June 17, 2025

Western Weddings vs Thai Weddings: Which is More Fun? [S7.E75]

Western Weddings vs Thai Weddings: Which is More Fun? [S7.E75]

Greg and Ed discuss a fascinating question: Are Thai weddings or American weddings more fun? The question was raised after Greg attended the wedding of friend of the podcast Daniel Fraser. As everyone knows, Dan is a legit expert on travel in Thailand, in addition to being a bit of a celebrity in the country due to his appearances in various TV shows and movies. Greg noted that the experience reminded him how much more fun Thai weddings are than Western weddings, leading Ed to raise his eyebrows a bit and raise a few objections.

Ed admits that Thai weddings can be very interesting due to their local cultural aspects, which would certainly apply to Dan’s well-choreographed affair. And, of course, all weddings can be heartfelt experiences due to your wishes for the bride and groom. But when it comes to FUN in the conventional sense of the term, Ed argues that most Thai weddings are nothing more than elaborate dinners and typically lack the band, the dancing, and the drunkenness that are de rigueur at most American weddings. For fun rather than formality, Ed opts for Western weddings. 

Greg begs to differ, however (as he did on his blog ‘Greg to Differ’), and argues that Isaan weddings can include frivolity from the get-go, including shots of ya dong or Thai moonshine in the a.m. (!) Ed concedes there’s no topping that, but theorizes that perhaps there’s a difference between the typical Bangkok wedding, which might be more Thai-Chinese, and the typical Isaan wedding, which might be more fun and informal. Perhaps Ed just needs to attend some weddings out in the provinces! 


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Greg 00:00:05 On this episode, we ask the tough questions what's more enjoyable, a Thai wedding or a Western wedding?

Ed 00:00:11 So whether you prefer crazy parties, pious ceremonies, or moonshine fuelled parades, you'll enjoy this episode of the Bangkok Podcast.

Greg 00:00:36 Sawa. And welcome to the Bangkok Podcast. My name is Greg Jorgensen, a Canadian who came to Thailand in 2001 after running afoul of the notorious North Side Poutine mafia, who you do not want to mess around with.

Ed 00:00:49 Great reference, and I made Knuth, an American who came to Thailand on a one year teaching contract 24 years ago, fell in love with being able to predict the next box office hit in Thailand. It's going to be a ghost story with both humorous and dramatic elements. So I never left.

Greg 00:01:06 Wait wait wait. At some point during the movie, does someone open the door and have a guy standing there dressed in women's clothes and makeup?

Ed 00:01:12 Of course. And there's got to be some. Sounds like boiling.

Greg 00:01:17 Between.

Ed 00:01:19 Well, the reason I thought of this is that a Thai ghost movie recently won a prize at the Cannes Film Festival, not the the number one prize, but one of the side prizes, but a substantial prize.

Ed 00:01:31 And of course, it's a it's a ghost movie with comedic elements.

Greg 00:01:37 Oh, man.

Ed 00:01:37 That's why I don't know if it has any, any ladyboy in it, though. I'm not sure. I haven't seen it. Haven't seen it yet.

Greg 00:01:44 And the the the Cannes crowd went wild when the boiling sound effect came up.

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Greg 00:02:44 You know, the other day I was sitting in traffic at a stoplight, along with all the other plebs who were stuck in traffic and a couple of cars. Up for me was a Ferrari. Also stuck in traffic. And is is schadenfreude the right word to use in that situation.

Ed 00:02:59 Yeah, I guess you could. I mean, presuming, but you are actually suffering the same there. But maybe they're suffering more because of how fast their car could be going.

Greg 00:03:09 Right, right. Or I'm suffering more because that was the last time I saw them. Because once the light was green. And of course they. Right. Right. Took off at an incredible speed. All right. Well, in this episode, we are inspired by my recent trip to Colorado to take part in the wedding of our good friend Dan to his lovely wife, Yui. Now, the funny thing about this topic is that Ed and I were discussing the merits of a Thai wedding versus a Western one, and we actually found out that we disagreed on which one is more enjoyable.

Greg 00:03:37 I'm of the opinion that Thai weddings are always more fun. While Ed said he'd rather go to a Western wedding to have a good time. And both of us were surprised that the other guy disagreed. And that's what we're going to discuss here. That's right kids, mom and dad are going to argue until they both agree to disagree. So I honestly, I was a little bit shocked when you said that you didn't think that Thai weddings were more fun. Because I've always assumed that they are just more Sonic Sonic and enjoyable. But now you kind of got me second guessing myself and also my memory, because maybe I can't remember things as well as I thought I did.

Ed 00:04:11 Yeah, you know, I totally disagree. But first, I want to clarify this. I enjoy going to Thai weddings, but it's typically because of, you know, the people who are getting married. Like, I had a great time at your wedding. So, like, people who I know and you're happy for. So I'm not a hater, so I don't I don't hate going to Thai weddings, but, but if we're going to discuss just the, the fun factor of the event itself, maybe I've had bad luck or maybe I've been stuck in, you know, maybe maybe I've been stuck, you know, in Bangkok.

Ed 00:04:42 And, you know, we you know, we talked about this already a little bit before the show. Maybe the weddings I've been going to are like Thai, Chinese weddings. I'm not sure, but the Thai weddings I've gone to, I can just summarize it very quickly. They almost follow a formula. Basically you start with a which what? In the States we would call a reception is really how it starts. and then typically there's some picture taking, maybe a slideshow and, you know, some speeches, but it seemed to be fewer than you would get in a Western wedding. and then you eat a giant meal and that's it. That's the whole thing. Interesting. You know? And, you know, you're in a banquet hall. There's big circular tables. So, you know, you know, I this has happened to I've had 4 or 5 weddings like this. Like it's pretty big circular tables. So you're actually pretty far away from, from most people. And then it's, it's shiny style.

Ed 00:05:37 What they just they just put a pig in the middle of the table and, like, spin it around, you know what I mean? and again, I'm not saying I, I, I hate it. I'm just saying that the event itself is really just a dinner. That's it. And I've never I don't think I've ever been to a Thai wedding where there's been a band that people have danced to. Which is which is a staple at Western weddings. I mean, maybe not everyone, but you know. That is the cliche American wedding. and so, so for me, so for me, in terms of the event itself being fun, I'm I would take a Western wedding, for sure.

Greg 00:06:13 I think we have to establish a baseline here, though. I mean, what do you mean when you mean fun? How do you mean? Going out and partying and loud music and getting absolutely sloshed with people and hitting on bridesmaids? Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

Ed 00:06:27 That's it. That's exactly what I'm talking about.

Greg 00:06:29 Okay, well, for me, like, I, you know, I, I don't enjoy that. So for me, when I say a fun wedding, I mean, maybe, maybe the word I'm thinking of is a more interesting or, or culturally, deep wedding. I just find Western weddings to be very staid and predictable and photocopied. whereas whereas my experiences with Thai weddings have been just an incredible amount of flexibility. And you're right, sometimes it's just a banquet where you go and you sit at a table with strangers and you get that weird fish soup with the weird spongy junk inside, and it's gross. which are probably more Chinese style, but I've just I've just found that when a Thai wedding gets a little bit creative, it quickly becomes really interesting and very enjoyable. But I've never I've never had anything outside, like when, when a, when a, when a Western wedding is really fun and enjoyable, it doesn't seem to be anything other than getting sloshed with a bunch of other people.

Ed 00:07:34 Yeah. I mean, I understand your point. but I still think I would disagree with this. But first, let me make clear that, I do find Thai weddings interesting when there are these cultural, cultural components. Like, I have been invited to some of the morning rituals, solutions out there. Thai wedding days typically begin with a type of ceremony with monks or with parents. In the morning, that is very Thai and very traditional. And I have experienced this and it's definitely cool. So I again, like I said before, I'm not a hater.

Greg 00:08:06 that was my wedding. You you carried. I did a banana or a coconut. I can't remember the word.

Ed 00:08:12 Were there like plants or palm fronds or. I feel like I had a something. Yeah, I can't remember.

Greg 00:08:18 Yeah. Okay. There was a little parade and some of my good friends, you included.

Ed 00:08:22 I think that's what I was carrying, I think. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. No, that.

Ed 00:08:25 No. So I'm not a hater. I'm just saying. And that's of course, to me that's culturally interesting. But, I think you're being a little bit hard on wedding receptions. I mean. My point is that Western weddings begin very formal, typically with a religious ceremony. Not everyone, but a lot of people. It's either in a church or synagogue. So. So that, of course, is very formal in-state family is there. Then you move to the reception, and the reception is less formal than being in a church, but it's still fairly formal event. But people start eating, people start drinking their speeches, they speak. There's a kind of a a tradition of the speeches being where there's an attempt to be funny or to rib the, you know, kind of rib the bridegroom. right. So and, and, and then, you know, once the speeches are over or maybe a slideshow or whatever, you know, the cutting of the cake, you know, then you know, the, you know, the, the, the couple, like, shoves cake on each other's faces and everyone's laughing, you know, and everyone's laughing.

Ed 00:09:29 And then the band starts and then and then you start to dance, and people are dragging people on the dance floor. And then, you know, the typical thing is, if you're 20 or 30, you wait for the other people to go home or people with kids and then, it, you know, weddings can just go off the hook like it's I mean, it's not it's not like being it's not like people are doing X and like, raving all night. That's not what I'm talking about. But Western weddings have. They kind of go from formality to semi formality to a party, you know. And it's just that's the American wedding. It's not just in movies. I've done it many times, you know. And it, you know, it's not like I'm a big dancer or anything like that, but like everyone else, you know, if I do drink enough and someone drags me and it it's fun. And maybe I just miss that. I'm sure there's some. I'm sure there's dancing in some Thai weddings.

Ed 00:10:20 I just can't remember that I've done that at a Thai wedding. I've never. I've never been to, like, an East Han style wedding. And I can imagine if if I had to choose, in terms of fun factor, I'd probably go to an East Town wedding.

Greg 00:10:35 Right. Okay. But when you say you can't remember. But like in my wedding, there was there was dancing, but that was at the reception in the evening, not the formal ceremony in the morning, did I?

Ed 00:10:44 I don't even remember. Okay. Remind me, what did we do at the reception.

Greg 00:10:48 Yeah, it was huge. There was there was like 200 people there. We had it at the Sam Society on, on. Isaac.

Ed 00:10:54 Okay, I may I may have danced at your wedding, so maybe.

Greg 00:10:57 There was a lot of dancing. Yes.

Ed 00:10:58 Okay.

Greg 00:10:58 Yeah.

Ed 00:10:59 Okay. I, I hope there's no video of that. I'm not sure. I, I don't think I want to see that.

Greg 00:11:04 I don't think so. But there was definitely drinking and eating and dancing and it was.

Ed 00:11:07 Well, you're also Canadian. So I mean, you're bringing in all these Western ideas, Oh, yeah.

Greg 00:11:13 You're weird Canadian ideas.

Ed 00:11:14 Yeah. You're bringing like, you're bringing in this idea. I it's a good question for listeners out there. It's actually a tricky problem because for most expats there, obviously if they get married in Thailand they're usually marrying a Thai person. And so the wet I think the wedding might tend to be more of a hybrid thing.

Greg 00:11:33 Well.

Ed 00:11:33 So what I'm talking about when Thais Mary, I'm talking about Thais marrying Thai people, this is the kind of wedding I'm talking about. And I, I'm not saying I didn't have fun while I was there, but it's fun because of the event. And you're celebrating the couple, you know, and you get, like, fuzzy. Fuzzy feelings about this is so beautiful. Like, they're so young. Like they're so young. You know, they haven't learned all the hard lessons of life.

Ed 00:11:58 I, you know, all of that, but it's. I don't remember ever. I mean, I have had three glasses of wine at a wedding, but I don't remember. It's not a party. Just at least the Thai weddings I've gone to. It's a celebration of the, you know, whatever. But I've been to some wild Thai bachelor parties. But that's not. That's a different topic. I'm talking about the wedding itself. I really want to get listeners feedback. I think Thai weddings. Thai with Thai people. the it doesn't it doesn't explode, like at the reception. At least that's what I want to find out. Like I've never seen it.

Greg 00:12:37 This is also overlaps in the Venn diagram of of the, the, perennial complaint that you and I have self complaint that you and I have about ourselves is that we just don't have a lot of Thai friends.

Ed 00:12:48 As many as you think you know. You know, it's funny, I was thinking I just went to, a wedding a few months ago, and it was a former student of mine and a guy that she met who happened to be Malaysian.

Ed 00:12:59 And, it's almost the exception to what I'm saying, because she happens to be a very fun person. And and so the crowd, and she had a ton of friends there. but there still was no ban and no dancing, but people were hanging on drinking a lot, so it did. Actually, it did have a very party atmosphere. And it went started going late and the older people went home. So it was a little bit closer, you know, to to what I'm talking about. but, American wedding receptions are just renowned for getting off the hook and maybe even getting a little bit raunchy and like, you know. Yeah, you know, guys are, like, creeping on the bridesmaids and, like, people are sneaking off into, like, a back corner, like, this is a this is a hallmark of western weddings.

Greg 00:13:45 Yeah, you're right, you're right. But like I said that none of none of that really appeals to me. And that's fine. That's just my personal preference.

Greg 00:13:51 But it's the same thing. It's this. It's it's you get alcohol, everyone gets drunk and hitting on the bridesmaids and dancing and stuff like that, but it's that's it. That's all there is. Yeah, there's there's.

Ed 00:14:04 No like, if I was doing it every week, I'd be tired of it, but I, but I was, you know, but I went to weddings back in the States, you know, once or twice a year depending on what's going on. So I'm not doing it that often. And I agree with your, your point. That is predictable. There's a certain pattern like that I outlined of the way of the way it goes. So it is predictable. but you're in a good mood because your friends of the couple and there's just like, love and romance and, you know, maybe some raunchiness in the air, you know, that that's just a no.

Greg 00:14:37 You're so romantic.

Ed 00:14:38 No, it's just what I'm saying is that they tend to devolve into like true parties.

Ed 00:14:46 And I just I personally have never experienced that at a Thai wedding unless I'm forgetting us getting wild at your reception. I just don't remember.

Greg 00:14:54 Well, let me let me talk about Dan's wedding for for a minute. I'm not going to go into too much detail. Obviously, it was not my wedding, so. But, it was, held in Karachi, close to Karachi, which is sort of up by kawaii sort of getting towards the eastern part of Thailand. And that's where his wife is from. And, it started in the morning, about about seven, 729 I think the wedding started 719 or 729 an auspicious number. Am so it was an early start and it started with, a parade. And there was, me and a few others, and we were holding the banana fronds and the coconuts and things like that as part of the traditional cultural ceremonies, which you can read more about online if you so choose. And, it was basically a live band. The guy with the I forget what it's called the the the the the mouth organ and he's just drums and the guitar thing anyway.

Greg 00:15:48 And it was just fun. And we all just started dancing up this dirt road. And then someone came up with shots of yadong, you know. Oh, that's crazy herbal whiskey.

Ed 00:15:56 Oh, that sounds great. I'm sure I would love I'm sure I would love this.

Greg 00:15:58 Yeah, yeah. And so we were all doing shots at 730 in the morning and holding things and dancing.

Ed 00:16:04 Okay, this isn't this is a Nissan thing for sure.

Greg 00:16:07 Yeah, yeah. And then what? And then basically Dan had to go through 4 or 5 or 6 or 7. gates and when I say gates, I mean two of the bride's friends or family holding a Garland. And they had to answer. Dan had to answer a trivia question about the bride, which is the same thing I had to do with my wife in my wedding, in my parade. you know, and it was it was all it was just all music and it was all dancing. And I remember several times to several different people, foreigners saying like, this is so much more interesting and so much more enjoyable than Western weddings.

Greg 00:16:39 And everyone was like, yeah, I can never go back to Western weddings anymore.

Ed 00:16:43 Well, what you're describing I personally never experienced. Although, I mean, this has some similarities to yours. Like I said before, any kind of tie cultural aspect to the wedding I support. and, Yeah, I've just never, I think I think this was a particularly well organized, like knowing Dan, I just see this whole thing as a, you know, he is a producer, but, you know, basically, you know, he creates he creates good times. so again, not a hater. It's just I've just been to too many just banquets. I don't know what to call it, so I'm guessing. Oh, I hope we got some Thai listeners out there who can help us with this. I'm guessing that my experience has mostly been limited to Thai. Chinese. and it's just, again, there's nothing wrong with it. It's just it lacked, you know, in a way, the the what I've experienced is kind of like the middle portion of an American wedding when you're eating dinner.

Ed 00:17:37 And maybe there's a a slide show.

Greg 00:17:40 You know, it's a really good way to put it.

Ed 00:17:41 But, but but then it's over, you know. And I remember, I remember the very first one I went to. It was the son of the secretary in my office who all the Americans in the office got along with a Thai woman who was the secretary really well, so divided us all to her son's wedding. And it was exactly like I've described. We were all in a good mood. And then we're just, like, waiting for the party to start. You know, we eat this big meal and we're like, we're ready for things to go off. And then people just. Yeah, and then people just go home. You know, there's no there's no band. Like no dancing. Like there was no. Yeah. It was just dinner. It was a dinner.

Greg 00:18:19 So it's so funny I totally I, I agree with you on this point and that, that we've all been to a lot of those weddings.

Greg 00:18:24 And it was funny because my first wedding in Thailand was also the same, and I was teaching at the time, and one of the teachers got married and I got an invitation to the wedding, and I was so touched, I was like, all right, I'm just I'm the I'm the new guy. And it's so nice that they thought so highly of me that they invited me to their wedding. And of course, I went and I sat down and I ate that weird fit brown fish soup and some fried rice and then some speeches, long speeches by people I didn't know and a language I couldn't understand. And that was it. And then later, later on, it dawned on me like, oh, she invited everyone. I was just there.

Ed 00:18:58 I thought you were going to say she invited you just because you were the wrong.

Greg 00:19:03 Well, maybe that too, because of course you have to give out money. You have to give a gift of money when you come to the wedding. So maybe they thought I was rich or something like that.

Greg 00:19:09 Sorry to disappoint you. Random teacher who I don't remember. but yeah, those those definitely do exist. And they're a bit too formal. And there's it's almost like they, they have they have aspired to take all the fun elements out of those weddings.

Ed 00:19:25 Right. Well, I'll just say this. My, my, my final, my final position is that, I would say Thai bachelor parties are wilder than Western bachelor parties, but Thai weddings are less wild, but doesn't mean they're not interesting or cool. it's just that to me, they're less of a party. But, not not not so, not so for dance. If you're doing shots of Yadong at 730 in the morning, then, then that wind that wins, the award for for party. For party.

Greg 00:19:59 My. Yeah. None of us have had breakfast to by this point, so we were all pretty, pretty pretty, laugh laughing. my my final thought on this is that I think that while Western weddings are fun and enjoyable, I think that there's not a lot of variety.

Ed 00:20:16 Whereas it is pretty predictable. I think you're right.

Greg 00:20:20 But yeah. Yeah. And Thai culture lends itself to many different types of weddings, and they have the potential to be much more enjoyable than the scripted Western wedding, which seems to be standard, but.

Ed 00:20:35 We'll just have to agree to disagree.

Greg 00:20:38 That's right. I think both of us should set a challenge. We've got to find make friends with more young people who are getting married so we can be invited to, to more weddings. We should make our own little, like, Wedding Crashers movie or something.

Ed 00:20:49 I agree, I mean, like I said, the last one I went to were young people and it did. It did kind of become a party. So it was a little bit of a hybrid. It was a little bit of a hybrid.

Greg 00:20:58 Another wedding I mentioned recently was one of our listeners, Pim, who got married a few months back. and she got married at a swanky hotel in, in downtown Bangkok. And it was a party, mostly because one of her uncles was a whiskey importer, I think.

Greg 00:21:10 Or he was, he was being pretty liberal with his drinks, so. Gotcha. So that'll do it. Everyone was having a pretty good time. That'll do it. But, yeah. And hey, man, any listeners, if anyone's getting married in Bangkok, you know, we'll show up, we'll have a good time. We'll raise a glass, give a speech.

Ed 00:21:24 Greg will eat the fish soup.

Greg 00:21:26 That's right. I'll eat a fish soup. It'll dance. Cut a rug and we'll we'll, we'll make the evening go down. So anyway, we'd love to hear, hear from you listeners. do you prefer Western weddings? Do you prefer Thai weddings? Why or why not? Let us know.

Ed 00:21:39 Yeah. I'm curious. Maybe I've just been missing out.

Greg 00:21:42 Maybe we've both had some boring slash fun times. We're just getting too old to remember what they were, or they've all glommed together into one.

Ed 00:21:49 No memory of dancing at your wedding. That's funny.

Greg 00:21:51 I got to go back and look at the photos now and see what I can find.

Greg 00:21:54 All right, let's do a. Would you rather one of us picks two contrasting situations tied to Thailand to debate and choose which one we'd prefer ahead this week? it's, You're on stage, man.

Ed 00:22:04 Okay, a little bit. Maybe this might be a little bit odd, but, and I'll tell you why I. Why I thought of this, in a minute. so, Greg, you know, this listeners in Thailand is very common for there to be street dogs. not necessarily all over the place, but they're pretty common. And then cats are also, like, pretty common. I feel like cats are maybe not as common as street dogs, but basically dogs and cats like living all over the place. Compared to American City, where that's just not allowed or very rare. Or they capture dogs or or people aren't. Well, I think what's going on in Bangkok is people are leaving food out for cats and, you know, so essentially there's wild animals roaming the streets. so I want you to choose, like, do you would you prefer a situation where there's street dogs and cats or do you prefer.

Ed 00:23:02 I think is the general westerner, and I don't actually I don't really know about Europe. Are there other dogs just roaming around like Italian cities?

Greg 00:23:10 I don't know, I've never been to.

Ed 00:23:12 I've got no.

Greg 00:23:13 Idea. I don't remember when I was in Europe.

Ed 00:23:15 Like their dogs roaming around Paris.

Greg 00:23:17 I know there's tons of cats in Turkey, in Istanbul. Oh, really? It's like the city of cats. Yeah.

Ed 00:23:24 So. Yeah. What do you prefer? This is a little bit tough because there's kind of there's kind of almost, maybe even some moral questions involved, like, like, like if you, if you could choose to live in a city with or without street dogs and cats, what would you prefer?

Greg 00:23:41 Well. That's interesting. It's hard to answer because if you see a whole bunch of street dogs in a country like Canada or a Western country where there are strict regulations and laws around this stuff, you would probably default to them being slightly dangerous.

Ed 00:23:57 Right? Of course.

Greg 00:23:58 Sure.

Greg 00:23:58 But if you see a bunch of dogs here, well, they could also be kind of rabid and stuff. But you also think that they're much more common. So I've seen far more friendlier dogs than I have aggressive dogs here.

Ed 00:24:12 Sure. For sure.

Greg 00:24:14 Yeah, I don't know. I'd probably just say less, because then I have less chance of stepping in some dog crap or something on the street. yeah. And if if a dog is not being loved and and cared for by a family, then, I mean, I don't want to say they've got no use, but. What are they doing? They're sort of left to scavenge and be wild, which is, I don't think, a very happy life. So yeah, I'd say probably better just to either have them as pets or keep the populations down. Yeah.

Ed 00:24:43 All right. That is the Western approach. You know, I'm completely torn on this because I actually like I like seeing them. It makes the city more interesting. And plus I take a lot of pictures and I just thought of that.

Ed 00:24:55 I was at my university today and, there was a very cool looking cat with, like, super green eyes. Everyone takes pictures of everyone, all the students. And, she was sitting around today, and so I was taking her picture, and she must be. I mean, she's wild, but someone like the janitor at the university must be feeding her because, like, she's just been there for years, and, it's cool, you know, like, it's kind of cool, like, like to have dogs and cats just kind of running around outside. And they're. I'm not saying they have a great life, but they seem to be basically okay, like, like, like I said, like two people are taking care of care of them. So I think it's I think it's cool. But on the other hand, intellectually, I just think it's wrong. You know, it's I'm with you. It's like it's I, I really think, you know, I think there's public health issues.

Ed 00:25:45 Obviously, they do occasionally bite people. right. So I, I kind of feel that the, the Western approach is the right thing to do.

Greg 00:25:54 But I would.

Ed 00:25:55 Agree. But I actually like I like street dogs and cats. Just it just makes the city more interesting. It's part of the the personality of the city.

Greg 00:26:02 Hey man, if I see a friendly a friendly cat on the side of the road, I try to stop me from bending down and giving it a couple of scratches behind the ear. Right? But that's right. That's cool.

Ed 00:26:10 Yeah, animals. Animals are cool.

Greg 00:26:13 They're cool. But as long as they're being well taken care of, otherwise they're just sort of feral. And that's no good for anyone.

Ed 00:26:20 And, you know, if the world needs one thing, it needs more pictures of cats.

Greg 00:26:24 That's right. Well, I want to see the one with the green eyes. That sounds cool. Send it.

Ed 00:26:27 Over. I will, I'll send.

Greg 00:26:28 It, put it in the show notes.

Ed 00:26:29 I can do that. I can do that. Cool. Okay. A final thanks to our patrons who support the show. Patrons get a ton of cool perks and the warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that they're helping and are never ending. Quest for cool content. Find out more by clicking support on our website and connect with us online or Bangkok podcasts on social media, Bangkok podcasts on the web or simply Bangkok Podcast at gmail.com. We love hearing from our listeners and always reply to our messages.

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Ed 00:27:08 Have a fun wedding.

Greg 00:27:09 Have a fun wedding. I will see you back here next week.

Ed 00:27:12 For sure.