22.2K
Downloads
85
Episodes
Welcome to The Bla Bla Bunker, a podcast featuring interviews with regular people who have extraordinary stories to tell. The host, Almar Hilmarsson, is one of them. In 25 years he’s gone from Icelandic lawyer and airline CEO to tattooed, bearded meat enthusiast with a startup in Central Europe. On the way, he’s made plenty of stops, and cultivated a habit of running into interesting people and asking them interesting questions. Nothing is off limits in the Bla Bla Bunker, and Almar may ask questions that most people wouldn’t dare to ask.
Episodes
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Richard Grannon is a content creator who covers psychology and philosophy in the context of how the world is today both on an individual level as well as mass behaviours and influences.
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
Tuesday Feb 22, 2022
John J. Malafronte is an American actor and director that grew up in New York City in the classic era of musicals and plays on Broadway and has directed plays on both sides of the Atlantic. He recently started Classic Stage, a professional theatre company that presents live and virtual productions of the work of the great 19th and 20th century English-language playwrights in Prague in the Czech Republic
John also spent 30 years working at Harvard University hospital as a therapist helping people dealing with eating disorders.
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
Thursday Feb 17, 2022
John J. Malafronte is an American actor and director that grew up in New York City in the classic era of musicals and plays on Broadway and has directed plays on both sides of the Atlantic. He recently started Classic Stage, a professional theatre company that presents live and virtual productions of the work of the great 19th and 20th century English-language playwrights in Prague in the Czech Republic
John also spent 30 years working at Harvard University hospital as a therapist helping people dealing with eating disorders.
On this part one of our talk we discussed his catholic upbringing, how it was coming out as gay in the 70's, the abuse he suffered from both family and others and how he see's American politics.
John has strong opinions and is not afraid of expressing them and is regularly punished on social media for sharing his views.
In part two we discuss climate change, covid, censoring and globalism.
https://classicstageprague.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ClassicStagePrague/
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Amanda is from Croatia and she is the founder of Prague Integration. Her idea at the start was to volunteer to support expats that are relocating to the city, helping them find their ways in the system as well as support their social life.
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Thursday Jan 27, 2022
Juwana Jenkins is one of Philadelphia’s finest exports, singer, songwriter & performer. She is renowned for her rich delivery and fiery presence as a headliner at international events and music festivals.
But Juwana also works as a mentor, coach and facilitator, guiding with humour and warmth, for transformational insights and development. She collaborates with international Companies and top level managers and helps them to find those golden "Aha!" moments.
Juwana was a University professor in South Korea and her plan was always to go back home to the US, but she ended up in Prague in the Czech Republic and is still there 23 years later.
We talked about her childhood, how she went to Church every Sunday despite not being religious, how her father decided to shelter her and her sisters from racism, how her mom gave her a pepper spray when she had to go around her rough neighbourhood and where her love for music came from.
And as usual, a LOT more.
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Thursday Jan 13, 2022
Radka Dohnalová is the founder and CEO of ATAIRU, a purpose-driven international education company, top 10 leadership development company in Europe, and no. 1 in the Czech Republic. Atairu prepares leaders and organisations for the future by activating their authenticity and adaptability
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Joanna Sio is a linguist, a mother and a stand-up comedian from Hong Kong, China. She always wanted to leave Hong Kong and life took her to the cosmopolitan cities of Vancouver, Amsterdam, Singapore, Melbourne and eventually Olomouc! a city of 100.000 inhabitants in the east of the Czech Republic.
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Sunday Dec 26, 2021
Isaac Starobin owns Dirty Dog Barbeque in Prague, a very popular place that sells traditional American barbeque food.
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Sunday Dec 12, 2021
Ivak is a Turkish photographer and filmmaker in Prague who also works for a living in a "real job" as his mom told him he would have to do when he got interested in arts back home in Bursa in Turkey.
In this Part 2 out of 2 episodes we discussed how Turkey today is a melting pot of very diverse cultures of conservative religious groups vs then more liberal groups in and around the bigger cities in the western part of the country.
We discussed Erdoğan the controversial president of Turkey, what he has done right, what he is doing wrong and where the real political power rests in the country.