Shows
The “the Ring” PodcastSpiral (1999) — Episodes 4 & 5 and Rings (2005)Caoimhe and Jen discuss the Ring trans lesbian polycule, how Samara has influenced Sadako, a short film that is Caoimhe’s favourite Ring sequel and in the main topic of the episode the Spiral show goes off on a tangent for two episodes.
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Cover art by Pictsel: https://twitter.com/pictsel/status/1765562571732779378
The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-02-15-spiral-e4e5/ring-024-chart.png
The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod
The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/
The “the Ring” Po...2025-02-1559 min
Soul Searching - The Mindful Physio PodcastEp 14: Season 3, How Are We? Predictions, Plans & Progress with CaoimheWelcome back to the Soul Searching Podcast with me, Caoimhe Gibney, also known as The Mindful Physio.
This episode takes me back to July when I recorded these reflections—little did I know how perfectly they’d align with where I am right now.
In this post-retreat recap, I’m sharing insights and lessons for everyone, whether you’ve attended a retreat or are simply seeking a little inspiration. It’s been a transformative year, and together, we’ll dive into the highs, the lows, and everything in between—along with a few plans and predictions fo...2025-01-2759 min
The “the Ring” PodcastSpiral (1999) — Episodes 2 & 3 and Fright Night: RingCaoimhe and Jen enjoy some 15Hz blinking and also another radio adaptation that’s actually really good.
Links:
Check out Caoimhe’s game jam game, Tablet V: https://oakreef.ie/bog/tablet-v
Fright Night: Ring on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/koji-suzuki-fright-night-ring
The Chart: https://oakreef.ie/ring/2025-01-15-spiral-e2e3/ring-022-chart.png
The “the Ring” Podcast on Cohost: https://cohost.org/thetheringpod
The “the Ring” Podcast on Tumblr: https://thetheringpod.tumblr.com/
The “the Ring” Podcast on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/thet...2025-01-151h 31
Journey of the Monkey King#84—Four normal men selling ordinary horses sleeping zero feet apart because they’re not gayWe 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.
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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://oakr...2024-12-1850 min
Journey of the Monkey King#80—Unrealistic Beauty StandardsCaoimhe 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
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 I...2024-07-0345 min
Journey of the Monkey King#79—Back PainCaoimhe 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
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://o...2024-04-1046 minSoul Searching - The Mindful Physio PodcastEp 6: The Magic of Self-Investment: Trusting Your Path to FulfillmentIn part two of the solo episodes Caoimhe reflects on the lessons from being brave, figuring out what she truly desires and taking actionable steps towards that.
In this episode, Caoimhe unravels the meaning of purpose and your "why", returning to what's important, what makes you feel like the most authentic version of you.
Investing in yourself may just be the best thing you ever do.
We've added one spot to the SOLD OUT Bali retreat this July. If you're feeling called get in...2024-04-0524 min
Journey of the Monkey King#75—I Am so TiredThe 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...2023-12-1343 min
Journey of the Monkey King#72—It Is Definitely a Kink ThingThis 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://oakr...2023-10-2551 min
Journey of the Monkey King#69—(Nice!) We Stan a Menopausal KingWukong continues to perform medical malpractice. Horse piss is involved.
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“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/monkeyking...2023-06-0747 min
Journey of the Monkey King#68—Medical MalpracticeThe pilgrims arrive into the Scarlet-Purple Kingdom where Sun Wukong practices medicine without a license and Zhu Bajie misgenders some eunuchs.
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“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
Caoi...2023-05-2434 min
Journey of the Monkey King#67—MeowThe pilgrims encounter their worst obstacle yet: A mountain pass completely filled with rotting fruit.
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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
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Journey of the Monkey King#66—This Is an Organ-heavy Episode.Also a Discworld-heavy episode. Also a technical difficulties-heavy episode. It’s got it all! Including self-disembowelment. So be aware of that.
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“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, ca...2023-04-2640 min
Journey of the Monkey King#65—Some Monkeys Have Beaks and That’s OkayOr maybe they don’t. Look, we were both very tired when we recorded this.
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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://oakr...2023-04-1230 min
Journey of the Monkey King#64—We Just Skip the Main Plot and Do Cat Facts InsteadThe pilgrims try to cross the Bramble Ridge but Tripitaka is kidnapped by some vogon ents.
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“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
Caoimh...2023-03-2931 min
Journey of the Monkey King#63—Patreon Bonus Preview: Dragon Ball w/ JenA 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
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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
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Journey of the Monkey King#63—Nine Heads Are Better than NoneSun 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.
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“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 Instag...2023-03-1537 min
Journey of the Monkey King#62—The Benbo Kingdom of Drinking GamesThe pilgrims make their way to the Sacrifice Kingdom, where MJ sacrifices their innocence and learns that the Hogfather is not actually a hog.
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“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...2023-03-0132 min
Journey of the Monkey King#61—Brainstorming Future Bull-related ProjectsWe can finally put all this bull behind us as Wukong recovers the palm-leaf fan and puts out the Mountain of Flames.
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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.patreo...2023-02-0841 min
Journey of the Monkey King#60—Happy Year of the RabbitWe 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.
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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
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Journey of the Monkey King#59—It’s Not a Plot Hole!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.
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“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_Break...2022-10-1225 min
Journey of the Monkey King#58—Highly Targeted Parasocial RelationshipsSun Wukong and Sha Wujing investigate the imposter Pilgrim, but Wujing doesn’t know which one to shoot!
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“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
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Journey of the Monkey King#57—SusWukong is banished and comes back angry and jealous. But perhaps there’s something a bit sus about him.
This episode features the torture headband and monkey cannibalism.
Amogus.
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“Leigong” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigong
“Raikou” on Bulbapedia: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Raikou_(Pokémon)
Bad Book Bash by Betsy Speer: https://badbookbash.buzzsprout.com
Clashmore on Caoimhe’s website: https://oakreef.ie/gallery/clashmore
Clashmore on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/clashmore
“Sadako vs. Kayako” on...2022-09-1436 min
Journey of the Monkey King#56—A Horse, a Yakṣa and a Léigōng Walk into a BarThe pilgrims are out of the women’s country, but some resentment might be starting to set in, and the torture headband comes out again.
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Episode artwork is a section of a painting of Marshal Wang depicting a Léigōng, which Caoimhe thinks is probably the type of thunder god that Wukong gets described as looking like: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/41474
“Leigong” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigong
“Pater familias” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pater_familias
Journey of the Monkey King...2022-08-3130 min
Journey of the Monkey King#55—This Is Not a Place of LovemakingTripitaka has been kidnapped by a demoness who’s a real maneater. No not like that. Well, yes, actually, like that. But also in the other way.
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Episode artwork is Zhao Wenqi as as the scorpion demon and Nie Yuan as Tripitaka in the 2011 Journey to the West television adaptation by TVS 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
Ca...2022-08-1729 min
Journey of the Monkey King#54—This Man has Never CumThe pilgrims make their way to the capital of the Women State and Tripitaka faces a threat not to his life, but to his chastity. Will he cum? There is only one way to find out.
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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
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