun Wukong goes to ask his sister-in-law for help.

Links:

• “Rakshasa” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakshasa

• Rakshasa Pronunciation Sanskrit राक्षस rākṣasa on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkXq9jVOycg

• Rakshasi Pronunciation Sanskrit राक्षसी rākṣasī on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pazUG9OlE_8

• Episode artwork is a photo of some dim sum: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dim_Sum_Breakfast.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 and Sha Wujing investigate the imposter Pilgrim, but Wujing doesn’t know which one to shoot!

Links:

• “Puss” on the Online Etymology Dictionary: https://www.etymonline.com/word/puss

• Episode artwork is J.J. Fong as the Librarian from The New Legends of Monkey.

• 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