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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 210826 · 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. OK, very good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you. I'm not gonna lie, Joakim and I are
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  Speaker 1: semi struggling this morning because we had a very, very
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  Speaker 1: late work night. But we have quite a busy day
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  Speaker 1: because later on, we're going to be broadcasting with McDonald's. Sonia. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we're also dropping by your school to tell you
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  Speaker 1: more in a bit. Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so like we said, a packed day for us
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  Speaker 1: that will end thankfully with McDonald's. So tonight over at
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  Speaker 1: Bugis Junction from 5 to maybe say 7:30 p.m., Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and I will be there, and I think this is
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  Speaker 1: in relation to the samurai burger. Oh yeah, there's so
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  Speaker 1: many new things coming up and well, crowd favorites at least, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, with our relationship with McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: and how we also quite frequently are customers and order
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  Speaker 1: it ourselves, um, this is a great way to wrap
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  Speaker 1: up your week, OK? Just treat yourself to a delicious
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  Speaker 1: meal and indulge. So there's also a spin and win
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  Speaker 1: wheel and Sonia with the samurai burger, you know what
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  Speaker 1: else is coming back? What Seaweed shaker fries. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I think there's also a Kyoho grape saucer.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm not wrong, so that sounds great. You'll find
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  Speaker 1: out more tonight over at Bugis Junction as we dial
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  Speaker 1: into 987 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Yeah, so please
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  Speaker 1: come on down and join us. I think we officially
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  Speaker 1: start at 5:30 actually. So, um, if you're around the area,
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  Speaker 1: come say hi. We'd love to hang out with you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you've seen this near your house
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  Speaker 1: at all, but I'm pretty sure you've seen it somewhere
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  Speaker 1: around Japan Home. Remember the show?
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  Speaker 1: Japan Home. Wow, it's been a while since I've come
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  Speaker 1: across 11, right? Yeah, but from what I remember, like
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  Speaker 1: my mom actually sometimes buys some household stuff from Japan
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  Speaker 1: Home and it's very affordable, great quality, like Tupperwares, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things like that you might need for your home and
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  Speaker 1: all that. She'll buy from Japan Home sometimes. So it's
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  Speaker 1: a It's a mum's. However, 5 Japan home stores in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: have shuttered and the staff say that the other stores
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  Speaker 1: are going to be converted into the Value Dollar, Value
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  Speaker 1: Dollar Store. Do you know the Value Dollar Store? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so the remaining stores will be converted to that. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: Japan Home has experienced tough losses and um in 2025,
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  Speaker 1: it was not a good year for them.
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  Speaker 1: Um, so they are going to reopen through some joint
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  Speaker 1: management with the Value Dollar store that, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: operate on like a, OK, everything at $1 or $2
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  Speaker 1: kind of concept, right? So, I think, um, according to
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  Speaker 1: our friends over at Business Times, they're also undergoing a
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  Speaker 1: change of management right now and more stores are slowly
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  Speaker 1: going to be converted via this joint venture with Value Dollar.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to check who opened Japan Home in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a Japan Japanese brand, yeah. It's opened by.
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  Speaker 1: Peter Lau Park Fai and Nai Laiha in Hong Kong
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  Speaker 1: in 1991. Yeah, so I think they have experience in
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  Speaker 1: more than just Japan Home. They've had experience with hardware
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  Speaker 1: store Mr. Fix before, if you, if you remember them.
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  Speaker 1: Ace Fresh also I think used to be under them.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll, we'll see where this goes, but I'm just
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  Speaker 1: glad that there's some sort of a solution because it
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  Speaker 1: is a mum's haven. That's for sure. Go and ask
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  Speaker 1: your mother. She confirmed went to Japan home before, like
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  Speaker 1: buy some stuff for your house. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, stick around. In just a bit, we would love
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  Speaker 1: to open up phone lines for you to get your calls,
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  Speaker 1: your dedications and song requests. What a beautiful Friday. We're
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  Speaker 1: almost to the end of the workday. Joakim and I
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  Speaker 1: having had a very, very long night, a long weekend
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  Speaker 1: coming up, but we'll fill you in more later on
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: during the show. Meantime, heading to the phone lines, we
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  Speaker 1: got Avery here. Good morning. What school are you from?
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  Speaker 1: Holy Innocent. Yay. OK, I think this is the first
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  Speaker 1: time we're getting someone from Holy Innocent.
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  Speaker 1: Any song that you would like to hear this morning?
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  Speaker 1: Any baby monster song. Alright. Are you gonna catch a
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  Speaker 1: glimpse of them here in Singapore? I don't think so. Oh, OK,
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  Speaker 1: next time it's OK. Um, we got a baby monster
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  Speaker 1: track coming up for you. Is it going out to anyone?
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  Speaker 1: And my mommy. Your mommy. OK. Enjoy the track and
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  Speaker 1: I hope you have a great day at school, OK? OK. Bye. OK,
• 4:15
  Speaker 1: so in the midst of all
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  Speaker 1: These AI slops and AI that's being featured in the
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  Speaker 1: news and the public, not being too receptive to it
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  Speaker 1: as of yet. Not the best publicity for now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How about that? We level up to humanoid robots. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie, when I saw this, when I
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  Speaker 1: read this article and I saw the photos, if I didn't,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if I'm not plugged into the news and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on, I may be a
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  Speaker 1: little bit scared.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you a question, OK? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: we are feeling the same way maybe say our parents
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  Speaker 1: or grandparents felt when bank tellers were slowly, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: use the word replaced, but they were more or less
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  Speaker 1: becoming digital replaced by ATM machines and then when writing
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  Speaker 1: letters became
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  Speaker 1: Emails. Do you think they're feeling the same way? It's,
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  Speaker 1: it's possible, but, um, I would say that would have
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  Speaker 1: been not as scary because if you see a humanoid
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  Speaker 1: robot approaching you, that's, that's really in the future kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff that you never thought would happen, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we only saw that in movies in the past and
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  Speaker 1: then now it's actually happening. Even now, for example, some
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  Speaker 1: restaurants or even Tilo. Oh yeah, they've got.
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  Speaker 1: Little robots, but those ones are quite cute because it's like, um,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like a nice cute blob with a trays
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  Speaker 1: that are stacked on it. So it doesn't come in
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  Speaker 1: the form of like a humanoid bot. That's a different level.
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  Speaker 1: So for example, if this LTA humanoid bot called Ollie
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  Speaker 1: didn't look like a humanoid robot, maybe it was like
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  Speaker 1: a robot a cute robot, you'll be OK with it,
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  Speaker 1: not so scary.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, this bro, this bro looks like he's from the
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  Speaker 1: Special forces. So, really, really, he's his uniform and everything.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're over at Little India Station, and I
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  Speaker 1: can only think of why they picked Little India near
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  Speaker 1: the LTA office, uh, from August 31st to September 11, 2026,
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  Speaker 1: you might get a glimpse of Ali just walking around
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  Speaker 1: minding his own business. But if you have any questions
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  Speaker 1: about direction or which train to take and all that, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Ollie can help you. Yeah, so I think Ollie will
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  Speaker 1: be available on weekdays between 10:00 a.m. to 12 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: So quite, quite long working hours for Ollie. Hopefully it
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  Speaker 1: gets enough rest. So yeah, Ollie will be operating on
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  Speaker 1: weekdays and he will have human supervision during the trial
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  Speaker 1: because I think our friends over at LTA know, like
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  Speaker 1: majority will use it for the right reasons and then
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  Speaker 1: some will try and troll Ollie for a TikTok video
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  Speaker 1: and all that, not just that, like people who.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, who are not plugged into the news
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  Speaker 1: or social media, they get a shock or they don't
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  Speaker 1: know what's going on, right? So I guess the bigger
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  Speaker 1: goal here is to see whether the humanoid robots the
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  Speaker 1: commit in Singapore. Is it also to maybe like what
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  Speaker 1: are some common questions asked, you know, that kind of
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  Speaker 1: thing like habit and memory. I think train stations with
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  Speaker 1: two or more lines, for example, your Little India Serangoon MRT.
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  Speaker 1: Outram, right, it can be a little bit confusing for
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  Speaker 1: people not too familiar with Singapore's train system. But OK, I,
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised I know this, but there is an app
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  Speaker 1: to help you with that, you can actually key in
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  Speaker 1: your destination. It will tell you where to change and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. But you know, us humans, we, we
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  Speaker 1: like to take the easiest steps. So ask a simple question.
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  Speaker 1: You get the right way. Well done. You know where
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  Speaker 1: this would be very helpful if you were in Japan, OK.
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  Speaker 1: The, the Japanese um lines are so, if you see
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  Speaker 1: the map, it's like a web. It's crazy. Actually, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a web. There needs to be a Shinjuku exit guide. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like a bot there as well. 200 Shinjuku station, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's crazy. And um on top of that, when
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  Speaker 1: you realize that it's actually not a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: that are in English, even now, right? I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: getting better, but still.
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  Speaker 1: I just wonder what voice will Ollie have. I'm very curious.
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  Speaker 1: Ollie sounds like somebody who has a very deep and polite.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I don't know why I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why the British accent came out. Are
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  Speaker 1: we in London or? Then what? Good morning. Hello. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to really give it the Singapore, can
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  Speaker 1: I help you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Please don't ever hire me to voice actor.
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: And the resident Kapoia Joakim is about to tell us
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  Speaker 1: what's been going on in Post Malone's dating life. Again,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly Kaia. It's only because it's made the news
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  Speaker 1: and some of our local press actually covered it.
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  Speaker 1: And when I saw the picture, honestly, Post Malone's fiance
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  Speaker 1: looks like a Singaporean baddie. Yeah, she does. She's an
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  Speaker 1: Asian baddie. Exactly. Yeah. So congratulations recently getting engaged to
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  Speaker 1: stylist Christy Lee. I mean, did you see her ring?
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  Speaker 1: It was huge. It's like the size of a planet. Yeah,
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: I can see it from space. I wonder whether is
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  Speaker 1: it as big as Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina's. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: I think hers is bigger. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's just looking quite crazy and vulgar at this point.
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  Speaker 1: So for Post Malone, him and his previous partner by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jamie Park Hee actually have a child together,
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  Speaker 1: a daughter. It didn't work out, so maybe I think
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  Speaker 1: a co-parenting agreement is in place. And soon after he
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  Speaker 1: dated Christy Lee and decided she's the one for me,
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  Speaker 1: I shall marry her. bro got Asian fever. Asians. I
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  Speaker 1: never realized that actually until you you mentioned his previous
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  Speaker 1: dating life.
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  Speaker 1: Asian girls of Korean descent or whatsoever specifically, right? Town
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  Speaker 1: and maybe, maybe, maybe, but anyway, very happy for him. He,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy that you just want to
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  Speaker 1: root for him, you know. I just want him to succeed.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: That's how I feel whenever I see him and people
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  Speaker 1: like Teddy Swims, all I want to do is just say, bro,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: can I dap you and give you a hug? Yeah,
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: I just want to hug them. Like thank you for
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: everything and for your music. Take a nap, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on their shoulder. So if you have post Malone.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: Concert fever from 202023 rather. He's coming back to Singapore
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  Speaker 1: 25th of September 2026 at the indoor stadium for his
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  Speaker 1: big censored world tour. I can't say that name. So
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  Speaker 1: I asked you this earlier, Joe. What would it take
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: to entice you to re-enlist? Not much actually, because, no,
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  Speaker 1: I love the discipline and the fit lifestyle, not so
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  Speaker 1: much assembling the SAR 21.
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: I'm bad with that. That is a rifle that we
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  Speaker 1: all use, yes, the SAR-21. But as, but maybe like
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  Speaker 1: the running, the discipline function of it, the teamwork, the bonding,
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  Speaker 1: and the friendships. If I didn't tear my ACL, you
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: could have rest assured I'm out of Chong Swat National Service. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would have.
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  Speaker 1: OK, no, I, I'm not even questioning that because I
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  Speaker 1: believe you and I think I could see you doing
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  Speaker 1: that as well if, uh, if you didn't pursue media, right? Maybe. Yeah, maybe.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: Captain Gomez, it doesn't work that way. Assuming you're going
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  Speaker 1: to OCS in the first place. Oh, nice assumption. There
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  Speaker 1: we go. Um, going to the US right now, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: the US Army Battalion, they're offering soldiers 4 days off.
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  Speaker 1: To play the new Grand Theft Auto, if they re-enlist.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know whether 4 days off is gonna
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  Speaker 1: cut it, Joki, I'm not really sure, but they are launching,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, Grand Theft Auto launching in November 2026, right?
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  Speaker 1: And we've been waiting a long time for it, I think, the,
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: the whole world, um, but they were, they're directing it
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  Speaker 1: at active duty enlisted.
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: Soldiers assigned to a specific battalion who are eligible for re-enlistment. So,
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: in order to entice them and encourage, here is 4
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  Speaker 1: free days off and you can play this, you know,
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Grand Theft, and you can enjoy your 4 days off.
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  Speaker 1: We go from that to here on 987.
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: I'm sure I told you this already. You took off
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  Speaker 1: to play. You do know I'm taking leave November 20th. No,
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  Speaker 1: I did not know that. It's been approved by Boss
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  Speaker 1: Janice already. You took leave to play Grand Theft Auto,
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  Speaker 1: and I told her straight, boss, I'm taking leave. I,
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  Speaker 1: I'm allowed to. It's my entitlement. I'm doing this to
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  Speaker 1: play GTA. OK, hold on. I don't think she asked, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just letting her know. She did not ask. She's
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  Speaker 1: just like, OK, approved, annual leave, you know. It's out
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  Speaker 1: November 19th, Singapore time, Thursday. So I have Friday, Saturday
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  Speaker 1: to game till.
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  Speaker 1: Overnight and rest on Sunday. Come back to work on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So your goal is to complete the whole game. I mean, OK,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is I want to avoid spoilers. OK, I
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: want to avoid don't go on social media. That's the how,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: how not to 2 days. How not to 2 days
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: just give yourself a test. Yeah. So I'm one of
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: those people that took leave to play GTA 6. I'll
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  Speaker 1: proudly proclaim it. So you might be the target audience
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  Speaker 1: for this. You might belist because of that. We've waited
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: 13 years. They gave you 3 free days of leave.
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  Speaker 1: You might take it.
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  Speaker 1: See, the moment you said that, something drops in the studio.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: That's because you pulled it. OK, let's go.
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: So, as you know, um, Jokki and I are avid
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: fans of Ted Lasso, OK, and this is just one
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: of many, one of many Apple TV and, and I
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: guess other platforms have other shows that we connect on
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: as well. I mean shows like Stranger Things. Yes, yes,
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: but for Apple TV specifically, I know that we both
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: love Morning Show and we both love Ted Lasso and
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: Shrinking and yeah, OK, I haven't watched. I saved it. Pluribus,
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: you know, that was really fantastic as well.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: But anyway, focusing on Ted Lasso right now, we're all
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  Speaker 1: very excited about it because uh we thought it was over, right?
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: We thought that they were going to end the season,
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: that's it. But they came back with another season to
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: which Jeremy, my husband and I, we follow Ted Lasso religiously.
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: It's our thing, it's our thing. Ted Lasso season 4,
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: it focuses on women's football. Yes, and the 3rd episode
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  Speaker 1: just dropped 2 days ago. Don't spoil it. I did,
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  Speaker 1: I can't because I haven't watched it.
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: Let me hear me out. OK. So we've been, we've
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: been really busy respectively, and you know, he's very busy
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: at work and in the recent weeks or so we
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: haven't really been able to sit down and like catch
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: up with our shows or like even speak to each
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  Speaker 1: other much at night. I'm just like knocked out, falling
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  Speaker 1: asleep or whatever, right? Understandable. Then, um, yesterday, yesterday I realized, oh, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I have an hour to chill out before a meeting, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I was telling Joakim like.
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: Wait, let me, let me finish first. I said, hey, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: new episode of Ted Lasso came out, right? The answer
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  Speaker 1: is no.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Then I said, should I just watch the episode? I'm
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: so tempted to watch it because it already came out
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  Speaker 1: for one day. Should I just watch it and pretend
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: to watch again with germs and pretend like I didn't
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  Speaker 1: watch it? Sonia, at a time like this, here's one phrase,
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  Speaker 1: be gone, Satan. It's temptation, no.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do that. No, but I was really tempted
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  Speaker 1: to watch it. Cannot. OK, anyway, you'll be pleased to
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  Speaker 1: know that I didn't because you know, I do want
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: to watch it for the first time since we already
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: made a pact of watching it together. I'm not happy,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: neither am I outraged. It's the bare minimum. Don't do it.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Don't watch. Wait for your partner. I'm so sorry. I
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: have done it before. I know you have. I've done
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: it before with another series, but I knew that he
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: wasn't as invested in it. Like I was way more
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: invested in it. Was it Gossip Girl or? No, it
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: wasn't dude, he won't even touch Gossip Girl with a
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: 10-foot pole, um.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It was that, wait, hold on, it was that, uh,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: do you remember that weird show about a female stalker
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: stalking this guy deer something, something about a baby deer,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: baby monster monster.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Baby deer, right? Is it baby deer? Reindeer, Baby reindeer,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: baby reindeer. Calm down calm down. I reindeer. Baby reindeer
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely correct. Well done. Um, that might have a
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: rating on it, so yeah, please watch at your own risk.
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  Speaker 1: But I, I will say that one because I knew
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  Speaker 1: we were watching it, we were so gripped by it, right?
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  Speaker 1: Then he kind of like slid off. He has very
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: short attention span when it comes to series, so I
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: realized like, hey, maybe he's not so interested anymore. So
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: I continued watching it. He never asked. He never asked.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Every time we started, you know, watching, selecting a movie,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: he never selected, uh, Baby Reindeer again. So I was like, OK, lah, safe.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: So I watched it without him. He never asked me
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: about it again. But for Ted Lasso, please don't know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I think he really likes Ted Lasso too. Do you
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: at least have the weekend to sit down and chill together.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Bonding time on Sunday. Yeah, but it will be so
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: many days after the one, no one's gonna spoiled. It's
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: not like a movie. It's true, it's true, it's true. OK,
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: but anyway, you'll be proud to know that I didn't
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: cave into temptation. I didn't watch the show that I
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: meant to watch with my husband. Again, it's the bare minimum,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: but that's my opinion. Call us 669-11987.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Are you the kind of person that, you know, if
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: you are committed to watching a show together with your
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: partner or your siblings or your friends or your family, right,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, can be anyone. Will you wait for them
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: or will you kind of give in to temptation and
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: you might watch the episode because it dropped and you're
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: free to watch it? The last time I did it
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: was with my ex for the final season of Game
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: of Thrones and for I think HBO Max, I forgot.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Whether was it episodic or did they release the whole
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: thing at one go? I think it was episodic. Oh,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: sometimes they release like 23 episodes at once. So as
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: much as I had the account and I could see
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: like some episodes are already coming out, yeah, I waited
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: because it's the bare minimum. OK, OK, OK. I didn't
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: do it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't do it in the end. The fact that
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: you thought about it and you and you asked me
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: about it. OK, fine. I need to. Can you imagine
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: if you ask one of your enablers? They like, exactly. See,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: lines are open 669-11987.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: The question is, if you and a loved one, doesn't
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: need to be a romantic partner, it could be anyone,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: your besties, your family, whatever, committed to watching and following
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: a show together and a new episode dropped, and you're
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: free to watch it, will you cave in and actually
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: watch the show before that?
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Maybe pretend a bit, watch again. Straight away with all
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the conversations we're having off-air with our listeners that I
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: missed the queue to come on after the song. But yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: you just heard Teddy Swims and Pink Panthers earlier. Heading
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: to our WhatsApp messages 1st, 90050987. I was just sharing how,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: you know, um, all of us are following Ted Lasso,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: all of us meaning myself, Joakim, and Jeremy.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Um, and, and for Jeremy and I, you know, we
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: try our best to like follow, if we commit to
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: following the series, we should watch it together, but I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: did reveal to Joakim yesterday that I was very tempted
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: to watch the latest episode because Jeremy has been so
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: busy and so have I that my only time to
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: like watch it is these free pockets of time at
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: random times of the day. So I was like, wow.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Temptation is there. Should I watch the new episode, man?
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: It's been out for 2 days. I want to say
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: good morning to Xavier on WhatsApp, who has given us
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: a bit of a spin to this situation. See what
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you think. OK, Sonia. OK. Hey, Sojo, can I give
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you my opinion? My wife is somebody who loves to
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: ask questions about the series during the episode. So what
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: I do is I watch it first to understand it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Then I'll answer her questions while watching it for a
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: 2nd time. Wow. Yeah, it's valid. So it reminds me
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: of my mom and dad because my dad can be
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: like at another part of the house, right, but he
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: still knows what's going on in the show. Well done.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: My mom, however, sits in front of the TV, watches
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the show, still has no idea what's going on. Oh yeah,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: so he will have to explain to her anyways. I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: see where your DVD commentary habits come from lah. Excuse me.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: OK, I am not that bad. I just, I'm airing
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: my thoughts. I wish to be a fly on the
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: wall between you and Jeremy when you watch the show.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I think you will die. The fly will just drop dead.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: After witnessing all this, the flight is like, guys, I'm out.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I can imagine Jeremy trying to focus on the show, right?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And then you are just giving your opinions, screaming, shouting.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He sometimes he will pause the show and he'd be like,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you know, the security guard can hear you.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He'll be, he'll literally look at me and be like,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: do you know that the security guard knows that you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: are the one that laughs very loud? I rest my case.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I'm correct. When we come back, we've got a couple
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: of callers hanging on the line and more of your messages.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Please keep them coming through. If you've made a pact
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: with the loved one to follow a series, will you
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: be tempted to watch an episode if it comes out
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: without your loved one? We're having such a good laugh
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: here this morning, um, because yesterday,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I got scolded by Joakim because I told him, hey,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: new episode of TED last, so I haven't caught up.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: But the thing is, I did promise to follow it
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: with Jeremy, my husband, right? And I said, oh, do
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you think that I should just, since I got one
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: hour free time, should I watch? Then I watched with
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: him again but pretend I didn't watch it. But a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: promise is a promise. OK, so you'd be happy to
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: know that I.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Hey, the vow different la. What vows you talking about?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: A promise is almost like a vow, like, you know,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I vow to love you and all that. I promise
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to love you through sickness and in health. I promise
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: to not watch Ted Lasso without you. I never watch
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: it together, yeah, it never happened.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So only the things that were said in church valid,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you know. OK, OK, OK, so whatever you say outside
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of church, the don't count lah. Nonsense conversation for another day. OK, um,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: more messages coming through right now before we get to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Michaela who's hanging on the line. So many gray areas. OK,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: I want to say good morning to Nizam. Morning, Sojo.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Remember Avengers Endgame,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: My 3 buddies and I were huge fans and wanted
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to watch together. So we set a date and all
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: of us could only meet on the 2nd day of
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the release. We chose the afternoon movie and met and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: watched and he ha ha ha ha. Then before we
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: went home, one of our friends confessed that he watched
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the movie alone the previous day. Morning slot, first movie timing.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Guess what? All of us confessed the same thing.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: No, no.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, wow, they must have had such a good laugh
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: about it. Wow, 2 hours and 50 minutes of pretending
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to not know, but actually you know already. You know what,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: you know what, this is really an epic story about friends.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you'll never forget this, but at
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: least they are all chill with each other and say, hey,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: betray our feelings or what, you know, they understood. They
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: all also acted quite well. They pretended. Michaela, what about you? Yes,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: but I don't think I would do it. Like it depends,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: depends on what.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: It depends depends on what. It also depends on how
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: important it is for them. So for example, if you're
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: watching Sing Inferno, which could be very important to you,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: but your partner maybe not so interested, so you don't
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: mind just watching the whole thing lah. What is, what
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: is the series that you were religiously following with like
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a loved one or a bestie? Oh wait, someone is
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: in the car with you, is it? Parents. OK, yeah,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: tell us what was the show. The physical 100 is
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: like just nice, we'll all watch it at night.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Wait, you watch Physical 100 with your parents? Yeah, because
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: they like to watch, but I wouldn't be the type
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to like watch this type of thing. Then I saw
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: them watching. I was like we're kind of interesting. Oh,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: because you saw the guys, right? Not bad.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, let's be real. That's one of the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: reasons why I watch musical Amorty is in it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hey,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: her mom is screaming, Amorty Auntie, calm down, you're married.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: We're still having a really good laugh here about whether
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: or not if you've already committed to watching a series
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: and following a series with a loved one, when new
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: episodes drop, the temptation is always there to, you know,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: if you find yourself free by yourself, you're like, oh man,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I really want to watch the episode. The most important
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: thing is don't act on it.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Let the temptation just be a temptation. It will come
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and go, move on with life. Are we still talking
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: about TV shows.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Starting to sound very serious as with all things in life, right,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: don't listen to the devil's whisper. OK, joking, thank you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: You're starting to sound like my dad.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: What?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Like my uncle, my auntie or something Meng is on
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the line right now. What about you, Meng? Never.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I am all in. I'm with, I'm with Joe on this. It's, uh, logo.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So if I'm watching something with my wife, she's, she's free.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: She will watch it, um, when.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Ever, I will never, even if I'm free at work
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: or during lunch, if the episode appears, I am not
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: going to watch it. I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: sit down and make sure I spend that 45 minutes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: that 1 hour, that 1.5 hours, and you know, take
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: it as time together. Can
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I ask how come the rules only apply to you,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: not your wife?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: You're not married.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: In that one line it said so much. I understand you, man.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I understand the pain.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but, but, but to be, to be fair, the
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: temptation is, it's a lot, especially if, uh, one party
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: is more invested compared to the other one. So, uh, I,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I totally understand, uh, where Sonia is coming
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: from.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, OK, yeah, here's the thing, right, because for Jo
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: and I in our line of work, sometimes our working.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Timings are not exactly the same as like a 9
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: to 5 office job, right? So, so we find ourselves
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: in moments where like we got a quick break, like between,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know, 2 to 4 p.m. random time of
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the day where you're like trying to eat your lunch
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and stuff I'm like, hey, I want to watch something.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So that's when the temptation comes in because I know
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: that my partner cannot watch it at this time.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: something else, something else shows on Netflix. I'm sure you
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: can find something else.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: That is true. Well, I could have scolded already all
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the bros backing Jeremy up today. I mean, there we go,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: bare minimum. Yeah, OK, OK, yes, I don't disagree. You
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: should be watching these shows with your loved ones, right,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: like joking.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Said earlier, um, apparently it's a basic thing that you
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: should do. If you promise to watch a show with someone,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: then you have to keep that promise and don't watch
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: it without them. I mean, if you're going to promise something.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, OK, so like I said, I, I, I,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I was tempted to watch Tet Loss, but I didn't. OK,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't give in to temptation. OK.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Any other last messages before we get to our final
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: caller of the day? I love how you're just defending
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: yourself on this Friday morning. Want to say hello to
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: on WhatsApp. Your name is Andy. Hello, Andy. Morning guys.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: I would watch it first. Here we go. Then I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: pretend to watch it again, but that is not the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: hard part.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: She has the attention span of an average TikTok user.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: She will get distracted very easily, get coffee, la, snacks, la,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: crooked photo frame that needed to straighten la. So whenever
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the best part is coming up, I'll always get her
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: attention by saying, ah, ah, this one is the best part,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: best part, best part. I saw this part on TikTok.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Whatever works. There we go. Oh boy, thank you for
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: sharing that. OK, Derek is on the line. Derek, have
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: you ever been tempted to just carry on watching a
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: series without your loved one?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't say that
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I'm giving into temptation. I am just wrecking the show because, yeah,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: my wife and I, because it's hard for us to,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: to sit down and watch a show together when we
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: agree to.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: To watch the show finally, she also wants spoilers. So
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: in the end, I, I, I give up and then
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: let me just watch it during my lunch, uh, understand
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: it so that when she wants to spoilers, I'm like,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, this guy is the evil person,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you know. So she will watch it, but at the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: same time she'll be like, so what happens next?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And it's kind of similar to what you shared
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: about like, uh, your mom. Like she can be watching
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the show and then she doesn't understand it. So I
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: also get like frustrated. So I have to understand it
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and explain it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly. So, so you know what, I don't know whether
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: this is like a gender-related thing like men versus women.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I don't
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: know. Yeah, she doesn't remember the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: I do. I remember what happens in which movie and
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: who's the plot
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: twist.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: OK, so I guess in this situation for him, um,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: he's watching for research first so that he can educate
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: his wife. I know. So in that case, we are
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: 4 months away to Avengers Doomsday. My brother, good luck.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Recap everything with her. I'm gonna need it. You are,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: you are. Thank you so much for sharing that with us, Derek.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: You have a great day, OK. Thanks. You too. Take care.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your stories. We really, we
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: chuckled till we teared up. Yeah, so I'm looking forward
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: to you and Jeremy watching Ted Lasso episode 33 on Sunday. Yes,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: because I have not watched it. Yes, don't worry. Really,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I really didn't. Not lying. I really didn't. I really
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: didn't want to say congratulations to Ming who called us earlier.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Congratulations, man. Thank you so much for your story and
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: just for making us laugh, you know, with your deadpan humor.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And then give me the one line singer when I
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: asked him, how come the rules apply to you, not
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: your wife? Then he says, Jo, you're not married. You
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: don't understand.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: You won't get it until you become, yeah, in this position.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So the dining experience worth $200 coming to you. So
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: bring your lovely wife out for a nice meal. Yeah,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: so I think what you can expect over at O
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: is beautiful bay views and I think what they also
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: do is beer pong where you can enjoy snacks and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: drinks at the same time. They got cocktail parties. You
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: can even have your birthday celebrations over there, maybe even
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: your wedding engagement celebrations.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: I've also seen people do like some casual business meetings there,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you know, like just chat. Oh, why not? Because around
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the area anyway. CBD. For more info, follow Over Easy
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: SG on Instagram. So, what's rather interesting these days, at least,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: you know, here in Singapore, it's primary school registrations. Wait,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: is it happening again? I mean, I think there was
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a phase that just took place a few weeks ago,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: so all the best to you. But uh, I saw
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: this in the news recently.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Where 4 more Singapore primary schools have ended the parent
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: volunteer scheme for primary 1 admission priority. Too many volunteer. Yeah,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and then you know how the media will be they'll
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: go snoop around the school to try to get opinions
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: and stuff, right? But I think the staff and the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: students have been told strictly to not speak to media,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: cannot say anything. Yeah, not even anonymous comments, you know. So,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Which school? Yeah, they did. So Fairfield Methodist School Primary
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: School in 2026, and I believe last year Hong Wen
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and Rosyth School in 2025. They did it as well.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I mean they're pretty good primary schools. Yeah, they're solid.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: So what it used to be was I think in
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: some schools parents would complete at least at least 40
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: hours of volunteer work under the scheme.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: And then maybe they'll give you priority access to phase
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: 2B of the yearly P1 admission exercise, and I know
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: of parents who start volunteering when their kids are not
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: even born yet or when their kids are like 2
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: or 3 years old. I mean, I've, I've heard stories
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: of people, you know, they, they just got a new apartment,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: they just moved in but then unexpectedly.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: The kid, then they decided to shift completely. They shift
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: completely because they're like, oh, in, I don't know, in
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: 7 years, we need to plan for the, the school.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: So they want to get closer. So apparently only around
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: 1/3 of Singapore's primary schools are currently offering the parent
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: volunteer scheme, but I wonder whether they follow a trend
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to stop doing this.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Or maybe, or maybe limited to a certain amount of
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: admissions because for example, you know, when you book a
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: restaurant through like Chop or something, right? I can't imagine
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I'm comparing it to this hear me out, hear me out,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: hear me out. So you will always see like, oh, OK,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: what's available on third party platforms, 7 rooms hoops, whatever
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: it is, right?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: But in actual fact, even though it's sold out already
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: or it's booked out on that platform, you can still
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: walk in. You know what I mean?
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Like you can say that 50% walk in, you know,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: so maybe they'll do it that way. They'll balance it out.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: The analogy the same, but OK, I hear you. I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: understand primary schools, yeah, good luck with that. I know.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Once you become a parent of a kid entering primary school,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you will feel it for sure, and we've got a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: mixed bag for news here today. Let's start with a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: slightly disappointing one. What do you make me sound like
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I split personalities, here we go. 123 news.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Food news and then happy. So Anya with the good
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: food news. Tell us. OK, so I'll start with this
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: one first, only because my friends have actually suggested this
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: place before. Um, it's a halal steakhouse called Tomahawk King.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Have you heard of them before? They're quite popular. Yeah,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: they're quite popular. Unfortunately, they're closing after 8 years in
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the business. Yeah, um, this follows a recent, I guess, um,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: rise in, in restaurants, especially local F&B closing.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: They cited rising costs once again, and if you're not
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: sure where it is, Tomahawk King's actually at a Changi
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Road restaurant. Um, it began as a humble food court
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: stall in Tampines years ago. You know what's really sad?
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Reading about stalls or places that survived COVID and they
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: couldn't survive rising costs, right? Something like that. I know,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: I know, it's quite, it's quite sad, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Um, they are at 324 Changi Road. They are still open.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: The final day of operation is set to be September 20th.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: If you're curious and maybe you're hoping that, you know, um,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: they might reopen somewhere somehow, maybe under a different name,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: just follow them up on Instagram. They'll be, they'll be
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: putting more information out there. But this news is very
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: unfortunate because it comes after the uh multiple restaurant closures
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: like Fika, Swedish Cafe, remember I told you about that, um, then.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Mistakes, so many different closures happening in Singapore. So to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: try and flip it a little bit, wanna, wanna draw
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: your attention to this ex-teacher who, well, used to teach.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Now he's behind a Chinese Muslim eatery, um, and he's
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: selling a roti, basically, it's like a snack in a way.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And just want to say hi here to a former
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: middle school teacher has opened an Amin Roti outlet. It's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a fifteen-seater over at Hajji Lane, and there's a takeaway
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: stall over in Tampines at Century Square, serving authentic Chinese-style
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: beef and chicken roti prepared by cooks from his hometown. Yeah, so, um,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: it's very popular among the Chinese Muslim community apparently. So
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I'm not familiar.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: With their food, but it looks really good, and this
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: snack in China is known as neuropping or beef pancake. Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: but it's actually um a Chinese Muslim eatery. So give
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: it a try. If you're, if you're curious, why not, right?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: This is definitely novelty for me as well because it's
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: not every day you encounter a Muslim. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So I, I never tried it, but the place looks
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: really cute and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: The way that he does it looks like he puts
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: a lot of passion into it as well. Situated over
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: at 674 North Bridge Road, and I think they also
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: have a uh Tampines Central one, which is a bit
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: more of a takeaway concept. So check it out and
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: celebrate our small wins in the local food industry. And, uh,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: this weekend, quite an exciting one for Joe and I.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: We're gonna be up very early again tomorrow. In fact,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: we've had quite a few, uh, intense days.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: And last night we stayed up till like what, like 12-ish.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say we're gonna be up earlier tomorrow morning.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: We have to be at RWS maybe say around 5:15
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: or 5:30 to be on standby for the inaugural Steps
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: for Hope walkathon. And here's the thing, right, because usually
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: for our radio show we just rock up looking like
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: total trash. I'm not gonna lie, like in the morning
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: it's bad, but
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: We have to look alive, look awake. We actually got
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: to do our hair a little bit and make sure
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that we look alert. I look my best next to
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Elmo and Paul Lee. I thought you were gonna say
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: next to President. President as well. Yeah. Hello sir.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: He's the main VIP. You realize that, right? I shall
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: keep quiet. OK. Um, if you've signed up already, we
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: hope to see you there and we just want to
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: show you how much RWS cares for those that are
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: in need. So can I ask, are you walking? I'm,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: I'm the ankle OK? I am going to try, but
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can complete the whole walkathon.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: 1.6 km. Yeah, I might need one of those, um,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: you know, those scooters with the seat, that kind. Can
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: I prop my leg on and scoot my way.