Chinese Lore Podcast

Journey 032: Not His Best Side 10.11.2025 26:42 ↓

Sun Wukong comes to the rescue … by victim-shaming and murdering children.

Journey 031: Wait, You Can Talk?! 03.11.2025 25:43 ↓

In a series of tabloid talk-show moments, San Zang's host meets a son-in-law he never knew he had and is informed that someone at his court is not who he seems to be, while Zhu Bajie makes a shocking discovery about a member of his traveling party.

Journey 030: Return Visit 20.10.2025 26:37 ↓

The pilgrims press their luck against Yellow Robe not once, but twice.

Journey 029: Bloody Vengeance 13.10.2025 26:31 ↓

Dismissed by San Zang for his killing spree, Sun Wukong decides to let out some steam with ... a killing spree.

Journey 028: Bones of Contention 06.10.2025 26:56 ↓

San Zang and Sun Wukong have a disagreement over whether the latter is demon hunter extraordinaire or just a cold-blooded murder-happy fiend.

Journey 027: Clear Water Revival 22.09.2025 28:05 ↓

Sun Wukong overlooks the most obvious solution in his quest for a magical cure to bring the ginseng fruit tree back to life.

Journey 026: Cauldron of Trouble 15.09.2025 25:53 ↓

Sun Wukong and Master Zhenyuan trade wits, barbs, and magic.

Journey 025: Fruit Loot 08.09.2025 26:30 ↓

The perfect heist blows up in everybody's faces.

Journey 024: Choice Overload 25.08.2025 27:28 ↓

Zhu Bajie discovers that more potential wives means more problems.

Journey 023: Wanted: Husbands 18.08.2025 26:23 ↓

The pilgrims ask for a night's stay and get offered something much more.

Journey 022: Sand and Skulls 11.08.2025 26:26 ↓

We find out that San Zang isn't the first scripture pilgrim. So what happened to his predecessors?

Journey 021: Wind Power 28.07.2025 26:21 ↓

Sun Wukong's rescue plan hits a snag when he discovers that his foe really blows.

Journey 020: Skin of Evil 21.07.2025 25:22 ↓

The pilgrims encounter a foe with a predilection for skinning himself.

Journey 019: Gone Party 14.07.2025 26:20 ↓

Everybody is delighted at San Zang gaining a new traveling companion, especially his host.

Journey 018: Going Hog Wild 30.06.2025 26:01 ↓

The pilgrims spend the night with a family experiencing major buyer's remorse about their son-in-law.

Journey 017: Jagged Little Pill 23.06.2025 26:15 ↓

The Black Bear Demon finds out that it doesn't feel so good to have a monkey swimming in your stomach.

Journey 016: Burn It All Down 16.06.2025 25:18 ↓

The wicked schemes of the monks at the Guanyin Monastery backfire calamitously.

Journey 015: Shady Monks 02.06.2025 26:51 ↓

The scripture pilgrims seek lodging at a monastery whose residents might need a refresher on the tenets preached by their patron deity.

Journey 014: Acts of ... Compassion? 26.05.2025 26:22 ↓

Sun Wukong returns to his master and finds a nasty little surprise waiting for him.

Journey 013: I Shalt Not Kill? 19.05.2025 25:51 ↓

Sun Wukong and his new master have a difference of opinion on when it's ok for a Buddhist monk to spill someone's brains and loot their clothes.

Journey Supplemental 003: Body Snatchers 06.05.2025 20:55 ↓

All's well that ends well, except for the princess whose soul gets dragged out of her mortal coil and hustled off to hell.

Journey 012: Demons, Tigers, Monkeys, Oh My 05.05.2025 27:04 ↓

Everybody kept telling me how dangerous the journey to the West was, but seriously how bad can it possibly ... oh my god what are those things and what are they doing to my men?!!!

Journey Supplemental 002: To Hell and Back 29.04.2025 23:14 ↓

Somehow a trip to the underworld adds decades to the Tang emperor's life.

Journey 011: Divine Mission 28.04.2025 28:19 ↓

Guanyin crashes the emperor's Buddhist party and tells all the monks of the East what she really thinks of their scriptures.

Journey Supplemental 001: When It Rains 22.04.2025 22:08 ↓

We embark on a three-episode mini-arc to find out why the Tang emperor was convening a big gathering of monks.