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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 200726 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Now, I was, uh, I was waiting about to see
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: what time Djokir will come in today, but to be fair,
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: he was hosting something World Cup related, um, finals related
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: at the McDonald's near East Coast, right? And he was
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: telling me that it would be cool if I could
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  Speaker 1: swing by and pick him up because I I live
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: near East Coast, right? But by the looks of things,
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: seeing how it went into major extra time, it's kind
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: of a good thing that I didn't.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: I told him, I think I better go in first, um,
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  Speaker 1: and I think by, by 55, 5:15 or so, it was,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, way towards the end, it was still like nil-nil, right?
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  Speaker 1: So zero all the way and he texted me saying like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's a very boring match. Um, yeah, and he will,
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  Speaker 1: he will be held back because they're going into extra time.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, OK, I'll go in first. Um,
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  Speaker 1: he just texted saying he's on the way. So I'm
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: guessing that if you stayed up all night watching it,
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about, uh, this final,
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  Speaker 1: you know, was it not exciting enough for you? Were
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  Speaker 1: there any major moments that you were like, OK, this
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  Speaker 1: was worth it. It was worth it me staying up,
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: you know, text me.
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  Speaker 1: 90050987. Are you heading into work? Are you heading to school?
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: How are you surviving? Please, if you need some extra energy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here for you today, OK? I'm gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: all the energy you need. By the way, I've arrived,
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  Speaker 1: I'm here. I know, I know. OK, so early on
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  Speaker 1: I teased the story, but since you just got in,
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  Speaker 1: please tell us about this. What I, I noticed has
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  Speaker 1: been quite an underwhelming match. OK, excuse my alphabet, but
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  Speaker 1: the first half was boring.
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  Speaker 1: A boring game. I mean, because it was such a
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  Speaker 1: cagey midfield battle. OK, can you explain that in normal
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  Speaker 1: English for people who don't? I'm assuming that it means
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  Speaker 1: it was very contained within that area and there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing exciting going on. The defenders and attackers were alright,
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  Speaker 1: but it was more of the middle of the field. OK, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So Spain did their best to cut out supplies to Messi.
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  Speaker 1: Messi was.
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  Speaker 1: Very quiet almost the entire game. Yeah, I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of times where Spain came close to scoring,
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  Speaker 1: but somehow the crucial moments couldn't really get it in.
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  Speaker 1: They had a goal disallowed and thankfully at extra time,
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  Speaker 1: just like in 2010, that's how they won it by
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  Speaker 1: one goal. So this would this mean that this is,
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  Speaker 1: this was Messi's final chance at the World Cup or
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: you don't think it's gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: I do not see him going past the next World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: He's 39 this year. If he plays the next World Cup,
• 2:28
  Speaker 1: he'll be 43, and Ronaldo will be 46, 45. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think he will still, I feel like Ronaldo will
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  Speaker 1: still want to do it, but they have more incentive
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  Speaker 1: because the next World Cup will be staged in Spain, Morocco,
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  Speaker 1: and Portugal. But the first game to commemorate 100 years
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  Speaker 1: of the World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be playing it in Paraguay, Argentina, and
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: I think it was Chile. Wow, maybe they should just
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  Speaker 1: hang in there and do one more. I mean, that
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  Speaker 1: would be the home support. Come on. That's that might
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  Speaker 1: make a difference, you know, they're doing it for the
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia sake or they contribute to the team remains to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. Yeah, anyway, um, how does it feel to
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  Speaker 1: wrap this whole chapter up after more than a month
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  Speaker 1: of lack of sleep and my, my, my body can
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  Speaker 1: finally rest. Yes, along with many other Singaporeans tuning in
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like Tony Stark in Avengers Endgame, you know. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: have time to rest. I, you know what, the funny
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  Speaker 1: thing is, I, I noticed there's a guy, right, who's,
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  Speaker 1: he's always topless, um, near, well, I can see him
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  Speaker 1: from where I live. Um, he's always chilling on his couch, OK?
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  Speaker 1: And I noticed that during this time, every time I'm
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: leaving for work, right, he's still watching football on his
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  Speaker 1: couch without a shirt. So then this morning he was
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  Speaker 1: just lying there. I was like, is he sleeping or
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  Speaker 1: is he?
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  Speaker 1: Watching or is it then he texted me saying it
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  Speaker 1: was boring. I was like, oh, no wonder. He looks
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: he honestly looked like he was sleeping, but yeah, I, I, I,
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  Speaker 1: I noticed that one guy watching every single match. observant. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, the lights are on. Yeah, we live,
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  Speaker 1: we all live quite close to each other in Singapore apartment-wise.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that topless guy isn't me. It isn't. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that one I'll be blinded in the morning. Yes, I
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: might get an eye infection or conjunction.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: No, no, it's definitely conjunctivitis. And uh, funny enough, I
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  Speaker 1: actually spotted this piece of news that I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: share because it is honestly one of my biggest fears
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  Speaker 1: when I'm traveling overseas, and I was wondering whether I
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  Speaker 1: should categorize it as Bodo crime, even though the crime
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  Speaker 1: was not even close to being successful.
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  Speaker 1: The man in question is definitely gonna be in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: Did it happen in Singapore? It happened here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Should we categorize it as border crime? Let's go. OK, crime, crime, crime, crime.
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  Speaker 1: And where are we going? The Border streets of Burlesia.
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  Speaker 1: We've never had a B word before, by the way, to, to,
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  Speaker 1: to describe. Boisterous? No, not exactly. It could be a
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  Speaker 1: bit negative, boisterous, yeah, OK, anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So take you over to Burestia right now, where a
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  Speaker 1: man who's in his 60s attempted to snatch a handbag
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  Speaker 1: from a woman that's 72, who could have been any
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  Speaker 1: one of our grandmas or our moms actually over at
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  Speaker 1: a Burlesia bus stop and this was, this happened.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and he was arrested just about a day later,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong. Why didn't. He didn't make it
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  Speaker 1: off with anything. So this happened at about 88 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: or so, I think. So she was hanging out at
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  Speaker 1: a bus stop waiting for a bus presumably when he
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  Speaker 1: attempted to snatch the bag. Um, he was unsuccessful and
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  Speaker 1: then he fled the scene empty-handed, so he ran off.
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  Speaker 1: But of course, here in Singapore, there's surveillance everywhere and
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  Speaker 1: it was only a matter of time before he got
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  Speaker 1: caught and arrested him, like, I think literally the next day.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to be charged in court today, actually,
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  Speaker 1: that's why it was reported.
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  Speaker 1: And if he's found guilty, he can be jailed from
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  Speaker 1: 1 to 7 years and even caned. I'm just speculating
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  Speaker 1: why the auntie. I see that's the thing, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whether like they didn't describe whether there was anyone
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  Speaker 1: at the bus stop. And besides, 1 may assume that
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  Speaker 1: someone at the bus stop must have called the police,
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: maybe because he tried to snatch and run off. But
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: why this is my biggest fear is because over in countries.
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  Speaker 1: And this is no hate to the country. Yeah. It's
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  Speaker 1: just what we are warned of when we go travel.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I would feel this way anywhere, anywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the world. I'm gonna be very direct. If you're using
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  Speaker 1: your phone and walking the streets of London, be extra
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  Speaker 1: careful with the robbers on s. People would literally just
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  Speaker 1: snatch it and go, right? So that's one of my
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  Speaker 1: biggest fears. Like that's why every time I travel, if
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  Speaker 1: I have a bag or something, I'll try to.
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  Speaker 1: Put it in a secure place like near my chest
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  Speaker 1: or in my jacket or if I'm crossing the road
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  Speaker 1: or the road is on my right or my left,
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  Speaker 1: I'll put my bag on the inside because I always
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  Speaker 1: feel like a person on a motorbike come and snatch.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, like I've been traumatized that way like,
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  Speaker 1: or other people have told me to do that for
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  Speaker 1: the longest time, don't too close to the curbside of
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  Speaker 1: the road in case. Yeah, exactly. So to this man.
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  Speaker 1: Who's in his 60s trying to steal a bag, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, bro, I think this was not a very
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  Speaker 1: worth it crime. Uncle, you see, you get 7 years
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  Speaker 1: in jail. No, but what if he was desperate or not,
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  Speaker 1: not that it's an excuse, but I just sometimes wonder
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  Speaker 1: what the backstory is. You're very nice. Just wondering what
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  Speaker 1: is this guy going watching Justin Bieber and BTS, not
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  Speaker 1: really for the football, but for the
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  Speaker 1: Their own version of a halftime show. Respectfully, Shakira. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I heard, I heard she is timeless. She set the
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  Speaker 1: stage on fire. That's what I heard hers. She is
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  Speaker 1: amazing and I cannot believe my future wife also unveiled
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup trophy in the Louis Vuit.
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  Speaker 1: She has no idea she's your future wife. You've been,
• 7:52
  Speaker 1: you've been saying this for like 3 years. She still
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: doesn't know of your existence just yet. Never mind if
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Sanarra Park knows of my existence, we're getting there. We're
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  Speaker 1: getting there. One step closer.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: Anyway, if you haven't watched our chat with her, it's
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: up on both Instagram and TikTok, and, um, lots of
• 8:10
  Speaker 1: people commenting about how Joakim was like blushing, smiling so hard,
• 8:14
  Speaker 1: your facial expressions, you got a crush on her. It's
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: not every day Sundara Park is in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, it's true. And I wish we had more
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: time with her. I feel that if we brought her
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: into the studio, she would have a lot more to say, right,
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: and just do like a straight-up podcast. I feel like
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: she would have many things she wants to pour out.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: It's a tell-all, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, it's a, it's, it was a cute one.
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead and watch it on TikTok and Instagram
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: on 987 if you're free. Coming up right now, we
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: do want to give a big shout out to a
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: wonderful school that we dropped by on Friday, uh, saying
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: hi over to Jurong West Secondary School. Thank you for
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: your love. And we also put up a video with
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: them on both Instagram and TikTok, and their responses are
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: just insanely intelligent. You know what, Jurong West, I don't
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: say this anyhow, but I was really impressed with how
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: eloquent all of you were.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: Especially those who volunteer for our video. Yeah, so thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much and we hope to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: you're up late watching football or you're on the way
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: to school with ibex. Call us, let us know what
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: song you want to hear to perk you up this morning.
• 9:21
  Speaker 1: Hi Emmanuela. What a beautiful name. How are you this morning? Emmanuela,
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: which school are you from? Marymount Convent. And were you
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: awake watching the World Cup finals as well? No, that
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: was her parent, right? That was your dad or mom?
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: We were just asking what song would you like to
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: hear today and is it going out to anyone? My
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: friend Esther.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Estelle, and what song do you want to give to
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: Estelle and Emmanuela? This is Sonia's worst nightmare. OK. OK.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: I saw this video last week and I thought of
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  Speaker 1: you and I said to myself, oh my goodness, if
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: this happened to you, I think you might faint. I really,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: I might faint. Yeah, OK, tell me what happened. So
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: this video was actually of a news reporter, OK. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: I think I know.
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  Speaker 1: Which, OK, never mind, tell me first. I think I
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  Speaker 1: might know. I might know which story this is. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so it was when she was doing the news for
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  Speaker 1: a Los Angeles station, KTLA News, OK. She was covering
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: about the dangerous conditions and the extreme weather and the heat. Yeah,
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: she was reporting like live on ground. Yeah, so she
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: was live on television, yeah. What happens to cameo and
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: join her?
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: The broadcast a flying cockroach and it lands on her
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: chest level. It's crawling, it flies all over the neck
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: the neck and then the chest. She knew about it,
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: but she was very calm and she even said, yes,
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: this is a flying cockroach. Oh my God, you know what,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad for her that she wasn't fazed, but
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: OK, here, here's, here's my theory. OK. What would happen
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: if it was me? If it was me, I can't
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: even speak properly, if it were me on the ground
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: and it happened to me, right? If I accidentally swear
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: and pass out, will I still be fired? So even
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  Speaker 1: the news channel caption the landing. Oh my God.
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: I gotta give it to her, man. She is one
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  Speaker 1: brave lady. And the news reporter Rachel Meneoff in the
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: caption said, this fella is trying to steal my thunder
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  Speaker 1: stole the limelight, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: But honestly, I don't know what I would do. I, I,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I can be composed. I feel
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: like some of our CNA reporters to ask if it
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: has ever happened to them. Like, for example, I want
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: to ask Miss Glenda Chong, for example, Glenda, if something
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: lands on you like that and you swear live on air,
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: out of fear you exactly what I mean. So then
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: will you be fired? Will our friends over at IM.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: and MDDI understand like, OK, she was panicking, you know,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: the cockroach and all that. We can't really control what
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  Speaker 1: she said, or, or must you still stay calm and professional? OK.
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Do we know anyone from CNA that we can text
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: right now? OK, maybe I'll try. I'll try looking at my, uh, chats.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: Our good friend Steve Chia. Oh yeah, Steve Chi, ask him,
• 12:11
  Speaker 1: ask him, ask him, him. It's Jenny like.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: Jenny right here on 987, Singapore's number one hit music stage.
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  Speaker 1: I feel it's the kind of song where I don't
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: even need to say the artist's name or the song
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: title anymore. Speaking of Jenny, what is she up to? No, no, no,
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, she's doing fine. She's doing great. She's looking
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: great as well, um, sparking off some romance rumors because
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  Speaker 1: of some photo she posted.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Um, anyway, it's not really about Jenny. It's about her, uh,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: co-star Lisa. OK. So I, I, I wanted to ask
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: you if we should open up phone lines for this,
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: but maybe I'll just tell you first and, and see
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: how you feel about it, OK. So she was attending, uh,
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: another quite famous, I think, Thai star's wedding over the weekend, OK?
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  Speaker 1: And she was invited. So she shows up looking dazzling
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: as always, to which I found the comments quite, quite sad.
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  Speaker 1: Because people started saying things like, wow, she looks better
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  Speaker 1: than the bride. Yeah, or like, oh, no hate, but
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: Lisa outshone the bride. I'm like, why would you say that?
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  Speaker 1: I just feel
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  Speaker 1: It's unnecessary. I mean, it's the star power of Lisa.
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  Speaker 1: It is, it is. And of course she has millions
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: of fans worldwide. Most are OK. It's those handful that
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: have no EQ or filters and just want to say
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: what they want to say on social media, right? Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: So here's, here's the question, right? Let's say you're friends
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  Speaker 1: with like a super famous person out there, OK, like
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  Speaker 1: a Hollywood A-lister. OK, me and Sonia, let's go. Not
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  Speaker 1: even close. Hello, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, let's say, you know, you're someone
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  Speaker 1: like Lisa or someone like Jenny or Jung Kook or something, OK,
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: but you happen to be, he was Chun Jie from
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: your school last time before he became Jungkook, OK, but
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: he became super duper famous, but you're still bros to
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  Speaker 1: this day. You invite him for your wedding, but because
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: he's Jung Kook, basically everyone in the ballroom wants to
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  Speaker 1: take photos with him, and they're lining up to like
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  Speaker 1: get a picture or a video with him.
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: What would your thoughts be on that?
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  Speaker 1: Inviting someone of that status to your wedding. No, exactly.
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: You have to expect it, I mean, but, OK, let's,
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: let's localize it, OK. Benjamin King. OK. Well, Ben was
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: at my wedding, yeah, yeah, and Ben was at, uh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Yo Min's wedding with, um, Shenin if I'm not wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked OK. He blended in. He was wearing
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: the groomsman outfit and all that totally, totally, but I
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  Speaker 1: also think Singaporeans are not so.
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  Speaker 1: bad. No, I'm sure Benjamin King, you know, but they
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  Speaker 1: are quite, quite respectful, quite respectful. I know that there
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: were some people who asked him for photos at my
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: wedding as well. But, uh, for someone of Lisa's level, right,
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  Speaker 1: when you go anywhere, let's say you visit your, I
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: don't know, your secondary schoolmate's wedding or engagement party, this
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  Speaker 1: is definitely going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you're the groom or the bride, you
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: have to expect it because if, for example, I'm your
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: friend and I see Lisa there, hell yes, I'm gonna
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: get a picture. Hello, of course, of course, and I
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: guess if you've known them for so long, maybe you'll
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  Speaker 1: just be unaffected. You'd be like, yeah, OK, yeah, go ahead.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: But then here's my question if you're Lisa, do you
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  Speaker 1: still wedding?
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Of course. Why would you not? No, no, no, no.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: If I were her, I'll give an extra fat because,
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: you know, I've been doing well like Lisa, right? She's
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: been earning the millions in the Lisa, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: stick around, more fantastic music and we do have a
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: really lovely treat for you. We'll tell you about it
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: later on. So was it just a week ago that
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: there was that
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Was it $12 or $10 million dollar total here in
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Singapore that was won by just a few people, like
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: two people or something, oh right. Oh yes, I remember
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: this now because I was joking because you went down
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: with COVID, right? I was joking, saying like maybe he
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: won total. That's why he called.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: If I were to have won that thing, I won't
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: tell anyone. I'll still show up to work like a
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: regular person. Yeah, but I was wondering whether maybe he's
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: secretly celebrating for now, but maybe my address might change lah. Dunn, yeah.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Suddenly GCB also. Anyway, taking you to Penang, not too
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: far away from Singapore, where something very similar has happened
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: to this man. Um, but when I read the story,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, wow, it, it's well deserved, well deserved
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: in a way. Um, all the details coming up next,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: and I just wonder what I would do with this money,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: but find out.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: How much he spent on his lottery ticket and how
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: much he won, OK? OK, so as much as we're
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: very invested in, you know, how many people win a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: big pot when it comes to a total here in Singapore.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Once again, we don't encourage gambling. It's just that it's
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: become a bit of an identity.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: part of our Singaporean identity, right? I mean, it's the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: last day of the World Cup, our friends over at
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Singapore pools quite sad. You're quite sad, right? I mean,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: no thanks to England, but at least they got 3rd place,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: so I'm happy for them. But over in Penang, they
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: also have an equivalent to what we call total here.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: It's a lottery for them, right? Um, this man actually
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: bought a lottery ticket for just 60 cents, OK, 60 cents.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Guess what, he won. Yeah, overnight millionaire. $2.57 million Singapore
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: dollars in the jackpot. Literally, that was what he earned
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: from his 60 cents lottery ticket. So here's the story, um,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: he actually told, I, I guess, his story, and he
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: said he and his wife paid a visit to a
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Chinese fortune teller, and the fortune teller told him to
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: pay attention to meaningful numbers in his life, to which
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: when I read this, OK, I'm not.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it doesn't sound legit or anything,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: but isn't that something we already could do without a
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: fortune teller telling us that? I mean every time I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: see the number 2, I get very happy because it's
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: your favorite. I mean you like that number, right?
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: So anyway, um, this man picks a combination of numbers
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: based on him and his wife's, uh, identity card numbers apparently,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: playing those numbers for several draws, and guess what, it
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: came out. It came out and he became an overnight millionaire.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: He's about to, um, settle some of his debts, take
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: a holiday, and he said the money will be able
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: to allow them to retire comfortably while
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: He still continues to work purely because he enjoys it. Uncle, please.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Please saving, saving. So you're saying he's gonna retire but
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: he's still gonna continue to work to stay active and stuff. Yeah,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: don't that one and then in two months, $0. Yeah,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and you might think like, 0 $2.5 million could last
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: you quite some time, but, you know, some people who
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: are foolish about it.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah just blow it all off in like a month.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: You're right. So don't tell any of your friends or whatsoever.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: His identity was actually not revealed at all, neither was
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: his age, so it could be a young person, could
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: be a young person. But for him to retire comfortably
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: in the future, but he's gonna continue working now. That's
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: what he said. So I don't, I have a feeling
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: he could be like.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Not, not even 50 yet. Late 40s maybe my small prediction.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Don't know about you, but I'm very curious now, OK,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and I'm just waiting for news from our friends over
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: at NEA. Can I ask where were you last Friday
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore? Where was I last time? Around the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: late
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Morning to afternoon or even nighttime working. OK, wait, let
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: me check my schedule. Let me check my calendar again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I was indoors. So aside from Jurong West with you,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: after that, I went home, showered, and I went for
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a shoot indoors. Remember after we stepped out of Jurong
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: West Secondary, I said, Hey, the air smells like bla. Yes, remember? Yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a great smell. Smells yummy apparently.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Island-wide, there was a bit of a chemical festival, not
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: blood chance festival, no. There was a bit of a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: chemical smell because when I went down to the National
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Stadium area for rehearsals, there was this strong chemical smell.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Was it the same smell as the x 10. OK,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: so it still smell like that. So apparently it wasn't
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: exclusive to the National Stadium area. Other areas here.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: In Singapore, they were complaining of this chemical smell to
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: which our friends over at NEA say they are investigating,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: but the air quality range was actually in the usual
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: range on Friday. How do you know it's not just
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a bunch of like aunties making Belaan Island? It can't
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: be so strong.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But it's very strong, you know, especially when you fry
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, yeah. So people are saying that Tanjong R,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the Kallang area, the Novena area, and people from Ballastir,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Jalan Besar, Lavender, so maybe around the central east of
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Singapore and Novena. OK, now I'm curious to know what.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Sort of um chemical or substance smells like balacha. Yeah,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: so we're looking for answers. So hopefully it's been 2
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: or 3 days already. Still figuring it out I guess. Yeah.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Coming up after 8 a.m. cannot wait for this because
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: such a great prize that we have for you this week.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Um, but before we reveal it to you in a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: few minutes, I'm sure that everyone and anyone that you
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: know has been following a certain fifty-minute video.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: About a certain cheating scandal, yeah, that involves a relationship
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of 7 years. The amount of memes I've seen a very,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: very young couple, but everyone's been so invested in it
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that even your, your creators that you follow on socials
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: are starting to make their own.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Videos of it or their reviews or their thoughts. Hey,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: but to people on Reddit, be extra careful, yeah. Just
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: because you're hiding behind a username for you to go
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and do the people, the police can track who you are. Yeah,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I mean that is considered a crime, it is, yeah,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: although I don't know what the consequence is, but.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, look, man, our, the powers that we can
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: find you, that's for sure. Not normal people like us.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Maybe we won't be able to have the ability to
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: do so. But you know, everyone's been so invested that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I burst out laughing at this particular video, one of
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the creators that I follow posted, OK, and the caption was,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Nothing unites the Singaporeans more than a scandal, which is
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: kind of true. I mean,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Is that a good or bad thing though? I mean,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: it's been a year of it. Yeah, and the fact
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that more and more people are coming out with their
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: stories and like using this, using social media to like
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: expose people, you know, it's quite scary to some extent.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, somehow this month, every month there was a scandal,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: like every month there was something that united Singaporeans on
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the online space. Yeah, yeah, yeah, online space. I think
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: it's keeping people like, you know, YOLO and AS very busy.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: With a lot of content actually. Yeah. But when we
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: come back, we want to open up the phone lines.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: What do you think unites us Singaporeans the most? You
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: can fill in the blank, OK? And we're talking about
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: what unites Singaporeans. Funny enough, it was because of a
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: very viral scandal that all of us were watching. 50-minute
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: long video, many breakdowns by your other creators on socials,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: people chiming in with their opinions, the comment section going wild.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Um, so I saw this particular video that made me
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: burst out laughing. This creator said, Nothing unites Singaporeans more
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: than a good scandal, to which I felt like, oh man,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: is that a good or a bad thing? Because there
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: are a lot of um netizens who are also very
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: quick to criticize. When we say scandal, I'm pretty sure
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: we don't just mean cheating scandals. It's almost as if
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: whenever a public personality or maybe an influencer.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: But now some people who are not even like a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: public figure, you know, nowadays the algorithm, you can't really
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: explain it, right? It could just pop off and regular
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: people become exposed to the negative side of being a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: public figure, you know what I mean? And because it's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: so easy to go viral on TikTok these days and
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the ability is so high, naturally when someone's dirty laundry
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: gets there.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Everybody at your dinner tables, your restaurants, or your office
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: or your school, hey, do you see this video, guys, guys, guys, guys,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: you know, and everyone shares it and you all become invested. Yeah,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: so you know that that's the unfortunate. I don't think
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's limited to Singapore, to be honest. I feel it's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: very human. It's very human of us. But the realest
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: phrase I can say to this is, it's funny until
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: it becomes you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, we personally have many thoughts about things
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: that go viral like that, but it's OK. You don't
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: need to know our, our thoughts. Yeah. So give us
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: a call 669-11987. What we do have a pair of
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: tickets to NDP preview two, right? Yes, preview. Oh, we're
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: so excited. That's happening August 1st, so it's just 8
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: days away from the actual day. Yeah, quite close, but
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: at least you're there for August. You get to enjoy
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the full show. I think it's.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more of like you're pretty much 99% there already. Yeah,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: so that's probably one of the best times to watch it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a fill in the blank situation, right?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So the question is, inspired by what has united us
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: over the past weekend, unfortunately, that was a scandal, but
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: us Singaporeans are united by what? Fill in the blank.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I got a few answers. The World Cup. I think
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you look at pictures of one universals and all that, OK.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Nothing unites Singaporeans more than what?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I think when we always complain about Singapore, right, until
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: someone from like another country criticizes us, it bands us together.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: All of a sudden, no matter what kind of complaints
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: we've had about our country, we, we, we unite to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: defend our country. We are like family, you know, when
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: we criticize ourselves, it's OK, but when someone outside the family.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Only we can say.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: It's the truth, right? So angry are you? It's true.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It's just like when we poke fun at each other,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: only we can say what. First time in a while
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: seeing you so passionate about this. Give us a call 669-11987.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Nothing unites us Singaporeans more than what? Fill in the blank.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Now inspired by um a particular scandal that has rocked
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: our nation over the past weekend, I think the algorithm
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: actually reached other countries, you know, by the way, I
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: see international people commenting and stuff on certain creators videos.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if Interpol wants to hire this.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Influencer. Yeah, she's, she's, uh, I really hope she's doing OK. Anyway,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: here's the thing. What unites us as Singaporeans? I mean, I,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I saw some hilarious comments where people said nothing unites
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: us Singaporeans more than a scandal. So fill in the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: blank here today. That's your job. If we do like
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: your answer, what's coming your way.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Is a pair of tickets to the NDP preview to
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: show that's happening August 1st on a Saturday. Yeah, so
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: we're heading to our messages first to find out what
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you're saying. Wanna say good morning to you don't have
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a username, but you say when currency goes up and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: we all chong to airport or JB.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: That that definitely unites us for sure. Jason says, Morning, Sojo.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Nothing unites Singaporeans more than a good long queue. It
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter where or when. Got one more here.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Um, this one coming through from Mark, I think you
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: said when Malaysians compare their food with ours, good morning,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you two. Have a great start to the week. It's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: true though. It's true there's always social media friendly friendly. Yeah,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: it's friendly until it's not, you know, because sometimes I
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: feel quite defensive. I mean, till this day, the debate
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: of which bakute tastes better is still up for.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, up for debate, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, when we
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: come back, we've got Cheryl hanging on the line and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: more of your messages coming through. What I got one
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: here from Kyrie, and this is quite true. Nothing unites
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: us more than I'm very sure he said this in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: tongue in cheek manner, condemning our own athletes for not
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: performing well in their sports. Oh my God, yeah, even
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: though they performed previously. Yeah, you know what, what, what
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: triggers me is that all of a sudden people become critics,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you know, and they become like sporting experts.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, especially our national football team. Yeah, you just
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: read the comments and you know makes you angry. Yeah,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: we do have a very interesting 2027 coming up for
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: our boys in red, so all the best to you. Um,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: saying hi to Jenny. Jenny. Nothing unites us more than
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: CDC vouchers.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Which is true, which is true. I'm not gonna lie,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: like that is one common thing that everyone will celebrate together.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Oh your GST vouchers and all that as well. Got
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: some calls coming in at 669-119-87. Yes, good morning.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Hi, good morning. I'm Cheryl. Hi
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Cheryl, how are you today? Uh,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: feeling all great and happy about World Cup ending.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, you're supporting Spain, is it? Why are you so
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: happy the World Cup is ending?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: It means that uh we can all get on with
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: life and then my, yeah, and then you know, less
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: uh disruption children at home, yeah, because they actually wake
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: up to watch without having extended hours.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, OK, well, you know what, the, the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: next thing that you could possibly look forward to one
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: of the rehearsals for NDP, right, preview
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: too. Looking forward and hoping that they can get there.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So here's the question that you have to answer
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: today and fill in the.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Blank, OK. Nothing unites Singaporeans more than what? Um,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: our fine cuisine,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: our fine cuisine. OK, then. When you say fine cuisine, Michelle,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: do you mean fine dining or like hawker food?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Hawker food. There we go. Regardless of where we are,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: and especially when we are overseas, um, you find people
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: all coming around the table showcasing of our cuisines from,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: you know, the local famous chicken rice.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: the laksa to our biryani and our, you know, mirrorables.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: I think, you know, every conversation about food really warms
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: our heart and really, you know, uh, brings people together.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: sis, I, I really dislike you right now because you're
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: making me crave Mirras and we can't get it right now.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Where can we get Mirab at 8:20 a.m. in the morning?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You can, but we cannot order. You need to eat there.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: That's the thing, yeah.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Heading back to our messages after hearing from um a
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: lovely caller earlier on. Thank you, Cheryl, for calling through.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: We're asking you what unites us as Singaporeans, seeing how
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: a major, we would call it a scandal and a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: 50-minute long video on YouTube has garnered like what, I
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: wonder what the stat is right now. I think at
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that time, it was like over 200,000 views. It must
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: be doubled by now. I mean that video, if you
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: call it a tree.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Then the many branches that has happened on TikTok, it's
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: gotten millions of views already. I think close to a million.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: It's um I think as of 15th, hold on, as
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of the weekend, it was close to 600,000 views. So
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's probably hit a million by now.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Anyway, heading to our messages for now. One coming in from,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I don't have your username as well, just your number,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: but you say, hey guys, a good National Day song.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: There was a time when people said that Singapore won't
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: make it, but we did. I tear to this whenever
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: it comes on. It's great, great track. Um, say hi
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: to Nick here. Morning, Sojo. Happy Monday. One thing I
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: remember that united us Singaporeans is when everyone turned up
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to send our late Mr. Lee Kuan Yew off. I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: remember standing in queue.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Orderly and paying my last respects. Wow. When it was
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: raining in Singapore, this happened 11 years ago now. That's wow, really?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: 11 years. Time really flies. Um, Brian actually had a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: similar response to mine. Hey, Sojo, nothing unites Singaporeans more
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: than when a foreigner visits Singapore and start criticize us
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: for being boring, bad food or whatever online. We unite
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and bite back. Yeah, it's true. Again, if you have
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: friends from overseas coming to Singapore, take them to other places.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, just the Marina Bay and all that,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I mean the view, there you go, the Braining, is
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: it not sleeping last night. Spain against Argentina was too long.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: It was just Spain, not Spain for you. And when
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: we come back, more of your messages. Once again, the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: blank you're filling here today is nothing unites us Singaporeans
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: more than what? And we're taking a look at all
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: your messages now, completing the sentence here today inspired by
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: a certain scandal that rocked the nation a few days ago.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Um, I saw a creator post something hilarious, made me laugh.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Nothing unites Singaporeans more than a scandal, to which that
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: post also popped off and like everyone was like agreeing
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and sharing what else unites Singaporeans in a non-cheesy way,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: you know. Wanna say good morning to Shirlene. Quite a
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: funny one.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Morning guys. Nothing unites Singaporeans more than the excitement of
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: someone hitting the age 55 to make your first CPF withdrawal.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Aging ain't that bad after all when you can finally
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: touch that pot of gold. True, yeah, but you finally
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: unlock it, right?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Saying hi as well to Mitch, you said, just like
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: our Singlish, I would say, I recently went to a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Vietnamese restaurant where the host spoke like a Vietnamese person,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: and she asked us where we're from. As soon as
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: she heard that we're local, her accent immediately changed to Yala.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Our accent unites us, that's for sure. Thank you, Mitch,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: for your text.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: It's true, it's true. I feel like Singaporeans, we code
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: switch quite a lot on the topic of accents and language.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, dialects now, all the rage in the news,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: in cinemas. I think Dear You is still being screened
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: in both Teochew and Mandarin. Let's see what happens in
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the future. Yeah, 100%. Um, Sisi also said the same
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: thing about our accent and.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: He said that um you chit chat and get closer
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: even with strangers overseas when you realize you're Singaporean. No
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: other place in the world you feel more united than
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: when you hear the Singaporean accent while you're traveling. Yeah,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: but the Singaporean accent is subjective. You, you either want
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to hear it and you go and mingle, or the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: moment you hear it, go away, go away, go away,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: go away, can I, can I tell you this, um.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: OK, it's happened a while ago already, so I think
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: it's fine for me to say. So, like this was pre-COVID, OK. My,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: my family and I were traveling. So this was the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: last trip that I took them on.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Right, and very glad that it happened before my dad
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: couldn't travel anymore. So then we went and, you know,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: it was a bit of a half tour, half free
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and easy situation. The reason why I went with the
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: half tour because it's easier for like older folks, right,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: to move around certain areas. So we went, when we
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: joined the tour.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: There was clearly another Singaporean family there, OK, and they
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: were very obviously Singaporean, the accent and everything, but they
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: had two like teenage kids that I think were in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: maybe early secondary school, um, that were very, they were
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: not very sociable, so they were on their phone most
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: of the time, to which I think the parents were
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: trying to look for people to chat with and stuff.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: So they latched on to us and started talking and saying, oh,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: we saved you a seat at dinner, do you want
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: to sit with us, that kind of thing.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Um, the moment that ended, right, my family and I
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: go off and do our own things or grab a drink.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: We all looked at each other and said, Guys, uh,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: tomorrow can we not sit with them because they're very boring.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: And I felt so bad saying it because, but it
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: was the truth, and the fact is that I actually
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: want to mingle with the other people that are from
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: like Europe or, you know, the other people from other countries. Yeah,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: exactly who they are, where they're from. So it's quite
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: cartoon because over the next few days we tried our best.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: To like, oh, make some excuse and we go and
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: mingle with someone else. Hey, you gotta do what you
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: gotta do, man. Then the funny thing was when we
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: got back to Singapore a week later, I saw that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: same family at a restaurant that we were dining at,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: to which I, I told my parents, Hey, it's that family.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: My dad was like, look away, look away, look away.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Just in case they want to join us. I, I,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I wanna be a flower on the wall for the
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: converse with Papa. Oh no, canceled.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Not me, my dad. You know him. Oh, we're talking
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: about this. Fill in the blank. Nothing unites us Singaporeans
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: more than what? All inspired by how a certain scandal
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: rocked the nation over the past weekend and everyone united
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: to give their opinions and their thoughts. I think some
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: common answers today that we got on text were CDC vouchers,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: or if for example, our neighbors across the causeway around
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: the region make fun of us, we will all band
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: together and unite and you know.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Say that despite us constantly complaining about our country. Yeah,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: one very interesting answer as well. Yishun. Oh yes, yeah,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: nothing bends us together more than Yishun. You're right. Every
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: month there's always something funky going on there. This month
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: there was a Mercedes driver who crashed into a rubbish
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: chute and fled with his carpet. Yeah, I saw that one.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: That case has kind of gone viral here in Singapore
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: as well. So why Yishun again? Thank you for your text.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, lah, you know, there are other areas
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore where some interesting things happen as well,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: for sure. Speaking of which, you know, earlier on we
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: were talking about how sometimes when we get into a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: bit of a friendly banter about which, which dish is
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: better in Malaysia and in Singapore.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: I have a Malaysian texter coming through. Hafiz, hello, Hafiz.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in to us from across the causeway.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. You said, good morning, Sojo. Don't forget
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: to try the Mira boost since the other listener talked
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: about Mirab Boost earlier at Hajji Wahid in Angsana Mall, JB. Oh, OK.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I'll lock this down. The next time I go to JB,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: I'll definitely give it a try. OK, but here's the question.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Singapore radio station better or Malaysian radio station better?
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. Malaysia. He's tuning into us. That's all I'm saying.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, if he's tuned into us, thank you very much.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you. But, but I know our friends over in Malaysia,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: they will listen to Hits. Sure, no, I actually, to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: be honest, sometimes if I can get, get access to it,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: I'll also listen and see what's up, you know, what
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: are they doing across the causeway. Yeah, and a couple
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: of times I think.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Friends over at Hits FM have reached out to us
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: to do a collab and we're trying, yeah, yeah, we're
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: trying to make something happen here. OK. Just kidding, just kidding.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Let's not start another war. This one will go on forever. Anyway, uh,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: only one person can walk away with the NDP preview,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: 2 tickets. Yeah, you know what? Let's give it to
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Brian who texted us earlier.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Congratulations, this one's yours. I think if I'm not wrong,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Brian said something about nothing unites the Singaporeans more than
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: when outsiders criticize us, call us boring, say that our
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: food is not that great, and he ended his text
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: off with, if you bite, we bite back. He said
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: most of us and bite back because there are some
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: of us who might actually agree with the outsider's point
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of view, especially when the word boring is being used.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I know, I know. So hey, um, regardless, you've won
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: here today, Brian. Thank you for sharing your story with
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: us and your opinions. Um, and this happens in how
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: many weeks' time? 2? So for preview, it happens August 1st,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: which is 2 weeks away. Just the one before the
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: actual date. Yeah, so you get to experience the entire
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: show at 99.9%. Uh, the, when the prime minister arrives, right,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: it's a simulation. It's still not so it's the role
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: player lah. I like that guy.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: No, you like the president. Oh sorry, sorry, the president,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: the guy who plays the president. Yeah, he never showed
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: me the picture of the handshake. Never send me the
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: picture of the prime minister one. OK, OK, send me,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: show me. I'll take this weekend. Just curious, just curious. Um,
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: if you felt affected by the meta outage just yesterday,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: it may go to show.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: um, how much we rely on social media for entertainment
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: because I think people were reporting that Facebook, Instagram, and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Messenger were down. Oh no, we're gonna post my selfies
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: or my World Cups and stuff. I mean, I actually,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to be honest, I didn't really notice it. Did you
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: notice it? No, I didn't notice it at all. Maybe
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: it wasn't in Singapore.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: No, no, it was, it was in Singapore? OK, I found,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: I found my Instagram a little bit slow to load
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: maybe say yesterday around 3 to 4 p.m. Yeah, so
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I think the scary one was some users actually received
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: an error message saying account temporarily unavailable due to a
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: site issue.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: It is scary for people whose livelihoods are based on
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: social media, you know, you know what I mean? Like,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: I can imagine the panic that might ensue if you
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: have like a client posting or partnership or something. Whether
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: it's your livelihood or not, could you please, if you've
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: not done it, go and activate, yeah, yeah, please do that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I think we've known too many people that have gotten
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: hacked recently, right? Yeah. Here's hoping that you are having
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: a good rest here today.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Probably staying up all night. I wonder how many people
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: took MC today, actually, Jo. I will have a good rest.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna head away and just looking at
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: one Punggol, I would not be surprised if the people
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: who stay in Punggol showing up to work today, all
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: time low. Dude, I, I'm, I'm not sure. Maybe their
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: companies allow them to like work from home or something,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you know, could be, could be. And also some schools
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: were letting the students come in late today. So well done.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you enjoyed the World Cup season.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: It's back to normal now, but hey, very soon the
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Premier League returns. Very soon. No wonder your eye bags
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: starting to look like a Gucci and Balencia. Yeah, but,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: but you know, some big bags there. I'm I'm never
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: hosting an event and coming straight to work after that.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Cannot la. Yeah, OK, so here's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: The thing, I know you and also Katherine Robert from
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Class 95, both of y'all were doing some football-related stuff overnight, right?
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: And I was just asking her like how on earth
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: do you do it because she also has, uh, I
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: think other, other Commonwealth Games or something to cover very soon.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: And you also have to come into the office, so
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: your entire schedule is like turned upside down because of
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the time zone. I mean, for the World Cup, I
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: tell myself it's once every 4 years, so just, you know,
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: and I want to say a big thank you to
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: McDonald's for having me. Yeah, yeah. See you in 4 years.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: I never buy, buy food, come to the studio. By
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: the time I bring all cold and all that, not nice,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: good excuse.