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INTERVIEW: MARCUS PANG (GAZING POWER WASH) · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: We have a very special guest joining us, maybe say
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  Speaker 1: in 10 minutes' time live on the show and on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok as well, and I feel quite sad. I, I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping he could do what he does on the
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  Speaker 1: daily for us here at 987 or maybe even Media Corp,
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  Speaker 1: but that was plenty of emails that I'm not ready
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  Speaker 1: to write. I know, and I, I just think that
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  Speaker 1: it would be cool if he had like a massive
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  Speaker 1: platform out there to do something. You would have seen
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  Speaker 1: some of his videos going viral on social media.
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  Speaker 1: Made the news because when he power washed a certain
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  Speaker 1: MRT station's pavement, people complained, and then it was removed. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it got wiped. But then all the members of parliament
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  Speaker 1: have reached out to him saying, hey, how about you
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  Speaker 1: come to my area and do this and all that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So we got the man himself, Marcus Pang, joining us
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  Speaker 1: in the studio. I'm very excited and I'm, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: he has lots of stories to tell us. So he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be here. We're also going to be live on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok in less than 20 minutes. Singapore's.
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  Speaker 1: Number one hit music station, The Chainsmokers just performed at
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrowland actually. And they, and they are performing the weekend
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  Speaker 1: and you'll be there as well. Oh, that, yeah, some,
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  Speaker 1: so some DJs are doing twice, like, uh, two different sets, right?
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming, yeah. I cannot believe we're gonna catch Sebastian Grosso.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm excited. Steve Angelo and all that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: bringing you back here to Singapore right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we always want to feature interesting profiles, people who are
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  Speaker 1: really pursuing their passions and just breaking off from the
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  Speaker 1: ordinary and doing what they want to do.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting because yesterday we had Life is an art, Clarissa,
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  Speaker 1: who's a live painter with watercolors and all that. Today
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  Speaker 1: it's a different form of art in a very unique way,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not too sure if you've seen this on
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  Speaker 1: social media, even the news as well. It went viral.
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  Speaker 1: Videos of someone power washing the pavements of the MRT
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  Speaker 1: stations here in Singapore. It was removed. The police were
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  Speaker 1: called down. Can I admit that I didn't quite understand
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  Speaker 1: the concept of power washing before that.
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, wait, how does that happen? You're
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  Speaker 1: not alone. Me too. Thankfully, he's here in the studio
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  Speaker 1: now to tell us more. We have him say hello to.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Marcus.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Joakim. Hi Sonia. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: No, of
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  Speaker 1: course. So how do people address you now? Like power
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  Speaker 1: washer Marcus or the washing the washing guy. OK, so
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  Speaker 1: that's how people, well, take us through the whole process. Like,
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  Speaker 1: power washing is something that's pretty foreign to us. Like
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  Speaker 1: we would not have known about this, to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Did you wake up one day and you just went like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I have a talent? Or how did that happen? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, originally I didn't start with the power washing, uh,
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  Speaker 2: other aspect of it. I originally started it as a
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  Speaker 2: side hustle, but I started this uh side hustle during
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  Speaker 2: National Service, and as you know, you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 2: do any side hustles or business during national service. So,
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  Speaker 2: I got caught and I had to give it up
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  Speaker 2: for five months. So, during that 5 months, I was
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  Speaker 2: experimenting with my equipment and I realized, hey, you can
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  Speaker 2: actually siphon rainwater to wash off all the dirt off
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  Speaker 2: your driveway. By then I realized there's not enough water,
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  Speaker 2: but it's just enough.
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  Speaker 2: Enough to make a sloppy Merry Christmas greeting and that
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  Speaker 2: was my first ever power washing ad. So I figured, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's actually quite fun. Let's do more and more and
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  Speaker 2: leave it there, not wash it off after the seasons,
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  Speaker 2: and here we are today, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean that that honestly sounds like such an organic
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  Speaker 1: way of discovering this, but do you know if power
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  Speaker 1: washing is a thing overseas? Like is it a big thing?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, absolutely. It's very common in the US for teens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so since that video of you doing the,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot.
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  Speaker 1: It was over the MRT pavement and then the police
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  Speaker 1: were called down. They said, actually there's nothing wrong here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep up the good work and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just paraphrasing, by the way, but, but people still
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  Speaker 1: complain here and there. But you now have members of
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  Speaker 1: parliament saying, Hey, come to my area, come to my area.
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  Speaker 1: Have you been busy? Are you overworked? Are you busy?
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  Speaker 1: Are you busy, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Because you're only what, you're only 24, right? Or
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  Speaker 2: 25 this year and I'm a solo print, so I
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  Speaker 2: run everything. I'm the artist, I'm the social media manager,
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  Speaker 2: video editor, invoice, finance. Yeah, I must say, um, the
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  Speaker 2: month of the whole saga, it has been quite overwhelming,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm managing quite well because I still have to
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  Speaker 2: balance my triathlon training.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, communicating with different parties and then also settling the
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  Speaker 2: commissions here and there. So it has been challenging, no doubt,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, yeah, very fruitful.
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  Speaker 1: How
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  Speaker 1: do you then conceptualize your artwork now for different areas
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  Speaker 1: or even, you know, something that inspires you? What comes
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  Speaker 1: to mind and how do you decide to do it?
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  Speaker 1: Do you draw on a piece of paper?
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  Speaker 2: So many people will be surprised, but I actually don't
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  Speaker 2: have an art background. I used to hate art growing
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  Speaker 2: up
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  Speaker 1: I was more of a I should buy a power washer.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 2: I was more of a science and sports person growing up.
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  Speaker 2: I still play sports. I run marathons like Joakim and
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  Speaker 2: ah I do triathlons. Yeah, but it's very interesting how
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  Speaker 2: life takes you and uh yeah, I'm just along for
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  Speaker 2: the ride and this is part of the journey, yeah. So,
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  Speaker 1: what did your family have to say about that? I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure they must have been, huh?
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  Speaker 1: That's interesting. Like, what was their reaction when you told them?
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  Speaker 1: Or when, when all the news popped off
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  Speaker 2: when, when I first started, obviously their initial reaction was
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  Speaker 2: crazy because they originally thought what I was doing was
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  Speaker 2: vandalism or could get me in trouble, but as I
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  Speaker 2: started getting more media features and I started getting more
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  Speaker 2: serious clients, that's where they showed a little bit more support.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is very uh very Asian actually. I think our parents
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  Speaker 1: react the same way, to be honest it's a very
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  Speaker 1: unique talent.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's not like graffiti spray paint. It isn't.
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  Speaker 1: You're literally using a power washer to which he actually
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  Speaker 1: brought it into the studio today. I know, I see it. OK,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna take a very short break right now and
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  Speaker 1: in just a bit, you're gonna really show us and
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  Speaker 1: explain to us how it works on air and also
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok Live. To our TikTok Live audience, we understand
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  Speaker 1: there's a bit of um echo in the audio. We're
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  Speaker 1: fixing that right now. Sonia and Joakim here with you
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  Speaker 1: and we are still with power washer Marcus. Yes, that
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  Speaker 1: power washing guy that you've seen on Tik.
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  Speaker 1: and on Instagram reels as well. We've got some comments
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  Speaker 1: coming through on TikTok now actually. People saying, I tried
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  Speaker 1: power washing before and they call it jet spray sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: It's very hard to manage and handle. Kudos to Marcus. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so Marcus, I'm gonna play now as a client, OK?
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  Speaker 1: I commissioned you to do an artwork for me using
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  Speaker 1: the power washing technique that you do. Walk us through
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  Speaker 1: your entire planning process before you actually do the power
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  Speaker 1: washing itself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Um, so I would normally go on a call with
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  Speaker 2: you and I get to find out more about your brand,
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  Speaker 2: what you do, and what you envision this campaign to be,
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  Speaker 2: and then thereafter we'll organize a site recky where I
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  Speaker 2: will have a second meeting with you, you know, talk
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  Speaker 2: things through again, uh, maybe re-emphasize a few things, answer
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  Speaker 2: any queries, and also look at the site itself, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's suitable. Thereafter we will.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, you can relax. I will be on my iPad,
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  Speaker 2: you know, designing and conceptualizing, and then I'll propose to you.
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  Speaker 2: Then we'll go back and forth. And once we have
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  Speaker 2: finalized the design, we schedule a date and it's power
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  Speaker 2: washing time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds so straightforward.
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  Speaker 1: OK, it's a bit of a new question. You say
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  Speaker 1: you design on the iPad, right? But then in real life,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be a different size, different measurements and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever, have you ever messed up the measurements
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  Speaker 1: by accident in real life and you went, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: and to do it all over again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. Um, I have not necessarily messed up the
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  Speaker 2: measurements because that's the sketching process and it's easy to
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  Speaker 2: rectify with chalk. But during the power washing process, I
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  Speaker 2: have made mistakes for clients and I have to tell
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  Speaker 2: them I'm sorry I made this mistake, but this is
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  Speaker 2: the best that I could rectify it.
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  Speaker 1: So you would never start from
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  Speaker 1: scratch. You would just try and make some edits.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's correct.
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  Speaker 1: OK. I mean, OK, if you could be flown anywhere
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  Speaker 1: in the world to do a piece of art or
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  Speaker 1: you're commissioned to go somewhere, do it, someone from overseas
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  Speaker 1: calls you, is there an ideal place that you could
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  Speaker 1: envision yourself doing this artwork at?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the silence is real.
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  Speaker 2: Um, not in particular, but, uh, I think one of
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  Speaker 2: my goals is to grow my social media account to match, uh,
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  Speaker 2: one of the other artists who is also using this
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  Speaker 2: medium as well. So he's from Texas and he runs
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  Speaker 2: this social media account called Power Washing Art Official. So
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  Speaker 2: he has about I think 60K followers. So my goal
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  Speaker 2: is to potentially match him, overtake him.
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  Speaker 2: And then I'll fly to Texas and we can potentially.
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  Speaker 2: That would be great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're definitely getting the views, just people
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  Speaker 1: are going to click follow and all that. What is
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  Speaker 1: your dream collab here in Singapore? Any, any brand or
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  Speaker 1: an organization or a building you want to work with?
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  Speaker 1: Is there one? Or have you already done it with
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  Speaker 1: you cannot say notable
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  Speaker 1: clients.
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  Speaker 2: I will say I did sign a few NDAs and
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  Speaker 2: brand deals, um, but I would love to have free
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  Speaker 2: access to end parks because I think N Parks has
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  Speaker 2: a lot of, uh, long stretches of wide concrete walkways
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  Speaker 2: that are underutilized. Yeah, absolutely, and I think people would
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  Speaker 2: enjoy some art on their walks, on their runs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so I have had, um,
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  Speaker 2: Done artworks over there before, unsanctioned and got stopped as well,
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  Speaker 2: but they were very kind about it and they did
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  Speaker 2: tell me that, hey, in the future you need to
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  Speaker 2: write in a proposal and yeah, so never mind, we'll
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  Speaker 2: play by their rules, but let's see whether
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  Speaker 2: They can accommodate the, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it brings some joy and cheer to people's
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  Speaker 1: lives in a way, right? Makes you smile. OK, before
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  Speaker 1: we let you go, you actually brought your equipment here.
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  Speaker 1: Can you just show us real quick like on TikTok
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  Speaker 1: Live and describe it to us for our on-air audience
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  Speaker 1: as well, because he brought this through security today.
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  Speaker 1: It's clear, green lit. Yeah. OK, please tell us, explain
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  Speaker 1: how it works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is the power washing, um, I hope
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  Speaker 2: this is not a censored word, but this is the gun.
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  Speaker 2: I like to call it the magic wand.
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  Speaker 1: the magic happens.
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  Speaker 1: OK.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the wand. So, uh, this is the nozzle that
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  Speaker 2: I use to spray the water and, uh, yeah, this
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  Speaker 2: is where the most skilled up
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  Speaker 1: to TikTok audience. This
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  Speaker 2: is where.
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  Speaker 2: The magic happens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So I can see that it's pretty narrow
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  Speaker 1: towards the end. Are there different measurements for the nozzle
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  Speaker 1: for you to switch out or something? Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, so the one you're looking at is this one.
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  Speaker 2: This is a 0 degrees tip. So think of it
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  Speaker 2: as a ballpoint pen. I do have another one which
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  Speaker 2: is a 15 degrees, that's like a highlighter pen.
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  Speaker 2: more dirt. Yeah, so I mainly use this to.
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  Speaker 1: Where can you buy these things here in Singapore you
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  Speaker 1: buy online?
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  Speaker 2: I bought mine at Alibaba. OK.
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  Speaker 1: Do people use this to wash cars? I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know, to be honest. I less powerful. OK, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Someone here is asking, do you do wedding live power washing?
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  Speaker 1: Have you done it for anyone's wedding yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I have not, but I will say this.
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  Speaker 2: I've had a client who wants to do some sort
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  Speaker 2: of like a magic, I'm sorry, uh, wedding proposal with Paula,
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  Speaker 1: like, will you
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  Speaker 1: marry me? Oh, you're so cute. OK. Did you accept
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  Speaker 1: the proposal? We're
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  Speaker 2: in the midst of discussing.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait for that video. OK, so before we
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  Speaker 1: wrap it up for our live on-air audience, please tell
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  Speaker 1: them where they can find you and your works.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I, my goal is to spawn a heart
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  Speaker 2: in every GRC and SMC in Singapore. So hopefully you'll
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  Speaker 2: bump into me in the future. You can find all
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  Speaker 2: my works on Instagram at gazing.pw.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: OK, got you. Yeah, we're still live on TikTok right now.
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  Speaker 1: We wish you all the best and uh here's hoping
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  Speaker 1: that we can follow your journey and see all your
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  Speaker 1: other cool stuff that you're gonna do. So we're manifesting
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  Speaker 1: like a really good business for you in 2026. Let's
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  Speaker 1: do it.