Sohbet Punx Podcast

Siobhan goes on a self directed silent retreat in the woods and Dave takes part in a two week fast. Suffice to say, we both unravel and tell you all the juicy details... Deep stuff this episode guys. But, we still manage to chuck in a bit of Juggalism, a toilet with a drawer, peeping in a poo sack, big love to everyone who's ill right now, getting lost is the best thing you can do, Siobhan joins t...

We review ourselves from 5 years ago, try to get to the bottom of what the point of all of this was, soberly listen to ourselves drunk and go for a run in the dark. Siobhan doesn't know how young children are nowadays, fear only stops you from living, Bill Hicks is still wise, Dave wins a Michelin star at Church, doing new things helps you do new things. We should all be breathing through our butt...

Mockery, phlegm, anniversary(s), rambling nonsense, Gorilla Biscuits, Kurt Vonnegut mis-quotes, calling in sick, Siobhan is toothless and leather skinned, spiritual retreats, solitude, Biblical mis-quotes, Alabama crotch thrust, Brooks and Dunn long legs, AI rhyming rap, Dave goes to an exorcism, some things are problematic for some and life saving for others, meeting random guys outside the toile...

A bit of exciting weather talk. Spiritual conversations with (some other) friends. Making goals by going back to basics. Accepting what is. Some good berries. A full technology rundown of all the most up to date things that we happen to have seen randomly... And then we get down to the meat of the thing which may involve me changing tenses... This is kind of a big deal episode for me, which will e...

After a long month away we're back to fill your ears with joy and fun in a chaotic travelogue. There's talk of Trump, a critique of the American mental health services, we are all just Plato but with no attention span, Dave almost dies from diarrhea to celebrate our wedding anniversary but still chokes down a profiterole, we hang with Jack Black in Quentin Tarantino's Pam Greer themed coffee shop...

This episode we're talking about spiritual places and how and why they may feel different to us. There's a brief book club, a discussion of Blackie Lawless and his Wasp friends, we ask why the members of Blink 182 can't ever join Fugazi, Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson are discussed without any connection to each other despite the obvious history. Lots of meditation, tons of Christianity, good energ...

The secret word of the day on this episode is.... BEDTIME! Are we sleepy or are we drunk? That will be for you to decide. Mister Mister rip off Billy Joel. Chess with the mentally unwell. We finish the final episode of Lost and talk about its religious connotations but Siobhan is incapable of describing anything clearly. We both say the words "fiddle-de-diddly". Turns out Ben Hur is a good film. T...

Seagull eats bread shocker! The classic Bon Jovi/Bryan Adams/man from the Stereophonics conspiracy theory gets solved! The Life of Chuck! If history has taughtn ate nights are great, you read it here first! Boys DO cry! "The cinema is a place that you go to watch a film"! Normal things are popular for a reason and that reason is probably mapped out by your soul! Dancing is emotional! Don't poo poo...

We're sleepy this episode but we buckle up and continue our journey through the Buddhist Eightfold Path as well as covering the usual vast array of randomness; There's a weird Bloodstock Festival review. We ask if by expecting everything to fulfil your spiritual needs do you just ruin it when it doesn't live up to those standards? Apparently there's a difference between Sigur Ros and Radiohead and...

You join us on the eve of our trip to Bloodstock 2025 so, as you might expect, we talk about meditation gains, life changing spiritual experiences and more Buddhism (as well as a brief mention of heavy metal). Cat's are wise. Life can change in the blink of an eye. The Green Mile is nice. Psychiatry is complex. Do we need art? Sham City Roasters is dead. Long live life.

In an interruption to our usual programming we take a brief break from the Noble Eightfold Path for this episode to describe our rediciculous weekend of great majesty which included a Manowar gig, a Hare Krsna street festival and a discussion on William Blake's imagination. Did we stay in a magical hotel? Did more than two great things happen in 1980? Is it OK to be entirely unironic about silly t...

Are we punks or are we Devo? Crossfit competitions with show offs, old men's knees, the Adam Curtis documentary "Shifty" and its propensity to make you want to slit your wrists, doing things and not doing things, we're just animals with rules, mindfulness is more than your app, faith is important, we are just fertilizer, loads of people turn their caps backwards before dropping some truth bombs, w...

Scandinavian travel stories, Midsommer without any of the deaths the movie promised, Siobhan's wallet goes in a poo-ey toilet bin, Dave gets in a tree, meditation helps with stressful situations, vapid expanses of nothing, pub culture vs "getting in the water" culture (whatever that is), a Pee Wee Herman documentary goes all meta, Satre is a pillock, the perpetuating machine of misery, nightmare p...

We ate bad cake before this episode so it gets pretty trippy as the sugar kicks in. Gaia theory, Caitlin Moran and the problem of men and boys, life is absurd, if you’re grumpy about where your band is on the bill then you're both an idiot and we love you, what or who is "the one", the Matrix is just a nerds everyday life, more mindfulness and meditation talk, lots of semantics about the meaning o...

The beauties and tragedies of little foxes. Joy loves company. Don't Forget We're Here Forever. Finding our way out of bullshit via Buddhism. More meditation talk. Don't be a massive fascist. Acknowledge and learn from other people's views, particularly if you disagree with them. Knowing what you don't know and that you don’t know.

More friendship, more bullshit, more boredom, more bashing technology. We talk about the joys of sobriety, how to anchor your life to force development and we bad mouth the Dalai Lama. We imagine what it would be like if someone presented us with a surprise pizza. We discuss some self help nonsense and a stupid man talks about biohacking but doesn't think people know what a vagina is. Plus, YOU do...

Meditation practice (again), savouring the old instead of looking for the shiny new, learning through repetition, mayonnaise flavoured crisps would be shit, Shelter have been wonderful for many decades, Noisy Mothers was an excellent telly programme, creating a healthy salience landscape, but mostly this episode is, and I mean this in the most technical of ways, bullshit. Nothing to do with this e...

Dreams about Ray Cappo, racist Slade tribute acts, Herman Hesse, country and western, experiencing opinions that are different from your own, 60% of people are idiots, 80% of people are idiots, 20% of people are idiots, social egotism, meditation is hard, meditation is worth it, everything in life changes, failure doesn't exist, we're not sponsored by anyone and get your mum to listen to this epis...

This episode, we return again to our experiences on our recent silent retreat but this time with an emphasis on the subject of renunciation. What can we get from going without unimportant things in order to get all the stuff that might lead us to finding meaning in a meaningless world?! And that's not all, of course, because we go off piste a lot... Going for a walk is special! Music is special! N...

Fresh from finishing a 10 day silent meditation retreat, your trusty Sohbet Punx are back to share their experiences! I'm not going to write anything silly about it like I usually do in these descriptions, it was a very profound experience and we have quite a story to tell (or maybe start telling). Enjoy. Nothing to do with the episode but go and listen to Sense Field.

On this episode we're discussing whether faith can solve our crisis of meaning after hearing two much more intelligent people discussing the same topic. But that's not all, problematic people follow us everywhere we go! Disturbed are YOUR favourite new band! AI Jesus! Deep conversations are important! Grappling over THE big existential questions! We're recording this episode just before going on a...

First up, we compare Dillinger 4 with symphonic pap metal and think about the importance of emotion and being in the moment at gigs, then we go for some long walks in central London before moving on to our main topic of the episode... Love! Two people with a very imperfect relationship seek out some advice on how to get better at it. How do we grow, educate, develop individually and together? If y...

This episode we're discussing Christine Rosen's excellent new book "The Extinction Of Experience" as well as our need for space, mind wandering and the importance of boredom. It’s a bit of a heavy episode but don’t fret, we also start beef with both the DVLA and Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch so there’s fun to be had.

On this episode we're talking about Humanism and the philosopher EF Schumacher because it just so happened they popped up in our lives at the same time as each other. Is that all? Certainly not! There's loads more including Jesus Lizard, Atomic Habits, Gratitude journals and an update on the man with his poo poo pipe.

It's a new year and we owe you some Christmas cheer after missing an episode over the festive period so here it is! We treat you with some fun poo stories, we give you live updates about a man with a big pipe outside the window, we successfully time travel and we chat about the positives and negatives of making new year's resolutions. We're off social media now so if you're listening then you've s...