Bliss of the Abyss

Welcome back to TBOTA!  This week is all about Freedom day, but I also ramble about stag stories, the heatwave, knee re-f*ck, live comedy, Schlud, being a go giver not a go getter, Peppa Pig's heart of hearts, and Russell Crowe's "English" accent! Support the show: Give us a rating & review Become a patron and help me make this show Like and follow us on Facebook or Instagram Rent the awa...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show I have Dr. Raven Bowen. Dr. Bowen is the CEO of National Ugly Mugs (NUM) , a UK-wide charity aimed to 'end violence against sex workers'. Raven’s involvement in community development with sex workers spans almost three decades in Canada and the UK. She founded and contributed to several sex worker support projects, advocacy organisations and rese...

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Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show we have Alex Morgan. Alex is an actor, accent coach, writer, and linguaphile, and so naturally we discuss...  Sticky Jack, Sticky Richard and Sticky William, the uniting factor of negativity, Quintillogies, Rainbology,  Belloc's moral instructions, whale mail, incomplete abjads, Chinese dictionaries, how soon is now?, nerdy language chat, sa...

Welcome back to TBOTA! Special bonus episode release! Recorded 23rd June for Riverside Radio and released for the Patreon listeners, but because it was just such a fun one that we felt we had to share, we are making it public to you. On the radio we can play all the music we want, but we can't swear. And if that isn't bliss meeting abyss, I don't know what is. Stay tuned to the end for a musical e...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today I am joined by Alasdair Beckett-King - a legendary comedian, in that there is little historical evidence that he exists. But he does exist. Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2017, Alasdair has featured on BBC radio as a comedian and sketch writer, and performed stand-up across the UK, at Glastonbury, Citadel Fest, the Udderbelly Southbank and at the Edinburg...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show is Eva O’Connor , an award winning writer and performer from Ogonnelloe, Co. Clare. She writes and produces work for stage screen and radio. Her plays include  My Name is Saoirse ,  Overshadowed ,  The Friday Night Effect  (co-written with Hildegard Ryan)  Maz and Bricks  and  MUSTARD  (winner of Scotsman F...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Nils-Hennes Stear is a philosopher of ethics and aesthetics, currently teaching at the University of Auburn. He is currently writing a book titled Beyond Moralism, under contract with Oxford University Press. He also composed the music for TBOTA. He joins me on the show to discuss... Getting vaccinated thrice, grape fail lady, microchipping, what makes things funny?, t...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  This week on the show Carpet Martin returns and we mouth-shag about... Google name confusion, NFTs, the dark web, catfishing, performing to less than one person, the loss of the dodgy minicab, doctors using bing, my octopus teacher, the mortgage crisis of 2008, and  Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show Like and follow us on facebook or inst...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Special bonus episode release! This was recorded 11th May for Riverside Radio and released for the patreon listeners and we are making it public to you. Music, news, chat, mayhem: It's TBOTA on the radio.  Bonus episodes every week: >> https://www.patreon.com/theblissoftheabyss Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show Rent the award-winni...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show the multi-faceted and fascinating Kate Nicholls has one hell of a tale to tell, so we get right into it and talk Bringing up four children with Lions in the bush, Growing up in the theatre, having a life changing moment on stage, reinventing oneself, impostor syndrome , pervy directors, the power of risk for progress and change, Becoming a biologist,...

Welcome back to TBOTA! Regular episodes each and every week on here. For bonus content and the best way to support the show, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/Theblissoftheabyss?fan_landing But these things help too: Like and follow us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/BlissOfTheAbyss or instagram https://www.instagram.com/blissoftheabyss/ Give us a rating & review https://ratethispodc...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show, it's all about... Birthdays - my own and the podcast's, Stumbleupon, The Feed, Corruption, Prince Andrew, Sweathelp.org, fatigues, ending the podcast, the origins of Pad Thai, the wayback machine, and the answer to the question - what is the most delicious food in the world? Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show Rent the award-...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  This week Tom 'tha lion' Leo is back and we jibber-jabber about covid flip-flops, easing restrictions, blubbing vs sobbing, pigs in blankets, covid winners and losers, stand-up post pandemic, Patrice O'neal, simple Wikipedia, noodling, accordian theory of the universe, game of thrones and much much more! Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show Rent...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show actor and friend Dylan Mason and I go in-depth to discuss... Peaks and troughs, being naked onstage, musical theatre, what drama school is really like, guilt and work, cruelness, 'sexy week',  wanting to please, gatekeepers, insulting casting calls, empathy, representation, power structures, lack of visibility for differently-abled people, the id...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  On this week's episode we have writer Stephen Laughton, and we talk about... One Jewish boy's highs and lows , visa hurdles, being an alien of extraordinary ability, depression, rising like a phoenix, healthy working habits, submitting to Cannes, productivity and routine, stories from the theatre, cities emerging from lockdown, the politics of covid, the future of prog...

Welcome back to TBOTA! This week on the podcast my birthday-brother Luke and myself yak about Fitness tests in football, Adrian Mutu vs. by Roman Abramovich, growing up, weird VHS movies, depressing new yearses, eating a meal in the bath, getting 'old', navigating the complicated grey areas of everything, nostradamus and nosferatu, mind control, magic and everything else! Check out Luke's podcast...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  This week from the mists of time in the dusty archive I prize from the hands of the vault words about...... Travel in the age of Covid, ESTA club, paper overalls, Obama and Springsteen, US food, Quarantining, The Number 23, how THE PODCAST CHARTED! (In Sweden, shut yer mouth), and a bunch of other things! Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show &nb...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the pod we have the incendiary wild-child of Comedy, Tadi Mahlunge! I'm not gonna even go into what we go into....  This episode is for fans of comedy, despair, getting drunk, making people laugh, the mathematics of cheating, general bollox and f*cking around AND THAT IS ALL. Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show   Rent the awa...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  This week we have on artist, activist, and labor leader (and friend) Jeffrey Omura. We discuss all the things, including Being a year into the pandemic, the realities of quarantine, death and life, meeting at Edinburgh in 2011, sharing birthdays, what it's like running for public office, fighting for fair wages, artist housing, the light and dark side of politics, Succ...

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Today on the show... The story of my knee, Morphine idiocy, codeine vs oxycontin, the opiod epidemic  and the Sackler's, PlayStation and get the clips together, the wonders of the NHS, Elon Musk loves Polytopia, playing tennis with Joanna Lumley, hot chocolate man and his surgery story, living next door to a midnight church, my Beigel hero David Oh yeah and What d...

On why I’m away and when I’ll be back

Welcome back to TBOTA!  Another Best of this week where the babble is about.... My healing leg, Gamestonk the great unifier, World leader MMA, arguing with Vladimir Putin, Lampard and Gerrard, the big bay theory, sex dolls watching football, lab grown vaginas, the jazz police and so MUCH MORE Support the show: Become a patron and help me make this show  Rent the award-winning One Jewish Boy

Welcome back to TBOTA!  This week The Best Of #1. Jam-packed hilarity from the early days of the show. Enjoy! Support the show: Chip in as little or as much as you can to help me make this show  Rent the award-winning One Jewish Boy

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