Podcasts by Opesh

Hair of the Dog Part 3: The Animal Question Part 2 from 2022-08-26T14:20:09

More guests join in on the conversation about identity and the secret to 'the animal question'.  

Hair of the Dog Hostel: The Animal Question from 2022-08-25T14:16:36

In part 2 of our Hair of the Dog mini-series, we discuss 'the' question: what are your favourite 3 animals?  The answers define you...listen in to find out how!

Hair of the Dog Hostel Bulgaria Part 1: Ulrich and the Golden Rule from 2022-08-22T14:52:29

In part one of the Hair of the Dog mini-series, I sit with veteran nomad Ulrich from Germany and discuss the one rule he thinks overrules them all!  The Golden Rule.  But how does it m...

Kis Episode 1.3: Should Really Old People Just Die? from 2022-01-06T15:33:20

Be go controversial after Hunyar shares his thoughts on looking after a very old man here in Budapest.  I pose tough questions.  We hear about stamps.

Plus, two lovely women fro...

Kis Uzem E1.1: How the Medieval Days Dealt With a Virus from 2022-01-06T14:26:52

Local historian and gamer Robbie, a regular at the wonderful Kis Uzem bar in the 7th District of Budapest, steps in and poses very delicious questions, based on medieval history, about the way v...

Kis Episode 1: Virus History, Mixed Races, Old People Dying and how to speak Kazakhstanian! from 2022-01-06T04:53:24

For my first official podcast from Kis Uzem Budapest, I sit down with resident gamer/historian/all-round distinguished gentleman Robbie to talk about how viruses affected medieval societies, bef...

Crypto Currency and Human Energy with Kevin from 2021-12-05T18:49:44

Two years after meeting Kevin at Sunflower Hostel in Berlin, I find him again in Budapest and we sit down at a bar in in the city to talk about his latest venture into Cryptocurrency and how it'...

Zubi from 2020-08-25T13:24:20

The last podcast from Budapest before some nasty little virus started to lock the world down...a long time coming, but this is a conversation between myself and Zubi, a musician from Nigeria but...

Arnoud and Strange Days from 2020-08-25T13:03:28

I sit down with Arnoud, a French film buff who works in the industry while living in Budapest, and we get all fanboyish about arguably one of the most underrated films of all time: Strange Days,...

Bandi, the Aussie in Budapest from 2020-08-25T12:36:49

I sit down with legendary Bandi, an Aussie who has lived in Budapest for many years and has still maintained his Aussie connections to pies, Vegemite, football and the political situations occur...

Mysterious Danes @ Best Barber in Budapest from 2020-03-04T18:13:07

The day after Halloween, in 2019, I hide at the best Barber Shop in Budapest and sit with a shy and mysterious Dane while her boyfriend has his beard shaved for the first time in years...plus a ...

In Bruges St Christopher's with Lancelot and Panamanians from 2020-02-27T19:54:28

The last official podcast from Europe sees us time travelling to the weekend of the Queen and Joka's escape to Bruges, sans Queen, who left literally hours before to catch her bus.  Sir Lan...

Berlin #7: Nikita and Oliver and Tool from 2020-01-31T06:20:31

I sit down post-incident with Catwoman (more on that later) with a sexy hippie called Nikita and her travelling buddy Oliver, both from Auckland, NZ.  After a tour of the Tool song 7empest ...

Joka and the Queen: Trouble @ Sunflower from 2020-01-31T06:04:13

Here's a chance to set the record straight: this was me waiting for my German sister Nadine to arrive at Sunflower and already the seeds were sown for more trouble for Joka when a hipster manage...

Amsterdam for One Night: Broke, with the King and Mysterious French Woman at Bulldogs from 2020-01-31T05:12:57

What a wild one this turns out to be.  With 10 euros to my name, I arrive in Amsterdam for one night only on the way back to Budapest.  There I meet Jos, self-proclaimed King of Amster...

The Jim Jeffries Encounter from 2020-01-29T11:58:22

I sit with Ben, former student, at Peaches in Melbourne one week out of a very interesting...interaction with the world-renowned comedian Jim Jeffries after his opening performance of his Europe...

Berlin #?: Kevin Martin and Human Energy from 2020-01-29T01:44:09

Kevin Martin, a tall, black, handsome Italian talks his current favourite topic: energy that exists between human beings.  Another pod from the Berlin days...

Ben @ Peaches Melbourne (1st Pod Back in Melbs Dec '19) from 2020-01-19T03:54:55

Fresh off a plane, jet-lagged and looking forward to xmas with the family (haha) I sit down with a young man who sings at pizza shops, tours Malaysia, had 70,000 subscribers on Youtube and happe...

Cookey: The Man With A Week To Live* from 2020-01-14T22:23:42

Hopefully by the time this podcast is distributed, Cookey is still alive. He’s meant to be dead, according to Doctors, and each morning the scrawny, raspy patriarch of Prahran struts and stagger...

Berlin #5: The Most Romantic Marriage Proposal Ever from 2020-01-08T03:03:26

Gigi and Mattoosh return from our smoko after our love talk and then get an injection of romance from the Queen of Budapest...only for her story to upstaged by Joka's marriage proposal.  We...

Berlin #4: Gigi, Mattosh and Love in 2019 from 2020-01-06T23:43:38

A  finely-tuned mannered English Italian Gigi and his Czech buddy Mattosh sit down and intend to talk about movies...but we end up anywhere but, and some deep and meaningful discussions abo...

Berlin #3: Costa the Night Manager and the Queen of Budapest @ Sunflower Hostel from 2020-01-03T04:24:08

In the middle of the night, I sit down with Costa, the Night Bar Manager of Sunflower Hostel who comes across as a slightly drunken Jeremy Irons, and we talk about hostels conversations, beautif...

Berlin Night #2: Denmark vs Joshuas from 2019-12-22T00:38:28

On the second night in Sunflower I sit down with Ineedto (phonetically spelt) from Denmark, a master of accents and inappropriate sound-checks, and the poetic and hilarious Joshua from Canada. &...

Berlin Sunflower Night #1 from 2019-12-20T04:57:24

My first night in Berlin I jump straight into it with a call from the Queen of Budapest, then joined by a hippie from Miami, a gay Argentine and a typically rowdy Brazilian along with Aisha, a g...

Dresden 111119 – Irish Bar Jam Session from 2019-11-26T14:58:43

Post a brilliant piece of jamming from the congregation of musicians in Neistadt, we gather and chat, interspersed with impromptu performances and a special guest appearance by Dave Chappelle hi...

Opesh Dresden - Neils 'Nutgate' With Local Drugdealers from 2019-11-21T07:45:33

A quick one...had to capture this classic character from Berlin, Neils, in Dresden recalling our 'run in' with the local dealers and his 'unpleasant experience' with a Tunisian flicking nuts in ...

Opesh 051119 – Prague, Dr Ivo, Franco and Murphy's Law from 2019-11-17T15:56:44

Two locals, a twitchy loud-mouth and a sly goateed hustler, discuss the problems of Murphy while checking out hostels better than the one we're in.  Good clean fun.

Russian Russel's Rap – Prague from 2019-11-14T17:37:20

This is Russian Russel...aka Loghin.  He met me randomly at a miserable bar in Prague, the only two sitting in the basement nursing beers and looking for green.  He got talking via Goo...

Opesh Podcast 041119 – Gallerie Misery with Russell from Russia from 2019-11-12T14:58:28

Walked into a bar called Misery looking for weed.  Got denied.  Ordered beer and walked around corner of basement to area with one other soul: a young, green-eyed Russian lad who engag...

Opesh Podcast 071119 – Dresden George Bigbird from 2019-11-10T16:12:44

In Dresden I stumble upon a very tall, very ginger, very handsome drummer/tattoo artist who was cleaning at the Lolli's Homestay in Neustadt.  He reminded me of one of my best mates back ho...

Opesh Podcast 071119 – Sam from Santiago (and Marco from Buenos Aires) from 2019-11-08T16:19:42

I sit down in DRESDEN at Lollis Homestay with Sam from Chile and eventually Marco from Argentina and we talk about language, music and la revolucion de Santiago!

Opesh Podcast 041119 – Russian Mystery Woman in Prague from 2019-11-06T12:25:11

She was packing in the dark hours of the morning and woke me up, so I started a conversation, naturally.  Next morning, I try and pry through the mystery that lies behind Anna, Enigmatic Bl...