Jul 30, 2019
Greg and Ed address an important but tricky question: Why do expats leave Thailand? How do you know when the right time to leave is? The boys ponder the various reasons why to find out what’s more common - work or family issues, personal problems with fitting in, or more Thai-centric problems such as just plain...
Jul 23, 2019
First - don’t forget our meetup on 27 July at Smalls. Get more info here. And also don’t forget that both Greg AND Ed will be speaking at Bombyx on 26 July. Get more info here.
Okay, on this episode Greg interviews Khun Saba, a disabled rights activist in Bangkok. It’s a topic near and dear to the Bangkok Podcast,...
Jul 16, 2019
Dengue infections are off the chart this year, and it pays to know the dangers. Do you? ARE YOU SURE?
Greg interviews Dr. Vorapot, an expert in travel medicine and in particular tropical diseases such as dengue fever. Greg and Dr. V review the scary data on the increases in dengue cases in Thailand, noting that...
Jul 9, 2019
A bit of self-promotion first - we’re happy to see that the Bangkok Podcast was chosen as one of 2019’s top 25 expat podcasts over at Feedspot. A great honor! Now to the show...
Greg and Ed are psyched to sit down with Pailin Wedel, a Thai-American journalist and filmmaker based in Bangkok, about her new film...
Jul 2, 2019
Continuing our series on interesting events in Thai history, Greg introduces the Thai-Cambodian ‘crisis’ of 2003.
It started when rumors began spreading that a Thai soap opera actress, Suvanant Kongying, had said Cambodia had ‘stolen’ Angkor Wat from Thailand. After the Cambodian Prime Minister repeated the...