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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 250926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up.
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  Speaker 1: 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. Well, TGIF it is
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  Speaker 1: finally the weekends, hoping that you're hanging in there with
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  Speaker 1: your examinations. Oh, today I think it's mathematics, Sonia. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have the weekend to relax and unwind a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Before it's mother tongue and science. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: stand by. Singapore's number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm, I'm a little concerned to ask Joakim, what
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  Speaker 1: is this math related advice you want to give us. Hey, why?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it worked for me. OK. I was able
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  Speaker 1: to finish the entire paper, OK, because, firstly, I read
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  Speaker 1: every single question first, and I answered the
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  Speaker 1: The difficult questions first. The difficult questions, the one that
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  Speaker 1: will take more time, the one that you have to
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  Speaker 1: show all your workings and all that, then I'll answer
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  Speaker 1: the questions so I know the answer already straight away
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  Speaker 1: from the back of my mind. That's interesting. I do
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  Speaker 1: it the other way around. So I will clear the
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  Speaker 1: easy questions first because, OK.
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  Speaker 1: Um, even though I might find the questions like easier,
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  Speaker 1: it's also easy to make mistakes, like careless mistakes. So
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  Speaker 1: because I have a history of being very careless, so
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  Speaker 1: I clear the easy ones first, take a look at them. OK,
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  Speaker 1: I know I'm, I locked in, everything's good, 100%, then
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  Speaker 1: I take my time to do the longer ones. And
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  Speaker 1: I feel like when it comes to math, math, it's
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  Speaker 1: also a test in how well you understand. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: think the phrasing and stuff, the phrasing, sometimes the answers,
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  Speaker 1: they are there already.
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  Speaker 1: True, true. It's just up to you to read it
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  Speaker 1: and really understand the question. Yeah, you know, once again,
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  Speaker 1: I think PSLE was not my best scores, I would say,
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  Speaker 1: but I only locked in like for O levels. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know whether it's because it took me a while
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  Speaker 1: to understand like, oh, you know, this is actually a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. But please write and show your workings clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Don't lose marks over not showing the steps and the workings, please.
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  Speaker 1: But all the best. We, we know you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: You got it. You got it for sure. My advice.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's subjective because I, I already said I'll
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  Speaker 1: do it in the opposite way and showing clearly. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: checking the question, reading everything, OK, but that one is
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  Speaker 1: common sense lah, so, OK, did you know a know
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  Speaker 1: it all back in school? Oh yes, or even after school,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Actually different people for different segments of life. OK, OK.
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  Speaker 1: So I was Mr. Know it all for music knowledge. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you were Mr. Know it all, but not the arrogant kind.
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  Speaker 1: It's the kind where you any question they'll come to
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  Speaker 1: me and ask. OK, so I don't boast it. OK,
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  Speaker 1: but for example, they were like, Hey Joki, who sang
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  Speaker 1: that song Clint Eastwood Grillas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, OK, OK, OK, so people knew that you're the
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  Speaker 1: go to person for like a pop music trivia part
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  Speaker 1: of Eminem and Dido stand. What did Eminem say? Oh, adrenaline. OK. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now you're, now you're showing off.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm just recollecting a phrase carefully, you know. That's
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  Speaker 1: how rumors. Yes, flexing this morning. Then in other phases
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  Speaker 1: of life, you have other know it alls. Maybe a
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  Speaker 1: bit of, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, people, you know, start
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  Speaker 1: boasting about their knowledge on the insurance. Oh, you mean
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  Speaker 1: in adult life, life and all that, right? There was,
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  Speaker 1: there was one, dinner that I attended, OK, and this
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  Speaker 1: is in like my adult life right now, like quite recently.
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  Speaker 1: So I was invited to this dinner where I, I
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  Speaker 1: was a bit scratching my head like what I was
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  Speaker 1: doing there, but I just showed up anyway because they're
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  Speaker 1: nice people. But it was with this one very successful
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  Speaker 1: like businesswoman, and she could have, she could have been
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  Speaker 1: my mum, OK, because of her age, like our age gap.
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  Speaker 1: And she's got such intimidating presence that even all the
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  Speaker 1: dudes at the table who are almost around her age,
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  Speaker 1: like let her speak first, right? And at times where
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  Speaker 1: like there's a conversation, I want to try and contribute
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  Speaker 1: to the convo, if not, I'm so quiet, which is
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  Speaker 1: very unlike me. I'll try and then
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  Speaker 1: There's this dude who said, yeah, you know, I don't agree.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's this, and she said, No, I'm right. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: She said, No, I'm right, you're wrong, like straight up.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, this woman, I want to have her
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  Speaker 1: energy when I'm 70. When you say intimidating presence, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think of two people. Michelle Obama. No, Michelle Obama.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice. She's got aura, but she's approachable. No, I
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  Speaker 1: think of Michelle Yeoh's character in Crazy Rich Asians, the mom, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: Eleanor Young, or the Ama in Crazy Rich Asians. Crazy
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  Speaker 1: Rich Asians when she shows up, everybody, that's my goal.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way people go to greet me. OK, so
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: you were saying earlier about spoilers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for Avengers Endgame, make sure you avoid them on
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  Speaker 1: social media because they're all over TikTok and Instagram reels
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  Speaker 1: right now. But we go from spoilers to how about
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  Speaker 1: me giving you some spoilers when it comes to Asian
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  Speaker 1: Games and how well our team Singapore athletes have been performing. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I want to address some social media comments before I
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  Speaker 1: get to the results, right?
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  Speaker 1: Um, we are wanting them to make sure they perform
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  Speaker 1: at their absolute best, and some of them are setting
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  Speaker 1: national records. Some of them are running season best timings. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't always mean they'll bring home a medal, but as
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  Speaker 1: long as they go there and really push their limits
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  Speaker 1: and show that they are training and whatever, maybe the
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  Speaker 1: government agencies are investing in them are paying off, it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: So I want to say congratulations firstly to Vanessa Lee,
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  Speaker 1: lowering her own national record for the 10,000 m event
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  Speaker 1: to 36.95 seconds. That's the time it takes me to complete,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, 4 km, and some would call her
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  Speaker 1: Vanessa's running twin because they're always seen together, Nicole Low
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  Speaker 1: as well, giving a good seasonal best of 36 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: 48.31 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Brian Lewis for the 100 m event, season best
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  Speaker 1: of 10.33 seconds. And of course, congrats to Shanti Pereira
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  Speaker 1: and Elizabeth Ann Tan, who actually made the 100 m semifinal.
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  Speaker 1: It's happening Japan time, that means Singapore time 6:13. It's
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  Speaker 1: happening today for the semifinals at 6:13 and the finals,
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  Speaker 1: if they qualify at 9:05 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: And then tomorrow, it's Shanti Pereira's pet event, I dare say,
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  Speaker 1: the 200 m and hopefully she makes the finals, which
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  Speaker 1: is happening on Sunday at 6:35 p.m. Singapore time. Well,
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  Speaker 1: in the meantime, we'll be cheering them on every step
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  Speaker 1: of the way. Um, I, I do agree with you
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  Speaker 1: when you say something about the.
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  Speaker 1: Comments though, because when I was, I went to comment
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  Speaker 1: on the, the Team Singapore post that they put up
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  Speaker 1: about Vanessa. Hello, fellow Puma girly, just that we have
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  Speaker 1: very different skill sets. We bring Vanessa and Sean into
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  Speaker 1: the studio. Can you, can you ask your Puma? I
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: get my people to reach out to their people. No,
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  Speaker 1: but I was gonna say, um, being an athlete is
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  Speaker 1: so difficult too because the netizens suddenly will become critics
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  Speaker 1: at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw some comments that I really wanted to like,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to reply to them, but I didn't. But
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  Speaker 1: these people are saying, oh, so good, then where's the medal? Guys,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you what was the distance? 100 m 1,010,000
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  Speaker 1: m and of course for for for Shantier 200 m. OK, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you guys, you know, you want to be experts,
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  Speaker 1: you first.
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  Speaker 1: After all that, can I also give a shout out
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  Speaker 1: to our fellow SEA country, a Thai sprinter by the
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  Speaker 1: name of Puripal Beau Bonson, right? It's always a proud
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  Speaker 1: thing when somebody from Asia is able to run 100
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  Speaker 1: m below 10 seconds. He did it in 9.95, and
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  Speaker 1: that's not his fastest. His fastest is 9.93.
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  Speaker 1: So we're getting that much closer to hopefully one day
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  Speaker 1: an Asian in the Olympics in the Olympics finals winning
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  Speaker 1: a medal for their country in the region of Asia. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having our fingers crossed, that's for sure. Meantime, before
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  Speaker 1: we hit 7 a.m., we've got a special dedication going
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  Speaker 1: out here. Say hi to Jazza. Mummy Jazza says, hi
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  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim.
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  Speaker 1: I want to give some love to my son, Afi
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  Speaker 1: Jazil from Saint Gabriel's Primary, taking his PSLE this year.
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  Speaker 1: Today is math paper, so please, mommy's begging you, don't
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  Speaker 1: be careless, please.
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  Speaker 1: All the best to you and the rest of the Gabrielites.
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  Speaker 1: Love mummy Jazza. I mean that's the ultimate worry for
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  Speaker 1: your math exam, right. That's what my dad told me
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  Speaker 1: all the time as well. Don't be careless. please don't
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  Speaker 1: crash out before you get to school. We know that
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  Speaker 1: your papers are about what, like 8-ish in the morning?
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  Speaker 1: 8:15 a.m. That's one and then two is at 10:30. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: sending you love. Anyway, coming up, um, I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to share this one because it could be relevant, could
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  Speaker 1: have been relevant to any one of us.
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  Speaker 1: Um, you know, the whole idea of being able to
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  Speaker 1: get into the school and the course of your choice,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe even getting a, a rare chance to, to,
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  Speaker 1: to secure like an MBA, for example, not all of
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  Speaker 1: us are able to do it, OK. In fact, between
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  Speaker 1: the two of us, neither one of us has an MBA.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if Harvard offers me a, I'm going, but
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  Speaker 1: along with that comes fees as well. Your fees are
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  Speaker 1: not going to be cheap for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, just looking at this case right now, this
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  Speaker 1: Indonesian lady, she's, she's 28, OK. She managed to secure
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  Speaker 1: herself an MBA at SMU. However, it also comes with
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  Speaker 1: a price tag of over $80,000 Singapore dollars. OK? And
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  Speaker 1: um it is, yeah, it is, it is expensive, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not as bad as if you end up going overseas
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  Speaker 1: to like you mentioned, Harvard or something, you gotta pay
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  Speaker 1: for your
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  Speaker 1: You know, boarding and so many other things, the currency
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  Speaker 1: difference as well. Yeah, yeah. So you know it is
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  Speaker 1: an honor to be able to get qualification.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have to have the smarts, you also
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  Speaker 1: have to have the determination and the time to do
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  Speaker 1: these things, right? So she so very badly wants to
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  Speaker 1: do this MBA and she wants to accept, um, to
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  Speaker 1: be accepted into the 2027 class, but because of the
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  Speaker 1: steep price tag, she's taken to the internet to crowdfund herself, OK?
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  Speaker 1: And basically, in simpler terms, ask for sponsorship.
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  Speaker 1: OK. What are your thoughts on that? You tell me first,
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  Speaker 1: then I'll tell you what the response from the public.
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  Speaker 1: Willing buyer, willing seller. OK, as simple as that. And look,
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  Speaker 1: having been on Twitch for a couple of years and
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  Speaker 1: very in the know of the live streaming scene, right?
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  Speaker 1: Not so much here in Singapore, but I've seen overseas
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  Speaker 1: streamers and they take advantage of
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  Speaker 1: The people who watch them, and again, really this is
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  Speaker 1: based on my personal observation. It's those really hot and
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  Speaker 1: pretty looking female streamers, right? They will put like a
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  Speaker 1: crowd fund goal to to get maybe say a new
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  Speaker 1: phone or something. They'll put it there and then people
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  Speaker 1: actually donate.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't call it donate because it's not
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  Speaker 1: really a person in need. There will be people who
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  Speaker 1: will be giving money, enabling the behavior willing buyer, willing seller,
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  Speaker 1: and I, I credit this lady for being absolutely smart
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  Speaker 1: by taking advantage of maybe how she looks or or how.
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. You know what, here's the thing, like
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  Speaker 1: she tried, OK, she tried. slammed. She got slammed, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, OK, reactions were mixed, but it was more
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  Speaker 1: backlash than support, I would say. Let me read out
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  Speaker 1: some of the comments, OK. Begging for an MBA is wild.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of student loans? Another one comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever heard of an elevator pitch? Why don't
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  Speaker 1: you work first and save up for your MBA if
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  Speaker 1: it's not important now?
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  Speaker 1: Um, these are some of the, the highlighted comments that
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  Speaker 1: were posted.
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  Speaker 1: Um, because an MBA is like a postgraduate thing, like
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  Speaker 1: you can do it while you're working, so that's what
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  Speaker 1: people do. Um, in fact, I mean, I know of
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  Speaker 1: some people who started working for like 5 to 10
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  Speaker 1: years and then they took their MBA, so maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: something she could consider. I'm guessing, right? If not, why? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you see some people, they, they already have the money
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  Speaker 1: they need, but they say, hey, if I can this,
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: then why waste my money.
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  Speaker 1: So here's, here's my question, OK. It doesn't matter. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to know how you got your funding
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  Speaker 1: to go and do certain things or pursue your MBA,
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  Speaker 1: which is very impressive, like we mentioned earlier, but I
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  Speaker 1: wonder now that this has gone public, what does SMU think?
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  Speaker 1: I'm very curious, like the admissions team and all that,
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  Speaker 1: does this affect it at all? I'm very curious to know,
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  Speaker 1: that's all. I don't think they should. Like it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter how she got the money. This is the girl's
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  Speaker 1: personal problem and personal issue.
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  Speaker 1: SMU should get involved if somebody on their staff board says, oh,
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  Speaker 1: good money now. OK, never mind, I pay for you first,
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  Speaker 1: you come to our school, OK, which is a crime, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: unless it's like a written contractual agreement that everyone in
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  Speaker 1: SMU is is uh aware about. I don't know about that,
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  Speaker 1: but let's tread carefully on that because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want that to be taken out of context.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that a scholarship? Yeah, yes, yes, yes, but we
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  Speaker 1: don't know how it works.
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  Speaker 1: Works, I guess, especially for this case personal take on
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  Speaker 1: this one. Anyway, um, whatever she's going to be up
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  Speaker 1: to to try and secure her MBA, all the best.
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  Speaker 1: OK lah, I'm gonna open a crowdfunding also crowdfund my
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: house your house crowdfund my house at the Marina Bay
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  Speaker 1: area more than $82,000 lah. Take advantage. What do I?
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I'm sorry, what do I get in refund
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  Speaker 1: in return?
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: What do I get? Good question. Remember for me. No thanks.
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  Speaker 1: Can you please donate generously? No, I only donate to
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  Speaker 1: those in need. Can't believe we're coming close to the
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: end of September right now, but welcome to Friday and
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the weekend is finally here. And starting today, yes, if
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: you have an EV or a PHEV, they want you
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: to vote over at One Motoring, and please take this seriously.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: You are, you are voting for your future and also
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: your aesthetics for your car.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Because they're giving you three options for potential designs for
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  Speaker 1: differentiated license plates for EVs and PHEVs. Design number 1,
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  Speaker 1: white letters on dark blue background. Design number 2, black
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  Speaker 1: letters on light blue background, and design number 3, black
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  Speaker 1: letters on light green background. OK, let me see the
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  Speaker 1: last two.
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  Speaker 1: The center one. OK. OK, OK, OK. So Sonny Chow
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: because you drive an EV that's gray in color, gray, OK.
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: Which one will best fit the gray aesthetic for you?
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: To be honest, none. OK, if I had to give
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: to our friends over at LTA if I had to pick, OK,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: if I had to pick, actually the blue is quite nice.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: It's not exactly blue, it's like teal, you know, it's
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: in between. Yeah, it's, it's quite nice.
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  Speaker 1: Although I wonder whether the black lettering on that background
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: you're able to see much of the numbers. Yeah, that's
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: why I feel, and this is not to sway your
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  Speaker 1: votes or whatsoever. I think majority might go for design
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  Speaker 1: number one. This, this looks neater.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And this looks more obvious with the blue and the white.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: EV compulsory? This could be for EVs of the future
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  Speaker 1: when you purchase a new one. So I don't know
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: whether will there be like a nationwide movement where, OK,
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  Speaker 1: all those who drive EVs go and change your license plate,
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  Speaker 1: we will sponsor that kind of thing.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see. Because, you know, OK, um, here's
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  Speaker 1: the thing, right, for some cars, especially like your fancier EVs,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people really value the aesthetic side of it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I've seen people select like different types
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  Speaker 1: of plates just for that, right?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Like sometimes you see the yellow, you know, the yellow plate? Yeah, yeah.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't necessarily mean anything, it's just aesthetics.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe like a, like a Porsche, for example. I don't
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: know if I can imagine a Porsche EV, I'm not sure.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that that's just my point of view.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: And to our friends over at LTA and SCDF, look, we,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: we know lah. It's, it's very tough to make everyone happy,
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the designs for the number plates
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the EVs and PHEVs. So thank
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you for doing what you do. We know it's not easy.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: So if you wanna let your voice be heard, log
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: on to one motoring. I think it starts today.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: All the way to October 9th. So did they do this?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: It's just easily identify EVs or what? Identify EVs and
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: make it more obvious. So at least we know this
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: is this is a fuel. There you go. Oh, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: why are people parking in the EVs and not being
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: honest about it or?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Do they just want to encourage more EVs? I'm not sure.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I is there a goal here?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Identify any, I don't know, OK, for example, there's a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: potential hazard, and if the car were to choi choi
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: touch catch fire whatsoever, I think one look at the
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: license plate, if they can still see it, they know, OK,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: EV then they have the proper equipment to I settle
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the issue.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: OK, right, maybe this was addressed previously. So maybe, maybe
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: how you tackle issues from an EV and a petrol
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: car could be different, yeah, I suppose so. OK, that
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: could be one of the reasons. I don't know why
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: when you say blingy, right, I think of bananas Yi
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: because it rhymes with her name. That's a username and
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: congrats to her, by the way. Oh, she's expecting. She's having.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she is having a baby. Oh my gosh, I
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: see all these like.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Creators that we watched kind of like, you know, growing
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: up in this industry. OK, I wouldn't say growing up lah,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: but we, we grew along with them, I would say
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: in that era of like discovering YouTube and all that, right?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: So I think this year is a big year for
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: pregnancy announcements from media personalities. We've got, we got John
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and Pat as well, John of Daily Catchup, and congrats
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to Nick and Hong Ling. Yeah, so many people are
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: expecting children. Don't look at me like that, Joe. Don't
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: look at me like that. Come on.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: What, what, what is up with everyone asking me? I
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: just got married like a few months ago. What are
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you talking about? Yes, are you ready to find a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: partner and settle down?
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: you ask me, I ask you back, OK. On that note, yes,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I've been looking again if there's any updates, you'll be
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the first to find out here on 987. God send
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a sign or something, you know.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Every Sunday I go to church, sometimes I will ask God,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I'm like, it's so sweet. Any, any chance up there?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You actually pray for me to be attached to find
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: someone good for you. You're kidding. No, I'm not kidding.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it pop to my mind, then when it does,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I'll be like, OK, by the way, God.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Like if there's any nice girls out there, please send
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: it to Joakim's doorstep. If you've been praying if you've
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: been praying for the last 6 years, I think stop
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: praying don't waste time. OK, so, um, about to open
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: up phone lines in just a little while, 669-11987.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I think you're, you might absolutely laugh at me for this.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Do you want me to tell you the story now? Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: it's in your contract, right, with MediaCorp. I mean to
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: just laugh at me daily. Yours is a sitcom. Oh,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: thank you. Thank you, thank you. Someone should adapt it
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: into an actual sitcom. Maybe we can earn some money.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: The life of Sonia. OK, can I, can I tell
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: you what happened just yesterday that made me come to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a realization, OK? And I would love to open up
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: phone lines for this OK, in a few minutes. We
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: have time. You can give us the director's version. OK,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: I'll give you, I'll give you a not so quick summary.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: So my podcast is on. Let's go. My favorite show
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: is on. OK. So you know, I've been picking up
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Palle for in the recent months, right? And I think
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: it's been
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: It's been some time since I properly played because I
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: injured my ankle, if you remember, about a month ago.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So I was told, you know, the doctor just let
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: it be for a couple of weeks and then
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Check it out again. If it's still swollen or it's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: still looking bad, you know, you might want to lay
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: off it for like before you carry on your story,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: if you're in the car right now, if you're tuned
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in to us wherever you are here in Singapore or overseas,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: if you're rolling your eyeing pedal just like any other influencer, no,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: let me, let me vouch, let me vouch for Sonia.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: She plays it. She doesn't necessarily post about it every day.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I don't and she and Jeremy actually make a very
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: good team. So well done. We only make a good
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: team now because I'm a bit better and we don't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get angry with each other it's not paddle. You are
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: actually playing paddle. Well done. OK, thank you. I didn't,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't actually ask to say that, but it's fine. Anyway,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the point was yesterday I was in a, in a game.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And it was one of those, it was like an
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: event in some ways. Um, but at the same time,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: there were a lot of very good players there. In fact,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: most of them were like coaches, for example, OK. So
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: they were there to also like just help you out
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, make the whole experience quite fun.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Then if you do need people to stand in, because
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: there's not always 4 people at any one time, they will,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: they will hop in as well. So I said, OK, OK,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: we do that.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: So we played, right? And you know, every time in
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: our friendly games with our friends where we do a
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: good shot, we will sort of like tap each other's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: rackets very lightly. Just, it's like a high five in
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: a way. Yeah, it's like clinking of glasses. I don't
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: know who started it. I don't know whether it's actually
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: even a thing like overseas or is it just here,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Um, but I just follow along because I'm a beginner. Like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I I don't, don't know what is the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: etiquette when it comes to racket sports. What's the famous Romans, right? Yes.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And I mean, OK, so I played with, um, one
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: of my friends who's a really good squash player, and
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: she also tapped the racket. So I was like, OK, she,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, she must know racket etiquette, right? etiquette.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So then I played with these, you know, professionals, and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: um when we had a good shot, I was like, yeah,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: then I, I, I went forward to tap the record.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They didn't tap my record. I felt so rejected. Instead,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: he offered a high five. Can I, can I guess why?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: So I, I can guess why. I'm guessing that maybe
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: his record is very expensive. Yeah, yeah. Not saying that
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: my record is not good. I mean, it's a beginner
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: and I treasure it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: But maybe I might be a little bit rougher with
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: it compared to these pros who must have invested maybe
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: even a few $1000 in their equipment. So then, yeah,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: so no, I only just realized that because I've never
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: played with like people of pro level, right? And they were,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: they were going very easy on me, obviously. So I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: texted the group chat and I said, guys, I think
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: we should stop, um, tapping the record because it makes
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: us look like noobs, you know. Clearly, I was pretending
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: like I knew what I was doing.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: So in just a few minutes, we're gonna open up
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the phone lines after 8, OK? Here's a question for you.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you're
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: just pretending like you know what's happening and you know
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: what's going on, you actually have no idea at every event.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: OK, I can't wait to open up phone lines for
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: this in just a little bit. All right. So earlier on,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I was sharing with Joe about my experiences yesterday at
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: a paddle game with a bunch of pros, OK, because
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: they're coaches and all. And when, you know, usually when
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: you get a good shot in my friend group, we
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: will just tap our racket.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: But somehow, when I was at the game yesterday and
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I offered to tap my record, they they, they rejected
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: me and offered a high five instead, to which it
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: got me thinking, oh, maybe they don't want to damage
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: their record because they're pro level. So I texted my
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: friend group immediately saying, guys, I think we should stop
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: tapping our record because it just shows that we're noobs.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Like we're beginners, um, and it just got me thinking
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: about this question. Have you ever, in any phase of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: your life, be it in school, at home, at work,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: have you ever pretended like you knew what was going on,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: but actually you got no idea? I think Sonia knows
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: this about me, um, and I don't mind sharing it
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: publicly on air, OK? Go ahead. This is me at
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: every single food tasting.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Or wine wine related. You know this yeah yeah you
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: know this. OK. So earlier in our career, you know,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: as two young 987 DJs, yeah, we always get invited
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: to these things and we will go to network, to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: meet other people, to meet clients and to also try
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: some of the food and then we talk about it
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: on air we did we did a YouTube series for
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: a while actually. Yeah, I I I I didn't know
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: what I was doing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Do you still remember an example like of a particular restaurant?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, our very first restaurant that we went to,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: which is no longer there already, uh, they, they served
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: us some duck pasta and all that, and the chef, yeah,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: duck ragu or something, and, and the founder of the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: place was explaining to us every single thing or what
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: he put in and all, and I was just nodding.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I, I, nothing was going in and that's why
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: if you can find the episode on 987's YouTube, I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: don't even know if it exists anymore. Sonia is yapping.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, yeah, I agree. It's very good. Yeah,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it tastes very good in my mouth. Yeah, can I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: tell you something, Joe? I was making things up as
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I went along. I dude, we were too young. Yeah,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I was still a student. Like, did I know what
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: I was saying.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: And it was at that moment I realized, look, I'd
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: rather pay for my own food. If it's a new restaurant, yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I'll go myself as a paying customer. I, I don't
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: need all these food tastings. You tell me that you
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: put the, the garnishing or the olive or some special
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: chicken that's been marinated for 2 hours. No need. It's OK.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I think nothing has changed for you since then. He's
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: still just as clueless. I just want to eat. Yeah, OK.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Just give him pasta mayorin Tai Fong. He's good.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Am I wrong? Can I, can I
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: say something? If you serve to me pasta mania and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: you put it in very gourmet style plated it and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you told me that it's some Michelin star winning Italian
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: chef that prepared it, oh dear, I might believe you,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you know. OK, OK, OK, noted, not at this area,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: I might be scammed.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And for example, if you go to 7-Eleven and you
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: buy the cheapest bottle of wine and you pour it
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and you tell me there's some vintage winery in France
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: or Italy.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I'll believe you. What, what do you think I've been
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: serving you all this time? Thank you. Yes. What do
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: you think I've been ordering at our dinners? Recycle the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: bottle and you change you can pour the cheap one inside.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm not that much of a scammer. OK.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: So yes, so for me it's every single food tasting
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: that I go to in the past at least. I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: was just nodding like I understand like, yeah, I wouldn't
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: know how you prepare the Oaka fish. OK, OK, OK.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing, um, Joe, right?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Um, I've had enough meals with you to know this
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: also about you, and I, I mean, there's, honestly, I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: don't think there's anything wrong with it. But recently, um,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: when we went to eat at, well, you did bring
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: us to Oakai at the end of the year last year, um,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I think Joe like describes the dish or the meal
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: in two words, good not or not so good. These
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: are the two phrases, that's it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Goodnight. And then he just nods.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And he's like, oh, I'm just appreciating the finer things
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: in life. No, you know what, we are not food critics.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Neither one of us are food critics and that was
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: just something that we did in the past. And that's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: why whenever I read reviews from not a reviewer.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: From your everyday influencers, I'm like, do you really know
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: what you're talking about, but OK, who am I to judge? Well,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: we did that and er there's nothing to help us
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: except our brains. It's. Oh, OK. Did you just Google
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: that now?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Give us a call 669-119987 or drop us a WhatsApp message, 90050987,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: based on both of our experiences, OK? Have you ever
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: found yourself in a situation, be it at school, at
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: home or at work, where you were simply pretending like
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: you knew what was going on, but
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: In fact, you're quite clueless. This could have happened to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: anyone at the workplace. OK, so we are going down
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to our messages right now. Actually, we're getting quite a
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: number of stories here this morning about the times where
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: you just pretended like you knew what was going on,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: but in actual fact, you had no idea.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: In other words, in, in every phase of my life,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in school, I've pretended many times that I knew what
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: was going on in class, um, at work, sometimes, you know,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: it's just going by you and you have no idea
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: what people are saying and it happens. I confess that's tasting,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: wine tasting, even a perfume event. I've never seen you
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: at a perfume event. There was one, maybe once, once, sorry,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the one that we were together, right? So they were
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: explaining the fragrance and they were saying.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: The names of all these flowers where I'm like, what
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: flower is that again? Oh, OK. It's just like when
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: you throw different types of colors to joke, you know, like,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: he will, he will get lost. Thankfully my poker face
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: is still OK in the pictures that came out. It's OK.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It was quite dark. It's fine. Stop it. Want to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: say hello to Chong, who says, hey guys, like what
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Taylor Swift says, and I can do it with a
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: broken heart. They said, Babe, you got to fake it
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: till you make it, and I did all the time.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'm at work as a sales leader, you need to
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: know it all, or else how to look like you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: lead your team. You have to be convincing and you
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: have to be confident, right? So even if you're not sure,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: just find out later, but just act confident first. And
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Candace is saying something you might be able to relate to, Sonia.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Those times when I watched the World Cup or any
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: football matches with my friends at sports bars, I don't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: know what was going on. They cheered. I cheered. They
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: made a disappointing, oh, I also went, oh.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I still don't know what offside is and why people
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: get angry. I was really just there for the vibes
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: and beers. Hey, me too. Candice, you and I can
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: hang out 100%. OK, offside means um when you kick
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: from an area that's outside.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Of the field of the line outside of the line,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: just read the text for us please. So what's offside?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you later off air. It's OK. It's a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: bit too complicated to explain on air. Come on, complicated.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Offside is, is, for example, if I'm attacking the goal, right,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: but I'm already, I'm already behind the defenders in their
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: half before the ball gets played to me. I got lost.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I just 5 seconds.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: It's the 5 seconds I'll never get back. It's OK.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: I love triggering Joakim in the morning. It's one of
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: my favorite hobbies. I fell for that trap, you know.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You know, I tuned out one second in, right? to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: explain it to you.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And I still didn't listen. OK. Um, actually, I want
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: to say hi over here to um Jack who said,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I've been playing tennis for a long time.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: The correct way to tap your racket is not frame
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: to frame. It should be framed to string tap. Like,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: you know, the, the bit of strings on your racket.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on. So wait, let me, let me
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: finish first. To elaborate, the one who offers the tap
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: should open one's string bed, so the string portion of
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the racket. The recipient should just gently use the frame
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to tap on the string bed of another's racket. So
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: just avoid the frame to frame. However, OK, I
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with that, yes. I tried tennis a few times,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: but for the paddle racket is different. It looks different
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: as well. If you just take a look at it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: It doesn't have strings or uh like a bit of strings,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: it doesn't. It's just, it looks like um like a
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: racket made out of cork, I would say.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: That's cod and then there's a lot of holes. So
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the whole thing kind of looks the same. There's no
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: like strings or anything. So in that case, that's the
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: reason why I think they just don't tap the racket period.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: They just don't, don't tap it. On that note, the
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Singapore this weekend.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, that's what, that's what he's saying. So, sorry,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: just to clarify, Jack, um, you know, the peddle racket
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: looks a bit different, so I wonder whether there's any
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: difference there too. So maybe if you're there, or if
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: there's event, they offer a frame to string.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I guess you only do it for, yeah, doubles, so yeah, OK,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: it's OK. We've got plenty of messages coming through before
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: we get to your, your phone calls. OK, say hello
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: to anonymous texter. Morning, so. I think better I stay
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: anonymous for this one. OK. At work there are times
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: whereby my boss will ask me to do a certain
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: thing or to come up with a certain process or
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: anything like that. I can go, yes, yes, can, can,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: no problem. But actually after that I went to go
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and check GPT for a solution.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: So just give this, just give assurance first. This guy,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: this guy really? I mean, look, with AI now, you
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: have no excuse not to know what's going on, I
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: guess in a way, right? Just be careful how you
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: use it, OK? Yeah, because AI can make mistakes too, yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I wanna say good morning to Ken. Ken says, this
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: is me at every meeting labeled strategic planning. Oh no.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I can only imagine.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: One more as well coming in from, I think your
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: name is it anonymous be careful, yeah, anonymous, anonymous. OK. Morning,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joakim. This is me every time I go
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to the gym, especially active SG gyms, pretending to warm up,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: which I have no idea if I'm doing it right.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Then quickly go to the next available machine so that
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I don't look lost. After a while I went home.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, no. I mean, look, sometimes it can be quite complicated. Actually,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: you know, going to the gym, especially if you're a
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: first time, it can be quite intimidating. You might want
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: like someone to guide you for the first couple of times,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: then you can go on your own. Yeah, exactly. Anyway,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: back to the topic of the day. Have you ever
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: at any point in your life, you had no idea
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: what was going on, but you just pretended?
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: You tried your best to survive. We have a confession
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: on WhatsApp, Sonia. Here we go. Is it anonymous? Yes, morning,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Joki. Please don't name me. I've been in
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the F&B trade for more than 20 years. I started
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: as a hawker in my family business, then to cafes,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: bistro bars, buffet, restaurants, from service crew to multiple outlets manager,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: but there is one area in F&B I was missing.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: It's like infinity stones, you know, fine dining. Last month,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I smoked screened my way through a job interview, and
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: now I'm in a hotel restaurant in fine dining. My
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: first task was to learn the menu. To me, all
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: these fancy words on the menu are so alien to me.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I spent two weeks of my own time after work
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to Google and understand the menu. Guess what? On the
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: 4th week they changed menu.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I feel your pain. Honestly, sometimes when I look at
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: some menus, if there's no description, I'll be just as clueless.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Come on. So if you work at a fine dining
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: restaurant on behalf of everybody who feels the same way
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: I do, thank you very much for understanding the menu
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: and doing a good job to explain it to commoners
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: because you put the menu in French, there's no English translation, Gigi,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I mean if you are.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: At a level where you're really at like a Michelin
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: star restaurant, they will come out and explain it to you.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: So I wouldn't be too worried about that. But still,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: the staff that do that, they have to do a
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: lot of research. They have to be very prepared for
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: any sort of questions, you know, like what's in the dressing,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: what's in the sauce? Like you need to know like,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm butchering it, buffet beef boon, beef, I'm
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: in trouble. I know, I think you just put three
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: dishes together, you see. I think, I think based on
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: what gibberish you was saying.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: We have Jerome on the line right now. Jerome, uh,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: tell us what, what was the moment where you pretended
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: like you knew what was happening? No, I say, you know,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: can you go to the supermarket to get something and
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I was doing something and then I'll be like, OK, sure,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: I'll get it. But when, but when I get back
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: home and pass it.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: So she would be like, why did you get the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: wrong item? I'll just go like, I thought you said that. Well,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: there I just get get get pass with it and
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I'll just quickly get out of the house to do
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: other stuff. Jerome throws the smoke screen and walks away.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: He just, he faded out. He faded out.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Wait, so how many times has this happened already that
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: you weren't exactly listening and you got the wrong items,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: and she still trusts you. Once in a while you can.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Only once in a while in a while, you know,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: you can't play this often. Yeah, yeah. You have to
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: be alert the rest of the time. 80%. Yeah. Jerome,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your call and hopefully you
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: buy the right things.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: At the supermarket this weekend. Take care, Jerome. So, last
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: couple of texts and our final caller of the day.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: We got one coming in from Sylvest. Yes, the question is,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: have you ever found yourself in a situation where you
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: had no clue what was going on, you're simply pretending
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: to know. And I relate to this text message 100%.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Hey guys, two words, wine tasting.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I used to be clueless too. Every time I swirl wine,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I just pretend I know what's going on, especially when
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I smell it. I just pretend I can smell certain
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: flowers or ingredients within the wine and go like very
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: familiar for someone else to smell it and identify because
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know Jack. Let me give you a tip here, OK.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I'm no professional, honestly, and I used to be just
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: as lost, but because of certain like work settings or
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: like social settings, I tried to pick it up a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: little bit. But prior to me knowing more, right, I
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: used to swirl and then I'll, you know, do a
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: sniff and you're supposed to like really breathe it in, right,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: and see if you can recognize some of the notes.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: My first words would be, it's very elegant.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Try it, try it. Seriously, it works. So elegant. The
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: next time at a social event when Sonia says very elegant,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: if you hear laughter, it's me. I don't say it
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: much anymore. That was my crutch last time. Wasn't there
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: a Skills Future credit you could use to go and wine? Uh,
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you can get your WSET with Skills Future apparently. Yeah,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: but I don't know whether it's.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Still happening now. Maybe I should go and do this. Yeah,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: because I think there's a bit of a debate over
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: whether that should be considered a skill. But at least
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: over the last decade or so of drinking wine, I've
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: discovered my favorites, Pinot Noir and Malbec wine. Malbec, that's it.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Pinot Noir, the most generic ones, which is fine. I
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: like Pinot Malbec. Yeah, OK, see, the only one that
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: he ever, I tell you, I know.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Ugly Olio from Pasta Mia and Annie Malbec from supermarket.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: That's a, that's a.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: We got A who sent us a voice note. So
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: what happened?
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: Hey, morning soldier. Um, I'm a Grab driver. I don't
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: pretend anything. All conversations are just on and off. I
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: picked up this Machi. She pretended that I know her
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: whole family. I don't know why. So when she came
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: in and then she wants to go to Geylang, and
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: then she says, uh, very tired, but Machi have to
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: go to Geylang, you know, uh, to buy crow po lah,
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I have to buy fish, buy chicken. I'm like.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, OK, uh, she has to buy for because her daughter,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: you know, uh, you know my daughter Fatimah, ah, that
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: one lah, Fatimah, ah, you know what, uh, uh, suddenly
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: I know, you know, the daughter, no, that, so I,
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: so I say lah, oh, Fatimah, ah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: coming back, ah, OK, so the machi, ah ah, Fatimah
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: coming back, uh, uh, from Australia, you know, Australia, uh, I,
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I know Machi my Australia lah. The machi say, yeah,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: she coming back, she like this one.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: And then the children, you know, she got 2 children,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: 2 boys. Then you know Hassan, uh, her children, then
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: I say, oh, Hassan, the first one, then she say, no,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: the first one was boy. Then I think, OK lah,
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: if not the first, then the second, so I say, uh,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: the second one. Then she say, uh, then you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: suddenly I know lah, the, the Hassan. So suddenly I
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: know her whole family lah, yeah, very funny lah, this
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: uh Machi, very cute.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: What a cute voice note over there. Can I just
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: say I love voice notes like this. I know it
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: makes me laugh. It makes me smile. And just a
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: little while, we're so excited to let you hear this because,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: you know, Khaled's going to be here in Singapore very soon.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: He's one of the most like talented artists of our time,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I feel. Yeah, and tickets are on sale.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Available for you over at Ticketmaster.sg and the concert happens
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: November 24th. And now look, this is the kind of
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: meet and greet and VIP experience I don't mind paying
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: for because if you do get a VIP ticket, you
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: get one-seated ticket, of course, a meet and greet with Khalid.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And an individual photo opportunity with Khaled as well. Nice.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: That's what I'll pay for for a VIP experience, yeah,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: for sure, for sure. And now I think of my
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: ticket for Coldplay and all that face palm is it?
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, um.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: For what it's worth, you still had a good time, right?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: You just, OK, for that price you expected at least
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: you know a meet and greet, is it? You know
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: what angers me a little bit controversial as well, OK.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I paid almost $1000 for a Coldplay ticket, which I,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: which said an experience of a lifetime. In the end,
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: it was a backstage tour where everything is Googleable. That's firstly,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: but you get to be in the presence of and
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: some of the fans actually expected like a group picture
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: with Coldplay and meet and greet at the very least.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: None of us got it, but when the concert was
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: over and some people were posting it.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: We realized that a lot of the sponsor families or
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: all the very, very VIP people, they got pictures taken
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: with Coldplay, and then some fans are like, hey, we
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: paid so much for a VIP ticket. At least give
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: us this chance to meet them for a quick second
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: you at least get like a signed merch or nothing,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: no signed. OK, at the very least I would have
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: thought maybe they were.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Get them to sign some t-shirt or something, give it
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: to you. That that would have been cool too. And
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: that's why this VIP's a good one. Yeah, greet with
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: him and a photo with him. Yeah. So hey, um, we,
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: we didn't get to see him just yet, but he
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: did drop us a call and we managed to have
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: a chat on the phone. Um, the next few minutes
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: is going to be quite surreal for us because we've
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: been playing his songs nonstop.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: And every single time he releases something, boom, it's on
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: our show. We have Khalid with us here on 987
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: and Khalid, I'm gonna start with this. Is Khalid still young,
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: dumb and broke? I will say, I will say youth.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: The thing about youth is, it is a, a mindset
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: and to speak about.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Myself, you know, I'm, I'm always hungry for more. Although
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I might not be that young, dumb and broke teenager
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: that I once was, uh, I still feel like the
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: story lives on because it lives inside of me. To me, truthfully,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that's still one of my favorite songs to perform even
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: to this day. I, I will be singing.
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Young, dumb and broke until the day that I am
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: in my walker and someone is pushing me around in
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: a wheelchair, I will still be singing Young, Dumb and Broke.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: So love. You know what is so relatable across every
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: different phase of life. I think we can still play
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: it and be like, yeah, we vibe with it for sure.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: But as you mature and you know, we've been following
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: your journey all these years, what have you become more
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: protective of? Oh, I've really become a lot more protective
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: of my piece. I think uh my piece is is
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: something that's really big as I become.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: You know, a little bit older into my adulthood, being
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: 28 now, starting to make music when I was 18.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I feel like when I was younger, um, I used
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: to spread myself really thin and I never really saved
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: that energy to pour back into myself. And so now
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: I think worrying, not worrying, but protecting my peace, protecting
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: my health, my well-being, those are
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Just at the top of my list. One of my
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: personal favorite songs from you is Satellite. I cannot wait
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: to use it for a very good travel video in
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: the future. But on, on that note, where is the
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: most or what is the most interesting place or video
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: that you've seen your music being used for? I, I
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: think interesting to me is knowing, OK, I've put out
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: this music for, it's been a decade since I've put
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: out this music. Sometimes I kind of
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: That I forget these songs. I don't really live with
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: these songs every day. So I think for me it's
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: always when I'm seeing a viral video on TikTok and
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: my song is in the background or I'm seeing a
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: creator listening to my music, or I think those moments
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: are always surreal, even when it comes down to, for me,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a really big portion of my career.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Uh, came from SoundCloud and and the accessibility that it was.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: My career started from creators being able to see creators
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: like Kylie Kylie, creators and legends and icons like Kylie
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Jenner using my music and using location on that story.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: You know, so I think every time I see my
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: song being used in the wild by just anyone creating.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: It is, it's really incredible. But you know, speaking of
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: all the stuff that you see online, right, um, we
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: of course see you online as well, but is there
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: a version of Khaled that your inner circle sees that
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: we don't know about? I have been trying to put
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: my personality out there a little bit more, but it
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: is hard. It's really hard. I feel, I feel really
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: safe around my friends and I think that when I
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: feel safe, I'm way more
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Expressive, talkative. I, I just, I like to dance. I
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: like to, I like to have fun and I like
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: to ride four wheelers. I like to get dirty and muddy.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: And, and I, and I'm a little adventurous and I
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, my, my listeners don't really see
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: my adventurous side, but I love a snowmobile. I love
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: a four wheeler. I don't know, just live life to
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the fullest. Is there a weird activity that you just
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: really want to do? Like on that note, just following
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: up from that question, I've only went to zip line.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Once or twice. Maybe one day I want to work
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: up to going skydiving. You're going to love it. Extremely
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: afraid of heights, but I love pushing my fear of heights.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: And like I said, I went zip lining maybe once
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: or twice and it was so scary, but it was
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: so I just felt so free.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: And so maybe I'll feel feel a similar free freedom
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: by hopping out of a plane one day. Who knows?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, we have a zip line here in Singapore,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: but I think I want to put him on the slingshot. Yeah,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: like a bungee bungee. We're both adrenaline junkies. Come with us,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: come with us. Oh my God, I would love to.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: You know what? Let's let's let's plan something if you're
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore and if you have time. But, on
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: to a little bit more introspective and maybe say reflective question.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: You mentioned earlier you've been doing this since you were 18,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: you're now 28.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: In an ever-changing music industry and even life as well.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: What has been your biggest win in your career or
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: in life so far? My biggest win in my life
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: was creating the album American Teen.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I think that that is my biggest win. Not that
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: I haven't had songs that I feel like have impacted
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: me in amazing ways, but to me, when I look
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: back at that album, I really wrote that album when
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: I was 1718 years old. To me, that is such
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: a huge win because it set me up to a
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: life where I'm still performing these songs 10 years later.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: My listeners still feel impacted greatly by these songs, and
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: I was able to be a part of a cultural, um,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: generational shift when it comes down to music, you know,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: being one of the first artists to talk about, Send
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: me your location in a song. And now it's a
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: common tool that we all use, and I think those moments,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: being able to say
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: I wrote American Teen and I lived it and I
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: put it out there into the world. That to me
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: is a win because that, regardless of me not being
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: a teenager anymore, that to me is a timeless album,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: so I'll forever be thankful for that. With the wins
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: that we celebrate, we also learned from the losses. What
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: has been your biggest loss and how did you bounce
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: back from that, if you don't mind sharing? One of
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: my biggest
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Losses in my life. If we're speaking about even American
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: teen in relation, when I put out American Teen, I
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: had a lot of lot of hope for that album
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: and I got nominated for 5 Grammys for that album
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: and I didn't win any Grammys for that album. In
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: my more premature mindset, I was a little, little heartbroken,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: if you will. I was a little heartbroken because
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: I lived my entire life in my mind to make
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: it to the Grammys, and I still have so much
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: respect for the Grammys now, uh, but it really put
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of things into perspective. For me, it really
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: reminded me what we're doing is because we genuinely love it.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: The joy, the impact that that that music has on
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: the world. To me, that's it's bigger than an award
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: because some of the music that has inspired me to
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: become the artist I am today.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Might not have had, um, you know, a platinum record
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: or might not have won awards. Uh, awards don't amount
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: to talent and, and I think that that was a
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: lesson that I, I really learned early on.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: And it allowed me to create music from just my
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: genuine soul instead of thinking, OK, well this music is
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: going to be a world renowned hitter. I'm going to
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: win this, I'm going to win this. I'm like, no,
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: I want, I want to win life by.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: By being myself and creating from my heart, a loss
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: that turns into a win. Thank you for that. You
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: just you speaking, even though we can't see you on camera,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: like we're just smiling because you radiate so much joy, honestly,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: like that's one of the things that we love about you,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: even though, I mean, we're acting like we're besties now,
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: but yes, we didn't even speak prior to this. Yeah. Um,
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: just a fun one before we let you go. I
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: think we're going to be out of time very soon,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: but here in Singapore, just to take you into our
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: culture a little bit.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: We kind of love queuing up for stuff that's hyped
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: up here in Singapore, you know, like when things come through,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: something popular happens, we're like, oh, everyone just queues up
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: for something. Even for your tickets. Yeah. Is there, that, yeah,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: that might be more virtual than anything, but even so,
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: it's a queue. Is there something that you wouldn't mind
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: standing in line for? Incredible, amazing, Michelin, just like food,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: like a great.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Plate, a great meal that I know that the chef
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: and the team took their time to craft and create
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: from their heart. I will stand for hours for a
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: beautiful plate. I love food. So food and ice cream,
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I will stand in line for ice cream. You will
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: fit right into Singapore. Plenty of which we have available
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: for you here in Singapore. Khalid, I think that's all
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the time that we
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: have with you. Is there anything else you'd like to
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: say to your fans in Singapore before we let you go? Hey, 987,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: this is Khalid and I want to give you guys
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: so much love. Shout out to Singapore. I love you
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: guys so much and see you soon. Time for some
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: food news. 123, food news. Food news. Sonia with the
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: good food news and given how it involves G Dragon,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I got the power, the power, power.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: But hey, he certainly does have the power, star power,
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: that's for sure, because he just scored a collaboration with McDonald's. Congratulations, dragon. Wow,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: this must have been a big one.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: So you might be wondering what do McDonald's and G
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Dragon have in common. I wonder who's the bigger winner
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: for the collaboration. Is it McDonald's or Dragon? I think
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: they both win, man. Seriously, I think it's McDonald's walking away,
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: the biggest winner, getting G Dragon on board their campaign.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: You know, sales are gonna fly. That too. I'm just
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: surprised G Dragon hasn't had a collaboration with Mercedes for
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: the G-wagon.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as in seriously, that could have been hilarious. Anyway,
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: focusing on the one with McDonald's right now, um, they
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: were teasing it for quite some time with some of
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: his signature imagery, you know, like the flower with the
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: petal falling off, like that's very dragon, a few things
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: that they were dropping as well. So people immediately thought like, oh, collap, collap, collab.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Here's what's gonna happen is it will feature bulgogi burgers.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Hats and tote bags and it's all with G dragon's
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: signature designs on it. So, the first thing you can
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: experience is the brand new spicy bulgogi chicken burger. Sounds
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: so good. Spicy crispy chicken glazed with that sweet spicy
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: bulgogi sauce and you've got your fresh lettuce as well,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: available from the 1st of October. I believe it also
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: comes in um a beef version too.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: And don't and beef. 15th of October, spicy nuggets are back.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah. Oh, you mean it? Yeah, I didn't even
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: realize it left. It keeps going and coming back Novel.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: So from 11 a.m. on 8th of October onwards, if
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: you're a big fan, you can score limited edition merchandise
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: that were made in collaboration with G Dragon's fashion label
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and it includes, like I said, tote bag, a pin set.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Um, they're quite affordable, $12.90 $5.90 with every purchase of
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: a meal. But if you decide, oh, you don't want to,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: you're not so hungry that day, you just want to
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: buy the merch, you can still get the bundle comprising
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: of both items for $18.80. With that said, I wonder
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: whether is anyone still keeping the packaging from the McDonald's
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: BTS meal. I'm sure, actually, I'm sure some people like
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: they wash it.
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: It out and then they, they store it well and
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: just make sure that it's part of history, it's stored well.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: So I wonder what the packaging for the Dragon would
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: be like. We'll find out very soon. We'll find out, yeah,
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: but so far looking quite cool and I think it's
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: there's some offers that are available at selected outlets too.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: So please go check out your nearest outlet to see
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: what they're offering.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Um, but yeah, you have a few days to get
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: yourself ready to get some merch. Wow, BTS and Dragon.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: I wonder who's next. What, what about the Blackpink girls?
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: Have they done? They did something, I feel, right? I
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: can't remember. Was it Oreos? Yes, Oreos, right? Or was
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: that BTS? BTS and stuff, right, right, right. You know what,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: if Blackpink were to be featured in McDonald's, I'll pick
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: one member only, Rose.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, actually her song would totally um fit. Rose
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: McDonald's collaboration that has to happen soon. Yeah. OK, well,
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens next and who's the next collaboration
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: in life. I just realized just to quote the song
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: this year 2026 here in Singapore, to quote the song Hocker,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: you got something to tell me or what? What's going on?
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: A lot of home wrecking cases. 00, if you think
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: about it in the news, or just in general.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Going with this news is subjective, but if you read
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: up all the things that's happening on TikTok and Reddit
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: here in Singapore, you know what, I stay far away
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: from Reddit. I can't. It's a cesspool of like a
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: lot of terrible people and opinions. Yeah, I know it
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: can be quite scary, but it's very, very alarming how
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: some Redditors when they post, right, they seem to have
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: every single detail.
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got to which I'm wondering whether some of
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: these Redditors actually friends of the person, someone who is
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: known in the circle, hiding behind a burner account and
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: taking this chance to just go and write whatever he
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: or she wants to say you know if the if
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: the victims or the people who are in this piece
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: of like in this thread, right, want to put in
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: the effort to find out who it is, they can,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: they can escalate it and find out who it is.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Online harms commission here in Singapore. Exactly. So be extra
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: careful what you say and post. Again, hiding behind a
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: burner account doesn't mean they can't find out who you are.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: It's true, yeah, OK, odd way to wrap up the show,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: but I agree with you. I agree with you because
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: it's popping off, man. Reddit. I'm sure you just fill
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: me in on the tea. I will. You just give
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: me the summary because I can't, I can't do it
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: like reading through the comments I really can't.