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Journey to the West: The Podcast
Join us each week as we take listeners through one of China's most beloved novels. Meet Sun Wukong the Monkey King, his Buddhist master, Xuanzhang, the lustful monster Pigsy aka Zhu Bajie, and the reformed sand demon, Sha Wujing, and journey with them to India to acquire invaluable Buddhist scriptures. This immortal tale has delighted billions of Asian children yet is relatively unknown here in the west. This podcast aims to change that! Childhood friends Richard Tseng and James Young will read and review every single chapter of the Anthony C Yu translation of Wu Chen'en's epic book. Along the way, we'll bust myths (did the Sun Wukong really burst out of stone?) examine its impact (Which world-famous animes did this legend inspire?) and learn more about Asian culture and its myths overall (which Indian monkey god inspired our monkey king?) So quit monkeying around Subscribe, and let's hit the silk road!Podcasts
Chapter 78: Child sacrifices, sex control, and shadowy demonic conspiracies... what's QAnon doing in my Monkey story?
Published: March 19, 2021, 4 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 40 seconds
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Chapter 77: Monks, They're What's For Dinner!
Published: March 12, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 33 seconds
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Chapter 76: Never cut a deal with three demon brothers
Published: March 5, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 46 seconds
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Chapter 75: Monkey King Tastes Like a Real Bad Time
Published: Feb. 26, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 2 seconds
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Chapter 74: Sympathy for the Little Devils
Published: Feb. 19, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 27 seconds
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Chapter 73: Monkey gets the thousand-eyed stare!
Published: Feb. 12, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 5 seconds
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Chapter 72: Wuneng Goes Swimming with the Spider-Women
Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 37 minutes 6 seconds
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Chapter 71: Teaching An Old Wolf New Tricks with the Ol' Switcheroo
Published: Jan. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 21 seconds
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Chapter 70: The Evil King Gets His Bell Rung
Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 42 minutes 39 seconds
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Chapter 69: Paging Dr. Monkey, Your Horse Piss is Ready!
Published: Jan. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 55 seconds
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Chapter 68: Sympathy for the Eunuchs
Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 13 seconds
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Chapter 67: Don't let your persimmons become pythons!
Published: Jan. 1, 2021, 5 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 15 seconds
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Chapter 66: A belly like Santa's and a mission like Jesus', it's the Buddhist Messiah!
Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 27 seconds
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Chapter 65: The False Buddha with the Thunderclap Trap!
Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 58 seconds
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Chapter 64: Crafting Knotty Poetry at the Tea Party
Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 57 seconds
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Chapter 63: Never Let Your Daughter Marry an Insect
Published: Dec. 4, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 26 seconds
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Chapter 62: The Life-Changing Magic of Pagoda Sweeping
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 5 seconds
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Chapter 61: Taking the Bull By the Fan
Published: Nov. 20, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 25 seconds
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Chapter 60: That Crab Stole My Ride!
Published: Nov. 13, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds
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Chapter 59: You Look Like You Swallowed A Monkey King!
Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 33 minutes 42 seconds
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Can Buddha Cure Multiple Monkey Disorder?
Published: Oct. 30, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 39 seconds
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Wujing and the Tale of Two Monkey Kings!
Published: Oct. 23, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 19 seconds
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Chapter 56: The Monkey's Business Goes Too Far
Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds
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Chapters 54 - 55 with Katherine Alexander: Woman's World--Tripitaka accepts a queen's proposal, Pilgrim is poisoned!
Published: Oct. 2, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 6 seconds
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Chapter 53: The Baby-Making River and Tripitaka's Trimesters
Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 30 seconds
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How the Buffalo Got Its Nose Ring & Why You Should Lock Away Your Medicine!
Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 37 seconds
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Chapter 51: Meet Behind Gold Helmet Cave for Schoolyard Fisticuffs!
Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 54 seconds
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Chapter 50: Breaking and Entering a Haunted House for a Snack
Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 42 seconds
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Water Wars with the Great King and The Origin of the Fish Basket Guanyin!
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 19 seconds
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Special Guest: John Zhu of the Chinese Lore Podcasts!
Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 35 seconds
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Journey to the West... On Ice!
Published: Aug. 14, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 58 seconds
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Chapter 47: Monkey and Pigsy on the Kids' Menu
Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds
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Chapter 46: Meditation Death Match!
Published: July 31, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 47 seconds
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Chapter 45: Tripitaka making it rain OR "With a little help from my dragons"
Published: July 24, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 37 seconds
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Chapter 44: Sending Darned Daoists to the Bureau of Five Grain Transmigration
Published: July 17, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 14 seconds
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Chapter 43: Black River Blues, an iguana plans a birthday party fit for a dragon king
Published: July 10, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 8 seconds
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Chapter 42: Thou Shalt Not Have False Guanyins Before Her!
Published: July 3, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 50 seconds
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Chapter 41: Goodness Gracious, Great Boy of Fire!
Published: June 26, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 26 seconds
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Chapter 40: Son of a Bull Demon King!
Published: June 19, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 52 minutes 7 seconds
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Monkey King: Hero is Back with Special Guest: Jim McClanahan
Published: June 12, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 54 minutes 33 seconds
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The Lion, The Monks, and The Elixir
Published: June 5, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 20 seconds
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Mom, I Think Dad Might Be An Evil Daoist In Disguise!
Published: May 29, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 43 seconds
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From Rain Maker to King Replacer: A Taoist Wreaks Havoc in Black Rooster Kingdom
Published: May 22, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 21 seconds
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Chapter 36: How Do Monks Ask to Spend the Night?
Published: May 15, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 18 seconds
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Chapter 35: Lao Tzu's BoyZ
Published: May 8, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 1 second
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Special Guest: Scott Park Phillips, Master Martial Artist and Dancer!
Published: May 1, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 38 seconds
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Chapter 34: The Amazing Great Sage, Escape Artist!
Published: April 24, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 34 minutes 50 seconds
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Chapter 33: Monkey Shrugged
Published: April 17, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 21 seconds
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Chapter 32: What the Pig Saw
Published: April 10, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 4 seconds
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Chapter 31: The Prodigal Monkey Returns!
Published: April 3, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 44 minutes 30 seconds
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Chapter 30: Yellow Robe, Handsome Devil!
Published: March 27, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 46 minutes 41 seconds
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Chapter 29: Pride Cometh Before the Porker or Tripitaka the UPS Monk!
Published: March 20, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 34 seconds
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Chapter 30: Pride Cometh Before the Porker or Tripitaka the UPS Monk!
Published: March 20, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 47 minutes 34 seconds
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Chapter 28: Monkey King for PETA President, Tripitaka for Dinner
Published: March 13, 2020, 4 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 19 seconds
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Lady White Bone The Cadaver Demon or What do Wukong and Cthulu Have in Common?
Published: March 6, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 40 seconds
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Chapter 26: Monkey's Quest and Guan Yin's Green Thumb
Published: Feb. 28, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 20 seconds
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Chapter 25: Punish The Pilgrims!
Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 49 seconds
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Chapter 24: Fruit Heist! Pigsy Learns a Lesson, and Monkey Forgets One
Published: Feb. 7, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 38 minutes 14 seconds
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Chapter 23: Pigsy's Choice, or, a Most Indecent Proposal
Published: Jan. 31, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 8 seconds
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Moksa's Back! OR How Much Damage Can One Pig Do?
Published: Jan. 24, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds
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Chapter 21: I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your eyes out!
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 23 seconds
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Chapter 20: The Ol' Cicada Casting Its Shell Trick!
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 41 seconds
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A New Word For Pig Monster and A Power Up for Tripataka
Published: Dec. 26, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 9 seconds
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Chapter 18: Help! My Daughter Married a Pig!
Published: Dec. 20, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 49 minutes 1 second
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Chapter 17: Mercy Monkey Team Up Time!
Published: Dec. 13, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 4 seconds
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Chapter 16: The Case of the Stolen Cassock!
Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 9:17 a.m.Duration: 43 minutes 16 seconds
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Chapter 15: Monk's on a Horse!
Published: Nov. 29, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 25 seconds
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Chapter 14: Xuanzang and Wukong's First Fight
Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 34 seconds
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Chapter 13: Some Monsters Invite Xuanzang for Dinner
Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 50 minutes 35 seconds
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Chapter 12: Imperial Payback
Published: Nov. 8, 2019, 5 a.m.Duration: 45 minutes 11 seconds
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Chapter 11: The Emperor Goes to Hell
Published: Nov. 1, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 54 minutes 48 seconds
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Chapter 10: Dragon King's Lament
Published: Oct. 25, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 30 seconds
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Episode 10: Journey to the West Research's Jim McClanahan
Published: Oct. 18, 2019, 7:29 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 53 seconds
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Chapter 9: A Sadder Origin Than Batman and Moses Combined
Published: Oct. 11, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 42 seconds
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Episode 8: Guanyin's Quest
Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 seconds
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Episode 7: Buddha's Wager
Published: Sept. 27, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 42 seconds
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Chapter 6: Monkey King Meets the John Wick of the Great Beyond
Published: Sept. 20, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 42 seconds
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Episode 5: Heaven Ain't No Retirement Home!
Published: Sept. 13, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 27 seconds
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Episode 4: How a Monkey Millennial Gets a Job and a Promotion.
Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 25 seconds
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Episode 3: The OG Planet of the Apes + What is a Garuda?
Published: Aug. 30, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 47 minutes 58 seconds
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Journey to the West Episode 2: Fully awoke to Bodhi’s wondrous truths; He cuts off Māra, returns to the root, and joins Primal Spirit.
Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 44 minutes 32 seconds
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Journey to the West Ep 1: The divine root conceives, its source revealed; Mind and nature nurtured, the Great Dao is born.
Published: Aug. 13, 2019, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 47 seconds
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