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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 040926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Up next to you.
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  Speaker 2: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 2: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Happy Teacher's Day to you.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way, but. OK,
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  Speaker 2: why not? I have no other song for our teachers,
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: but hey, we appreciate you so much for shaping us,
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  Speaker 2: for educating us. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: relief teacher Miss Chu. Happy
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  Speaker 2: relief Teacher Day to me. And we're expecting a bit
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: of a slow start to the day because it is
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  Speaker 2: a school holiday for most of you. Mhm.
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  Speaker 1: So early dismissal yesterday, technically the September holidays, it begins today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, so they actually get one extra day. Is it
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  Speaker 2: always like this every year?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps they try to Teachers' Day to the Friday before
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  Speaker 1: the September holidays
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  Speaker 2: gain one day.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but really the September holidays is just the, the
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  Speaker 1: period of time you use to prepare for all the
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  Speaker 1: exams that are coming up in your
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  Speaker 1: life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it depends because I think I know of some
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  Speaker 2: families who might want to do like a short weekend trip.
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  Speaker 2: Like the first, the first weekend, for example, they just
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  Speaker 2: go for like 23 days or that weekend and then
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  Speaker 2: come back, then you got to lock in.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder whether I jams
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  Speaker 2: places like, you know, Thailand or like uh like Phuket
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  Speaker 2: and things like that. It's easy to get to as well.
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  Speaker 2: What's tropical therapy to you? Maybe um a beer by
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  Speaker 2: the beach.
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  Speaker 2: In Phuket or something.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, here in Singapore, yeah, just staying indoors for a while.
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  Speaker 2: It's tropical therapy
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  Speaker 1: to you. It's been hot and humid the last few days.
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  Speaker 1: I know
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  Speaker 2: I know, and not in a, not in a, I
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  Speaker 2: want to go lay by the beach kind of hot.
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  Speaker 2: I think that it's been very hazy. Like it's been
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  Speaker 2: contributing to, I've been sneezing so much, my throat is
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  Speaker 2: dry and hoarse.
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  Speaker 1: Went for a run around the Marina Bay area and
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  Speaker 1: you can actually smell it even.
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  Speaker 1: Bishan Park.
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  Speaker 2: Actually everywhere. I was, yeah, around, around town, outdoors like
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  Speaker 2: you could
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  Speaker 2: smell
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  Speaker 1: it. But I do have friends over in KL saying that,
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  Speaker 1: hey guys, be grateful because over in Malaysia, they're getting
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  Speaker 1: it very bad, very bad. But speaking of Marina Bay
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  Speaker 1: and all that, if you are going running or cycling,
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  Speaker 1: if you are used to turning right after Marina Bay
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  Speaker 1: sends into our F1 pit lane building, please note that
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  Speaker 1: it's closed. It's being closed for.
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  Speaker 1: Instructions. I think they're building the stands and they're also
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  Speaker 1: building the new garages for Cadillac and maybe even Audi
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  Speaker 1: and all the new teams and to increase the spacing
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  Speaker 1: as well. So, if you want to see it firsthand
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  Speaker 1: for yourself on the Thursday before Grand Prix weekend here
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore, you can now ballot for it. They're looking
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  Speaker 1: for 4500 places to be filled up by us here
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore or maybe F1 fans from overseas.
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  Speaker 1: You can go and register over at Singaporegp.sg. You have
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  Speaker 1: from now till September 18th to do so. There you
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  Speaker 2: go. I mean, we are, we are pretty close already
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  Speaker 2: and I actually ran into some Malaysian friends recently and,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're in the creator scene as well, and
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  Speaker 2: they said that they're all collectively very excited for the
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  Speaker 2: Grand Prix that's going to be held in Sepang. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's not called Sepang Grand Prix or Malaysia.
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  Speaker 2: Grand Prix. It's a mouthful. I know it's a bit,
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  Speaker 2: it's a, it could be a bit confusing.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Bahrain Grand Prix but staged at Sepan.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: There you go. So they, they were saying that things
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  Speaker 2: had to come together in quite a short period of time.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, excited to see that who actually would maybe
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  Speaker 2: do both, like they might go from Malaysia and then
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  Speaker 2: come straight to Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people from Southeast Asia that. Exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: enjoy your Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Malaysian weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, SEA weekend. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to give a big shout out to
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  Speaker 2: Team Wang Design actually. They've been rolling out some new
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  Speaker 2: pieces in his, um, collection. So he has a clothing
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  Speaker 2: streetwear brand called Team Wang Design.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask, was it last year that Jackson Wang
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  Speaker 1: had his Halloween Horrors house? Was it last year or
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  Speaker 1: the
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  Speaker 2: year
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  Speaker 1: before?
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  Speaker 2: 2 years ago. OK. It was 2 years ago, I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Because last year you did, wait, were we at Halloween
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  Speaker 2: Horror Nights last year? No, I feel like we didn't
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  Speaker 2: go collectively last year. It was the year before.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I was at a Halloween Horror Nights,
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  Speaker 1: I remember the weekend at a horror house which was
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  Speaker 1: maybe in 2023.
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  Speaker 2: I was with you, right?
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  Speaker 1: No, you weren't free that night.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: So I went in with Natasha.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, OK, OK, OK. Did she protect you? No, like
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  Speaker 2: the mom that she is? We were both
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  Speaker 1: equally scared. It's OK. Never mind.
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  Speaker 2: I don't
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  Speaker 2: think, I don't think it was equal. You were definitely
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  Speaker 2: more scared, but
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  Speaker 1: we go
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  Speaker 1: from scared to something very wholesome yesterday. It was the
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  Speaker 1: launch of the Cheers Breakfast Club bundle officially.
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  Speaker 1: And all the P6 kids that showed up, not even
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  Speaker 1: just P6, but you know, people from JC, Poly, ITE,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't collect it per se, but they were just
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  Speaker 1: wondering what was going on. So I, I'm sure. Hey,
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: step on up, you know, just answer a question, you
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  Speaker 1: can win a small prize. So I spun the wheel
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  Speaker 1: and I asked them about their PSLE experience, and they
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  Speaker 1: were sharing with the P6 kids on what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: To pace yourselves almost playing the role of big brother
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  Speaker 1: and
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  Speaker 1: big sister.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, look, I would have loved to
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  Speaker 2: have a sibling who went through it before, who went
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  Speaker 2: through it before, OK, like before me to advise
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  Speaker 1: you got me. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: taking advice from you, dude, especially not when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to studying.
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  Speaker 1: Not too bad. OK.
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  Speaker 2: OK. The silence is deafening. Thanks.
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  Speaker 1: The next few minutes here on 987 might sound like
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  Speaker 1: a sponsored Grab ad, but I promise you it is not. OK.
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  Speaker 1: I was just reading some articles and I got curious
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  Speaker 1: and I checked my Grab app out. If you are
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  Speaker 1: on a Grab and you want to earn some Grab
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: coins and all that, there are plenty of ways to
• 5:37
  Speaker 1: do so. Did you know that Grab actually now they
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  Speaker 1: have partner apps on the app itself?
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  Speaker 1: Where for example if you want to book a Hello
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  Speaker 1: ride to cycle from point A to point B, you
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  Speaker 1: can do so on the Grab app itself without having
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: to download additional apps and you can earn Grab points
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: while you're at it. And even booking maybe say buses
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  Speaker 1: or ferries to KL,
• 5:58
  Speaker 2: you can
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  Speaker 2: also earn your lacquer
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  Speaker 1: Batam and all that. You can use their partner apps
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  Speaker 1: and maybe even earn some grab coins as well. OK,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't, I didn't know that actually. Thanks for letting
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  Speaker 2: me know.
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  Speaker 2: I, yeah, I remember I told you how like I
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  Speaker 2: honestly speaking, previously I felt that it takes quite a
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  Speaker 2: while to accumulate, you know, your coins and stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe this is gonna be like a miles chasing program now.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit,
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  Speaker 1: yes,
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  Speaker 2: yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And also if you wanna maybe say
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: book your hotels or eSIMs, they have the partner apps available.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: It might not be your preferred choice, so just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: do your research, but if it's something that benefits you
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  Speaker 1: and your membership.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: And you, and you know all these like membership hacks,
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  Speaker 1: go for it, use it to your advantage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, um, one thing's for sure, they have really
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: expanded their network and over the years, you know, we,
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  Speaker 2: we always just associated Grab with like, oh, call or grab,
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: call or grab, right? But now it's just all around us.
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  Speaker 2: Everything we do
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  Speaker 1: to the point where I think over at Bishan MRT,
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  Speaker 1: they have the advertisements for the Grab credit card.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: Thinking of getting one because my my credit card bill
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  Speaker 1: has been grab grab GrabFood, GrabFood, grab delivery, so many
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  Speaker 2: things. No, no, you're right, you know, like I got
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  Speaker 2: the VIP status now on GrabFood.
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  Speaker 2: Don't tell my mom, because she knows she knows I'm
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: not cooking at home.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I've been using Grab so much for the last
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  Speaker 1: 11 years. Back when Uber and Grab were still a
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  Speaker 1: thing in Singapore that to the point when Grab started
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: their membership services a long time ago, I was already platinum.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they've not gotten rid of it,
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: but they changed a few things, so they no longer
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  Speaker 1: have platinum or gold or whatsoever. But yeah, now it's
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: all your grab coins. Use it before they expire, by
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: the
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: way, they do have an expiry date.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: Jenny first with a new track called Heaven. Speaking of which,
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: I think Lisa has a new track this week as well.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: OK, I must say it's an interesting song.
• 7:54
  Speaker 2: It is, it is, but I think she knows what
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  Speaker 2: she's doing on social media. I want to hear it
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: first before I give my judgment. It hasn't fully dropped yet, right?
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  Speaker 2: The whole song, is it? No. OK, we'll see whether
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  Speaker 2: she drops it later today.
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  Speaker 2: People pay to watch Lisa and listen to Lisa. People
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: pay you to shut up.
• 8:15
  Speaker 2: This Joakim likes to like do stupid things to like
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  Speaker 2: distract me when I turn the mic on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not even 3, like 0.3 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: I
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  Speaker 1: always give her a funny face or expression just to
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  Speaker 1: break her and sometimes I win
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: and sometimes I lose.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Anyway, coming up in just a few minutes, how
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  Speaker 2: far would you go and how much would you pay
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  Speaker 2: to get the food that you're craving delivered to your doorstep?
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  Speaker 2: How far would you go, like, honestly? OK, so sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you, you log on and you see that
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  Speaker 2: you got a search pricing for the delivery, right? OK,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, sometimes that hinders me from ordering,
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  Speaker 2: especially
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  Speaker 2: At times, right, it can be like $9 or something
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  Speaker 2: for the delivery fee when it's very busy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm lazy, but up to a certain extent. If I
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  Speaker 1: see there's a surge,
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  Speaker 2: if it's too unreasonable, I'm like, OK,
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  Speaker 1: it might not defeat me. I might still go with
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  Speaker 1: the food order, but when I see food delivery from
• 9:10
  Speaker 1: this place is unavailable at this time, I'll go, yeah, OK,
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  Speaker 1: so I'll change and I'll walk to the hawker center,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll buy something else.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so the next time you see at the hawker center,
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  Speaker 2: you know why.
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  Speaker 2: He's given up. He's got no choice. He's like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna pay $10 for this delivery fee. Well, in
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  Speaker 2: just a few minutes, this I feel would classify under
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  Speaker 2: the delivery fee in a way. Would you pay almost
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  Speaker 2: $500 Singapore dollars for something to be delivered to you?
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  Speaker 1: What are you delivering? What the soy 19 wonton noodles
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  Speaker 1: from Thailand. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: You are not far from that theory, OK. All the
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: details in just a little bit. Stay tuned. OK, so
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  Speaker 2: earlier on I asked you, what is the limit to
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: which you pay for a food delivery service?
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  Speaker 2: For example, you know, the delivery fee can sometimes range from,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, $1 something to like $9 or $10.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you're ordering your dinner, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah. So you would expect that. But what
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  Speaker 2: if I said, I want you to um order something,
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  Speaker 2: but your delivery fee might be close to 500
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  Speaker 2: dollars
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  Speaker 1: Sing dollars. What am I
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  Speaker 2: ordering it? So just quite recently.
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  Speaker 2: This food delivery rider was seen here in Singapore in
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  Speaker 2: an outfit that doesn't belong to any of our food
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  Speaker 2: delivery services in Singapore, OK. So right now you've got what,
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  Speaker 2: like you've got Grab and FoodPanda. These are the main
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  Speaker 2: two ones, right? Are there any other smaller
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  Speaker 2: ones?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's mainly these two big ones in Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy was wearing like a yellow looking jacket
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  Speaker 2: to which it caught the attention of some people at
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  Speaker 2: the near the stall, OK, and uh one of the,
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  Speaker 2: the netizens actually zoomed into the jacket to see like, what,
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  Speaker 2: what uniform is this? And it said on the jacket
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  Speaker 2: there was a logo that said Meituan, OK.
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  Speaker 2: So Meituan is basically the Grab or Food Panda equivalent
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  Speaker 2: in China. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: soft launching in Singapore? That's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: So initially this netizen was like, eh, since when they're
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  Speaker 2: expanding here? Is it something that I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like are they just testing it out or or what, right?
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  Speaker 2: Turns out that's not the case, although I won't rule
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  Speaker 2: it out completely, but that's not the case for now.
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  Speaker 2: This food delivery rider who works for Meituan in China
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  Speaker 2: flew to Singapore on a flight that cost 455 Singapore
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  Speaker 2: dollars to collect a box of curry puffs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not kidding. Like this actually happened for real. Um,
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  Speaker 2: this rider went to Hong Lim Curry Puff. This is,
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming Chinatown area, at about 4:30 p.m. just a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago, actually, the 31st of August. So, oh wait,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, I'm, I stand corrected. It's the 4th floor
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  Speaker 2: food court of PLQ Mall. It's just that maybe this
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  Speaker 2: curry path place originated from, um, another, another area in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: I'm confused. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know whether to be happy or just question
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  Speaker 1: life sometimes. Like if I was the food customer and
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  Speaker 1: I know that my food delivery guy must fly overseas,
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  Speaker 1: would I still want to proceed with the order? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, man. What they don't have curry puffs in China.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's the thing. That's why I said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, for the people at Hong Lim Curry Puff,
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  Speaker 2: since you know that apparently the people over in China
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  Speaker 2: love curry puff.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that some famous curry puff brands have
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  Speaker 2: opened there before, but maybe because the curry, the way
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  Speaker 2: that we do it here in Singapore is very much
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  Speaker 2: like Singaporean, very local, and that's what, that's what they like, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: But
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  Speaker 1: for
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  Speaker 1: the guy to fly and then fly back there, wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: the curry puffs and crunchy and crispy?
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  Speaker 2: Um, I think you can just toast it and heat
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  Speaker 2: it up, which is still OK. You can still do that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming um because Hainan, that like, you know, going
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  Speaker 2: to Hainan, for example, may just take what, less than
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  Speaker 2: 6 hours, right? If I'm not wrong, it's like 4
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  Speaker 2: or 5 hours, the flight to like the Hainan area,
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  Speaker 2: is it
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  Speaker 1: about 4
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  Speaker 2: or
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  Speaker 1: 5 hours? Singapore 3 and 40
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  Speaker 1: minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not that far. It's not that long.
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  Speaker 2: But how interesting, right? I'm like, and now I'm curious,
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  Speaker 2: who's the one that ordered it?
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  Speaker 2: Because if you can pay for the Grab, I mean
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  Speaker 2: the delivery rider's flight, it's definitely paid by the customer, right?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it's paid for by the company or anything.
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  Speaker 2: It must be some millionaire or billionaire.
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  Speaker 1: I'm
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  Speaker 1: still leaning towards it being a soft launch here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: You think so?
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit too drastic to be just one delivery order.
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  Speaker 2: You think so? Yeah, that's so, that's so interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think now of all times, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean?
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. Beats me.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm curious to know who's the one that ordered it,
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  Speaker 2: if it's a real order. So
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  Speaker 1: if we see yellow jackets, you know.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: Over the past week or past few days at least,
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of conversations have been um revolving
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  Speaker 2: around the, the toilets outside, like public toilets and also
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  Speaker 2: the urinals in certain toilets in Singapore. A
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  Speaker 1: huge
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  Speaker 1: shout out to Mr. Toilet himself, Mr. Jack
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  Speaker 2: nickname, yeah, Mr. Toilet.
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  Speaker 2: Um, that have, that's caused a whole conversation online. I
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  Speaker 2: think one of his videos went like absolutely viral, if
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: I'm not wrong, yeah, and I just wanted to ask
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  Speaker 2: you as well, like when you go out there, uh,
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  Speaker 2: for example, to any, any toilet or any public toilets
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  Speaker 2: and all that, do you secretly sometimes think, wow, this
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: toilet is not great? Or like you go, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: like this toilet, so I will make it a point
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  Speaker 2: to like always go back to this one.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: For some
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: restrooms I have to hold my breath.
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, not to name any stations, but some MRT stations,
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  Speaker 1: the toilets are really what,
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  Speaker 2: like the layout or what? What is it that is
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: a cleanliness layout? It's not,
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: it's not the cleaners not doing their jobs, you know.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: They do because they have a cleaning schedule, right, but
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: it's people that just misuse it with very poor aim.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: It's all over the floor. They don't fly.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Oh
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: yeah.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: They just keep stacking the toilet bowl. It can be
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: quite um disgusting.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: I, I know what you mean. Um, when, for example,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: we go to places like Japan, right, you can tell
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: that they have a very, um, they have respect for
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: their public toilets. So they do clean up after themselves
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: so that the next person doesn't have to deal with it, right?
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: You
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: know which toilets are the worst in my opinion here
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: in Singapore?
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: It's those warehouses, all those like office industry buildings that's
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: very old, right? And you go in there, it's as
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: if the toilets were built in the 70s and no
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: one has touched it
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: ever since.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I want to take the, like the colors and the tiles,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: it's all old school in the toilet. Yeah, but I
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: didn't lah. Actually, I beg to differ because the ones
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: that I went to somehow, the toilets are old, but
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: they are very clean. The ones that I've experienced,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: yeah,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: in those warehouses.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Anyway, we'll get to this in just a bit, um,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: and in exchange, we've got a lovely treat coming your way.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: About to open up phone lines right now.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: 669-11987 or you can WhatsApp us at 900005-0987. Am I
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: getting it right? Brain freeze. Yeah, brain fart for a
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: bit and all this inspired by Mr. Toilet himself. That's
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: his nickname, affectionate nickname, Mr. Jack Sim, and apparently he's
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Sanitation activist and founder of the World Toilet Organization,
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: the WTO,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: and what inspired this interesting topic this morning is Farrer
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Park MRT. Take a bow. Mr. Jack Sim has signaled
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: you out for interesting urinal designs. Yeah,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I would not layout, I would say yeah.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: So have you seen the picture?
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, I did. Like the close proximity, right? OK, can
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: you describe it?
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Like from a fellow man, I think it sounds, you know,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: more accurate when you describe it. I mean,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: if
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: you're a bro, when you go into a toilet, chances
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: are the urinals are only on one side of the wall, right,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: and there's always 3. So the rule of thumb is
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: if you see the right one occupied, don't go to
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the middle one. Go
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: to the left one, yeah,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: exactly one gap.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: But if it's really crowded, then, OK. But for Farrer
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Park MRT's layout is they got 3 on each side
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: For example, if I'm a plus-size guy, right, chances are
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: my bum is going to rub against your bum as
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I relieve myself.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: That's so weird.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and for example, if I'm occupying the first two
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: or the front urinals, right, how are people going to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: go
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: to the back, yes, yes. OK, so I think what
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: is trying to explain is that instead of it just
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: being on one side of the wall, it's like a narrow,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: it almost
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Looks like a narrow walkway.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: And for example,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: if I'm at the back, and I finish, I have
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: to wait for you all to finish
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: before you walk out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just basically
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. Designs that don't make sense. How did
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: they OK this?
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: that's my question. Like who approved it and be like, yes,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: this is a great idea.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: So I guess it took Mr. Jackson going viral on
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Facebook and on social media for people to realize, hey, actually, yeah,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: how come we OK this
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: design.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: But that is that a very busy uh train station?
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I mean,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Farrer Park can be quite busy because you are directly
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: linked to a mall.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, true, true. So chances are people might skip the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: MRT toilet and they'll go to the ones inside the mall,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: which hopefully it's better designed. So I've been to Farrer Park,
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: I think it's City Square Mall, if I'm not wrong,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: is it City Square Mall where it's not too bad.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, there are some very, very interesting toilets, right, OK,
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: there's one at a high-end mall here in Singapore, OK.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I won't, I won't name names. I'll tell you.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you off-air
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: you're describing.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: OK,
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: um, I'll give you a few hints. It's, it's in Orchard.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: It's quite a high-end mall and, uh, you know, I
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: only go there because there's like one or two cafes
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: there that sometimes, you know, we like to go to. Um,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: but this one particular toilet, I always remember this, it
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: opens inwards, OK. So the cubicles, because in the women's toilet,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: obviously we don't have urinals, we just have cubicles, right?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: So, it, the doors will open inwards towards you, just
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: that the cubicles are really, really small. So, as you
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: open the door, right, it's almost like grazing the, the
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: toilet already, if you get what I mean. So, when you,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: so when I open it, I step in, I have
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: to step to the side to try and like close it,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean, right?
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So then, um, when I'm trying to exit the cubicle,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: because of how tight it is, I need to squeeze
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: into like against the wall, uh, against the cubicle wall,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: open it so that the door kind of scrapes me,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: and then I go out. So and I'm already like
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: quite a petite person.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So she occupies. Can you imagine if people who are
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: taller or normal
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: size
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: a bit bigger. Yeah, exactly.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: I can only imagine that it can be quite frustrating
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: or they might just opt to go to the handicapped toilet,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: guess for your Friday, the 4th of September, let's discuss
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the toilets here in Singapore. Yeah, like,
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: have you been to a public toilet especially where you
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: just scratch your head and you wonder what went on
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: with the design team or the layout or anything at
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: all that you don't like about it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, because to be honest with you, right, there are
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: some times where I was very urgent. The moment I
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: walked in, the mood left,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: I
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: walked out.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Oh
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: no,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: it was quite bad. It went back up. But I
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: have to say that over the years it's gotten better
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: in terms of cleanliness, um, you know, we've always chatted
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: with our friends at the Public Hygiene Council, for example, right?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: And um, we learned a lot about.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: About that too, I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: want to say this though, OK, um, to our friends
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: over at Ion Orchard, can I say this? Your toilet
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: is
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: really very good, I know, very good.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: It it might give Changi Airport a run for its money,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: even though sometimes Ion Orchard, the layout is quite confusing,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: quite hard to find a toilet.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: One thing is because they built their toilets quite a
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: while back, right, and I think they upgraded here and there,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: but
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I realized that, correct me if I'm wrong, please, but
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: I think they don't have bidets still in the female
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: toilets at least, or maybe it's not in every cubicle.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: I'm sure it's a big operation if they wanted to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Let's start with
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: one thing at a time,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the doors opening correctly, then we talk about bidets,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: OK? OK, fine. Give us a call 669-11987 or drop
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: us a message 900509-87 and let us know.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Where have you experienced a bit of a strange public toilet?
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Whether it's in terms of design, layouts, cleanliness, or just
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: all-round weird, we would love to hear from you. Let
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: us know. Phone lines are opened in exchange a close
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to $200.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: experience could be yours. Um, we're on the topic of
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: public toilets that have weird layouts, all thanks to some
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: viral videos that we saw, uh, quite recently. Where did
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: you say was Farrer Park MRT, right? Park MRT Yeah,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: where Mr. Toilet himself, which is his nickname on socials, yeah.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Um, called out Farrer Park public toilet, the male toilet,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: for having such a strange layout that it makes it
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: impossible for multiple people to, well, pee at the same time.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I stand corrected, by the way, I said John Sim.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: His name is Jack
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Sim. Jack.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: There we go. Wanna go to WhatsApp for a bit, 90050987.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Bit of a graphic text message this one, Sonia. One
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: coming in from John. I encountered some of the worst
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: toilet experience at Chinatown MRT and at Chinatown Point, commonly
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: finding human residue, big and small over the toilet seat
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and floor. Also clogged the toilet bowl with big chunks
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: of toilet paper, who wipe their big bum with some,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: with so much toilet paper that's enough to wipe the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: entire cubicle and talk.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: The thing about cubicles, it's really tiny, dirty, and smelly.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: You have to hold your breath. OK,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: here's the issue with a lot of the, I mean,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: the shopping malls over in that area, they are very,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: very old, right? And um funny enough, right, because, you know,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's called People's Park Center, if I'm not wrong.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: I always get confused between complex and center, it's one
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: of them. I think it's center. The whole building is
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: very old and I have to say, I mean, this
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: is not
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Meant to be like, I, I, I want to call
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: you or criticize you on air or anything, um, because there's,
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: there's good and bad. The stairwells of that mall in
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the car park is unbearable for me. Like, it's very dirty.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I think they haven't even dusted it or cleaned it
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: in like 30 years. But because they charge you to
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: use the toilet, OK, I think it's like 10 or
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: 20 cents or something like that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: The toilet is very clean
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: people's,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: yeah, so at least the money is going somewhere. Yeah,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: just not everywhere else, but at least the toilet cleaner.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: So they charge you to use the staircase next time. Uh,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: one more coming in from Selena. Selena says, Good morning,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Jo.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: The toilets in Wisma Atria, the gap between the door
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and the toilet bowl is very small. The toilets in
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Novena Square 2 mall. The toilet bowls are very low.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: It's hard to sit and stand up after.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Again, uh, we can neither confirm nor verify the text messages,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: but if you are having a similar experience with these malls,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: let us know. Actually,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I have one. This is over at City, OK. Um, it's,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: it's not the same in all the toilets. I think
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: it's because of a funny layout on one of the
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: floors maybe because they tried to build around this, you know,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: weird corner or something. There, there's some toilets, right, where
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: you enter the cubicle, then you got to climb stairs, though,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: like you got to climb two steps up to the top.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: If you're tuning in now, do you know what I'm
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: talking about? Do you know? It's Nan City, right? I
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: remember this, and I'm just thinking to myself like, wow,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: what if it's like my grandma or like really old person?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Like how do they, they have to wait for the
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: handicapped toilet for
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: sure? I don't know if you're familiar with this, you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Kallang Wave Mall, the men's toilet, la, OK.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Sometimes when you go into a cubicle when the rest
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: are occupied, I realize I always cannot the same cubicle.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'll go in there and I see why this toilet
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: bowl is very small.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: It's a kids' toilet. I realize it's a toilet
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: and, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: is there no sign there they
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: they don't really put a sign. I mean they put
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: for the old uncles and the and the and the
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the handicapped or elderly, right? So the kids' cubicle, when
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I go in there and I'm really urgent,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: oh my God,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I have to like properly.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: No wonder overflow case that day. Well, we're talking about
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: public toilets right now, not just about cleanliness or whatever,
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: but weird layouts that you just scratch your head about
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: and you wonder who approved this design.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Inspired by the one over at Farrer Park MRT that's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: gone viral and also, uh, two people texting us the
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: same thing. This is quite recent as well. McPherson MRT
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: for the men's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: urinal.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: too, yeah.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So this guy actually he's 177 centimeters tall, and he
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: said the urinos are so hard I even have to
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: tiptoe to actually reach it to relieve
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: myself.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: 177 close to 180 here in Singapore is considered quite tall.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine everyone else? Like, what if your, what
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: if your bro is anything below 175?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You know what's the most interesting thing about the article though?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: In his caption, he said, I'm, yeah, I'm 177 cm in.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: OK lah,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he got a girlfriend after this, you
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: never know. Whatever gets
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you there. I want to say good morning to Frederick.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Frederick says hello, Sonia and Joki. I totally feel for
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: today's topic actually because I'm working in project management and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: toilet upgrading is one of the projects I have done. Interesting.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: I know of some coffee shops, toilets that the layout
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: can be rather questionable. Almost no space to navigate through.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I recall the toilet I went before. I can't really
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: remember where it is, but somewhere in the west, the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: toilet is so cramped, you can barely walk through the urinal.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: The gap between the urinal and the wall is kind
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of tight for a user to walk all the way in.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And 313 Somerset's toilet, they also face the same issue.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: The gap from the toilet seat to the cubicle door
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: is too narrow that when I open the door, it's
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: almost touching the toilet seat. That's what I'm
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: saying.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: But that, that's, yes, that is one, but the one
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: that I brought up just now with a similar problem
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: is not 313. It's another.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: It's another toilet.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: OK, here's the thing, yeah. Would you rather the toilet
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: door open inwards towards the cubicle or it could be
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a security risk and safety? No,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: we're not saying that you have to switch it to openings.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: What we're saying is that you need to, they should
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: have put more allowance.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: When they were building the toilet in the first place,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: they should have accounted for more allowance or choose a
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: slimmer toilet bowl. Some of these toilet bowls are very chunky,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: really hope the powers that be who are in charge
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: of these things are listening and going, yeah, how do
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: we approve this?
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Why do we approve
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: this?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: OK, I understand, like even with, um, you know, renovating
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: your own house, for example, there may be certain design
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: and space constraints. There will be, OK, and maybe perhaps
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: because of that, they couldn't, they just had to compromise
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: somehow and they just gave up. Got
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: one more coming in from. OK. Morning Sojo. West Coast
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Plaza level one male toilet. There is a full length
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: wall mirror just next to the urinal.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So people can see your side reflections when you pee.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: And OK, to my bros, look, there are some who
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: will stand quite close to the urinal. That's fine. There
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: are those who love to keep social distancing. I don't
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: know why. We can see everything,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: right?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: So with this mirror over there,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: and then it's like if you, if you look also
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: it's weird, yeah, but the mirror is there. Then if you,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: where do you look?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: But there is a thing called peripheral.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Bro, I can see everything, guys, even though I'm looking straight.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, just, just pretend that you're not.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: OK, thank you.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Just in a very um lively conversation right now off-air
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: with a lot of our listeners who are texting us,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: sending us pictures, videos, um, lots of messages coming through.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: What is the weirdest layout of a public toilet that
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you've seen?
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I love how we're on the receiving end
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: of the pictures and videos, right?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Of that and also rents.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Oh, here we go on WhatsApp.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: OK, let's hear it.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I want to say good morning to Hail. Hail, your
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: text message. I can feel the anger. Morning, Sojo. There
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: is a toilet somewhere in town. I can't remember which
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: building it is. Describe.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: The
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: toilet is American style. Gaps on the door of the cubicle.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I can't do number 2 in peace.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Gaps on the meaning.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Meaning, um, under the toilet there's a big gap. OK, OK.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Everywhere else I noticed the pattern in the male toilets.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Number 1, failed marksmanship, if you know what I mean, marksmanship.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Number 2, stains and sometimes spittle on the seat. And
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: number 3, worst of all, hairs from the nether regions.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Most times I feel like a cleaner, I have to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: wash and clean a toilet bowl.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And see if I have to go #2. What I
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: don't understand is some of these places, the head of
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the bidet is missing. It's
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: missing. Hold up. Why?
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: That's just got so many layers of confusion.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: We got one more coming in from Dom. Dom says, Hey,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim, have you been to Marina Bay Census toilets? Yes,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: they are quite narrow and confined but super well maintained.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: The janitor must have very good OCD and a perfect.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It is because he or she maintains the toilets very well.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: But MBS they only have two private cubicles. Actually
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: true. Oh, in the men's toilet. Yeah,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: there
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: are some areas in MBS where it's very small. The
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: cubicles are only 2 and 1 open urinal. Oh man,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: that's it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Whereas level 3 Suntec City Convention Hall, it's arguably arguably
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: the best, very big, but they have no water bidet
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: to spray your bum
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: bum.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I mean, look, convention site, they see thousands
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and thousands of people every day, so I'm sure they
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: have to make the toilet pretty big there. Yeah. Yeah, so, OK,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: with all of us criticizing the all the criticisms on
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the weird layouts, which one's your ultimate like favorite?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: My favorite public toilet. OK, you think about it. I'll
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: let you think about it for a while. I need
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: to narrow it down also for my answer.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Don't call me cheap, OK? Don't call me cheaper, but
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: sometimes when I really need to go, OK, especially in town,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I'll find the nearest hotel toilet.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: No, but, but usually you're not allowed to use the,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: is there some hotels don't have a, they intentionally, some
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: high-end malls and hotels don't have a toilet on the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: first floor. So
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: reveal my, my, my, my go to places. No,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: everyone else will go.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: You're on a gay.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Yes,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: exactly.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: OK, I turn the mic off then you tell me.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: We got time for one final text message before we
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: award today's
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: winner.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I think I want to award this texter the prize, Sonia,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: because I think she saved all of us here listening
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: on us listening on air.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Because I didn't know this, but she has let us know. Hello, Sue.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Hey Sojo, since we're on the topic of toilets this morning,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: please check out this Instagram profile. They share where you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: can locate toilets with bidets in Singapore. Instagram.com/toiletswith bidetsg.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Straight to the point.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: It has 26,000 followers.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: What? Wait, wait, you mean they keep updating it? I
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: guess because a lot of toilets go through upgrading, right? Yeah.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: So who, who are the people that go out to
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: go and investigate this?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I guess
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the, the admins or maybe it could be submitted by
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: people from Singapore,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: but you still have to go and verify what before
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: you post.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: For example, if I follow this account, right, and they're
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: looking for people to submit entries where they have bidets.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Singapore, for example, I go to Junction 8 and I
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: see a toilet with a bidet, I'll just take a
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: picture and send to the admin saying, Hey, Junction 8
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: toilet got bidet, you can post.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: But in the world of AI, people might just like
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: come up with something and give you misinformation, right? You
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: cannot you must go down if you're running 26,000 followers.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: That's quite significant.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And this actually has an SG bidet map.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: So Sue, this one's for you. Congratulations. This was the
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: absolute last one already that you're walking away with a
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: wonderful experience thanks to Wan Hao Chinese Restaurant, assorted bakes
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: and snow skin mooncakes, beautifully designed gift boxes, a nod
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: to Singapore's traditional Tinka heritage as well. Please follow them,
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Singapore Marriott on Instagram.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Only because, uh, on your Instagram feed, I saw a
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: recently done video with Jeremy.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Involving a vacuum cleaner from shark,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: right,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: uh, I saw this on Mothership. OK, you ready for this? Uh,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: apparently shark, they're having their own Ganggui truck.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: saw
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: this going around
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: the neighborhood, yeah, your devices, your vacuum cleaners, all that,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: they are not working anymore. You want to like recycle them, right? Yeah,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: so you can trade it in and then another truck
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: will come and open. Hey, hey, love it.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Love it. I mean, hey, I gotta, I gotta give
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: a big shout out to our friends at Shark Home SG, right?
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: They are, they're very active on their socials as well.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: And I have to say, the product is really great.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: If you, OK, not, not promoting my own video or anything,
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: but there are plenty of creators who have done videos
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and stuff as well. So just watch what you resonate with.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: But what
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I find most useful is the detangling function for the hair. So, OK,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: for someone who has kind of long, in fact, this
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: is my longest hair you've ever seen me in, right? Um,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: at home, Jeremy always says there are multiple wigs on
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: the floor. He literally always laughs about this. He's like,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: if I gather all the hair, he can make ones Chewbacca.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Because we just, you know, it just
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: drops. So, OK, at the risk of sounding like a
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: sponsored post, aside from our friends over at Shark, can
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I just say congrats to Dyson. You know why? They
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: just launched their Dyson camera jet toothbrush, and it has
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: a camera. It can show you the insides of your teeth.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: It's a water jet. Wow, the world of tech,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: man. Yeah, I mean, dentists are quaking now I think.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That means I'm
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: very sure our friends over at Shark will come up
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: with their own tooth.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Actually,
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised because I think um in the
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: US and places where their markets are bigger, they have
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: a lot of other devices that have not arrived to
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Southeast Asia yet. So, you know, I, I'm very sure
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: it's a competitive market out there, but also who wins?
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: The consumers. We're all just so excited. Everyone wants to
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: outdo each
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: other.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: But here's my son camera
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: toothbrushing. You know what I
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Try it. I need to see it to understand it
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: a bit more, right? And I think what is something
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: that we have in common for you, you and I, Joakim, um,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: is oral hygiene. I feel like I, I think we're
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: quite particular about that. So if we learn more about it,
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: you never know, ah, you might make an investment.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: We are very conscious.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Um, just dropped like 30 minutes ago, Lisa's brand
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: new music video for Hello
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Sawanika. Wow.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Finally, we have more than 16 seconds of that chorus.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I know because she only played the hook of it
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: in all her videos, right? And actually I got to
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: say I'm liking the song.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I must say though,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: it's quite a banger.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Whenever a K-pop artist drops a song, right, I always
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: check who produced it because I must say I heard
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: the full song now. Yeah,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: we watched,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: we just collectively watched the music video together.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: It's a good club
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: banger. I love it. Yeah, and I can already see
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: some local.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Creators gonna dress up like Lisa
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: dance at Orchard
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Road and do the dance at Orchard Road.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Hello
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Mana Jessin, we know it's you. We know it's you.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: She got some
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: moves on her. She does. She does. Anyway, um, we
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: would love to, you know, just share that with you,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: new music Friday and everything, right? So just so you know,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: in case you haven't seen it on socials just yet,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: she just dropped the full length MV.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: So Sawadika was produced by Tom Bridges and production duo
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: OG Volta, hopefully.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that correctly. Are
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: they under loud like her, oh no, it's uh they
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: hired these people.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I think it's external
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: external, OK, creators. She's got her entire team under like
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: loud to produce everything. Beautiful cool.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Plans for the weekend, Sonia Chew.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know what, actually today I'm just gonna chill,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: but tomorrow I do have some filming. So if you
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: see me around Orchard Road, please don't be shy to stop, OK?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's like a quiz a bit,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: yeah, so I'm, I'm.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'm aiming to get at least like 3
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: or 53 to 5 people.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: What's the takeaway? What's the catch?
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: It's, it's, it's actually in relation to skincare.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, OK,
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: I'll show up. You're not allowed to be on
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a video. Would you mind some sunblock?
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: I want to get, you know, real life people that
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I've never met before. I'm a real life. I see
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you every day. No need, no need. Thank you, thank you,
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: thank you, thank you. So I
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: guess two completely opposite weekends for mine, it's, uh, taking
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: part in the BYD Singapore International Marathon.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Loops Festival.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, OK, so you're gonna be there to like participate.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: So
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: loads of different booths will be available for you at
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Clark Quay area if you want to try your running
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: gait and running shoes. I think Adidas and Forge got
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: you settled. If you want to have a look at
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the finishes, medals, and the race bid firsthand, they got
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: you there as well, and some professional athletes will be
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: there to give you tips on how to tackle a
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: few areas of maybe say your half marathon and full marathon.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: OK, well, I mean, if I pass the area.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Um, I will take a look at the medals and
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: the bibs because that's probably the only way for me
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: to see them.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: If you pass the area, I'm dragging you to sign
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: up for a 10.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: OK, I'm, I'm doing my street interview in Orchard, not,
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: not near you.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: But OK, I'm still trying to convince you for a 10km.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: We are about maybe say 3 months away from it.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Come on. My ankle is still recovering and thank you
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: for joining us today. We had a good laugh. Catch
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: up with everything on Listen and Spotify.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: So have a great weekend and also to school kids.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Kids enjoy your September holidays, please.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Would not be surprised that people have already gone off
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: for a short break, short holiday.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Either
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: that
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: or
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: in P6, you're gonna study all the assessment books, all
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: the supplementary classes. We
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: are with you every step of the way, sending you love, OK,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: and we'll catch you tomorrow.