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T.I.T. Podcast Episode 57: No Cake This Year Please!
June 28th, 2010
Posted in Bangkok, Current Events, Issan, Issarn, Random Thoughts, Self Analysis, Thailand, Travel, alien, birthdays, coming out, culture, freaks, gay, lesbian, outsider, pride, queer, violence, world cup
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- Welcome to episode 57
- Yet another podcast from ‘Issarn’
- The 9 hour journey to the NorthEast of Thailand
- Avoiding the rain during Monsoon season
- Being beyond tired just from sitting for hours
- A post birthday show
- Thanks sooooo much for all the well wishes!
- Facebook is amazing
- What did Tom do for his birthday?
- Summer break as a gift this year
- A 5-star cinema experience for Prince of Persia
- A Bangkok must do!
- Birthday dinner ‘faux pas’
- Joined the gym….again!
- Tom has just lost it….or at least that is how I feel!
- a long struggle with the weight issues
- on a lighter note….Pride month in the US
- Pride in Thailand is in October
- Tom and gay pride
- Tom’s own coming out story
- Coming out to my folks from abroad
- Not an easy road, but better for it today
- The World cup frenzy in Thailand
- Tom doesn’t care for most sports
- Soccer vs. football
- World cup dispute prompts axe murder
- The myth of the gentle Thai
- Sudden intense outbursts of anger
- Lack of self control and rules of war
- Thai rules is about 20 vs. 1
- If in doubt….always walk away!
- Interesting discussion on the way to Issarn
- Feeling more alien the longer I’m here
- More intense outside of Bangkok
- Integration not possible in Thailand
- Why not move home??
- Life would be easier if I were British or Australian
- Life in purgatory
- Making lemonade when life gives you limes!
- Go check out Tigger’s new vidcasts
- Check out Cocktails and Creampuffs!
- Lurve to my listeners!
- The usual rambling closing remarks
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T.I.T. Podcast Episode 56: Hot Fun in the SummerTime
June 13th, 2010
Posted in Bangkok, Chang Mai, REdShirts, Thailand, Travel, beaches, culture, freaks, mountains, pattaya, sports, summer, vacation, world cup
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- Welcome to episode 56
- A Sunday morning in Bangkok
- Personal catch up episode
- Hooray! No more weekends in Rayong
- Almost summer break
- No down time at all
- More activities than teaching
- Tom’s summer plans
- Someone has a birthday coming up soon!
- I like birthdays less and less the more I have them
- Last birthday was atop Central World
- A friend’s 40th
- Brits and their ‘theme’ parties
- The World cup just isn’t Tom’s thing
- Just don’t enjoy sports…never have
- American College football being the exception
- More fast paced in my opinion
- A visit to Chang Mai?
- The Rose of the north
- Different dialect of Thai spoken
- Different ethnicity evident….more Chinese influence
- Doi Intanon, the highest peak in Thailand
- Stunning beauty in rolling mountains
- Mountains vs. beaches in Thailand
- The summers of my youth
- Family vacations = mountains or beaches
- Always big ‘to dos’ in my family
- No big travel plans this summer though
- Moving expenses are HUGE here!
- Pattaya bound for sure
- Hopefully only one more year there
- New room, new class, new neighborhood
- Not much of a peep out of the RedShirts
- The calm after the storm
- Considering doing an episode on Thai flaws
- Tom doesn’t like to ruffle feathers
- Fundamental flaws in Thai culture keep it down
- Do I keep quite or speak up cause I care….
- A video link from my friend Ken
- Hello to a new listeners: Tom, and Arizona Chris
- Go check out Tigger’s new vidcasts
- Rambling closing remarks
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T.I.T. Podcast Episode 52: Live From Issan…
February 28th, 2010
Posted in Bangkok, Expat, Issan, Northeast, Thailand, Travel, Uncategorized, country, culture, esarn, freaks, gay, holiday, lesbian, queer
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- Welcome to episode 52
- Tom’s visiting Udon Thani this weekend
- On a much needed break
- Insane activity schedules at work
- Burn out
- Shop talk: accreditation malarkey
- Minor car trouble
- “Free flight” to Udon
- What is Issan?
- Issan sometimes gets a bad rap in Thailand
- Thais are so classist
- Monday is another National Holiday
- What is “Makha Bucha” day?
- Embassies jumped the gun yesterday with travel warnings
- Ex-Premier’s court date yesterday
- Thai Supreme Court seized 46 billion baht (1.4 billion dollars)
- Tom wonders what they will do with seized billion?
- A few ideas that I doubt will transpire
- I wish Thailand could put this wanna be dictator behind them
- Tom has done a little Pattaya exploring
- A lot more developed than I remember
- Saw the Wolfman movie there
- Surreal moment coming back over the mountain
- I wish there were more of those “moments” in life
- Comments and more comments
- Taylor, Ernest, and who is Little Bit!
- Email from a listener…Hey Brendan!
- Facebook friends
- Rambling closing remarks and lurve
Email me at tominthai@gmail.com, please go Comment on my page or call my voice line at 1-206-426-2152 and leave me a voice comment for the show!
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T.I.T. Podcast Episode 51: Is This My Year?
February 15th, 2010
Posted in Asia, Chinese New Year, Thailand, TominThailand, Travel, Uncategorized, Valentine, dating, emotion, freaks, gay, lesbian, love, queer, teaching
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- Welcome to episode 51
- Tom’s got a cold
- V-day and Chinese New Year in Thailand
- Valentine’s day is cute
- An ode to love
- Love doesn’t always translate
- What is your concept of love?
- Love should never “complete” you
- not a good cure for loneliness
- How open are you with your heart?
- Happy lunar New year!
- Chinese New Year definitely trumps Valentines
- Tom is a tiger….grrrrr!
- Discovered his students really are monkeys!
- The Chinese descend on Bangkok to party
- To hot and crowded for Tom
- Looking more like another year in the countryside
- The nearest “city” Tom is considering
- A 30 minute commute?
- Pattaya here Tom comes…
- Summer gears up in Thailand
- Comments and emails from my listeners
- (Sorry Taylor…only got your comment after i’d recorded the show)
- FB wars over games?
- Rambling closing remarks and lurve
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T.I.T. Podcast Episode 50: No Place Like Home…
February 5th, 2010
Posted in Depression, Rayong, Thailand, Tom, Travel, Uncategorized, blues, culture, freaks, gay, holidays, lesbian, life, queer
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- Welcome to episode 50
- Apologies for the absence
- Being busy when you thought you wouldn’t…
- Meetings and more meetings
- Tom’s Alabama Christmas
- Cold and wet
- Comforts of home
- Food, food and FOOD!
- Christmas shopping rage…
- Picking up where we left off
- Bonding with my sister
- How much alike we are
- A Thai’s take on Bama
- A week is to short
- Getting to meet my nephew
- The smallest male in the family
- Mexican margaritas and getting carded
- Nights by the fire with red wine
- Jet Lag and ancient flight attendants
- Between a baby and a fat man
- Wishing things were different
- Scammed right off the plane
- What else can go wrong…
- Moving 2 doors down
- Next stop……Hong Kong?
- Hello new Facebook friends and Tigger!!!
- Finally got me some Taylor on FB
- A new year and a new decade
- 10 years in Thailand
- Post holiday blues
- Another Year in Rayong?
- Encouragement from Facebook
- Rambling closing remarks and lurve
Email me at tominthai@gmail.com, please go Comment on my page or call my voice line at 1-206-337-9958 and leave me a voice comment for the show!
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