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The Bangkok Podcast

May 27, 2025

In this month's Classic Recast, 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 being a couch potato and watching a lot of Western TV shows and movies, surviving by...


May 20, 2025

After his latest video dropped and generated a lot of buzz, Greg and Ed interview Stu Jay Raj, the podcast’s Thai language expert, but this time Stu explains his new video and website discussing the cost of international school in Thailand. As most people are aware, the Thai public school system is not particularly...


May 13, 2025

Thai cuisine is remarkably good at adopting flavors and ingredients into its fold, but there are some that just have not made the cut. In a city where you can find almost any type of food from around the world, certain Western foods seem to get embraced by Thais, while others don’t. For example, while not...


May 6, 2025

Greg interviews Phra Pandit about Buddhist monks and politics.  Greg begins by framing the issue around the recent tumultuous nature of politics around the world. Could Buddhist calmness provide an answer?  Well, Phra Pandit begins by making clear that under the rules of the Sangha as interpreted in Thailand, monks are...