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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 271026 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: Good next.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way, it's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm officially back from Taipei. Joakim's going to join us
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  Speaker 1: in just a second, but cannot believe it's down to
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  Speaker 1: the last few days of October, exam season. Here's wishing
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  Speaker 1: you all the best. Pink Sweat's coming up first on
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  Speaker 1: the show. Don't go anywhere. Singapore's number 1 hit music station.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Back together after I think what, like, was it a
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  Speaker 1: week and a half of us either being sick or
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  Speaker 1: being on leave?
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  Speaker 2: It was that.
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  Speaker 2: It was really that,
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  Speaker 1: right?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. So how was Taiwan, Taipei Taipei,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, um, I only went to Taipei
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  Speaker 1: this time around. The last time I went, I went
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  Speaker 1: to two places, but both times I went and got typhoon.
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  Speaker 1: I'm starting to think I'm the problem. It's
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  Speaker 2: a
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  Speaker 1: sign.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about my trip later on, maybe after
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  Speaker 1: 7:00 a.m. or something. Saw some
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  Speaker 2: pictures, but anyway, hey, don't forget today we have a
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  Speaker 2: very nice $100 Little Farms voucher coming your
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  Speaker 2: way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I love going to Little Farms
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  Speaker 2: actually. And they've got some very special Italian meats lined
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  Speaker 2: up for you.
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  Speaker 1: So I, I, whenever I walk past Little Farms, um,
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  Speaker 1: the one over at Valley Point, I mean they've got
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  Speaker 1: a few Little Farms outlets now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I always go and look at how perfect
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  Speaker 1: the fruits and vegetables are. Like they literally look different
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  Speaker 1: level perfect. I don't know how to explain, but it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those like, you want an atta supermarket experience,
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  Speaker 1: this is it.
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  Speaker 2: Just a very weird image of you walking into farms
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  Speaker 1: admiring the fruits and vegetables. I literally have done that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I went there just to take photos of it,
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  Speaker 1: that face,
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  Speaker 2: not bad.
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  Speaker 2: Hm wow, very good, very round,
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  Speaker 1: she
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  Speaker 2: walks out.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly you are not the one that does the grocery shopping.
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  Speaker 1: I mean between you and your mom, it's definitely your mom.
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 2: just pick the best pack in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. I might not trust you when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to these things.
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  Speaker 1: I've lost count of the amount of times that Nicole
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  Speaker 1: Kidman has been in presence in the presence of people
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  Speaker 1: and and events when this song was like the theme
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  Speaker 1: song of the event and everyone just looks at her.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very sure. So cute,
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  Speaker 2: honestly, and she just does the whole Nicole Kidman thing,
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  Speaker 2: which
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  Speaker 1: is exist looking hot.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. And dare I say it, Sonia, I'm, I'm logged
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  Speaker 2: on to haze.gov.sg.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what did I miss? I mean, I left Singapore
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  Speaker 1: when the Haze was still.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there, went into a, you know, typhoon season
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  Speaker 1: in Taipei, and now I'm back. It's actually, I don't
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  Speaker 1: jinx it, but it looks pretty clear.
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  Speaker 2: OK,
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  Speaker 1: so I was keeping up with that
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  Speaker 2: featuring and all that, hey.
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  Speaker 2: The 24 hour PSI is in the green. The PSI
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  Speaker 2: forecast for today is 60 to 90 and the 1
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  Speaker 2: hour PM 2.5 readings, it's a very low two-digit number.
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  Speaker 2: Almost across all regions.
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  Speaker 1: Lovely. Yes, this, this is very good news. And
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  Speaker 2: looking
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  Speaker 2: at the hotspot map.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as dense as it looks or as it
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  Speaker 2: looked the last
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  Speaker 2: few days.
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  Speaker 1: I think I saw, I thought I saw a video
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  Speaker 1: of Indonesia and I mean I feel so much for
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  Speaker 1: the workers, you know, the workers that have been doing
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  Speaker 1: this over time and risking their health and their lives
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  Speaker 1: as well. The
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  Speaker 2: firefighters and the volunteer firefighters
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  Speaker 1: as well. They were like dropping to their knees in relief.
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  Speaker 1: As the rain came down, you can really feel the love.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see and
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  Speaker 1: then we all benefit. Where in the world is he
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  Speaker 1: now with his tour? Is he still in Australia or no?
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  Speaker 2: No, that was that was. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where, where is he now?
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  Speaker 2: Performing in Hong Kong very
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  Speaker 1: soon,
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  Speaker 2: for I think 3 more nights because I think he
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  Speaker 2: had 4 nights in Hong Kong. Sorry, no, 3 nights
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  Speaker 2: in Hong Kong, then he's going to KL for 3
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  Speaker 2: nights as well.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, so he went from Singapore to Hong Kong, then
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  Speaker 1: he comes back to our area again.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently he has an afternoon show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like a matinee show. Interesting, yeah, interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, thanks for joining us here this morning. We're finally
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  Speaker 1: reunited after what seems to be quite some time. Speaking
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  Speaker 2: of shows and all that, I want to say congratulations
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  Speaker 2: to the President's challenge, raising over $11 million as of
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, we saw President Taman on the Compang, Zoey doing.
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  Speaker 2: Rishi Budwani dancing with Avant
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  Speaker 2: Gadi.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's not one on my bingo card.
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  Speaker 2: Things I never ever thought I'd see. Well done, Rishi.
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  Speaker 2: Well done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you can catch the replay very soon.
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  Speaker 1: Usually they'll do it like next weekend, right?
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  Speaker 2: I donations are ongoing till November 1st.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, there's no donation too big or small
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  Speaker 1: like we always say. So if you're able to contribute
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  Speaker 1: in any form of way, yeah, do
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  Speaker 2: it. And I believe loads of parents and grandparents were
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  Speaker 2: really happy to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Me, me, no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it was my parents' choice of music. OK.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow I
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  Speaker 2: know the song. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah, yeah, yeah. But we know that you grew up on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your dad exposing you to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: older music.
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  Speaker 2: At this point, I can be the music history teacher
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  Speaker 2: of 987. At
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  Speaker 1: this point, you are your dad.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the light?
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  Speaker 2: Minus the belly.
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  Speaker 1: So I was just catching up on some random news
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  Speaker 1: that I might have missed over the past few days,
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  Speaker 1: because all I was seeing was news about the typhoon
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  Speaker 1: back where I was in Taipei, right? Which I'll fill
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  Speaker 1: you in about my trip later on after 7 or
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  Speaker 1: 8 a.m. But I, I saw this piece of news
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  Speaker 1: and I thought to myself, when was the last time
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  Speaker 1: I even held a plank? I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: read about the woman that broke her own planking record.
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  Speaker 1: If not, I'll tell you about it in just a
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  Speaker 1: while.
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  Speaker 2: Yes,
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  Speaker 1: not the, not the internet trend from 10 years ago
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  Speaker 1: or something, no no no no no no no. Which
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  Speaker 1: was that 10 years ago?
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  Speaker 1: The one where people when they say plank, they basically
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  Speaker 1: lie face down at a dangerous or unusual place mannequin
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  Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah. OK, mannequin challenge, was it as
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  Speaker 1: dangerous as the planking challenge? OK, people got hurt,
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  Speaker 2: right? Or the mannequin challenge, some of it was wholesome,
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  Speaker 2: some of it was very dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: OK. Anyway, this one is the fitness planking, but find
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  Speaker 1: out what this woman did and how she broke her
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  Speaker 1: own record, her own planking record at the age of 61, joking. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're tuning in and you're into fitness, or rather
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  Speaker 1: you try to work out once in a while just to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep your fitness levels up or maintained, how
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  Speaker 1: long can you hold a plank for?
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  Speaker 1: A proper plank.
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  Speaker 2: It's
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  Speaker 1: not with your knees.
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  Speaker 2: It's the longest minute of my life.
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  Speaker 1: Right, right. OK. So you would agree that plan, a
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  Speaker 1: proper plank, 1 to 2 minutes is already quite a challenge,
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  Speaker 2: 40 mark.
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  Speaker 2: My entire body
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  Speaker 1: trembling, right? Yeah, yeah. So, um, I mean, I have
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  Speaker 1: done this for fun before for some like street side, um,
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  Speaker 1: like the, like a, like a roadshow event, some sort
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  Speaker 1: of a fitness thing, and then they say, oh, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's just a challenge for the host to
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  Speaker 1: like also plank.
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  Speaker 1: And I think I, I, I did like 2.5 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I gave up. I stopped. I stopped, I stopped. I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, dude guys, I'm like also not in
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  Speaker 1: workout wear.
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  Speaker 2: That's 2.5 minutes longer than the next person. So well done, Sonia.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, it's, it's not easy at all.
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  Speaker 1: So in comes this woman who is 61 years old,
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  Speaker 1: could be our parents' age, to be honest. Your mom.
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  Speaker 1: about there, right? Could
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  Speaker 2: be a very young grandma. She's
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  Speaker 1: a grandma. She's a grandma of 12, by the way. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she has 4 kids and she has like 12 grandkids
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong. Yeah, if I'm not wrong, I
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  Speaker 1: read her story somewhere. Yeah, mother of 4, grandmother of 12.
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  Speaker 1: That's a dynasty right there. A retired high school vice principal,
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  Speaker 1: she broke her own planking record.
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  Speaker 1: Um, and she's officially clocked in a time of about
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  Speaker 1: 5 hours, Joakim.
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  Speaker 1: 5-hour long plank. Is that even humanly possible? She has
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  Speaker 1: just proven all of us wrong. Her previous record was
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  Speaker 1: about 4.5 hours, and she broke her own
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  Speaker 2: record. The mental strength that requires, well done to you.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Donna Jean Wild. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy. Um, so her story is that she started planking
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  Speaker 1: daily after she had a wrist injury about 15.
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  Speaker 1: Years ago, and she's a fitness enthusiast, OK. So she,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's the kind that cannot sit still. She
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  Speaker 1: discovered that she could still plank with her cast on
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  Speaker 1: despite her wrist injury. So she fell in love with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, planking as a habit and she started doing
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  Speaker 1: it every day. She'll multitask while planking for hours every
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  Speaker 1: single day. She wrote a book. She did a master's
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  Speaker 1: degree while she was planking. She would read, reply texts,
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  Speaker 1: do her schoolwork and everything.
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  Speaker 1: It's like next level productive Jo Kim.
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  Speaker 2: That is one way to get your mind off the
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  Speaker 2: pain for almost 5 hours straight, congratulations to her. So
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  Speaker 1: it seems like she has built a community and she's
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  Speaker 1: been an inspiration to like seniors. So, um, she's built
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  Speaker 1: a community of athletes who are above the age of
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  Speaker 1: 50 that went to support her at the, you know, uh,
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  Speaker 1: book of records breaking, uh, situation.
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  Speaker 1: And I think she has found a community with over
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  Speaker 1: 12,000 athletes aged 50 and above.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very sure she will start launching those like maybe
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  Speaker 2: under her name Donna Jean Wild planking boards or the
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  Speaker 2: planking workout.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing, I don't think you even need anything. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you don't need,
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  Speaker 2: but there's actually a planking board with different holes, right.
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  Speaker 2: It exercises different parts
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  Speaker 2: of your arm,
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  Speaker 1: OK, I see, I see. Well, she's definitely an inspiration
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  Speaker 1: and I think, you know, if she ever did a
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  Speaker 1: world tour or a talk or something, Singapore is a
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  Speaker 1: stop that she should, you know, come for. Oh for sure.
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  Speaker 1: We have so many seniors here and they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: like get the seniors to be more active in Singapore,
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  Speaker 2: sponsored by Active SG maybe
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  Speaker 2: this talk.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. If you're tuning in right now, we just want
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  Speaker 1: to wish you.
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  Speaker 1: All the best for your exams. I believe we've got
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: humanities today, right? If you're in a secondary school or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even IB,
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  Speaker 2: history, geography, literature, and whoever's doing, if I'm not wrong,
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  Speaker 2: pure chem, all the best.
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: Is there for primary school non PSLE there's still some
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  Speaker 1: exams going on if I'm not wrong. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but
• 10:48
  Speaker 2: it should be more or less over pretty much over.
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  Speaker 1: Oh really? OK, OK. Regardless if you are.
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  Speaker 1: Taking an exam or a test today. We wish you
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  Speaker 1: all the best, sending you love and positive energy. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna kill it. It's gonna be good.
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  Speaker 2: OK lah. During my combined science day back in O levels,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of knew that instead of I kill it,
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  Speaker 2: it killed me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, OK, don't, don't adopt Joakim's attitude towards this. OK,
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  Speaker 1: but I think he, he's coming from a point of
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  Speaker 1: view where he was on the way to school and
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  Speaker 1: he knew it was too late.
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  Speaker 2: Especially for physics, all the formulas went down the drain. OK,
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  Speaker 1: follow me, follow me, OK. Positive energy, you're gonna score well.
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  Speaker 2: What's the formula for, please?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm, I'm still learning about that in life
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  Speaker 1: actually in this day and age, but all the best
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  Speaker 1: if you're taking an exam today.
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  Speaker 2: So with the BCRS machines and all that, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it has, it has been a
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  Speaker 1: Because of like big contention and uh I would say
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  Speaker 1: conversation over the past few days.
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  Speaker 2: I'm very happy to report that I've collected a total
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  Speaker 2: of $4. OK, from the BCRS that's close to about
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  Speaker 2: 40 bottles and cans of mostly tea. I
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  Speaker 1: mean, I don't know you know. I saw um this
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  Speaker 1: piece of news about this woman who had like over
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  Speaker 1: 20 cans or bottles or something and she was holding
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  Speaker 1: up the whole line.
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  Speaker 1: And it kind of like sparked off a conversation about
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  Speaker 1: whether or not if you see someone with one or two,
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  Speaker 1: you should just let that person go. I would, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would too, but she didn't want to, right? Something
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  Speaker 1: like that, I
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  Speaker 2: forgot. OK, I don't know what the real story is,
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  Speaker 2: but it's always that person who seems to make the
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  Speaker 2: news
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, is it, uh, what's happening over at Jurong is
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  Speaker 2: again it's becoming a very common sight, right, where your
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  Speaker 2: aunties and uncles, some of them will actually rummage through
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  Speaker 2: the bins to take out cans and bottles to put
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  Speaker 2: it in the BCRS machine. Again, in parliament, it's been
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  Speaker 2: said already it is against the law and our friends
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  Speaker 2: over at NEA will do their best to enforce it,
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  Speaker 2: but
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  Speaker 2: Who's gonna enforce it against the aunties and uncles
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  Speaker 2: who might need it more than we do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's, it's a lot of the seniors that are
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  Speaker 1: doing it, which to them when I see some of
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  Speaker 1: these pictures and you know, of them rummaging through the bins,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 2: also hygiene, yeah, your health, and you don't know what
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  Speaker 2: sort of bacteria is available for you inside these dustbins.
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  Speaker 2: So please don't do that and be extra careful and again.
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  Speaker 2: If any of the aunties and uncles see me at
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  Speaker 2: the hawker center, if you want my can, just ask.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give it to you. Take it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: yeah, be careful what you wish for. There might be
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  Speaker 1: people just staring at
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  Speaker 1: you
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  Speaker 2: again, remember a long time ago, maybe say in the
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  Speaker 2: early 2000s, where the aunties and uncles will for your
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  Speaker 2: cans a long time ago at the hawker centers. They
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  Speaker 2: will for it and the moment you leave a table
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  Speaker 2: with your cans they will swipe in.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a skill, man. I have to say.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, we'll keep, we'll keep you updated with anything
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  Speaker 1: in case. Have you used
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  Speaker 2: the machine? No,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. Like, like I said, have you ever seen
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  Speaker 1: me have a canned or bottled drink?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, you're right. Yeah, I've, I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen me hold a can or bottle
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  Speaker 2: ever before in my
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  Speaker 2: life.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, it's very rare. Like I
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, things are getting interesting and competitive in the
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  Speaker 1: food rider and food delivery service sector, Singapore. Um, so
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  Speaker 1: our friends over at Food Panda.
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  Speaker 1: They have decided they want to offer a full-time position.
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  Speaker 1: And as a full-time rider, you get a base pay,
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  Speaker 1: and you have to meet a certain target every month.
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  Speaker 1: The base pay works out to be starting from 1.8K
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  Speaker 1: a month, CPF contributions and benefits are included. The only
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  Speaker 1: catch is that you need to achieve a target of
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  Speaker 1: 320 orders per month.
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  Speaker 1: To which I think about it, I think it's possible.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of riders, they chung quite hard every day.
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  Speaker 2: It is possible, but you got to work really hard
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  Speaker 1: for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask, on top of the base pay, the
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  Speaker 2: commissions for all the deliveries that I do, do I
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  Speaker 2: still take it home?
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  Speaker 1: So you, you have to meet the target first.
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  Speaker 2: OK.
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  Speaker 1: So anything that you do after that, you can continue
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  Speaker 1: on like as if you're like a freelance rider kind
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  Speaker 1: of situation. So you still have to meet the
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  Speaker 1: The base, uh, base requirement though. Full-time employee riders must
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  Speaker 1: ride and deliver, I think, a minimum of about 44
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  Speaker 1: hours a week. So unlike platform riders who deliver ad hoc, um,
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  Speaker 1: and are protected under the Platform Workers Act, these full-time
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  Speaker 1: employees will fall under the Employment Act instead. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like a full-time, yeah, full-time staff. So
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: is there a quota that the amount of people that
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: can sign to this full-time program?
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, I, I mean, I don't know just yet. I
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: think they're just testing it out first to see what
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: the interest is like, um, but the role is currently
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: only open to e-bike or bicycle users, and I think
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: this is the testing phase first. If you have your
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: own e-bike, even better, you know, you can go, go
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: about doing it yourself. You can receive an additional $100
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: in vehicle allowance if you have your own e-bike. So,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I guess if it works out, they may roll it
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: out even wider after that.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: Food announcing.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: All eyes on Grab
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: to see what happens, right? Will they
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: launch something similar to compete with
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Foodpanda? Yeah,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: so I'm guessing this is their way of being more
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: competitive in the industry. So I guess regardless, you will
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: still get that, you know, if you work hard under that, uh,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: full-time pay, you will still get the 1.8.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: But if you are one of the delivery riders, of course,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: weigh your pros and cons and weigh how much you
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: take home without this program on its own.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And whether you make your own contribution to CPF and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: see if it makes it worthwhile for you to sign
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: on to this full-time program.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, you know, you have to do the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: math to see if it works out for you. I'm
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: pretty sure that this will appeal.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Target audience for sure, yeah. Um, once again, I just
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: wanted to say thanks to all the listeners and followers
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: that actually DM'ed me asking me is everything OK because I, uh,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I did fly to Taipei on Thursday and I flew
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: straight into typhoon season. OK, TLDR, it wasn't, I didn't
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: intentionally plan to go there during a typhoon, OK.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: The coincidence is that the 2 times that I've been
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: to Taiwan over the past 2 years, it was smack
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the typhoon.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: I think maybe let's have a 3rd time in Taiwan.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I'm
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: starting to wonder whether it's me. You
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: are the problem.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: I brought the typhoon. I'm kidding.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: But um I'm just relieved that we're all safe because
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: as I was flying there on the plane, they actually
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: did warn us that there will be quite a bit
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: of turbulence as we approach uh Taipei itself and the
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: next day, which was Friday, it was predicted to be
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: a typhoon shutdown kind of day. So what they mean
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: by that is that they would declare it a public holiday,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: so you don't go to school, you don't go to work.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Um, because they predict it may hit quite heavily during
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that time.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: So according to news reports, there were sustained winds measuring
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: up to 185 MPH and that's 297 kilometers per hour,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: by the way. So it's, it's meant to be, it's
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the biggest typhoon 2026 if I'm not wrong, right? And
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: having had experienced the typhoon the last time, it was
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: in 2024, if I'm not wrong, that I experienced it.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: So, um, just to put things into perspective for you,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: because Taipei is a very developed city with huge massive
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: buildings that are built to withstand this kind of stuff, right?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: And the people of Taipei, they're very resilient and they
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: know exactly what to do. They literally clean up super fast,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: you know, there are trees that were like falling, big
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: branches that are falling and stuff that were cleared like
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: almost immediately the next day. Um, and it was mostly
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: in our experience, like wind, really strong winds and heavy rain.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But it kind of, it disappeared on Saturday. It, it
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: just kind of went away and everything was back to normal.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: So we actually just experienced Taipei as it is, you know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: as per usual. The people of Taipei just kind of
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: went around doing their own things like no big deal.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Kind of situation. So I think what you're seeing in
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: the news are like the coastal areas that were hit
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: quite badly. So
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: the Taipei.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are used to it, but um, my heart
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: goes out to the people who are in the coastal
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: areas like Elan, these kind of places that are a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: bit more affected, but I'm, I'm assuming they know what
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: to do as well. But overall, I had a really
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: good time. I barely touched my phone. I was just eating, drinking, partying, shopping.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Um, doing the usual things that you do in Taipei,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: ran into one or two Singaporeans, not that many, I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: think because now it's exam season, no one's really traveling.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: When you say eating, right, please describe to us the
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: meals you had over in Taipei.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: So good. Honestly, my best meal I felt was.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: At the night market, like it doesn't get more legit
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: than that because when you go to the, the, the
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: stretch of like shops at the night market, right, um,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it's the kind where like there's no English words at all.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: You just have to figure it out. Either that or
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: they're just selling one thing, like one item per store
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: because they're specialized in that.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And then you break off into the small alleyways and
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you see like those very traditional local shops, please go
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to those. They are the best. But I think you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: can kind of figure it out if you know the basics.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I survived, I survived and
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Taiwanese, like the, the Mandarin that you speak there in
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Taiwan is a lot more similar to ours, to what
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: we have here, yeah. It's a lot more palatable and
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: easier to understand. So if I can survive, I think you,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, anyone can survive. Anyone can survive, but I had
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the best like chicken cutlet, you know, with the spicy powder,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: and wow,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that was so good. The night market one was so good.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: It was piping hot, um, so many tea eggs I had, and, um,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: another thing that they, it's like a kong bapao, you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: it's like a ropao, but you know, in Singapore we
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: call it kong bapao, right? It's like the white bun
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that folds, and then you have the, the roast, the, the, the, the.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Pork belly inside,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: ah, OK,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: something like a, yeah, like a pork bun basically.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: The closest
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I've had to this was over. They something like something
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: like that, OK, um, so yeah, I had that's so good.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: They like to put like preserved vegetables and like all
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff on their food. I had the oyster miso.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it was phenomenal. Chili was so spicy,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: loved it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Can I
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: ask if I were to do like a two-week trip.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: To Taiwan.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: 2 weeks.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Is it possible to drive from point A
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to point B? Yeah, you can. So the last time
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: that I, that I was actually in Taipei, we, we
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: had a friend or we have friends who live in
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Taichung actually. So they drove us to Taichung and then
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: they drove us back. So
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: I'm
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: looking at the map of Taiwan. So if I land
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: and maybe say I start from Taipei City and I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: drive all the way down.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: To Kaohsiung City, somewhere near Kenting National
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Park.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: But from what I understand there's rail, so I don't
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: know whether you want to do that, because I heard
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: it's quite efficient too. It depends on where you want
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to go I guess. Yeah, but um the previous two times, yeah,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: we did, we did do some driving I'm
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: definitely.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of hiking, hiking. Um, some
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: of our friends were intending to go for a hike
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: on Friday morning, but unfortunately they had to cancel it
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: because of the weather. But yes, you are right, they
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: have a lot of hiking, they've got a lot of
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: mountainous areas as well and tea plantations and everything, yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: There's a mountain called Mount Sylvia apparently.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Who is it named after I wonder.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Sylvia.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I know one or two Sylvia, um, but anyway, all
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: in all, great trip. Um, you know, I think people
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: generally thought that it would be dampened by the typhoon situation, yeah,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: a little bit on the first day, but to be
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: very honest, quite a relief after the heat that we're
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: experiencing in Singapore though, so I, I thought it was
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a welcome change that we experienced that for.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: 1 or 2 days. Just
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: make sure you stay safe and it was good. It
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: was great it was here in Singapore the
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: last few days.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So hey, I didn't take too much content or
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: pictures or videos at all. I was just really enjoying myself,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: but maybe it might have inspired you to make a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: trip to Taiwan very soon. Yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: whatever you do, right, your caption better not be escaping
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the air here in Singapore.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: stay away from that just in case.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: So, uh, with my trip to Taipei, also managed to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: catch up with some friends over there. And, um, this
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: particular story came from one of our single friends who's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: back in the game and dating again. And he, he's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a good guy. He's a good guy, honestly, and I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: think he's a catch. OK. So he told us he's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: going back into the dating game here in Singapore and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: told us some.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Dating stories from his recent experiences, um, two of which
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I want to narrow down, and I think we're going
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: to open up phone lines for one of it. Let's go.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: So imagine this, OK, you're swiping, you know, you're, you're single,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: you're like, OK, going on several dates and just sussing
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: it out, right? And you come across this 1st, 1st girl.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you two situations, OK? First girl.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: He goes on a date with her and uh after
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the date is over, he said, OK, it went quite well,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: you know, they're just casually getting to know each other.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It's like literally 1 or 2 dates only. And a
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks later, you get a text from your
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: friend sending you a link to a video and saying, hey,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: is this you in this video? And you go, OK,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: not your face or anything at all, but it's your
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: back view. But I think I can, I can recognize
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: your back view for sure, having known you for so long, right?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: So then he goes, yeah, wait, yeah, that is me. Like, what, what?
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: And he goes, this girl reviewed your date on social media. Yeah,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: she used it as content. This random girl that he
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: met on a dating app.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Is this
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: girl a serial date reviewer?
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I think so. So apparently she's like, like a micro-influencer
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: or some sort of an influencer.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's interesting.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And um now Joakim's invested, he's going to go and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: try and find out.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: But she reviewed the date. So obviously after that he
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: was like, I'm not going to continue going out with
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: this girl, right? What, what bizarre behavior. I mean, I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: don't know if it would have made a difference if
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: she had given him a heads up like, hey, are
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you OK if I review this date?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, even in itself, what would you say?
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Um,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: would you be comfortable with it? I mean, I wouldn't be.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, if you
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: want to review it, OK, but no need to put
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: my back view or front view or side view
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: or his face wasn't in it. No, but in her defense,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: people will recognize my back.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Your friends can definitely recognize your back view.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Even your, your arm or something.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: If the video is on TikTok, there will definitely be
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: some burner accounts who will text me saying, hey, at
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Joakim Gomez, is this you?
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Or just trying to to to investigate,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: right? Yeah, but OK, on the flip side, I'm very
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: sure in those like hidden Telegram chats and all that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: or
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: those I mean.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I don't want to say the platform names, but there
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: are these like forums out there where people review, yeah,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: keep it anonymous or whatever. For all
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: you know, men are doing the exact same thing. Yeah,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: you
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: know. So, yeah, this friend of mine was telling us
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: a story and then the, the second girl that he
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: went out with all in the span of, you know,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: the recent few months.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: This other girl, he actually really liked, and he said like, oh,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: maybe there could be a chance that they will keep
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: going out and actually properly date. So I was like, oh,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: that's good because like I said, he's a catch, she's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a good guy, you know. Um, then after I think
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: 2 dates or so, um, they were texting and, you know,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: just getting to know each other, right, and he's quite
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: busy at work. He's quite busy. So he didn't reply
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: to her for like 30 minutes this one day.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: She flipped out and sent him like 50 messages or something,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: implying that like he's ghosting her or like why do
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you disrespect me like that when I give you all
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: my time and energy. Wait, yeah. Is this girl employed?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know anything about her. Like
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: I've never met her. I just know that she's, she's
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: much younger. She's much younger, so maybe she's still might
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: be a bit immature. I don't know.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: But anyway, he was just really shocked because he even
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: like screen grabbed his last reply to her. It was
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like 35 minutes ago and then she freaked out. After
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: 30 minutes, she spammed him with like 50 messages, and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: he said he didn't even know how to react at
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that moment. He literally just said like, uh, dude, I was,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I'm at work, like I was in an important meeting.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I mean,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: It's like how do you even begin to explain?
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: This
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: girl flips after 35 minutes. Hello, I've been waiting for
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: a reply for 3 years.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: OK, it's not me,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it's not me.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: If that girl flipped after 35 minutes, I should be what,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: checked in somewhere, testing my blood pressure levels or what?
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: Oh my God. I gave her my time and attention, OK?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. No, no.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: He's very patient.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It's OK.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Give us a phone spoil.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Oh,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: sure. Oh sure, yes. Oh, her reception, something wrong.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I think when she switched to the iPhone, something wrong.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: She lost the message. She didn't
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: see
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: a reply.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Keep being the Lulu.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Thank
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: you.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Give
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: us a call
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: 669-1187.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Both of us are literally still recovering for some weird reason.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: It's just never going away.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Anyway, phone lines are open 669-11987 and let us know
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: of your stories as well. What do you think is
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a reasonable window that you still think like, OK, like
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it's it's not considered like you're ghosting me or anything?
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Like how long will you wait for a person to
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: reply to your text before you start thinking that that
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: person might be ghosting you?
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I'll give it one day.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: A day, a day is quite long.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, if I know that person is busy at
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: work and if this person works in
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: A very highly demanding.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you see, in the early stages of dating,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: you may still be getting to know the person, right? And,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and maybe I don't have that much time to explain
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to you like what I do or something. I
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: rather, I rather you reply me in full when you
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: can
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: give
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: like
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: a
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: reply sporadically and you don't even know what you're typing
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: sometimes just for the sake of replying.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Like I remember when I just started dating a germ
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: back then years ago.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Um, both of us, I wouldn't say we're the best texters.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: I won't say that too. That's OK. We're not
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: the best texters, and, and sometimes I also expect my
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: partner to not freak out or understand. I cannot reply
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: for a few hours, like, you know, I know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: yes.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: So I, I, I mean, he also is like that.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So I think we kind of, we kind of understand and,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and at one point we'll say like, OK, um, I'm
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: gonna have a pretty busy day, so my replies will
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: be slow. So when he says that to me, I'm like, OK,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: I'm mentally prepared.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: OK, at least the heads up was there, yeah.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: So a heads up is important. Yes, you would say. OK,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: I will do
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: that as well. OK.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Give us a call or a message 669-11987 or 90050987.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: What is the time frame for you? Like, what is
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the window for you, um, that you're OK to wait
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: for a reply or a text from a person that
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: you're interested in?
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Get your texts coming in.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Let us know. Let us know based on your experiences too.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: And
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: if
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: we do like your answer, what's coming your way, a
• 30:20
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• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're talking about what is the window of time
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: that's acceptable to wait for a reply from someone that
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: you're interested in.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And for you,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I'll give it a day.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: A day, a full day. Like
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: a full day, 24 hours. Be of
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: doubt. OK, I would say I would.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Give a full workday, like assuming this person is really
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: busy
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: reply by EOD. Yeah,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: by end of day, man, like, OK, if you're truly
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: interested in someone, I will probably reply at the end
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: of the day. Again, I will wait, make you wait
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: till tomorrow. I mean, that's quite sad,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: right? The younger and more foolish Joakim Gomez would have
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: double and triple texted saying, hey.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, are you OK? And then I'll ask my friends.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think she likes me. Is it me? Am
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: I the problem? No, really, really, I was like that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I kid you not. I,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you. I think that when we
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: were much younger, especially, you know, when we just started
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: dating as teenagers or like puppy love or whatever.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: You would be constantly texting,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: like teenagers in my twenties as
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: well.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, OK, yes, um, but I, I guess like you
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: would have found yourself a bit more concerned if that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: person didn't reply, but now I guess in your current
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: stage of life as an adult.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Hopefully I've matured a little bit, you know, the frontal
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: cortex and lobe developed. Yes, the
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: frontal cortex and lobe,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: whatever it is, frontal
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: lobe, the prefrontal
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: cortex prefrontal sorry,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: still developing in front lah, still frontal, same
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: thing.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Let's go to messages
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: first. Wanna say good morning to username and a fish
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: at the back. OK. Just want to share this story
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: of my friend and his date. My friend is a
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: very good looking Swiss guy, super nice guy, has a
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: comfortable job, lives alone. He went on a date with
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: this girl and I guess he invited her to his place.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: After two dates, she sent him a shopping list like toothbrush.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Toothpaste, contact lenses, lotion, facial cleanser to buy. He was
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: a bit, huh? And after 3 days, she said she
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: has a spare TV at home so she can bring
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: it over whenever she's over so she can watch TV.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: My friend, he doesn't have a TV, not because he
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: can't afford one, but because he reads and enjoys reading
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: physical books. He quite likes the girl but felt she's
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: trying to move into his.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: Place after 3 dates and it's too fast. He told
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: her that he's not ready to have a girl move
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: in after 3 dates and she completely flipped, screamed and
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: shouted at him and then blocked him. I think he
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: dodged a bullet. What do you think? I think he
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: dodged a bazooka.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I think he did. Yeah, I think he
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: did dodged a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: missile.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Dude, that, that's pretty out of control, man. Like, well,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: she must be feeling very comfortable already at his place.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: That's for sure.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Um, I'm someone that takes personal space quite seriously. Like
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I need my personal space too, so I can't imagine
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like imposing that on someone, you know, like just anyhow
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: move my things there or start leaving my clothes and
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: underwear and my toothbrush like, no, I don't think I.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Did that till much later actually with with
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Jem. Yeah, and I'm very respectful of my partner's personal.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Exactly yeah if it's, yeah, I'll come over for dinner,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: but I'm not gonna insist that I stay over or
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: That person offers, like if he he offers, he or
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: she says like, hey, since you're here so often, do
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: you want to like leave a toothbrush here,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: even if you'll be like, hey, you know what, I
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: know I know what it's like to have your space
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: for yourself.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna stay till you sleep, then I'll leave,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: yeah, to be honest, I mean, it took me a
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: while to learn how to live with someone because I,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I'm so used to being by myself. You and I both. Yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: so I, I can't imagine if someone imposed that on
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: me and forced their way into my house or my
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: room to like live in there.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: It's OK. I
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: spare somewhere Sonia, I'll bring it over, OK, everything there.
• 34:20
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• 34:24
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• 34:29
  Speaker 2: What is the acceptable window for reply?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Hm, yeah, so how long will you wait for a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: reply from someone that you're interested in before you start
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: thinking that they might be ghosting you? Yeah. Let us
• 34:40
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• 34:43
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• 34:46
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• 34:49
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• 34:49
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• 34:52
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• 34:56
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• 35:00
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• 35:03
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• 35:08
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• 35:11
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• 35:12
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• 35:14
  Speaker 2: OK, grilled beef strip loin and tiramisu.
• 35:17
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• 35:21
  Speaker 1: We'd love to hear from you. Tell us about your
• 35:23
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• 35:25
  Speaker 1: from someone before you think that he or she is
• 35:28
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• 35:31
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• 35:36
  Speaker 1: the window that's still acceptable to
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Wait for someone to reply to your text, especially someone
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: that you're interested in.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: OK, you ready for this? I want to say good
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: morning to Z. Morning, Sonia and Joakim. I used to
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: date a girl and she was freaked out when I
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: did not reply to her for 14 hours because I
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: was dead asleep.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Wait, you were asleep in the daytime or what?
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Perhaps she's my girlfriend now of 5 years and counting,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: and she understands now that I just sleep a lot.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: You see, that's the thing. So before you even, if
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: this happened like before you even got to know the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: person and their habits, you might think that they're just
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: ghosting you. That's the problem, right?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: You're not, you're not wrong to say that. So unless
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you persist and you feel like, oh, this person is
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: someone that I like and you accept that, then you'll
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: find out, oh, that's just part of their lifestyle. Sleeping
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: for 14 hours.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever done that, man. Yeah.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I also say good morning to Dom. Dom says in
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: dating apps, always wait until they reply back. If no response,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: treat it as if you're an AI account, a potential scammer,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: or maybe their phone battery died already.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: blame something. Give some excuse, anything.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: But the threat of AI accounts and scammers on dating
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: apps
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: terrifying, it's real. I mean, look, people can easily generate
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: some random profile picture, and it could be hard to
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: tell like glance.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: AI gets more advanced these days,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: yeah, it's quite scary. Catfishing on another level now. They
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: are smarter now, I would say.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: And one more also coming in from Dave. Hello Dave.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Dave says, morning, Sonia and Jokim for me. If before
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: you sleep without seeing my message and replying, I can
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: see that they're not interested or maybe married.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: I won't freak out. I will move on. That's their loss. See,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: you see, this is what I mean. Like if it
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: is someone that you're actually interested in, I wouldn't just
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: go to bed without first checking to reply. I mean,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I would definitely have 5 minutes before you sleep to
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: reply to someone. Exactly for sure, yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Just a simple, hey, it's been a long day. Can
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: I talk to you
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: tomorrow?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly like a holding message. That's what I call
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: it holding message.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Like my village is like hold 1st, 1st.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: I need to study these things, you know. They will
• 37:47
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• 37:49
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• 37:54
  Speaker 2: So Sonia, can you help me check this message from
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: three years ago.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: This one is how not to get a go. Thanks.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Phone lines are still open once again, and
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: our messages to in exchange, a $100 shopping experience thanks
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: to Little Farms could be yours. Talking about the window
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: of time that you allow yourself um to, to wait
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: for a reply or response from someone that you're interested
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: in.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: If it's Lisa texting me, take all the time you need.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Another 3 years.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: 2 weeks.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: 3 years. I, I just try to think, I'm trying
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: to think right now like when, what was the longest
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: amount of time I waited for a reply or I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: made someone wait for a reply.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Oh no, man, it's definitely within a day, within a
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: day for sure. But if I'm really, really not interested,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: I think you can tell. Yeah, you, you'll be able
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: to tell like I'm just not interested to continue the conversation,
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: you know, for Sonia, right, once she's online on WhatsApp,
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Telegram or Instagram DMs, you make sure you make full use.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Of the 2 to 3 minutes that she's there, get
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: all you want to say and get it out there
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: so she
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: reads it. I don't know. OK, I have my moods,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: you know, because like sometimes I just don't feel like engaging.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I can tell.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So then when I'm like, OK, when I'm there, then
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I'll just reply everything at once. Yeah, yeah, that's my style.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: And sometimes I can be texting her something very important
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: on WhatsApp. She won't see it, but she'll send me
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: memes on DMs.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: And I have to go there and say, hey,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: go to your WhatsApp.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Hold up, hold up, because I can't help it if
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: something reminds me of you or like that I think
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: we'll both laugh about. And the thing is, if I
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: don't share it in that moment, it'll be gone. I
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: won't be able to find it again and have a
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: good laugh about probably some cancelable joke.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Yes, anyway, thank you so much for all your texts.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I think I want to give it.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: To Z, the sleeping monster, very aptly named.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Um, but the bright side is that he actually
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: ended up properly dating this girl now for like 5 years. Yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: So she got past the phase of him not replying
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: for 14 hours. So
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: a $100 Little Farms voucher coming your way, Z. Please
• 40:03
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• 40:12
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• 40:15
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• 40:19
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• 40:22
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• 40:28
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• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Arms. OK, question for you, if you're flying very soon
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: or let's just say, OK, you have an other half, you,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: you're traveling with your other half, and um, you know,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you take a flight for maybe between 8 to 10 hours.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Is it your preference to sit next to your other half?
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I mean, like your
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife?
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: Isn't that the norm? What has
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: changed?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no. OK, so I
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: If I tell you the story about like my flight
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: situation to Taipei and stuff, you're gonna laugh at me,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: but TLDR, I did not fly with germs going there
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and coming back, we didn't sit next to each other
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: at all. So going there, I was on a completely
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: different flight. Coming back, we didn't sit next to each other.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: We were, we were one seat away from each other.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: late check-in, no, no.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Never mind, this is a story for another day.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: OK,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: OK, fine, fine, fine. You want me to tell me,
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: you want me to tell you or not? I'll just
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: tell you on air. I'll summarize it. OK. So, um,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: he booked our flights like quite a while ago because
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: these dates were locked in due to like, uh, some
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: sort of a reunion that he has over there, OK.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: So already locked in, he said, I booked the flight,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I booked the hotel, everything. I didn't read it, OK,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: So it's a you problem lah.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes. So I didn't admittedly, I did not click
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: on it at all. I didn't see the dates. I didn't, yeah,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: so I, I assumed the dates were slightly different and
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I realized as the drew closer that actually I had
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: to work on the date that we were supposed to
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: fly off together.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: So I had to reschedule my flight to the next day,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: which is no big deal, it's still fine. Of course,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the preference is to fly together, right, on a vacation.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: And then me, Bodo, I did not notice that the
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: flight coming back is on Monday, not Sunday.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: So when I rebooked um the flight, due to the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: category of tickets, you need to rebook both flights. You
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: need to rebook, you cannot just rebook one. I don't
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: know how to explain. This is the best that I
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: can do in terms of explanation. So, um, I rebooked
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: myself on the wrong flight.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I rebooked on Sunday because I thought I'd be back
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: to work on Monday. Turns out, no, we had something
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: on on Sunday night, so I have to take the
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Monday morning, Monday flight. So when that happened and I
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: got to the counter, obviously my seat was not with
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: him anymore and it was just complicated. So yeah, we
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: were seated one seat away from each other in a
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: different aisle.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: What's
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: the what's the moral here?
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: The moral of the story is always read the messages
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: that your partner
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: sends you.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: I'm not wrong, this is not the first
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: time is actually Germs has a running joke with his
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: friends because they were like, oh, it's, where's Sonia? And
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: he said, yeah, if she shows up, it's a miracle.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: He has given
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: up. He said that I keep his life exciting, OK.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: But
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: anyway, to answer the question you asked two minutes ago, sorry,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: you
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: asked
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: me what? You asked me why I.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: OK, so if I, if I was flying with a partner, yeah,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: I would do the, the hack where you pick the
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: aisle seat and the window seat and leave the middle
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: seat open.
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: And hope that no one picks that seat to sit
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: in between the both of
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: you,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: but it's a, it might be that,
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: yeah, we sit together.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, la, then that would be silly, right, if you
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: do that and someone fills in the seat it's OK. Yeah,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: it's OK. I'll tell you what happened to this woman
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: on a 10-hour flight that um.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can say I can relate
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: or I can empathize, but it was a bit dramatic. So, um,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: here's what happened, and I did ask you a question earlier.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I said if you're traveling with your plus one or
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: your partner in life, the preference of course, is to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: sit together, but
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: On the off chance that it's a very full flight
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: or you don't manage to choose your seats, will you
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: have a major problem with it? No, no, no. Like
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: even if it's a long flight. I'm talking like, OK, like,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: like maybe 8 to 10 hour
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: flight
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: to the galley.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: And just chill out and hang out for
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: a bit,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: but you wouldn't be too fussed about switching
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: seats.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm gonna spend the whole holiday with you,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: and you can spend your flight like watching, catching on movies, reading, whatever.
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: And if we are flying back, I'm going to see
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: all of you at home, so
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: never mind. In fact, this woman who was on a
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: 10-hour flight, OK, I believe the flight was from Istanbul
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: to DC to Washington. OK, about 10 hours, OK.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Um,
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: She shared a video of this fellow passenger who was very,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: very upset that she couldn't sit with her husband. So she, she,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: she said that this lady allegedly asked her whether she
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: could switch seats with her husband, but her husband's not
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: exactly nearby. It's like a few rows back or like
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: a different area altogether.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: So, naturally, I think this woman that posted about it,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: she didn't want to switch the seats because I mean
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: if I booked the seat and I selected this seat,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: it's probably because I want this particular area that's maybe
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: nearer to the restroom or the aisle seat or whatever
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: is my preference.
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: And if there's no way I'm switching seats.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing like I prefer sitting in the aisle.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: Like I don't like sitting inside window or center. I
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: want to sit in the aisle because I will go,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I will use the restroom. I drink a lot of water.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: So I will use the restroom several times. So if
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: someone asked me to switch seats, if it's a short
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: flight and I didn't pay any extra money to like
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: do this, OK, maybe I will think about it. But
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: if it's anything longer than, I don't know, 4 or
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: 5 hours, there's no way that I'm switching. I'm so sorry,
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: like you you.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Or you just have to sit wherever you got, you know,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: you got assigned to. I'm not going to switch with you. So, unfortunately, um,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the woman that didn't get her way was apparently crying
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: for three hours straight that she couldn't sit next to
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: her husband. And it was all documented by this lady
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: who then posted about it on social media. So admittedly,
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, maybe that lady was going through
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: some stuff. She was very emotional, apparently, but
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: I think um unfortunately, it was, it was, it became
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: a big deal on social media, unfortunately.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Why did the
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: lady? Yeah, I
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I I know um she's a travel influencer too, so
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: maybe it was for her. Yeah, maybe it was for her.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Come on, I feel bad. Now I feel bad too,
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: but um at the end of the day, it's, it's
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the kind of thing where I also feel like I
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: don't want to impose.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: My issues on a stranger, you know, unfortunately, you just
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: have to tahan it, man. Like if you get that seat,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: you get that seat, because when I was, like I said,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: when I was flying back, I didn't sit with germs either.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Like we were like a seat apart, but it doesn't matter.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: It was like what, 3.5 hour flight.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: So for example, if there's a visible injury or the
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: person is handicapped, then yeah, I'll make the exceptional and
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: all that. Or if for example, a parent wants to
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: sit with his or her child.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: This is a tough one. I don't know. We, we
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: should open up phone lines for this another day, but um, yeah, tomorrow, yeah, honestly,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: because when I was seated in the middle seat, it's,
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: you know, uncomfortable, of course, I was seated between two dudes, right?
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: And um I really wanted to share this dessert thing
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: that I bought in Taiwan with germs, so I had
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: to reach over the guy that was sitting next to
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: me to pass it to
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Germs.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: So I was gonna say.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: I might change my mind. Depends on how they ask.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: OK, yeah,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: if they
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: are really polite and paisy about it, you know, I'm like, Ma'am,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: it's OK. Come, take this seat. I'll just sit wherever
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: you're supposed to sit.
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, OK, yeah, no, that's very valid. We might just
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: want to open up for nights for tomorrow.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: If
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: you look at me and stare at me with the
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: entitled face,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: then, then you're even more motivated to say no. I'm
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: sorry, you're gonna be staring for 10 hours.
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: Fight, fight, fight. I did not know this. When was
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: Benson Boon announced here in
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Singapore? Oh, I didn't notice that either.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: When 2nd November,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: he's performing at the Star Theater.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Wait, what? I didn't even get tickets.
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: Hello.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: I would have wanted to catch him actually. He's a
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: really good performer. When
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: was
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: this announced? OK, let me click find tickets.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Is it sold out
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: just
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: yet?
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Uh, oh,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: no,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: it is it's sold out. I'm sure. But hey, great
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: venue for, for his singing though, for sure.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Oh man,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: I would have wanted to catch him. This
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: is, I didn't know this. I just googled like concerts
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: in Singapore for the month of
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: November.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Maybe because it was sold out so quickly, they didn't
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: need to really promote it that much. That's the thing.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So are you ready for a few more? Yeah,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: sure. Lady, lady next
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: week. Yeah.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Shanghai at Capitol Theater, November 3rd. November 4th is Laney.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: We got the likes of My Chemical Romance November 10th
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: and 11th, and of course not forgetting, Regina Song having
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: her own launch at Capitol Theater as well. Five Seconds
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: of Summer, November 16th, Georgie, 21st and 22nd of November.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Simple plan.
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: November 22nd, Khalid, November 24th. This one I'm going for
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Guns N Roses.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, you are, you're a Guns N Roses fan. I
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: never knew
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: this. Hello, it's only the soundtrack of my secondary school
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: days where all my friends are trying to play Slash's
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: guitar solo on guitar.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: Seraphim on 28th and of course Baby Monster, both 28th
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: and 29th of November.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is gonna take us to the end
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: of the year and
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: it's
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: a very expensive November and then of course BTS in
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: Singapore for 4 nights in December,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: yeah. So, um, pretty much sums up 2026 concert schedule. 2027,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: I think we're looking at that already aside from Bruno
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: Mars that was announced. Oh yes, yes, true, true, true.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: OK, plenty to um spend money on over the next
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: few months. Time for some very unique food news. 1,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: 23 food news. Food news.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Sonia with unique food news only because it involves coriander
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: and you mentioned something earlier, cake.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So coming back from Taipei, I was just
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: telling Joe that every, everyone loves their spring onions, their chives,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: their coriander, I'm not surprised gi and everything to the
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: point where they even Doritos has a coriander flavor in Taiwan,
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: by the way. I've tried it. Have you
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: tried it. It's actually not too bad. It's unique, but
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'll buy it again. Oh, you like it,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: is it? OK.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Sport for you. I didn't
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: realize in
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Singapore. Oh, they do.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know that. See, clearly we are looking
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: for different things, but anyway, um, I want to give
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: a big shout out here to this particular bakery called
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Sweet Stuff Bakery, OK? Um, she's decided to sell coriander
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: chiffon cake.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: That looks like a pandan cake. I'm googling this. It
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: looks like a pandan cake, but there's bits of coriander
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: in it, OK? And she said that despite her own
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: kids really disliking coriander, she loves it.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: And um she also makes garlic chiffon cake that pairs
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: well with chili crab sauce. That's why I said a
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: very unique piece of food news today. Is
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: coriander chiffon cake for revenge
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: gifting
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: apparently people like it. I mean, I think there must
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: be some sort of market for it. She's, well, her
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: name is Bee Loi. She has been selling chiffon cakes
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: and sponge cakes since the year 2007.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Um, so they've got 36 flavors of chiffon cake. So
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I would say she's quite an expert when it comes
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the coriander chiffon cake right now. Just
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: think of it as like rosemary or garlic bread,
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: it looks like herbs, herbs, right? Yeah. So, um, she
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: says it's savory.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: And if you like coriander, you will love it because
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: it's very, very fragrant. So I'm assuming that there is
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: a market for it because it's available by pre-order only
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: at least 3 days in advance. She must have her
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: own market for this, but um, yeah, I'm actually kind
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: of interested to try, just try because it piqued my
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: curiosity now. Auntie
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Bee Li, I placed an
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: order.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, um, apparently, you know, some colleagues and some people
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: who have tried it actually had quite nice reviews, so.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Uh, hey, we'll, we'll see, we'll see whether this will
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: be a hit, but if you're curious, Sweet Stuff Bakery
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: is over at Toa Payoh, quite near you actually. So I,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: I assign you the, the task to go get a,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: a coriander chiffon cake. If you really want it, then
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: we just try for fun, just try it for fun.
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: I'll find out
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: how to order it now.