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Bored Expats: Getting Your Groove Back in Bangkok [Season 3, Episode 51]
Bangkok is a giant, chaotic, constantly evolving megalopolis. But guess what? If you live here long enough, you’ll get bored. Happens to everybody. You’ll lose your groove and get stuck in a rut. So what to do? Greg and Ed give their best advice as long term expats, focusing mainly on relocating to a lesser known, more Thai parts of the city. With a quick…
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It's much less commercialized and touristy. Fewer 7-11 and Starbucks stores, more mom & pop stores. In the morning, monks walk through the street for alms and workers line up for jook (rice porridge) breakfast. English is far less common. Thanon Chan is the Bangkok that, even in 2005, was already fading in Sukhumvit.
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Become a patron of the show. On The Bangkok Podcast, Ed Knuth says co-host Greg Jorgensen made a behind-the-scenes video that walks through how they produce an episode, step by step, from the hardware to the software, with pictures of the equipment. Ed calls it a primer for anyone who wants to start a podcast, and he says it answers questions the two of them get all the time. Greg did the work. The video was made for patrons, and Knuth says you have to become a patron on the show's website to watch it. Patrons also get an unscripted bonus episode each week.
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