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INTERVIEW: KHALID · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: It's 987, Singapore's number one hit music station. Sonia and
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  Speaker 1: Joakim here with you. Um, the next few minutes is
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  Speaker 1: going to be quite surreal for us because we've been
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  Speaker 1: playing his songs nonstop.
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  Speaker 1: And every single time he releases something, boom, it's on
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  Speaker 1: our show. We have Khalid with us here on 987
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  Speaker 1: and Khalid, I'm gonna start with this. Is Khalid still young,
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  Speaker 1: dumb and
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  Speaker 1: broke?
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  Speaker 2: I will say, I will say youth. The thing about
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  Speaker 2: youth is, it is a, a mindset and to speak about.
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  Speaker 2: Myself, you know, I'm, I'm always hungry for more. Although
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  Speaker 2: I might not be that young, dumb and broke teenager
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  Speaker 2: that I once was, uh, I still feel like the
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  Speaker 2: story lives on because it lives inside of me. To me, truthfully,
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  Speaker 2: that's still one of my favorite songs to perform even
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  Speaker 2: to this day. I, I will be singing.
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  Speaker 2: Young, dumb and broke until the day that I am
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  Speaker 2: in my walker and someone is pushing me around in
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  Speaker 2: a wheelchair, I will still be singing Young, Dumb and Broke.
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  Speaker 2: So love.
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  Speaker 1: You know what is so relatable across every different phase
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  Speaker 1: of life. I think we can still play it and
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  Speaker 1: be like, yeah, we vibe with it for sure. But
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  Speaker 1: as you mature and you know, we've been following your
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  Speaker 1: journey all these years, what have you become more protective of?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I've really become a lot more protective of my piece.
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  Speaker 2: I think uh my piece is is something that's really
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  Speaker 2: big as I become.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a little bit older into my adulthood, being
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  Speaker 2: 28 now, starting to make music when I was 18.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like when I was younger, um, I used
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  Speaker 2: to spread myself really thin and I never really saved
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  Speaker 2: that energy to pour back into myself. And so now
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  Speaker 2: I think worrying, not worrying, but protecting my peace, protecting
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  Speaker 2: my health, my well-being, those are
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  Speaker 2: Just at the top of my list.
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  Speaker 1: One of my
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  Speaker 1: personal favorite songs from you is Satellite. I cannot wait
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  Speaker 1: to use it for a very good travel video in
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  Speaker 1: the future. But on, on that note, where is the
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  Speaker 1: most or what is the most interesting place or video
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  Speaker 1: that you've seen your music being used for?
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  Speaker 2: I, I think interesting to me is knowing, OK, I've
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  Speaker 2: put out this music for, it's been a decade since
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  Speaker 2: I've put out this music. Sometimes I kind of
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  Speaker 2: That I forget these songs. I don't really live with
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  Speaker 2: these songs every day. So I think for me it's
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  Speaker 2: always when I'm seeing a viral video on TikTok and
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  Speaker 2: my song is in the background or I'm seeing a
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  Speaker 2: creator listening to my music, or I think those moments
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  Speaker 2: are always surreal, uh, even when it comes down to,
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  Speaker 2: for me, a really big portion of my career.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, came from SoundCloud and and the accessibility that it was.
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  Speaker 2: My career started from creators being able to see creators
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  Speaker 2: like Kylie Kylie, creators and legends and icons like Kylie
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  Speaker 2: Jenner using my music and using location on that story.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so I think every time I see my
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  Speaker 2: song being used in the wild by just anyone.
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  Speaker 2: It is, it's really incredible. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: speaking of all the stuff that you see online, right, um,
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  Speaker 1: we of course see you online as well, but is
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  Speaker 1: there a version of Khaled that your inner circle sees
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  Speaker 1: that we don't know about?
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  Speaker 2: I have been trying to put my personality out there
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more, but it is hard. It's really hard.
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  Speaker 2: I feel, I feel really safe around my friends and
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  Speaker 2: I think that when I feel safe, I'm way more
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  Speaker 2: Expressive, talkative. I, I just, I like to dance. I
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  Speaker 2: like to, I like to have fun and I like
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  Speaker 2: to ride four wheelers. I like to get dirty and muddy.
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  Speaker 2: And, and I, and I'm a little adventurous and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like, you know, my, my listeners don't really see
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  Speaker 2: my adventurous side, but I love a snowmobile. I love
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  Speaker 2: a four wheeler. I don't know, just live life to
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  Speaker 2: the fullest.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a weird activity that you just really want
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  Speaker 1: to do? Like on that note, just following up from
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  Speaker 1: that question,
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  Speaker 2: I've only went to zip line.
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  Speaker 2: Once or twice. Maybe one day I want to work
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  Speaker 2: up to going skydiving. You're going to love it. Extremely
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  Speaker 2: afraid of heights, but I love pushing my fear of heights.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, I went, I went zip lining
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  Speaker 2: maybe once or twice and it was so scary, but
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  Speaker 2: it was so I just felt so free.
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  Speaker 2: And so maybe I'll feel feel a similar free freedom
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  Speaker 2: by hopping out of a plane one day. Who knows?
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  Speaker 2: I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have a zip line here in Singapore, but I
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  Speaker 1: think I want to put him on the slingshot. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like a bungee bungee. We're both adrenaline junkies, come with us,
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  Speaker 1: come with us.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I would love to.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? Let's let's let's plan something if you're
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  Speaker 1: here in Singapore and if you have time. But, on
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  Speaker 1: to a little bit more introspective and maybe say reflective question.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned earlier you've been doing this since you were 18,
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  Speaker 1: you're now 28.
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  Speaker 1: In an ever-changing music industry and even life as well.
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  Speaker 1: What has been your biggest win in your career or
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  Speaker 1: in life so
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  Speaker 1: far?
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  Speaker 2: My biggest win in my life was creating the album
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  Speaker 2: American Teen.
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  Speaker 2: I think that that is my biggest win. Not that
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  Speaker 2: I haven't you know had songs that I feel like
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  Speaker 2: have impacted me in amazing ways, but to me, when
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  Speaker 2: I look back at that album, like I really wrote
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  Speaker 2: that album when I was 1718 years old. To me,
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  Speaker 2: that is such a huge win because it set me
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  Speaker 2: up to a life where I'm still performing these songs
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  Speaker 2: 10 years later and my listeners still feel impacted greatly
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  Speaker 2: by these songs and
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  Speaker 2: I, I was able to be a part of a cultural, um,
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  Speaker 2: generational shift when it comes down to, to music, you know,
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  Speaker 2: being one of the first artists to talk about, send
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  Speaker 2: me your location in a song, and now it's a
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  Speaker 2: common tool that we all use, and I think like
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  Speaker 2: those moments being able to say.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote American Teen and I lived it and I
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  Speaker 2: put it out there into the world. That to me
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  Speaker 2: is a win because that, regardless of me not being
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  Speaker 2: a teenager anymore, that to me is a timeless album,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll forever be thankful for that.
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  Speaker 1: With the
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  Speaker 1: wins that we celebrate, we also learned from the losses.
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  Speaker 1: What has been your biggest loss and how did you
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  Speaker 1: bounce back from that, if you don't mind sharing?
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  Speaker 2: One of my biggest
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  Speaker 2: Losses in my life. If we're speaking about even American
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  Speaker 2: teen in relation, when I put out American Teen, I
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  Speaker 2: had a lot of lot of hope for that album
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  Speaker 2: and I got nominated for 5 Grammys for that album
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  Speaker 2: and I didn't win any Grammys for that album. In
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  Speaker 2: my more premature mindset, I was a little, little heartbroken,
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  Speaker 2: if you will. I was a little heartbroken because
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  Speaker 2: I lived my entire life in my mind to make
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  Speaker 2: it to the Grammys, and I still have so much
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  Speaker 2: respect for the Grammys now, uh, but it really put
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things into perspective. For me, it really
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  Speaker 2: reminded me what we're doing is because we genuinely love it.
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  Speaker 2: The joy, the impact that that that music has on
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  Speaker 2: the world. To me, that's it's bigger than an award
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  Speaker 2: because some of the music that has inspired me to
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  Speaker 2: become the artist I am today.
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  Speaker 2: Might not have had, um, you know, a platinum record
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  Speaker 2: or might not have won awards. Uh, awards don't amount
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  Speaker 2: to talent and, and I think that that was a
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  Speaker 2: lesson that I, I really learned early on.
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  Speaker 2: And it allowed me to create music from just my
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  Speaker 2: genuine soul instead of thinking, OK, well this music is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a world renowned hitter. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: win this, I'm going to win this. I'm like, no,
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  Speaker 2: I want, I want to win life by.
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  Speaker 2: By being myself and creating from my heart, a loss
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  Speaker 2: that turns into a win. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for that. You just you speaking, even though we can't
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  Speaker 1: see you on camera, like we're just smiling. You radiate
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  Speaker 1: so much joy, honestly, like that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that we love about you, even though, I mean, we're
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  Speaker 1: acting like we're besties now, but yes, we didn't even
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  Speaker 1: speak prior to this. Yeah. Um, just a fun one
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  Speaker 1: before we let you go. I think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be out of time very soon, but here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 1: just to take you into our culture a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of love queuing up for stuff that's hyped
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  Speaker 1: up here in Singapore, you know, like when things come through,
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  Speaker 1: something popular happens, we're like, oh, everyone just queues up
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  Speaker 1: for something. Yeah. Is there, yeah, that might be more
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  Speaker 1: virtual than anything, but even so, it's a queue. Is
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  Speaker 1: there something that you wouldn't mind standing in line for?
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  Speaker 2: Amazing, Michelin, just like food, like a great plate, a
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  Speaker 2: great meal that I know that the chef and the
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  Speaker 2: team took their time to craft and creates from their heart.
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  Speaker 2: I will stand for hours for a beautiful plate. I
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  Speaker 2: love food. So food and ice cream, I will stand
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  Speaker 2: in line.
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  Speaker 2: For ice cream.
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  Speaker 1: You, you will fit right in Singapore. Plenty of which
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  Speaker 1: we have available for you here in Singapore. Khalid, I
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  Speaker 1: think that's all the time that we have with you.
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  Speaker 1: Is there anything else you'd like to say to your
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  Speaker 1: fans in Singapore before we let you go? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: 987, this is Khalid and I want to give you
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  Speaker 2: guys so much love. Shout out to Singapore. I love
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  Speaker 2: you guys so much and see you soon.