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Sohbet Punx Podcast

Sohbet Punx Podcast

A podcast of spiritual (with a small s) discussions between friends brought to you by Dave (Haest/Sham City Roasters) and Siobhan (Comeback Clit)

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01:26:35

Episode 096 Energy is in places and I don't have to...

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2025/10/01

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 energy and bad energy. All sorts of things. We're skipping an episode next time so we'll see you in a

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01:33:29

Episode 095 Noble Eightfold Path #8 Right Concentration

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2025/09/17

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. Turns out the flow state is a good state. Turns out Jesus is a good fellow. Superman does not satisfy us

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01:27:34

Episode 094 Noble Eightfold Path #7 Right Mindfulness

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2025/09/03

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 joy, you lot! Mindfulness and meditation will basically sort you out but you won't probably realise it

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01:32:27

Episode 093 Noble Eightfold Path #6 - Right Effort

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2025/08/20

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 rap metal. Maybe we all need to sign up to the same emotional transference in order for anyone to feel

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01:35:17

Episode 092 Noble Eightfold Path #5 - Right Livelihood

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2025/08/06

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.

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01:32:28

Episode 091 Intermission; Manowar, Hare Krsna and...

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2025/07/23

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 things in order to make life worthwhile? How important is community to heavy metal warrior brothers? How

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01:41:36

Episode 090 Noble Eightfold Path #4 - Right Action

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2025/07/09

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, wishing death on people is only making your life sad, slow gains beat instant gains.

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01:31:57

Episode 089 Noble Eightfold Path #3 - Right Speech

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2025/06/25

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 plane journeys, silence is better than racket, circular behavioural patterns and some surprisingly hard

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01:27:15

Episode 088 Noble Eightfold Path #2 - Right Thinking

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2025/06/11

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 of words, discipline and compulsivity, intelligence has nothing to do with whether you're an idiot or

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01:23:52

Episode 087 Noble Eightfold Path #1 - Right View

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2025/05/28

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.

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01:27:28

Episode 086 An off the tongue anxiety uproar!

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2025/05/14

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 don't know what a good time feels like!Nothing to do with this episode but go suck a caribou's ass.

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01:21:21

Episode 085 Look at this fantastic broccoli

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2025/04/30

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 episode but listen to Rocket From The Crypt.

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01:26:40

Episode 084 Some people like you are morons

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2025/04/16

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 episode and see if she calls you a cunt.Nothing to do with this episode but watch Broken Flowers.

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01:14:14

Episode 083 We need to fuck more and cum less

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2025/04/02

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! Not doing the things you want is special! You, the listener, are special! FOMO is a death cult

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01:34:10

Episode 082 Vipassana Silent Meditation Retreat

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2025/03/19

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.

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01:32:16

Episode 081 Recleaning the Little Chef knives with a...

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2025/03/05

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 10 day silent retreat so I think we're feeling even deeper than usual! Good luck with that dear

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01:28:24

Episode 80 - Love, relationships and how to get good...

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2025/02/19

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 you have the answer please let us know...

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01:43:42

Episode 079 What have we lost?

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2025/02/05

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.

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01:31:59

Episode 078 The slender knowledge of higher things

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2025/01/22

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.

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01:26:02

Episode 077 Start Where You Are

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2025/01/08

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 stumbled across us by magic, celebrate yourself.

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