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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 260826 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: Good next
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Wednesday. We made it to the middle of the week.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very happy to announce that today I'll be watching
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: The Odyssey for the 3rd time. OMG. It's that good.
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  Speaker 1: Guess how many times I've watched it? 0.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still waiting. Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: Lady Gaga with the Dead Dance right here on 987.
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  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim with you. As you might remember, this
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  Speaker 1: is off Wednesday, the Netflix series, which by the way,
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  Speaker 1: they're in production right now. Season 3 is expected to
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  Speaker 1: premiere in 2027.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't announced the exact release date just yet, but Gaga,
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  Speaker 1: I think is definitely gonna play a much bigger role
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  Speaker 1: in this upcoming season. I was gonna say, Gaga Morticia Adams? No, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: she's not Morticia Adams. Catherine Zeta-Jones is Morticia actually. But
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  Speaker 1: Gaga came in in season two as like a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a
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  Speaker 1: Plot twist kind of character. And it was more of
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  Speaker 1: a cameo situation, but it ended with a cliff cliffhanger
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  Speaker 1: which made everyone think that she's gonna come back as
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  Speaker 1: a bigger role in season three. Is that proven just yet,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll see, we'll see. It's a fits.
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  Speaker 1: So it fits her to a T, yeah. She should
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  Speaker 1: just do the entire soundtrack because I think her songs
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  Speaker 1: work so well for Wednesday. And I wonder whether she
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: now get an Emmy Award for her acting role on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll see, we'll see. Yo, we got loads
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  Speaker 1: of updates coming your way.
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  Speaker 1: I was just looking at all the news that we have.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: We got news involving cyclists, next year's NDP. What else
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about here on a Wednesday morning?
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  Speaker 1: We got it for you. Amy, plenty of updates here
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  Speaker 1: and I think, you know, sometimes when I look at
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  Speaker 1: our news channels, multiple different news channels, it's the gift
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: that keeps on giving, you know, like what would we
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: do without them honestly? What would our show be like? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but today for our Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's a very face palm worthy news day
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  Speaker 1: for us today. Truly is and it's so funny because yesterday, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we were talking about crime and usually we
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  Speaker 1: don't do it this early, but crime is about, uh,
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  Speaker 1: cases that we just face palm at where it can
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  Speaker 1: be considered crime, but sometimes you wonder like why the
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  Speaker 1: hell people do this, right? And what were you thinking? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then I filled you in about how, um,
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  Speaker 1: Cases of home-related theft went up. Now there's another stat
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  Speaker 1: about theft, and unfortunately, it involves young people. Oh no. So,
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  Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, bit of um disturbing or rather
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  Speaker 1: concerning stats here.
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  Speaker 1: Because yesterday we were just talking about how um there's
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  Speaker 1: been an increase in home-related theft in the past year
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  Speaker 1: or so. Now, another stat, over 350 youths.
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  Speaker 1: have been investigated for shop theft in Singapore in just
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  Speaker 1: the first half of this year alone, which is, here's
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  Speaker 1: the worrying part, Joakim, a 30% increase from last year.
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  Speaker 1: What is going on? I mean, shop theft, OK, clearly
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  Speaker 1: remains as one of the top offenses committed by young people, teens, youths,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sure that when we were in school, we
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  Speaker 1: might have known a couple of friends or maybe even
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  Speaker 1: you might have been pressured into like, hey just go
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  Speaker 1: and take that chocolate bar la or like I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what boys would pressure each other to do. I
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  Speaker 1: think shop theft of the 2000s and early 2010s, very
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  Speaker 1: different from what they're stealing currently does it.
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  Speaker 1: they're stealing Pokemon cards and stuff. OK, let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you what they're stealing. They didn't say Pokemon cards specifically,
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  Speaker 1: but items that are typically stolen aside from food and drinks,
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  Speaker 1: which is obvious, personal care products, so like skincare, um, clothing, accessories,
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  Speaker 1: and alcohol. These are the, the typical items being stolen.
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  Speaker 1: Um, most of the shop theft cases involving youths took
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  Speaker 1: place at convenience stores, mini marts, wellness shops, personal care shops.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm thinking maybe like your possibly your like Watsons
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  Speaker 1: or Guardian, these kind of shops where you have access to,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Korean skincare and stuff. You're a teenager.
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  Speaker 1: What are you stealing Oxy 5, Oxy 10? Dude, no
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  Speaker 1: one uses that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Joe, no, I think they're aiming for like the K
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  Speaker 1: Beauty or like Jat Beauty or even C Beauty now
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  Speaker 1: because both, I, well, I shop at Watsons and Guardian
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Both stores, they now stock a lot of
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  Speaker 1: really good Korean, Japanese and Chinese brands. So I'm, I'm
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  Speaker 1: suspecting it could be that. I take back whatever I
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  Speaker 1: said about being different from 2010s and the early 2000s
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  Speaker 1: because the four that you listed is the same, it's
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  Speaker 1: quite similar, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But you, you were thinking about like collectible items or
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  Speaker 1: like your boo boos, your crybabies and all that. That's
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  Speaker 1: so I'm sure they have very, very, very tough security
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  Speaker 1: around there. But there are reports of people, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting scammed or even stealing these things, yeah, but you
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  Speaker 1: know that's like putting an entire blind box into your bag.
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  Speaker 1: That's really tough, you know. So anyway, um, I think
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  Speaker 1: CN our friends over at CNA actually spoke to some
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  Speaker 1: experts like what's going on and all that.
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  Speaker 1: They said it could be an increase in peer pressure
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  Speaker 1: and bullying as well in school. That's the reason why
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  Speaker 1: some of them actually commit these offenses. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: developing story. I think it's much, it goes much deeper
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  Speaker 1: than just like, oh, there's been an increase in theft
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  Speaker 1: among the youth. I think it goes deeper. So like
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  Speaker 1: that age, if you can't do the time, don't do
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  Speaker 1: the crime. It was really truly a tag.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: Good morning. This is James here. Hello James. Wow, you
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  Speaker 1: sound very energetic this morning. What are you up to? Just,
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  Speaker 1: just woke up. OK, which school are you giving a
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  Speaker 1: shout out to James? River Valley River Valley High, is it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's right. And what was life like for you, River
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  Speaker 1: Valley High? One of my most fun times, the basketball
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  Speaker 1: session during the canteen, the canteen break. Wait, this sounds
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  Speaker 1: like something would do just that yours is, right? I.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I never understood like because I came from
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  Speaker 1: an all-girls school, so you don't really see girls like.
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  Speaker 1: Doing sports during recess because you don't want to get
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  Speaker 1: sweaty during recess, but I heard it's totally different with
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  Speaker 1: boys that you get super sweaty during recess. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's the only time James, were you a wai? Were
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  Speaker 1: you a rebel? OK, OK, opposite of you, Joe. I know.
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  Speaker 1: What song can we get you this morning? Anything will do.
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  Speaker 1: Anything will do. Alright, I'll choose something for you. Just
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  Speaker 1: blindly spin the wheel here. So shout out going out
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  Speaker 1: to River Valley High. Take care, James. Bye-bye. OK, it's
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: gonna get quite dark here on a Wednesday morning.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: Because what I read about Jeju yesterday, and I say
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  Speaker 1: this with in my mind, I think it might happen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very sure people have read Netflix. They're gonna plan
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  Speaker 1: a crime documentary on this which will be released maybe
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  Speaker 1: say a decade later. OK, so you gotta tell me
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  Speaker 1: what this. I'm getting goosebumps already. OK, so trigger warning,
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  Speaker 1: it involves death, OK.
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  Speaker 1: There were 4 dead bodies found in Jeju Island in
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  Speaker 1: the last 3 days alone.
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  Speaker 1: OK, and this was in 2026. Yeah, just happened a
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  Speaker 1: few days ago, and it actually involves one former police
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  Speaker 1: officer by the name of Sergeant Boo, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been reported that Sergeant Buo has falsely closed
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  Speaker 1: 200 missing person cases. Yeah, and I think one or
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  Speaker 1: two of the dead bodies found in the last 3
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  Speaker 1: days were actually involved Sergeant Buo. So what Sergeant Buo?
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  Speaker 1: Do is, uh, he would actually call the families of
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  Speaker 1: the missing people and say, oh yeah, I've come into
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  Speaker 1: contact with the person you reported. Yeah, this or that
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  Speaker 1: person doesn't want to be contacted by you. So I
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  Speaker 1: think let them live la, OK, let them live. They
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  Speaker 1: are OK, they are fine, and he hangs up the
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  Speaker 1: phone and he closes the case, OK, and the family believes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they didn't cross-check with any organization. I think there
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of families who took it with a
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  Speaker 1: with a pinch of salt and visual confirmation. OK, OK, good, good,
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  Speaker 1: but it didn't really happen and for years, Sergeant Boo
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  Speaker 1: was able to go scot-free, but now that this has happened,
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  Speaker 1: they've arrested him and they are now investigating him.
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: Dude, that, that's, that's so scary. Like I can already
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  Speaker 1: imagine it being one of the new true crime series.
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  Speaker 1: There are speculations that Sergeant Boo could be the murderer.
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  Speaker 1: He could very well be involved in that. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: consider us very invested in this case. And again, Jeju
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  Speaker 1: being a tourist favorite. Yeah, stay safe and be safe.
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  Speaker 1: And I, I really enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: at Jeju. Like I went, OK, I didn't go there
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: for a vacation. It was for like a, a shoot,
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  Speaker 1: but we did experience a lot of what the locals did, including,
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  Speaker 1: you know, how those, um, very cute ajuma, they go
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  Speaker 1: out to sea and they get seafood like, um, oysters
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  Speaker 1: and clams and all that, and sea urchin. So they
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  Speaker 1: actually showed us how they do it and we went
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 1: So, I'm gonna give you a more, uh, uh, a
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  Speaker 1: more detailed update, OK? So, according to South Korean police,
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  Speaker 1: they have removed 4 officers in the chain of command
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  Speaker 1: at Jeju Shobu Police Station.
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  Speaker 1: And they're conducting a full investigation into 298 cases chilling
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  Speaker 1: closed by Sergeant Boo since March of last year. The,
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  Speaker 1: the power that this guy had, you know, too much
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  Speaker 1: power on one person, man, the ability to just shut
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  Speaker 1: it off without other people in the organization questioning him
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  Speaker 1: or what maybe he convinced them to shut up about
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: it and knowing the Koreans.
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  Speaker 1: When you give them reason to unite, or they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: come down, man, that's for sure. They're gonna come down
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  Speaker 1: hard on the police. Hopefully justice will be served 200 victims, that's,
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: that's insane. The moment we get an update, we'll let
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  Speaker 1: you know. It's time for Bodo crime. Here we go.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: And where are we going? Um, that's the thing, we're
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: not exactly going anywhere and you'll find out why in
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: just a bit. OK, please sing a jingle to start
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  Speaker 1: us off. Bo, crime, crime.
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: And we're going to everywhere, everywhere around you. And truly,
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  Speaker 1: it could be the case because this happened on the email.
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  Speaker 1: So how do you, it's not a particular place, it's
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: the internet space. This one is special. You got to
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  Speaker 1: find the IP address and find difficult. OK, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what his email came from. Anyway, this man here
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: has been, uh, is about to be charged rather today actually.
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  Speaker 1: This is his charging date for allegedly sending harassment emails
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  Speaker 1: to MHA and the police.
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  Speaker 1: And he's about to be charged for using insulting and
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  Speaker 1: abusive words towards public servants, to which there is a
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  Speaker 1: rule and there is uh something protecting them when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to that uh harassment law protecting them. Exactly. So
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  Speaker 1: apparently what happened was, um, he wasn't happy with his
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  Speaker 1: interactions with the police and I guess several organizations. So he,
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  Speaker 1: he sent an email that contained a lot of um
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  Speaker 1: abusive remarks directly.
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  Speaker 1: Um, addressed to the SPF and the officers that work
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  Speaker 1: in the Singapore Police Force to express his dissatisfaction. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he'll be charged with, um, with this
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  Speaker 1: using insulting and abusive words under the Protection from Harassment Acts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that started in 2014. If you remember, we actually spoke
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: about this a long time ago, um, and they, he
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  Speaker 1: Might be looking at a jail term or a hefty
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: fine or even both. Our public servants and the police,
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  Speaker 1: they have zero tolerance towards harassment and abusive conduct, by
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: the way. Without mentioning names and the relevant ministries they
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  Speaker 1: work for, I do have friends who actually share.
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  Speaker 1: That every day they receive interesting emails from people here
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  Speaker 1: in Singapore. Really, every single day, and some of these
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  Speaker 1: people who email them are regulars. Oh my gosh, what
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  Speaker 1: can be done though? They're trying their best to make
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  Speaker 1: sure they address the situations because the last thing you
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  Speaker 1: want is someone slamming a ministry or whatsoever. It's not
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  Speaker 1: so easy. You can't just block them. And speaking of
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  Speaker 1: slamming online, look, people on Reddit, on Hardware Zone, even
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  Speaker 1: the Facebook comments section as well.
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  Speaker 1: You might be having a nickname that could be smiling
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  Speaker 1: Infinity 1234567, even though it's a burner account.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, freedom of speech, it doesn't mean there
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  Speaker 1: are no consequences if you say something that is not true.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm sure it can be if, if anyone
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  Speaker 1: takes action against you, even though it's a burner account,
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: people are able to track who you are and where
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: you are posting this from. Not normal people like us. No, no,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: we're not able to. You need to do it or
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  Speaker 1: cyber stuff, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll see where this goes. You know, before we
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  Speaker 1: move on here on the show, a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: sad day in the music world. Want to pay tribute
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: to a pioneer and if you love country music, if
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: you love your artists like Taylor Swift and maybe even
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  Speaker 1: Sabrina Carpenter, I would dare say this person is Taylor
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  Speaker 1: and Sabrina Carpenter's favorite artist as well, Dolly Par Parton, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, she passed away at the age of 80, as
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  Speaker 1: you might have heard on the news already. But I
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  Speaker 1: think beyond that, there's so many things that I'm learning
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  Speaker 1: about her that I didn't realize prior to this, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So two of the most popular songs in my opinion, Jolene, Jolene,
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  Speaker 1: which she did, she did a version with Lady Gaga, right?
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  Speaker 1: Did she?
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  Speaker 1: Was it not, was it not Gaga? Beyonce has a
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  Speaker 1: cover of the song. Oh, OK, OK. I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Lady Gaga did one with her anyway, you
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  Speaker 1: were saying and also you know Whitney Houston's and
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: I will always love you. It's actually a Dolly Parton song.
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  Speaker 1: It's available on YouTube. If you didn't know, now you know. OK, so, um,
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  Speaker 1: I did a quick search. Uh, she, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Gaga did that, but, um, she has a very strong
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  Speaker 1: connection to, to Dolly Parton, and I think, um, she
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  Speaker 1: also met.
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  Speaker 1: Mentioned it a couple of times. Yeah, yeah, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: see all your favorite artists. We're talking the likes of Eminem,
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  Speaker 1: Sabrina Carpenter, maybe even Lady Gaga as well. I think
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  Speaker 1: Post Malone recently shared an update and I won't be surprised,
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  Speaker 1: Miley Cyrus as well. Oh yeah, for paying a small
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  Speaker 1: tribute to Dolly Parton and Dolly was so um active
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  Speaker 1: up until the recent years. I mean she was still
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: doing TV shows, appearances and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think one of my favorite quotes from her ever, OK,
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  Speaker 1: which I saved, um, you know, the, the whole, all
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: your social media space will be filled with this today.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: I mean she is unapologetically herself. She is. OK, wait,
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: let me read out my favorite quote from her, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just scroll all the way to the one
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  Speaker 1: that I saved. OK. Don't get so busy making a
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  Speaker 1: living that you forget to make a life. And I
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: was like, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for that reminder though, honestly, because I feel
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  Speaker 1: like especially in Asian culture, we're so busy hustling all
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: the time and we see our parents and we've seen
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  Speaker 1: our grandparents and other aunties and uncles, like just slogging
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  Speaker 1: away their whole life, you know, working every single day,
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  Speaker 1: 7 days a week, and sometimes you wonder, did they
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: manage to live a life before it's too late, right? Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a gentle reminder for us today to make the
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  Speaker 1: most of it. Rest in peace, Dolly Parton. OK, so, um,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: gonna eliminate all names now, but this happened quite recently
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  Speaker 1: the names it spicy. Come on. Unlike you, I, I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: want to keep some of these friends, OK.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Anyway, here's what happened, OK. So, um, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: been quite a year filled with weddings. Um, I think
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: obviously people in the millennial generation, some of them are
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: finally deciding to settle down, I guess. I mean, celebrity-wise,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift Singapore for a local.
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  Speaker 1: Person, thank you. Yeah, um, and not to mention Dua
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  Speaker 1: Lipa who had a beautiful wedding too, and then next
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: year I think we might be seeing like Harry Styles,
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  Speaker 1: for example, and Zoe Kravitz. They might tie the knot
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  Speaker 1: next year maybe because they got engaged this year, right?
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  Speaker 1: So many, many people in the millennial generation getting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: locked in right now. So, uh, one of my friends
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  Speaker 1: actually went for a wonderful wedding recently.
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  Speaker 1: And uh she was a bridesmaid, OK. So we were
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: just kind of asking like, hey, how's it going, you know,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. This, this was a, this was like
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  Speaker 1: at least 2 months ago already. So then she goes, yeah, um,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: so I wanted to ask you guys,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: What, what do you think about um me being a
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: bridesmaid for this girl, OK? And I said, huh, this is,
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  Speaker 1: you've already done it. What's the, what's the reason for
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  Speaker 1: asking this question, right? And then she goes, No, I just,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: you know, it was a question that was just bugging
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  Speaker 1: me for a bit because we're not that close, and
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  Speaker 1: I kept wondering why she asked me to be her bridesmaid,
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  Speaker 1: which
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I mean, that's a, that's an
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: interesting situation that, you know, you said yes after all,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and she said, yeah, I said yes because I felt bad,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: like I would, I, I, you know, I was invited
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: to be a bridesmaid, so I just did it. I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: was like, OK, maybe.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe to her, you know, you're her close friend more
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: so than the other way around. Perhaps maybe you have
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: a more inner circle group of friends. Again, this is
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: good cop bad cop. You're the good cop bad cop
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: mind is thinking, plan A, yes, maybe that friend holds
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: her in very high regard in very high regard, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: my other scenarios are, oh, OK, this person, yeah, uh,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: come from a very well-connected family, yeah, have you as
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: my bridesmaid or my grooms.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: What is that? So when people see him or her, hey, wow,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: you know each other. Wow, so well connected are you?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: You see, OK, but you see then it depends on
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: what kind of wedding that is, right? Like is it
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: the kind of wedding where like their parents are inviting
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: the whole world to like show off that kind of thing,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: or what, what is it, you know what I mean?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Because there are different ways of doing things, no right
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: or wrong, like I always say, but yeah, I left
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: my friend kind of wondering like, actually what am I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: doing here as the bridesmaid.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: So then it got, it got me thinking because, you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: you were at my wedding the whole day. Um, I
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: didn't have any bridesmaids, if you think about it. It
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: was only um the Catholic girlies in my circle that
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: did the walkthrough in the church for me. And then
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: some of my oldest friends from school did the speech
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: at night. Yeah, so I mean for your wedding, you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: could see that your closest friends, those in the inner
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: circle were openly helping you.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: So that's the thing. That's why I didn't really, I
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: didn't label anyone bridesmaids. I didn't ask anyone to be
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: my bridesmaid at all. I was just like, you know
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: what the problem is, it's a good problem. I mean,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I have several very close group of girlfriends around, OK?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: And I can't be like, oh, all of you are
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: my bridesmaids. Then how Jeremy would have to have like
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: 10 groomsmen, so he doesn't have that, which he can
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: pick anytime he wants. I mean, he, he has a
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: lot of friends, but when you talk inner circle.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: You talk about the people who will be there for
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: you through the rehearsal, to the tasting, and how many
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: people would there be, right? You know what I mean?
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: So I guess both of us are in agreement that
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the role of a groomsman and a bridesmaid and even massacred.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: It is very personal and that that's the reason why
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I just didn't label them. I was just like, you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: know what guys, I appreciate if you can just help
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: whenever there's a chance to help. That's it. And then
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I just selected the, the two oldest friends.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to do my speech test. Yeah, I have a question
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: for you. So like that if tomorrow, right, let's just
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: say someone you know but you're not close to is royalty, OK,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: like the princess of some country or what, and, and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: she wants, like I know princesses, no, no, no, I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: mean just a hypothetical question. She wants you as a
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: bridesmaid even though you're not close, but she knows you
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: for quite a while already, OK, but she's royalty. She
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: wants you as a bridesmaid.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Maybe I do lah. Ang Pao might be quite good.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Let me check which princess of Thailand or Brune is
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: getting married soon.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Give us a call, 669-11987.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Um, if you were to ever be asked to be
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: a groomsman or bridesmaid or something of that equivalent, but
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: you're not that close to the person. I mean, you're friends,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: but you're not like inner circle close. Would you say yes?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Would you, Joakim?
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like you won't, you know, let me give
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: you a real-life colleague example, OK, OK. I mean, even
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: though I know him, if, for example, Liang from Yes
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: approaches me saying Joim, can you be my best man,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, like, like I celebrate your wedding.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: But I'm not close to your inner circle to know
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: you at that level, yeah, probably politely turn it down. Yeah, yeah, no,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I agree, I agree, I agree. Unless it's the princess
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: or whatever, then I will do it. No, unless it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the prince of Brunei, yeah, I'm I'm also there. You're
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the bride, is it?
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Don't out me like that. Phone lines are open. You
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: go and see a picture of, if you don't know
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: who we're talking about, you go and see it, then
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: you understand why. I know it doesn't mean I'm blind.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I know, I know.
• 21:30
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• 21:33
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• 21:39
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• 21:42
  Speaker 1: If you're ever approached to be the bridesmaid or the groomsman,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but you're not that close to the person, would you
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: say yes? In exchange, a dining experience for two worth
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: $256.07 Singapore's number one hit music station, a line that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you could very well be saying to a person that
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you're not that close to that asks you to be
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: their bridesmaid or groomsman.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: It's OK. I'm OK. You can choose someone else. That's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: exactly what I could have said, but it meant something else.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Oh no, on WhatsApp 90050987. Hey guys, I was asked
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: by my ex-girlfriend together for five years to be her
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: husband's groomsman? Because lack of manpower. No, no, I hope
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: you said no. I accepted anyway. Oh, you did for
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the ang pow.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: OK, our values are aligned.boyfriend does. That's the question. I'm
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: sure he does. I mean, look, OK, if I ended
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: on good terms with my ex and we became friends
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and then somehow he became friends with my
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Current husband, then that's OK, I guess, but wouldn't the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: husband find it weird? Yeah, OK. Well, you see, clearly
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I don't have any that I'm close to the point
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: where I'll invite them, right? Yeah, let alone to be grooms.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: One more coming in from anonymous texter. Hey guys, a
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: few years back I was invited to be a groomsman
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: for one of my batchmates at work, and the other
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: groomsmen were also from work, and at that point we
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: only knew each other for less than 3 years.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: We were quite puzzled, but we still wanted to help
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a bro out and went through with it. OK, I
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: mean when it comes to the bonds a lot faster
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: than when you know when you're a kid and all that, right?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: It could be, could be different. OK, by the way,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: just disclaimer, if I ever get married, you only see
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: three of my guy friends who will be my best man. OK,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: so you know one of them, I, my gym, Jordan,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: my gymer Jim I know I can name it.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I can literally you don't even need to tell me, dude. See, yeah,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: at least you know these are my close guy friends.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Will they say yes they cannot say no hello. I'm kidding.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding. They've been waiting for this day. They're praying
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: every day. Stop it every Sunday they're like, God, please,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: and maybe I'll joking, my girl, maybe I'll put you
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in a pantsuit. Oh yeah, OK, sure should be the
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: 4th groomsman. I have to be groomsman, then I have
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to host your evening. Hello, this one, the ang better
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: be nice.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in the recent year or so, and she realized that, hey, actually, ah,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I'm not that close to this person. Why did she
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: ask me to be her bridesmaid? To which she asked,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: she texted us, you know, a more inner circle group
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: chat and said, you know, I'm actually really surprised that
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I'm there.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: To which it inspired today's question, right? If one day
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: you were asked to be a groomsman or a bridesmaid,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: but you're not exactly that close to the person, would
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you say yes or no? OK, we got one coming
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: in from S. Morning guys. Not being asked, but I
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: was the one who asked. I didn't have a lot
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of girlfriends. I have a perpetual RBF, and girls didn't
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: like me. Oh no, and I had to match the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: seven groomsmen my husband had. Ended up.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Asking my sister's friends whom I watched growing up, thankfully
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: they have become my girlfriends now. Oh, that's sweet. That's sweet. No, honestly,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I think that can be quite stressful sometimes if like
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: your partner has a lot of people, like a lot
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: of groomsmen or a lot of bridesmaids, and then they
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: have to find a way to match and even it out, right? That's,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that's where you start to panic. You're like, who do
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: I ask? Want to say hello to Andy. Andy says,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: good morning. So Kim and Chrome.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: This crow nickname. See what you did in April for
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: my wedding, my wife had 5 to 6 bridesmaids, and
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: for me, my group of friends were all introverted, so
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: none were willing. Ended up with my wife's co-workers and bridesmaids'
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: husbands becoming my best men. Kind of awkward at first,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: but we made it work by me spending some time
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: before the wedding with them just to bond a bit.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Thinking back, quite sad, you know, this, this reminds me
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of a movie, um.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: It's been quite a while already. Kevin Hart, no, Wedding Ringer.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart was in it. I think it's called Wedding Ringer.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: It's a, it's a rom-com.y. Kevin Hart.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: If you want a good laugh, since we're on this topic, um,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: he stars as the lead in a show where he
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is the one running a company that provides these services. So,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of men out there have problems finding groomsmen
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: because their wives have a lot of friends, girlfriends. So
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: they'll hire him.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: To find groomsmen for them. Wow, the movie stars Kevin Hart,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Josh Gad, and whatever happened to Kayle Cuoco Sweet? I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: don't know. After Big Bang Theory, she, I guess, and
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: she's chilling. OK. There we go. But hey, it's a,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: it's a funny show if you want a good laugh
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: about this.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Topic. Anyway, we have anonymous on the line right now. Anonymous,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: so has this happened to you? I, I did recently
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: get approached by a friend from uni that you're not
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: that close to. Yeah, I'm not very close to this person.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: So I recently got married. I didn't invite this friend.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it wasn't a very nice situation because uh
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: he only found out about it when he asked me
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: to meet up and asked me to be his bride,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: his groomsman and then I was like, oh damn.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So when you told him that you're married already and
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: he said, hey, never invite me. Did he cancel the invite?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Did he cancel the offer? No, it was even more
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: awkward because he saw the ring on my finger, you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: just recently got married, is it? And I was like,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: oh yeah. The issue is if the person doesn't even,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: it doesn't even cross your mind to invite this person
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: to your wedding. Chances are you are really not, you
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: don't text this person or he doesn't know anything about you, right? Oh.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But I, I, I did have a relatively smaller wedding.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I tried to reason with him. I said, oh, just really,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: really like a very, very close friends from secondary school
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: period and family for the rest of your life, stand
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: by the alibi. OK, by that reasoning. No. So what
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: happened in the end? Has the wedding? It hasn't happened,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: but I did agree to help out help out but
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: not the groomsman the groomsman.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Question is, if you were asked to be someone's groomsman
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: or bridesmaid, but you're not exactly that close to the person,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: would you say yes? OK, we've got a very beautiful
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: text coming in from Kelvin. Kelvin says, good morning guys.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: It's always a yes now for me.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: There was once I nearly turned it down because I
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: kept thinking, eh, we're not even that close, why me?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: But during his wedding speech, he mentioned that at one
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of the hardest points in his life, I was one
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: of the people who made him feel less alone. I
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: honestly had no idea I meant that much to him.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: That moment really changed me. Sometimes I never realized the
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: place you hold.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Someone else's life until they tell you. So now if
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: someone asks me to stand beside him on one of
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: the biggest days of his life, I just take it
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: as a quiet honor and say yes. That's so cute. Kelvin,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: making me cry in the morning. Thank you for that.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Thank you for that. I mean, now Joakim, if you're
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: asked to be anyone's friend, you'd be like, so how
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: did that impact your life?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: You don't ask them. So actually, you know what, it's
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: a great question. You know, it is, it is, yeah,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and this one I will say for when we call
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: time here on 987. Sonia, how have I impacted your life?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: let me see. Don't, don't answer now. I stock up
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on Panadol because I got a migraine every day. If
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you were asked to be a groomsman or a bridesmaid,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: but you feel like, hey, I'm not exactly that close
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: to this person, would you say yes or no? Want
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to say good morning to Jeremy.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Not your husband. Hey Sonia and Joakim, an NS friend
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I've not had contact with since ORD randomly asked me
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: to be his groomsman. At first I wanted to decline,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: but I was thinking this can allow me to have
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a rare behind the scenes perspective of a wedding useful
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: for personal reference in future. He was also having his
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: luncheon at the Super Artas Raffles Sentosa. How to refuse
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: My friend had apparently made it big since I last
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: saw him. The groomsmen suits cost a fewk per set,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and we were also given free stays at Raffles as
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: part of the whole package. Given that I acted as
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: his MC too, I received a very generous $888 ang
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Pao too. But the most precious and invaluable takeaway from
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: this whole experience was getting to.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: You know, one of the bridesmaids on a much deeper level.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Shan't revealed her name because she's shy, but I'd say
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: that we are on the way to getting married ourselves.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Oh my God, this is like the plot of a rom-com. What, Jeremy.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, naughty. This is so cool. That's so cool, honestly,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: so happy. Maybe now I have a reason to say
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: yes to being a goose.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Hey, please, do you know the amount of people that
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: meet at weddings and they actually hit it off? Yeah,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of course, there you go, of course. That's why attend
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: more weddings. All my good friends are married already. Oh, OK. And,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and the problem is because they're good friends, you probably
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: already know that they are involved. That's the, that's the thing. Again,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: over the last 20 years I've seen my teachers and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: my very good friends get married, so I'm happy for them.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: OK, so if you're tuning in now and you have
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: a big wedding, just ask Joakim to be her groomsman.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He might say yes.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We've got PL on the line right now. PL, what
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: about
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: you?
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually had a similar experience. So that happened because, um,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: one of my colleagues who turned close friend, but not
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: as close, so she asked me to be a bridesmaid.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Then my first reaction is like, oh, me, are you sure?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: You know, honestly, I expected to attend, yeah, to attend
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: like a wedding dinner, so not become a job appointment
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: where I have to attend.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: You know, like dress fitting, uh, you know, being pulled
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: into wedding group chat and also memorizing table arrangements. So
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: there were additional jobs that I had to do on
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the wedding day itself, which I'm OK with doing that
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: because I, I feel like, oh, you know, during workplace,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: at workplace we rant about our bosses, our colleagues, so
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: it kind of brought us close. Yeah, so if I
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: said no, then if I go back to the workplace,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: it will be very awkward, kind of like, you know,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: getting close again.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: So eventually I said yes and also become like her
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: her dress fixer, her makeup runner to touch her up
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: yeah so eventually OK for the angbao and also for
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: the the bridesmaid gift I'm like, OK lah, worth it lah, huh.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: So
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: you know, as much as people like to
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Sometimes laugh when we say that yeah, Singapore, we got
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: racial harmony and kampong spirit. The online majority, the online
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: majority will always leave comments saying, you sure or not?
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: People always have something to say or not? Yeah, they'd
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: be like, Are you sure it's harmony or is it tolerance?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I always see this comment. That's the online sentiment. But
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: then you see things like this that happen in real
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: life and you go, actually, we got one. The kampong
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: spirit is still alive, as shown by these two aunties
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: over at Jurong.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: They were neighbors for 23 years, OK. It's a Chinese
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: auntie and a Malay auntie, OK? They were neighbors. They
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: became besties. They shared about how their kids were growing up.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: They will give each other cooking ingredients in case one
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: will run out, and then one is moving out, they
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: cry and they hug all this on the news and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the video was captured by the property agent. It's gone
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: viral on TikTok and it's so nice. This is, this
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: is the ultimate.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: poster for racial harmony here in Singapore right there, right there. OK,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: frankly speaking, right, I don't think I've ever formed a
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: bond with a neighbor like this before. Yeah, because I
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: didn't stay in one spot like growing up. I moved
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: around quite a bit. So I want to say to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Auntie Siti and to Auntie Lee, not their real names,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: thank you for giving us, you know, faith in the
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: humanity situation here in Singapore. Cut, cutie pies. I want.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I aspire to be like that when I'm their age,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: to have a neighbor that's like my bestie. So take
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: it this way, Auntie Siti and Auntie Lee, you are now,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you are now our neighbors. Yes, you're Singapore's neighbors. Even
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: though I stay in Bishan, Jurong. Oh, Jurong, OK, but
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: one is moving out somewhere else. Yeah. Oh, I wonder
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: where she's moving to. Exactly. She better not find a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: new bestie. I'll feel quite betrayed if my friend did that.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if one is going to all the
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Pasir Ris, to visit each other they must travel from
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: east to west or west to east, it could be
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: quite cute as you are, you know, retired, you just
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: want to spend time with your friends. Anyway, the video
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: is available for you on TikTok. I think it's got
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: plenty of shares, 1.5.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: 5 million views already. Wow. That's it. They can kickstart
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: a channel now. Both of them, honestly. I selling the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: wholesome kind. I was going to say about their travels
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: to meet each other they're far away, but OK, fine. OK,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: time for some very bittersweet food news. I know, I know.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: 123 food news, food news. Sonia with sad food news. Honestly,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: if I had to do a weightage of positive and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: negative food news, I think currently the negative outweighs the
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: positive because we've experienced a lot of closures, I think,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: especially in 2026. I know it's scary.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: But anyway, um, taking you over to Maxwell Food Center,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, to which I, I just spent, um,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: my Friday night there like two weeks ago with some friends.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: We couldn't decide where to go. We were like, hey guys,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: we walked past Maxwell Food Center, might as well just
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: like get some local delights, just share a bunch of stuff, um,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: get a, get a bunch of beers and chill. Wonderful
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: so fun. Um, so you might have noticed this Ham
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Jing Pen store before, OK. My parents love Ham Jing Ping.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: My dad especially, I think he likes eating Ham Ji Ping.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Um, this, this particular store has a unique selling point though.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: They used to let customers fry their own dough fritters. Yeah,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: by the way, you know what it means, yeah.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: So, no, but what I meant was the difference is
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: that they let you fry your own dough fritters. So
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: it's quite an experience, you know, and I think I've
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: seen before locals bring like people who are visiting Singapore
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to go and experience that there a hot pot or
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: your own steamboat. But I would not trust Joakim to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: fry his own dough fritters just, just in case.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not a bad cook in that setting. Um, if
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you are regulars of these, uh, snacks, um, you might
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: have to choose from another option now because China Street
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Ham Jing Beng shuttered very quietly last week. They didn't
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: go out with any fanfare or anything. They didn't say anything, um,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: but I, I think the stall's closure was actually shared
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: by another hawker that runs an oyster cake stall.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: So someone actually shared it on, on socials. That's how it,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that's how it broke forever.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So a lot of customers have expressed their disappointment and
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: saying like, oh man, another childhood snack gone or another
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: place that I've been going to since I was a kid, gone,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: it's a 4 year course people will be upset. See,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the problem is, I think it's getting increasingly more difficult
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: to find successors and to find
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Um, affordable rents, perhaps, maybe, I don't know, could be
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: multiple reasons. Maybe they're just retiring, you know what I
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: mean is there you know.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: So thank you for the memories, you guys. So to
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: prepare you for Avengers doomsday, oh, we're gonna rewatch some stuff,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, there'll be loads of it available for
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you on Disney Plus, but the Avengers Endgame film that
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: was released in 2019.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: There's gonna be an encore version out in cinemas worldwide
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: September 25th onwards, and apparently there'll be 4 minutes of
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: additional footage that might tie in to Avengers Doomsday. That
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: was not released. No. Oh, interesting. OK. And the one
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: line that now has better impact and more impact.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Said by Robert Downey Junior's Tony Stark, you mess with time,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: time tends to mess back. And there's lots of speculation
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: that in Avengers Doomsday, Robert Downey Junior is playing a
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: variant of Doctor Doom and that the real Doctor Doom
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: is played by Cillian Murphy. Whoa, that's so cool.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: All these fans who were analyzing like the eye, the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: eye colors and all that. No, it's really interesting. Yeah,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: you know what, I'll just wait for these detectives to
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: do the work and then I'll read about it later.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: And look, it's about time Cillian Murphy has a Marvel
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Cinematic Universe role. He's a fantastic actor. So let's hope
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the rumors are true. Yeah, yeah, let's see. Only one
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: way to find out. We got to wait.