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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 31032026 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Wake up.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Up next to.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way.
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  Speaker 2: It's Sonia and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the final day of March. Hope you're wrapping
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  Speaker 2: up the month nice and good.
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  Speaker 1: Today and tomorrow, please make sure you read the news
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  Speaker 1: extra carefully because it's April Fools. You don't want to
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  Speaker 1: get uh
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  Speaker 1: pranked.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's for sure. Well, stay tuned for more. Singapore's
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  Speaker 2: number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 2: Sonny and Joakim here with you on your final day
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  Speaker 2: of March. I cannot believe time flew just like that.
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  Speaker 2: Joakim's gone out to get some tea, um, the literal tea,
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  Speaker 2: not the verbal kind, because if not, he'll get it
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  Speaker 2: from me instead. That's his standard line like every couple
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  Speaker 2: of days. Any tea for me? Any tea? Any goss?
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  Speaker 2: That's typical of our friendship. Uh, here's hoping you had
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  Speaker 2: a great start to your morning. If you're up this early,
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  Speaker 2: you're already headed to school, work, gym, whatever it is, uh, we,
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  Speaker 2: we are with you every step of the way. Joakim's
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  Speaker 2: back from his tea time, or rather taking his
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: tea.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, very sad to report that the pantry has run
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  Speaker 1: out of Japanese green tea. Oh no,
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  Speaker 2: but, but you're like pretty much, I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you're like the only person in the morning who, who
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  Speaker 2: takes that.
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  Speaker 2: No,
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  Speaker 1: no,
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  Speaker 2: Majority of us are coffee drinkers.
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  Speaker 1: It's like
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  Speaker 1: when it's there, it's a miracle. When it's
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  Speaker 1: gone, it's expected.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like how sometimes when we go out to
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  Speaker 2: the pantry at a certain time, I will notice the
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  Speaker 2: pantry auntie taking out the nicest stuff, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: if you don't catch it at that specific time, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be gone in 2 minutes. There's someone
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  Speaker 2: here on this floor, or maybe some people that know
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  Speaker 2: exactly what time the auntie puts the nice snacks there.
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  Speaker 1: Sonia and I.
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  Speaker 1: There's a pantry thief. There's there's somebody who's stocking up
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  Speaker 1: on supplies using Media Corp's biscuits and drinks, but
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  Speaker 2: that's, that's about all they have, the
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  Speaker 2: biscuits and on the tea.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I'm gonna use the word allegedly
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  Speaker 2: alleged
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  Speaker 1: for
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  Speaker 2: legal
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  Speaker 2: reasons,
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  Speaker 1: yeah, just in case.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I did have an experience, several experiences before when
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  Speaker 2: my food from the fridge got taken, right? Yeah, and
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: something else I forgot what really, but anyway, it's a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago, and I think um.
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  Speaker 2: Um, someone from a couple of years back said that
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  Speaker 2: her bread or something got stolen.
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: I can't remember, but someone told me that
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  Speaker 1: too. So if you're schooling and if you're still using
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  Speaker 1: the lunchbox system with your parents, make sure you label
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  Speaker 1: your lunch this habit.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't label it initially because it was just based
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  Speaker 2: on trust. I mean, we pretty much recognize everyone on
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  Speaker 2: this floor, right? But I guess now they still got
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  Speaker 2: no name, they just take lah. In the words
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  Speaker 1: of every parent, so naive, so naive.
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  Speaker 2: I've learned through my mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, coming up in just a little bit, um, there
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  Speaker 2: was a bit of an interesting situation where the police
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  Speaker 2: got called in for and it happened here in Singapore. OK.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whether this falls under Bodo crime. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, but I'll tell you, then you figure it out. You,
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: you let me know, OK? It's Nal Horan dinner party
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  Speaker 2: right here on 987 Singapore's number.
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  Speaker 2: Number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: Places
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  Speaker 1: you won't find me at
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  Speaker 1: a dinner party?
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  Speaker 2: Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Unless it's with
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  Speaker 1: a close friend.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, this is a very joking
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  Speaker 1: thing. But if it's those social events, dinner parties,
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  Speaker 2: what if, what if like someone like a close friend
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  Speaker 2: of yours says, oh, I got invited to this dinner
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  Speaker 2: party at someone's house, really nice place, you know, nice dinner, um,
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  Speaker 2: but you know your best friend, like you know your friend,
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  Speaker 2: but you don't know anyone else there. Why? Just open
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: yourself up to meet new people.
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  Speaker 2: No, OK,
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  Speaker 1: OK, depending on how I feel that
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  Speaker 2: day, huh, then I have to wait until the day
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  Speaker 2: to find out what's your answer. Hell no. No wonder
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  Speaker 2: no one asked you to go for a dinner party.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. People know me very well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I know you too well. Anyway, um, earlier
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  Speaker 2: on I said I'm not sure if this categorizes under
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  Speaker 2: border crime or not. And if you know, usually we
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  Speaker 2: don't do border crime this early in the morning, um,
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  Speaker 2: but if you, it's, if it's the first time of
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: you hearing that phrase, usually we try and address, um, crime-related,
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  Speaker 2: we say it with open inverted commas because sometimes they're
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  Speaker 2: really silly.
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  Speaker 2: Um, sometimes they don't actually get into maybe like uh
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  Speaker 2: police troubles, but they do get approached by authorities because
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  Speaker 2: they might have done something
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  Speaker 2: silly.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, we don't. No, no, no, no. We
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  Speaker 1: question the questionable ones.
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  Speaker 2: We do question it. Yeah. So this happened um in
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  Speaker 2: a private hire car, OK. And honestly, when I read
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  Speaker 2: this story, right, like it, it can be pretty scary.
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  Speaker 2: And I've never heard of this happening, at least not
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  Speaker 2: here in Singapore before. Um, a customer that actually booked
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  Speaker 2: a car on a, maybe I won't say which platform
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  Speaker 2: it is, but there are only that many platforms in Singapore, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: got locked in a car for an hour after her
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  Speaker 2: driver refused her digital payment. He insisted on cash. OK.
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  Speaker 1: I have plenty of questions. This one is
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  Speaker 2: categorize it? Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: on these private hire platforms, right, there is the option.
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  Speaker 1: You can click on cash payment, online payment.
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  Speaker 1: Did her options say online or digital or cash payment?
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  Speaker 2: She
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  Speaker 2: opted for cash payment on the booking pages according to her,
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  Speaker 2: to her.
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  Speaker 1: Has she done it
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  Speaker 1: before?
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  Speaker 2: What do you
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  Speaker 1: mean? Like, has she done this kind of thing before?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah I think
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  Speaker 2: so, yeah, for sure. Haven't you done this before too?
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  Speaker 2: So you always do digital
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  Speaker 1: I will
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  Speaker 1: always go digital and I'll top up my apps wallet.
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  Speaker 2: OK, yeah, same. So I go digital most of the
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  Speaker 2: time simply because I don't have cash. Yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 2: quite rare. However, that being said, if the cash option
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  Speaker 2: is already on the app, right, shouldn't the driver has
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  Speaker 2: no right to reject it? Am I right?
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  Speaker 1: So you
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  Speaker 1: said online payment, so that means she tried to use
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  Speaker 1: Pay or something,
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  Speaker 2: OK, digital payment, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. So, so that's why the drivers might be
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  Speaker 2: getting into trouble. So here's the thing, um, he was
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  Speaker 2: unresponsive when she tried to contact him, you know, drove
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  Speaker 2: there very slowly, apparently, this is all according to her lah, OK.
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  Speaker 2: And um it took her quite long to reach her workplace,
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  Speaker 2: which is way longer than the usual 30 minutes. I
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  Speaker 2: think it took almost 1 hour, she claimed.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe he, I don't know whether he wanted to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, get more money out of her. How, how
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  Speaker 2: does that work? I don't really know. But
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  Speaker 1: if this lady has done this kind of, I guess
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  Speaker 1: the driver was a little bit
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  Speaker 2: difficult. He was being difficult for sure because she wanted
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  Speaker 2: to pay the $24 digitally now. She didn't have enough
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  Speaker 2: cash for it, you know, and all that. So it was,
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  Speaker 2: it was, it was a challenging situation, honestly, a little
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  Speaker 2: bit scary when he did that. Um, the audioal lasted
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  Speaker 2: about an hour, but the police were called in. So
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  Speaker 2: thankfully everything is OK.
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  Speaker 2: Um, you know what, sometimes money disputes, man, it always
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  Speaker 2: starts because of money. But the driver get charged? Don't
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  Speaker 2: know yet, so they're still investigating. We'll, we'll see where
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  Speaker 2: it goes. But according to some sources, private hire drivers
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  Speaker 2: generally have to accept both cash pay now or whatever
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  Speaker 2: digital payment as long as both.
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  Speaker 2: Parties are on the same page and if it's offered
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  Speaker 2: on the app, right? I don't think they actually have
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  Speaker 2: a right to say cannot, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe next time all of us can learn from this.
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  Speaker 1: The moment we enter the private hire car,
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  Speaker 2: establish it,
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  Speaker 1: is it? Yeah, we just say uncle, auntie, or bro, sis,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna use pay now. Is that OK? Oh no, OK,
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  Speaker 1: let's cancel the ride.
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  Speaker 2: That that stuff also, man. Like they had to book again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God. Remember, remember there was one time we
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  Speaker 2: were rushing to a work thing and this cab driver,
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  Speaker 2: even though he has the NETS machine that works and
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  Speaker 2: we didn't have enough cash combined, he refused to take
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  Speaker 2: the nets, remember?
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  Speaker 1: That was the first and only time I've seen you
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  Speaker 1: blow up in person because
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  Speaker 2: we
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  Speaker 2: were going to be late for the interview if he
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  Speaker 2: kept us in the cab any
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  Speaker 2: longer.
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  Speaker 1: And that was 12 years ago and that is why
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: whenever I go to Ritz-Carlton, I think about you.
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  Speaker 1: That was our drop-off point, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, if you know, you know, but that was a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago. And it's time to open up the
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  Speaker 2: phone lines. 669-11987. 1 of our favorite things to do
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  Speaker 2: this morning before you get to school or to work.
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  Speaker 2: We love to hear from you. Tell us what school
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  Speaker 2: you're from, what's the best part about your school and
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  Speaker 2: maybe when joking.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: and I should come on down.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday we had Mirabel from Girls. Who will we
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  Speaker 1: get today? There are over 400+ schools here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: We have barely made a dent. How many schools did
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  Speaker 2: we get so far?
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  Speaker 1: 30?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say we skimmed the surfaces the
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  Speaker 2: surface, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So we're gonna keep going and we would love for
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  Speaker 2: you to also get a dedication through and a song request.
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  Speaker 2: And
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  Speaker 1: maybe if you're a bro, let me know if I'll
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  Speaker 1: see you tonight at the National Stadium. Oh, right,
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  Speaker 2: there's a game. Hi, I'm Oliver. Hi Oliver, morning. Which
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  Speaker 2: school are you from? We're from NTU NTU,
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  Speaker 1: finally, a university.
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  Speaker 1: Oliver, what course are you doing, man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm studying sociology.
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  Speaker 1: And who are you with right now?
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  Speaker 2: I'm with my friends, uh,
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  Speaker 2: in canoeing. We're actually on the way towards Mary. I
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  Speaker 2: love that. Can we say hi to your friends? We
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: heard them in the background just now. What's up
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  Speaker 1: guys.
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's all, all dudes, is it all guys? Can I?
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  Speaker 2: There are two dudes and 2 girls. 2 dudes and
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  Speaker 2: 2 girls. Can I ask,
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  Speaker 1: what's the monkey situation like in the mornings when you
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: leave your stuff at the canoe shed, right? Do they
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  Speaker 1: go and cook the stuff?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite bad. They will come and take our stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, like, like what? Just anything or like
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  Speaker 2: they're looking for food or have they taken anything from
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  Speaker 2: you before?
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  Speaker 2: Uh, mostly food, but they will take someone to
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  Speaker 2: dirty our paddles also.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: What? Yeah, you know, now when you leave bottled water
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  Speaker 1: in the bag, the monkeys know where they'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: They
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  Speaker 2: know how to open the bottle. That's insane. They've
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: evolutionized.
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: You do realize that that was the whole theory of humans,
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: but yeah, that's true. Anyway, uh, what song can we
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  Speaker 2: get you today and who is it going out to?
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: Can we have chocolate from the 1975? Bit of a throwback.
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  Speaker 2: We got you. We're about to play that right now.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy it guys. Have a great day canoeing.
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  Speaker 2: Thank
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Hope to see you and see you.
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  Speaker 2: What a great track. Thank you, Oliver for requesting it
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  Speaker 2: this morning. Going out to you and your canoeing buddies
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  Speaker 2: from NTU. Every day we do this, OK? We want
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: to hear from you and I think just the magic
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  Speaker 2: of being able to request for your song to get
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  Speaker 2: your voice heard out there. We love that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm
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  Speaker 1: so glad we had a university. Yeah, I, I think
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow I'm, I'm manifesting for an ITE or poly.
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  Speaker 2: OK. We'll see, right? Now we've expanded.
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  Speaker 1: OK, disclaimer, this is for fun.
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  Speaker 1: In another universe, Sonia Chew, if you were a master thief, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: because in this life I'll get caught in 2 seconds,
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  Speaker 2: you know me, OK,
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  Speaker 1: you're
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  Speaker 1: stealing hearts this life, OK, but in another life, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a master thief, what is the one object of desire?
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  Speaker 2: and I can steal anything. Yeah,
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: would
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  Speaker 1: you be an art thief or a
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  Speaker 2: jewelry thief? OK, no, no, a bit too challenging. I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe that.
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  Speaker 2: Like I actually thought about it,
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  Speaker 1: right? The
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  Speaker 1: painting is, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: exactly
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  Speaker 2: how to
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  Speaker 1: carry.
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  Speaker 2: I need to get all my coonies. I have to
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  Speaker 2: pay them, um.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe like, you know, that that that beautiful yellow diamond
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  Speaker 2: that um Lady Gaga wore. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: recall it, but it's like a very rare one from
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  Speaker 2: like I think Tiffany and Coh or something. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that plenty of heist-related videos or um scripts have been
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  Speaker 2: written about it before. So maybe that one, yeah, maybe that.
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  Speaker 1: Can I one up you, Sonia, because this actually happened.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere along central Italy to Poland, thieves actually made away
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  Speaker 1: with a truck.
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  Speaker 2: A truck, yes, filled with what?
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  Speaker 1: 400,000+ bars of Kit Kat.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say bars of gold. OK,
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  Speaker 2: that would have been interesting. Do you know, OK, do
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  Speaker 2: you know that when Kit Kat posted that statement, I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a joke, you know.
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  Speaker 1: No,
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  Speaker 2: wait, do you think it's an April Fool's thing? So
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: I, I, I, I'm looking at the date of it.
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  Speaker 1: It was reported, it's a bit too far away from
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  Speaker 1: April Fools.
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  Speaker 2: When did they post
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  Speaker 2: it?
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  Speaker 1: A few days ago.
• 11:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it could be leading up to April Fools.
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  Speaker 2: That's how they play
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  Speaker 2: it.
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  Speaker 1: I highly doubt it because news like that might drive
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: down their stock value and everything like that.
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  Speaker 1: Because
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  Speaker 2: I think its, in fact, I think it drives it
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  Speaker 1: up. We're talking 12 tons of Kit Kat bars stolen
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  Speaker 1: just like that, and now other fast food and chocolate
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  Speaker 1: outlets are trolling Kit Kat. Domino's Pizza is saying, what
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  Speaker 1: we really feel for our friends over at Kit Kat.
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  Speaker 1: We now announce a Kit Kat pizza.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: No, you see, this could all be an April Fool's thing,
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  Speaker 2: a Kit Kat pizza. Come on,
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  Speaker 1: I highly doubt it. So you know the phrase have
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: a break, have a Kit Kat. Yeah, I think with
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  Speaker 1: 400 bars of Kit Kat, these
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  Speaker 2: 400,000
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  Speaker 1: 400,000 bars of Kit Kat, these teas have a happy retirement.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm very curious what they gonna do with it,
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  Speaker 2: like resell it for money.
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  Speaker 1: So
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  Speaker 2: if
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  Speaker 2: if this story is true, what are they gonna do
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  Speaker 2: with it? I,
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  Speaker 1: I really think it's true. Our friends over at Kicker
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: are asking people to monitor the batch number, and the
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: moment they see a match, please call them and let
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: them know where it is and where they found it.
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: You
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  Speaker 2: know, that's gonna be tough. I never look at the
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  Speaker 2: fine print on my chocolates or like biscuits.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think there'll be a study done?
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  Speaker 1: On how it was conducted and maybe shown on Netflix
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the central Italy version of Primewatch is.
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  Speaker 2: I
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: don't know, man. That would be, is that gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a comedy or is that gonna be like a documentary?
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  Speaker 2: It's confusing. But hey, um, they did mention that it's
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: not gonna disrupt the, the output of their chocolate supplies
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  Speaker 1: aren't affected, so there you go. What
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  Speaker 2: a relief, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: How interesting. Why, why did they target the Kit Kat truck?
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: That that's the question all of us want to know now.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they thought it was Gold bus lah. They thought,
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  Speaker 2: can you imagine they thought it's gold bars, they opened
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  Speaker 2: its chocolate, like what the heck? What a waste. Coming
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: up in a few minutes before $6000 you know, over
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: the course of the past few months, I've been going
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: through a lot of wedding-related conversations, right? And I'm learning
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: so much because I'm realizing it's not just the kind
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: of thing where you show up and party.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: So.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: OK, it's
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: wedding. No, no, no,
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: it's, it's not whose wedding it is, but regardless of
• 14:17
  Speaker 2: how simple or how big your wedding is going to be, right,
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: there are going to be some standard questions that will
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: be asked and decisions that have to be made, correct?
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: No matter how big or small your event is. So
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: coming up in a few minutes, the issue of dowry, OK.
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it depends on how traditional your families are and
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: you know, how you want to exchange dowry and what
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: what constitutes to a dowry.
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: For my family and Jim's family are very simple. It's,
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna be like some $10 million thing or
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: like some car or like whatever. It's we're normal people.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: $10 million thing. Can you adopt me, please?
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: I say it's not gonna be, um, but for this
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: particular man.
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: Um, he is actually about to receive, or rather he's
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: received already, something that is close to $10 million in dowry.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: What are you doing wrong that is true? Firstly, unfortunately,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: you're not 25 years old at this point because this
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: guy is 25, yeah, you could have seized the opportunity
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: back then. I'll tell you more about this very peculiar
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: story that has gotten
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: Both good and bad comments lah, as the internet is
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: always like, right. So like I said earlier, um, in
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: the midst of all this wedding talk, right, um, you
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: already know me very well. I'm not the most bridal person.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: My family is not the most traditional as well. So
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: we've been keeping things very, very simple. But I do
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: know that I I've witnessed certain friends from maybe different
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: cultures or maybe even like.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: The countries that take it very seriously, things like the
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: dowry exchange, things like the quarterly, as they call it,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: I think, where they, you know, have the suckling pig
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: and all that stuff,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: and I know in the news sometimes they report the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: extravagant ones. Yes,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: for
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: sure, for sure, people can give, I don't know, diamonds,
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: a Rolls-Royce, like that kind of stuff,
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: right, that level that money.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: I know, I know, but I'm.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: It comes with their own set of, you know, issues
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: that us normal people cannot relate to. Um, this very
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: controversial beauty tycoon, she is a lady, it's a lady. Yeah,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: I know you hear tycoon, you might think it's a guy, right? Um,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: she's 55 years old. She's on to her 6th marriage
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: right now with a 25-year-old guy. This is why it's controversial, OK.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: And he has received a dowry of close to $10
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: million Singapore dollars. So to be exact, it's $9.3 million
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Singapore dollars. And of course, has made the news everywhere.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: People have their own opinions on social media and all that, um, but,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: but she has, you know, credit to her when credit
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: is due. She's built a medical aesthetics empire, and I think,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: you know, everyone wants to be associated with her. She
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: is super rich.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: To the point where this is her 6th marriage
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: marriage, yeah. So I think, um, you know, obviously people
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: have their own opinions when it comes to I'm married
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: so many times so controversial, you know, like.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: But I mean if she's happy, she's happy if she
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: can afford the dowry, then you know, hey, good for
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: the guy, man. He literally said I wouldn't pass out
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: on such an opportunity. That's what he
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: said.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Can I ask what has happened to the other five husbands?
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I, I think they've got some, they got away with
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: some amazing dowry also, probably,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: right? Are they butlers now or are they at her service?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: No.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: I would look, if you got $9 million in dowry, which, OK,
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: maybe it escalated over time, perhaps even $5 million in dowry,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: you would have enough money to invest and live a
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: nice life for a while, and if you live simply,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you may not even have to work. Yeah,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: don't marry me.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's, I'm not sure if that's.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: In what currency
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: The Shock circuit with Sonia and Joakim on 987.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Coming up in less than 10 minutes, we do have
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: your shot at $6000. As of yesterday, we've officially snowballed. Mhm.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: And not forgetting for this week, what we have for
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: our secret buzzer prize is an experience at Palawan at
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Sentosa worth $1000.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: What's in it?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: We're gonna give you, maybe say the highlight.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Including Hyperdrive, Hydro Dash, Ultra Golf Splashrine, Plus 12 Beach Club,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and the Palawan
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: food truck.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: So basically like an entire weekend's worth of activities. Exactly.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I love it. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: also one of a kind activities you can't find elsewhere
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and the limited time Lego build your dream ride experience.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It happens from now till 30th of
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: April. So basically, it could happen at any time during
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: any show this week.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: In other words, you got to tune in and whenever
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you call through, it doesn't matter whether you get the
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: right answer or not, you already win this.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, guaranteed. The first one is qualify for. Secondly, buzzer
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: coming your way. The third one, yes, you're gonna play
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: for $6000.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Dollars, whether you win or not, it's up to your guess. Yeah,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: so here's hoping that you don't give any of the
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: commonly said guesses which we constantly in the morning. I
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: don't think we need to say anymore, but anyway, watch
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: out and listen out rather for the cue to call
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: happening in just a few minutes.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: 87.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: that
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: And here we go with $6000. We've officially snowballed, and
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: where did this extra $10 come from, huh?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I have
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: no idea, but boss Janice has agreed, $6000 up for
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: grabs starting today here on 987. But of course on
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the shock circuit, your friendly neighborhood Joakim Gomez is banning
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: four answers. Yes. Clicking of the pen, stapler, hole puncher,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and typewriter. These four, if you're calling in to say these,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to hang up and take a new caller.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: OK. I mean, what we're trying to say is don't
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: waste the opportunity. Yeah, that's all. You know, it's very
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: hard to get through the phone lines, so don't waste it.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Listen very carefully and tell us what you think this is.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: One more time
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: You know what to do.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: 87 secret.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: What's that sound?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Good morning. My
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: name
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: is Joshua. Hello
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Joshua.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: How are you feeling about your answer today?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Uh, we'll
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: try, pretty confident. Let's see about it. OK, Josh, if
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you win $6000 what's your first thought? What's going to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: happen with all that money? $2000 for Joakim, $2000 for Sonia,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: $2000 for me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: OK, OK, you
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: better win, you better
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: win. To our, to our friends over at CPIB, we
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: don't know who Joshua is. We
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: actually don't know him. We don't know him. He's a
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: total stranger to us in case. No, but I'm curious, Josh,
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you said that you're pretty confident with your answer. In
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: what way did you experiment about
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: And come across this sound and you thought to yourself, OK,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: this is the secret sound. I,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I was watching some videos on YouTube and I heard
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: this sound specifically to what I heard. Well, I may
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: be wrong, but I'm just giving it a shot for $6000.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Alright, well, listen very carefully.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Joshua, for $6000 what is the 987's secret sound? The
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: secret sound is an egg
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: shaker.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: An egg shaker is your final answer. Yes, that is correct.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Let's find out.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: You are incorrect. Your chance
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: play
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: 987's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: secret
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: sound continues.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Just
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Joshua, an egg shaker. Good guess, but not the answer
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: we're looking for, according to boss Janices. Nope, not the
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: right answer as well.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: I'm really curious, Joshua, how does one use an egg shaker?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: It's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the musical
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: instrument. The musical instrument.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It's a percussion thing,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Sonia. I'm so sorry. I thought it was something you
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: used to peel the egg or something, you know, like, oops, oops,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: a shaker in the shape of an egg. Yes, yes, OK,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: there we go. But hey, Joshua, the good news is
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you're going into the big grand draw. Hopefully you win
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: something over there.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Alright. Thank you very much.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Keep trying. Thank you.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: That's right. Keep trying, Josh. Bye. OK, so like I
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, what some of us might have considered quite
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: an institution, especially back then when we were in school,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: even now, maybe if you still shop there, right? It's
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: unfortunately closing here in Singapore and I believe in Asia,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: they're making an exit. It's cotton on, Joakim.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Bye Cotton On, my friend. They have had more than
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: 30 stores here in Singapore, and I always remember this, uh,
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: back then, right, like when we were just discovering like, oh,
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: we can start dressing up outside of school, like outside
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of our uniforms, right?
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The one place we always go to Cotton On.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Wasn't there like a triple threat, a friendly one between H&M,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Cotton On and Uniqlo?
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: OK, wait, no, at that point, Uniqlo wasn't, I think
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: when I was in school it was more like Forever 21.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: So you're talking more like.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Out outfits or like festival clothes and that kind of vibe, right?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Or we go to like our first music festival. I'll
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: go to Forever 21, Cotton On, and H&M. These are
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: the three.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: 77th Street.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: There were no clothes lah. Did they have clothes? Baggy jeans. OK,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: no I didn't s, accessories. I didn't shop
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: there. That that wasn't the emo kit wasn't my aesthetic.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Surprising though, surprising, by the way, but did they say
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: why is Cotton On
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Asia. So Cotton On Asia is making an exit. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: don't be mistaken because Cotton On is a very big
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: brand in that that exists in many other markets and countries. OK. So,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: so this one is Cotton On Asia, and they just
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: posted it yesterday, actually, they just posted it. Um, you know, they,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: they said that currently, um, with Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Indonesia, um, Singapore as well. They have 30 different outlets, right?
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's just maybe time for them to move on. Perhaps,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I don't really know. Um, they haven't really cited any
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: real hard reasons just yet. 1 may think that it could,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: could be related to sales. Perhaps, I don't know, there's
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of e-commerce sites now that's posing big competition,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: so maybe that could be it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I just
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: checked, they have more than 30 stores in Singapore. That's
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: what
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: I just said. They have more than 30.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: So I think um a lot of the news channels
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: are still reaching out for comment right now. They didn't
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: provide much info in their, in their posts.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And let's be honest, I don't, I don't think you
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: and I and everyone else belong to the class of
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: people that would know the real reasons on why they're
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: pulling out of Singapore.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: It's quite sad.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: It's
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: not whether you belong to the class of people or not.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: I don't think it has anything to do with that. Um,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: it could be just a business decision. Maybe Asia is
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: not such a
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Important market for them right now or not such a
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: big market anymore to operate 30 stores, I think it's
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: So when
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: was the last time you shopped in-store for
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Cotton
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: On? Uh, it's been a while. It's been a while.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I think I've, um, moved on from my aesthetic from
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the past. But that being said, Cotton On still has
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of great basics. I think they evolved, yeah,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: over the years. So we want to open up the
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: phone lines, 669-11987.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: From Cotton On and Forever 21 that has left as well,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and you mentioned 77th Street just now. Do they still exist? Actually,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I don't know, you know. Um, let's,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: let's have some fun with this. Opening up phone lines
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and our WhatsApp channels right now. What was a particular
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: store or maybe a few shops that you used to
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: shop at all the time as a student, as a teenager?
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: That may not exist anymore. Let us know, OK? Or
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: maybe it's still around. You can also tell us about it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna reveal my age here. You
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: ready? What I'm scared. What HMV HM, OK, yes, that
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: was a classic. I wish they were still
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: around
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and they're all here and buying all my CDs, DVDs
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and Blu-rays.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Honestly, good times, right? Good times. I think you had
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: way more.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Experience with that than than me in terms of buying
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: all that.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I was a regular. I had the HMV card. You
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: get stamps, one free CD.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Then what, what was the free CD you got? Uh,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: you can redeem, but there's a certain price limit
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: you can select. OK. Well, give us a call right now.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: We'd love to hear from you. Reminisce a little. Let
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: us know what were some shops that you used to
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: go to all the time when you were a teenager
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: or when you were younger.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: That may or may not exist anymore. Let's bring that back,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: shall we? OK, because sometimes, you know, we say goodbye
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: to not just the physical shot, but the memories that
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: came along with it as well, right? OK. Phone lines
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: are open and in exchange, we'd love to give you
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: a $100 Korean dining experience. We'll tell you more about
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Dream Gold in just a bit over at Weave at
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Resort with the um Cotton On chain exiting Singapore and
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: um I think Cotton On Asia in general might be
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: wrapping up this chapter over here.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: We're just reminiscing a little. What were some shops that
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: you used to visit and go to all the time
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: when you were younger, maybe as a teenager or when
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: you just started working.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: And do they still exist right now?
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: OK, this
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: one happened quite recently. I want to say good morning
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: to Amanda on WhatsApp. Morning guys. Topshop. Oh
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: yes, in the recent few years they closed and
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: zinc Mini Tunes. Another one coming in from Chew saying
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: X Craft and Seventy-seventh Street to purchase piercing needles and accessories.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: It was that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: place.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: I agree. I think all of us would have gone
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: through the time, especially for millennials, where we went to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: 77th Street to get a piercing for like $5. I
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: don't know if you had any ear piercings back then.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: You didn't. OK, so I, I think we, not $5
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: maybe $10. I can't recall, but um, I think I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: got my 2nd and 3rd ear piercings on my lobe
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: from 77th Street actually.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Very
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: happy to report that I was once the hand grip
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: for my bro.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Are you also dramatic one minute it's an end bite, man.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: We went to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: 7-seventh Street. She wanted to pierce his ears because finished
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: school already, right? So he was holding on to my wrist.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: What up, Gabriel? Anyway, one more coming in with a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: different opinion, Sonia. Morning, soldier. Here's a different thought. Some
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: brands are still standing strong. For example,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Bata. Oh yes, yes, look, we've gotten our school shoes
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: from there, right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Keep the calls and texts coming in over at 669-11987
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: or WhatsApp us at 9005098.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: The question is, what are some shops you used to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: visit all the time back then when you were a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: teenager or a student, and do they still exist today?
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: Let's have some fun with this. In exchange, a $100
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Korean dining experience could be yours. We're talking about which
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: shops you used to frequent all the time when you
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: were a teenager, or maybe when you just started working
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: that may or may not exist anymore.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: I think we've opened up a can of worms here.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: know lots of response this morning.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: also it's become a very confusing time for fans of
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Cotton On. Yeah, so
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: you know, just yesterday, right, that in fact, as, as
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: late as last night, 8-ish, news news channels were still
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: posting that Cotton On Asia with more than 30 stores
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: in Singapore, they're officially winding up operations and closing.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Um, but then there's been an update that was posted
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: like an hour ago.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So as of this morning 6:51 a.m. that's the latest
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: update to our friends over at Channel News Asia.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Cotton On office had a panic because a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: spokesperson has come out to clarify in response to queries
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: by CNA. Can I quote the whole article? There have
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: been misleading media reports suggesting that Cotton On stores operating
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: in Asia are being closed. The information is incorrect. We
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: have no plans to exit the Asia region.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Cotton On Asia Private Limited, the liquidated entity, does not
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and has never operated any stores or employed team members.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: English please.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: OK. That's so confusing.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: For example, we are 987 FM, right? And we have
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a 987 FM Europe 987 FM Asia.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: But that's not related to us. No, no,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: it's related to us,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: but we are closing down 987 FM Asia, but 987
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: as a whole is still running.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: OK, I get you. I get you. But then the
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: question is, how, how on earth did so many news
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: channels supposedly get it wrong yesterday?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: It's a game
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: you know what I mean?
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: No, no, I mean, maybe, maybe the, the information that
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: was given was misleading.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, how many, how many articles did you see yesterday?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: A lot. Exactly. A lot. And they were all reported
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: by your reputable news outlets.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: OK, cotton on time for your PR agency to release
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: social media explanation
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: videos.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: And please don't release it tomorrow because it's April Fools.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: This is just a bad time in general, OK. If
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: this was meant to be a joke, it's not working. OK, but,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: but inspired by what.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: We thought it was potentially
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: closing. It's OK. Yeah, we still wanted to walk down
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: memory lane and see what kind of shops you used
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: to visit all the time back then when you were younger. OK.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And do they still exist?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Redda has said, hello, Sonia and Joakim. Not sure if
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: you heard of these, uh, this clothes store called U2
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: in the late 90s and very, very early 2000s. U2. U2, yeah,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I've heard of it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I, I would say.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Did I get it? I need to ask my mom.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: I think she was the one that shopped for me
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: back then. I don't remember.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I always thought that U2 was owned by the band U2.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: Oh my God, help me. Hello,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I'm forgiven for making that mistake. OK. OK. OK. One more. Morning, Sojo,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and you're a Tampines girl or Pasir's girl, right?
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Back then, yeah.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: For me, it's Ronnie
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: Sports at
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Tampines, a place to buy topper and lotto soccer boots
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and also badminton rackets and miss the 29 for skaters.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: Wow, OK, well, you know, there are a lot of these, um,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: heartland malls, right, with shops that are specific to them,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: and they actually stand the test of time, you know.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Some of them have been there since like you're a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: kid till now.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like these three brands, for example, from Sham. Hey
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Sonia and Jokim, I don't know how they're surviving, but
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I'm happy they're still here. Bossini, yes, Hang 10, and Giordano. Yeah, yeah,
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: you know what, these three, are they related to each other,
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: by the
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: way? I'm not too sure they're curious under the under
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the same group or what.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I always remember, um, back then when, when we were
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: much younger as teenagers and when we want to buy
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: like something a little bit more formal or something more dressy,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: we'll go to like one of these shops. Here,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: here's
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: my tongue in cheek explanation on how Giordano survives, OK.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Every National Day period, all the NDP shirts are all Giordano.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: They sell out lah. Yes, Singapore flag and all the
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: designs and all
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: But now our friends at Uniqlo have come in quite
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: strong with the local inspired designs, competition, competition.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Marianne is on the line right now. Thank you so
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: much for waiting and being so patient. So what about you?
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: What shop did you used to frequent and does it
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: still exist? Uh, GG 5, but I wasn't a teenager then.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: That reveals my age. GG 5. Yeah, I think, I
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: think they're no longer in Singapore. It's a local brand. So,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: so is it like a work clothes or what kind
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: of clothes? Yeah, working clothes. Do you still remember like
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: the first item you bought from there? Like I'm assuming
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: it might have been like your first job or something.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can't really remember.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: OK, so I just checked GG 5. I don't know
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: whether it's the correct one, but they still got a
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: few over at Suntec City. One Raffles Place, GG 5 Parkway,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and GG 5's head office. Actually,
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: it sounds about right if they're in the CBD area
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: and she just said that she bought work clothes from
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: there as a, you know, young working adult, don't worry, Mary,
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: you still sound very young.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: We're talking about the shops that you used to frequent
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: all the time when you were a teenager or maybe
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: when you were a young working adult, kind of bringing
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: back memories. Do these shops still exist or not? OK,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this brand, Sonia. Are
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you ready? Hello, Sonia and Joakim, and this is coming
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in from Aika. I don't know if you remember the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: brand Foreskin.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, sounds familiar. What did they, is it streetwear?
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you all have at least bought some bags
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: or t-shirts from
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: there.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: No, they, they're a little like 77th Street if I'm
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: not wrong. OK, if I'm not wrong, yeah.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: One message coming in from Val, who I'm very sure
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: all three of us, me, you and Val are of
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the same generation because I went there a lot. Peninsula
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Plaza for skinny jeans and Raglan tops.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: Can I say I never went there for those things,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: but I did go there.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: To get piercings. Yeah, yeah, OK, yeah, so yes, definitely
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: we've had our fair share of experience.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: So Peninsula Plaza was one of two things, either your
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: sports stuff where Western and the Indian store that was
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: there for the longest time as well, or all your
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: skinny jeans and your chains and all that.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Also wonder if Bugis Street is still as bustling as before,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: because I remember we always went there to buy like
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: a lot of cute outfits with tourists. Yeah, because it
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: has changed quite a lot. Last time it used to
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: be like flea market vibes where, you know, we'll just
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: go and like get cute items and stuff, but then.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I think it started to change where we noticed a
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: lot of the shops were selling the same things. Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Sharon
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: says, Forever 21. This is the shop I miss so
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: much and I shopped a lot in my 20s. Now
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I'm in my 40s, I really, really miss it very much.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Another one coming in.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: This fashion from Franklin. Yes, I remember that too, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Perlini
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Silver or the go to place for your little trinkets
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: and jewelry, especially when you're a student.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, last minute shopping for me for Valentine's Day, a
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: long time ago.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I see. Do you still remember what you bought?
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Like a necklace,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: necklace,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: really not. You don't look like you remember at all.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: hello, I remember all my gifts.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Aisha is on the line. Aisha, what about you? Well,
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: there was a top 20 at Parkway Parade. I was
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: an easterner, an East girl. They sold like the most
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: gaudy clothes. If you remember, big hair and blue eye
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: shadow with pink or green. Those were my days.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I, I don't believe they exist anymore, but those, I mean,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: thank you for making me so happy this morning. I
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: recall being a teenager, right, trying out high collars, big
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: shoulder pads.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: clothes, yeah. Hey, girl, you know what, we, we love
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: your energy and the fact that you know you're laughing,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: thinking of the past, right, because look, for both Joki
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: and I, I'm sure we've had questionable fashion choices before
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: back then. God, completely, completely.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: The one thing I'm really glad they brought back in trend,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: baggy jean
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: jeans.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that will go away anytime soon, but.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm, I'm half smiling, laughing, some tears in my
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: eyes recalling those days as a, as a 14 year
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: old with, with hardly any money. It was like 7.99
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: for the complete dress, OK, and there's a slit that
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: goes right back up to my butt.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: You get rid of that girl.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: And now, now the question is, what can we even
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: get for 790 anymore? Definitely not a dress, yeah.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: We're getting so much response here today from, um, both
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: current and new texters and callers as well. So we
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: want to squeeze in a couple more before we wrap
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: things up. Question is, do you still remember any of
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: those shops that you used to frequent a lot as
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: a teenager or when you were younger, and do they
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: still exist?
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Inspired
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: by what we thought that Cotton On Asia was closing down,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: but as of this morning, they released an article saying, no,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we're not leaving Asia, it's just an entity of our
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: company that's being shut down.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, I think the whole world is confused.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: And uh what we, we read some of these articles
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: of very reputable news channels.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, our
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: papers, our news sites. Hey, I was years old Sonia,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: and I want to thank Rosalie for this. Remember when
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: PS Cafe had a clothing and accessories line. It was
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: called Project Shop Bros.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Is that what PS stands for? Oh my God. Oh
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: my God, I didn't
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: know that.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I always thought PS stands for postscript, you know,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: like PS I love you.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Project
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Shop cafe
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Wow, I, I'm,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: I'm mind blown.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And you've gone on to revolutionize truffle fries here in Singapore.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, your Instagram of 2012, 2013, 2014. It was
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: never the same again. Definitely your Instagram girly had one
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: picture of the PS Cafe truffle fries. And
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: you
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: know what, the fact is those truffle fries stood the
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: test of time, OK? It's still here till now. OK. Oh,
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: you still got one.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: One more bits
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: and pieces for silver accessories.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Ah, OK, I don't recall. I remember Perlini
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: silver. OK, there we go.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: OK, so I might know the answer to this already,
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: but um, I'll ask you, Joakim, OK. Here we go.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: How much do you trust reviews by influencers or recommendations
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: from influencers, especially when it comes to food?
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: Because I, I, I save a lot of stuff that
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: I see. Sometimes it's not even by influencers. It could
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: have been from a regular person, but their video went viral,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: you know, I save it. Can I give you my
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: honest answer? Yeah, yeah, no, I want you to be honest.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: If it's reviewed by the influencer and I can tell
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: that it's a food tasting,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: like a, like a campaign or tasting,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the restaurant says, Oh, come to our meal, we'll give
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: you a free tasting, but you post for us, can I,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: I won't pay any attention.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Hesitant about it,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: OK, but if it's a regular person or like a
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: really certified chef or somebody who knows food like studies
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: food,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: but I would say it's very subjective because if you
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: look at those people of that level, some of them
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: may be paid to say certain things also, you know,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, look, we've been in this industry long enough
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: to know that you, you may be able to discern
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: what was paid and what was not. However,
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: I have to say respect to some food creators or
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: content creators that, you know, uh, create videos that actually
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: looks so organic. It might be paid, but I may
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: not even be able to tell. OK. Um, in just
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: a few minutes, find out how a very low-key place
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: that I've always seen, I've always walked past, especially over
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: at Raffles City area.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Um, it's always been a regular place for people to
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: just get lunch and stuff. Find out why they have
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: massive long queues now that might make it impossible for
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: the people around the area to even get a meal there. OK,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: details in just a little bit. It's Alec Benjamin. I
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: sent my therapist to therapy right here on 987. Thanks
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: for joining us here
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: this morning.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: You know, as we talk about nation building and
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Securing Singapore for the future generations, Sonia. I have a question.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Were you part of the 14,000 people?
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: This is a joke or what?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: it's a real thing
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: because for you to look confused, maybe you have not
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: given in your feedback yet.
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: No, I
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: definitely have not.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Regard to this certain location that you feel strongly for
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: in Singapore. Yeah,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I feel
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: strongly about this. I do. Yes. OK. Is it a
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: place that I live? Yeah. Oh, East Coast. Yes. Yeah,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm a very hands-off kind of person.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Really, really, I'm a very hands-on person. Like I have
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: no say in my condo management team also maybe I should. OK,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: when we come back, some updates coming your way about
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: East Coast Long Island.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: All the details.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Alright, Sonia, were you part of the 14,000 people? No,
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: I wasn't giving in their suggestions and feedback for East
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Coast Long Island plan. Yeah, now
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: I get why you said it's a place that I
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: feel strongly for. I mean, firstly, I do live in
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: East Coast.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: But I, I really have always been the kind that,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: you know, unless there's something very wrong, I might say something,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: but I guess this one is really highlighting the importance
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: of like the recreational area, right, and people want to
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: have a say in it.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: So this project could actually reclaim over 800 hectares of
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: land and its main objective is to protect Singapore's eastern
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: coastline from sea level rise, enhance the national water resilience
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: through a new reservoir.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: And create land for future development needs. So I'm very
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: sure housing, recreational activities, and even to enhance East Coast
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Park as well. So
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: that that's what I'm curious about because when I got
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: my place a couple of years ago, right, they did
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: say it's an unblocked view of the sea, correct? For now,
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: for now, yeah, no, but with the landfill and everything,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: it's gonna take a while before they can do anything.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: So I would say at least 10 years. I mean,
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: I'm no engineer or or or.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: I'm in no construction at all, but I would say
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: at least 10 years, so maybe I won't be living
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: there anymore. But if
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: people
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: are wondering, oh no, then what? East Coast Park, how
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: gonna be dusty, gonna be disrupted? No, the authorities are
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: doing their best to make sure that when work starts,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: it will pose as little disruption to East Coast Park.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: possible.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, so that's fantastic news to us. I think we
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: all know that East Coast is a very important area
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: for us Singaporeans. It's a beautiful place to walk, run, cycle, picnic.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Some people even stay overnight, set up tents and all that.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: It's so beautiful.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: And the
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: running joke for this is we finally know what the
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: East Coast plan was.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Give him a break. Stop it. Don't be mean. I
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: realized that we talked about this earlier and we never
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: got to it. Kind of slipped our minds and forgot.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: But I was talking about some food news and I
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: asked you about whether or not you trust um what
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: influencers and food content creators post out there.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Selectively selectively.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: Sometimes
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: if it really intrigues you, you might go and give
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: it a shot, right?
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: Um, but this particular creator, we actually know her, is Natasha.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, Natasha Tan, as, as you know her. She
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: actually posted about a very no-frills salad kiosk called Simply
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Wraps over at Raffles City, which I'm sure you're familiar with.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I've ordered from Simply Wraps before, never really thought too
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: much about it. I was like, OK, quite affordable.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: Um, decent, decent food. When she posted about it, it
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: went pretty viral. She declared it to be one of
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: the best salad shops in Singapore, and I think given
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: the price point, people were very interested to give it
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: a try. So as a result, the queue was 1
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: hour and 15 minutes long. Take a bow, Natasha. I
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: think you should take some credit for this. Simply
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: wraps, we found you your ambassador for the rest of
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: your lives. Yeah. Yeah,
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: so I think she, she posted about 3 to 4 videos.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: About their menu, their offerings since early March, and they
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: did say, she did say one of the selling points,
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: affordable and it's really massive, like the wraps are like
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: really stuffed with ingredients, um, especially her customized cocktails. So
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I think her cocktail, her customized wrap, and I think
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: each video racked up about 300K views. So as a result,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: plenty of people flocked over there. If you're, if you're
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: prepared to wait an hour, then maybe give it a shot.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: If not,
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: This might have ruined your secret
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: place.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: So given how raps is now in the spotlight, time
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: for us to do something for maybe stuffed.
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  Speaker 2: I
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: think
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  Speaker 2: really good deserves
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the spotlight as well.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Hey man, um, support the ones that you
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: really enjoy and that you love that are around you.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: The F&B industry definitely needs your love. OK, so aside
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: from the fact that, you know, here on the show,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: we always like to have fun, right? At the same time,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: we also want to be involved in very meaningful things
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: that people are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Um, when people want to achieve huge things out there like,
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: you know, run a marathon or a triathlon or do
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: something good for charity, for example,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Natalie. Yes, Natalie
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Dow was our most recent example. Um, tomorrow we're actually
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: gonna have Wilfred here in the studio. He's leading a
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: tour de Cure powered by Specialized, you know, the bike, uh,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: bike company. They are very, very premium, and if you
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: are big into cycling, you will definitely know them.
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  Speaker 2: They're trying to raise at least $20,000 for cancer, and
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: it's a very good cause. They are riding from Singapore
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  Speaker 2: to Kuala Lumpur and back riding for those that they love,
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  Speaker 2: starting on the 2nd of April. So I think they
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: will spend 2nd, 3rd of April, uh, the to and
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: fro trip for them. All
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  Speaker 1: the best guys. Make sure you guys hydrate, get the
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: electrolytes in and do what you
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be crazy because that's over 900 kilometers.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be insane heat, headwinds, fatigue, long days.
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  Speaker 2: On the, on the bicycle. I don't know how they
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: do it. Actually, it's very uncomfortable, right? And even
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: the smell.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I'm sure. So it's, it's really about raising
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: awareness and funds for cancer, and I think all of
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: them have their own personal stories and experiences to share.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: And I've heard that Wilfred is a great, a guy
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: with great energy. So hopefully, he comes in tomorrow morning
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: and fills us in on the mission.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Need to ask what butt pads is he using?
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, it's very uncomfortable. How did he
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: do it? They have a special padding for their bum
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: bums.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: But cyclists definitely have strong legs, man. They, they got
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: to take, take them through the entire journey and glutes
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: and glutes, yeah. Is she on a break now from
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: her tour or is she still going on actually?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, after all the performing and even during the
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: halftime show this year,
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  Speaker 2: yeah,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: let the lady rest for a while.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: wondering what is she up to? I mean, she must
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: be enjoying life right now, hopefully, you know, and I
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: believe she is also potentially a 2026 bride. Actually,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: yeah, she's still touring.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: She's still touring. OK.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: So April 2nd, she kicks off another leg of the
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: tour in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: I wonder where she's, where she's gonna tie the knot
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: because she did mention 2026 might be the year as well.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: So in between her busy schedule, I guess. Anyway, speaking
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: of which, we're gonna get out of here, but we'll
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: catch you tomorrow at 6 a.m. Once again, remember, we
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: do have a special guest joining us tomorrow. Uh, we
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: talked about people running marathons and all that, but what
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: about cycling to KL? All the details coming on tomorrow.