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Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
The first week of Edinburgh has been tough, I can't tell if it's actually worse than last year, or if I've been putting more pressure on myself. Either way, I'm worried I'll have to get a job when I get back to Australia, which is an absolute nightmare to contemplate, so I'm trying to not contemplate that and focus on positives. This podcast made me feel a lot better, to be honest. Time to go out and do another five shows today. The dream, really.
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Wednesday Jul 31, 2019
Anna Beros is a comedian originally from Melbourne who moved to Berlin three years ago and is one of many exciting new acts coming out of the best comedy scene in Europe. She's also studied comedy in Italian film, and a bunch of other languages, so while I started off thinking we were going to talk about working in coffee, we quickly ended up talking about Berlin's comedy scene, and comedy in Europe generally. If you're in Berlin, go and check out Anna's weekly show Döner Comedy, and head to https://comedyinenglish.de/ for all the shows in the city every week. There are so so many!
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Today on what is, once again, a new version of exactly the same podcast, I spoke to Berlin-based Australian Dave Adams. Dave is a professional composer and musician who writes music for Chinese commercials - and I don't mean jingles, I mean actual music - from his office in Berlin. We had a chat about that. A great chat, actually, while smoking cigarettes in his lounge room. Oh, if it was all that simple.
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Today on the pod I found some rough looking table in the front area of some commission flats in Berlin to record in. Five minutes before the end of the pod a security guard came and told me to get out, and he scared the shit out of me. My moment of cowardice can be heard at the end of this week's pod, and in the 40 minutes previous I talk about Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Rotterdam, and everything that happened there.
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Well that was fucken weird. Twenty minutes of pod in a bar in Edinburgh, the bartender doesn't want customers, and I feel weird even being here. Not an enjoyable experience at all if I'm honest hahaha.
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
This week I went on a two-hour mission to a cafe in Bangkok and had a horribly stunted conversation with a barista who barely spoke English, but it was fantastic. I'm starting to understand a little more about why I decided to do this stupid podcast in the first place, and in understanding that, I'm able to make it work better. Paris has been great, the coffee culture here is in a very interesting moment in its history right now, and this week I spoke to Channa Galhenage, owner of Loustic Cafe, who was kind enough to take the time to sit down with me and explain a bit of it. Next week is London, any recommendations are of course so very, very welcome. It's a bit of an overwhelming prospect, to be honest.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Yesterday I spent the day on the island of Koh Samui in Thailand driving motorbikes around the jungle. Most of this week I've been in Bangkok trying to get my bearings in this insane city. This tour has been incredible, and exhausting, and in two days it'll be done. I need a coffee right now.
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
Tuesday Jun 18, 2019
This week I went to Yangon in Myanmar and had a bar conversation with a private security contractor about the horrific conflicts in the North of that country. I had coffee in seemingly the country's only speciality coffee shop, and marveled at the symbolic beginning of globalisation and coffee culture in this isolated city. Then I came to Singapore, where the city is awasg with speciality coffee and Western culture to such an extent that the local coffee traditions are quickly being pushed out. I visited a cafe that used to be a front for illegal gambling but has had to abandon its former premises of almost 100 years because gentrification. Gentrification that I, and this podcast, are absolutely a part of. Makes ya think, I guess. Not laugh, really. But think, sure.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Huge week in Kuala Lumpur, headlining at the Crackhouse Comedy Club and scouring the city for nice spots. Some barista sent me on a mission out to this roastery in the suburbs, and I walked for 45 minutes in the sweaty heat to get there. It's still sweaty and hot, but I'm in a hotel in Phuket now, not a hostel in KL, so things are looking up.
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Oh my god my voice is so dead, what an incredible week in Madrid!! I realised as soon as I got here that my book of cafes doesn't have ANYTHING for Madrid hahahaha... great. So I had to do some searching myself, and also some thinking about what it means for a city's culture to have this wave of Antipodean/English style coffee shops turn up and change the vibe. I'm still pretty wrecked from the week, hanging on by a thread.