The Bangkok Podcast

Big News: This show will be the final episode of Season 3! We figure 80 episodes is the right number given the length of previous seasons, so the Bangkok Podcast will be taking a week off next week be...

8 Okt 201940min

Greg interviews Rex de Koening and Johanna de Koening Schaaij from New Counseling Service, who have been working as therapists in Thailand since 2001. Rex and Johanna begin by explaining that traditio...

1 Okt 201936min

Greg and Ed dive into the flooding crisis in Thailand. (Get it?) Ed begins with some sobering statistics on the recent spate of floods that have affected 34 provinces, including Bangkok, which kicks o...

24 Sep 201932min

Greg interviews Palm, a professional translator of English to Thai, but in a very specific context: subtitles for film and television. Palm begins by explaining that she literally learned English by b...

17 Sep 201936min

Greg and Ed discuss one of their old stomping grounds - Sukhumvit Soi 11, perhaps the most famous destination on Sukhumvit that doesn't involve a red light district! Beginning with stories of their ea...

10 Sep 201930min

Readers of the Bangkok Post will need no introduction to this week's guest. Roger Crutchley - or Old Crutch, as he's known - arrived in Bangkok in 1969 by accident, never intending to stay. Yet here w...

3 Sep 201957min

Sooner or later, we all spend some time in the hospital, so Greg and Ed riff on their myriad experiences in Bangkok hospitals over the years. But before we get into that, we should note - due to Thail...

27 Aug 201945min

Greg talks to Hassan Ghiassi, the creator and organizer of Aristotle's Cafe, a Bangkok group that focuses on meetups that involve discussions and debates on questions voted on by the participants them...

20 Aug 201933min