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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 210926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

• 0:03
  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. And here we go
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  Speaker 1: with a brand new week and of course if you're
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: in primary 6, it is PSLE season. It starts on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Not to worry, sending you all the love and energy
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  Speaker 1: you need, and it's Sonia and Joakim keeping you company
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  Speaker 1: here on the shock circuit. Singapore's number 1 hit
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  Speaker 1: music station.
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  Speaker 2: A big week for you if you're taking your PSLE papers.
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  Speaker 2: All the best. 24th
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  Speaker 1: of September, that's the date, but also the launch of
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: Avengers Endgame Encore. OK,
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  Speaker 2: treat
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  Speaker 2: it as a as a reward at the end of
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  Speaker 2: your exams in
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  Speaker 1: cinemas here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, I, I don't really remember what my parents used
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  Speaker 2: to bait me with like for exams. We should totally
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  Speaker 2: open up phone lines for this later on during the show,
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  Speaker 2: but
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  Speaker 2: You know how sometimes you need a bit of motivation.
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  Speaker 1: Sega Mega Drive 2 and PlayStation a long time
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  Speaker 1: ago.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing that I remember from back then.
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  Speaker 2: was that they baited me with an iPod Nano, if
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  Speaker 2: you still remember those. So, so before your iPhones became like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, an all-rounded device, um, there was the iPod
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  Speaker 2: and the iPod
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  Speaker 1: Nano. If you're not a millennial, the iPod was something
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  Speaker 1: that we played on the iPhone.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. So when I was in like sec one, I
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  Speaker 2: had this friend who was the only friend I knew.
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  Speaker 2: had an iPhone, you know. So at that time, we
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  Speaker 2: were all like amazed. We were like, whoa, this girl
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  Speaker 2: must be cool, or like she's got some special access
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  Speaker 2: to someone out there.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember back in 2004, was it 2003 when
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  Speaker 1: the iPod first launched the one with four buttons. I
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  Speaker 1: think I had a friend in school who owned it.
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  Speaker 1: I think his or her parents used to get it
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  Speaker 1: from the US.
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  Speaker 2: yes, and then bring it because it wasn't really readily
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  Speaker 2: available in Singapore, right? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: To school and all of us were like so cool.
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  Speaker 2: When you see 4 buttons, is it the one that's
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  Speaker 2: in a circle and then you can like scroll, there's
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  Speaker 2: another one. OK, no, I never owned that one. Let
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  Speaker 2: me show it to you I can find it. It's
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  Speaker 2: only like when the Nano came about, it was really,
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  Speaker 2: really cool because you have that like um like touch
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  Speaker 2: touch wheel sort of thing. So it's almost like a
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  Speaker 2: touchscreen in a way and at that point, it was
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  Speaker 2: like the coolest thing ever. So.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, memories, man, like all these things that probably should
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  Speaker 2: be in a museum by now.
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  Speaker 1: The iPod changed and revolutionized
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  Speaker 2: the way we changed the game completely. 21st of September,
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  Speaker 2: where did all the time go? Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember the 21st night of September.
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  Speaker 2: 50% of the people may not know that song. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sorry to
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  Speaker 1: say a bar that has a live DJ or someone's
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  Speaker 1: on Spotify or Apple Music, they will definitely play that song.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, why? Because it's the 21st of September 21st I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know that's what the lyrics were.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, hold on. What did I think it was? Do
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  Speaker 2: you remember? You know what? No, you know what? I'm
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  Speaker 2: the kind of person that I'll go, do you remember?
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  Speaker 2: And then quiet September, then I quiet. The rest of
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  Speaker 2: the song I don't know the lyrics. Don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: that is all.
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  Speaker 1: All of us in the world, you're
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  Speaker 1: fine,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just make noise.
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  Speaker 1: Like for example, when Rama's calm down
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  Speaker 2: calm down, yeah, with Selena Gomez.
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  Speaker 1: All of
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  Speaker 2: us
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  Speaker 1: will
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  Speaker 1: go, baby, calm
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  Speaker 1: down,
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  Speaker 2: calm down slow
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  Speaker 1: down slow down.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, that's funny, but what are some songs that like
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  Speaker 2: we have no clue what the lyrics are, we just
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  Speaker 2: make noise.
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  Speaker 1: Rihanna's Rude Boy. Oh
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  Speaker 2: yeah, we only know Rude Boy.
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  Speaker 1: Come here, rude boy boy you beginner. No,
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  Speaker 2: can you give it up, right? OK,
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  Speaker 1: take it,
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  Speaker 1: take it, take it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious. Hold on.
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  Speaker 2: Rude boy lyrics. Hold on,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: OK. OK. Forget the chorus, you sing the verse.
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  Speaker 1: Um, no,
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  Speaker 2: oh, I'm gonna let it be fire and I'm gonna let, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you take me higher. Yeah, get it on, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah, no, no, no one's singing that. OK, I got
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  Speaker 1: one last one
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  Speaker 2: for you. I can't actually the rest of the lyrics
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  Speaker 2: I just realized are, um, NSFW, so,
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  Speaker 1: OK,
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  Speaker 1: last one for you, Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal.
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  Speaker 2: I, I only know Smooth Criminal. OK, can you, you
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  Speaker 2: give me the first line
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  Speaker 1: to the window. It was
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  Speaker 1: the sound of a
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  Speaker 1: thing.
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  Speaker 2: No, actually he's what, if you recall, Olivia Dean actually
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  Speaker 2: did an interview where she talked about um
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  Speaker 2: Singers where they don't articulate their words, and she said
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  Speaker 2: that's one of her pet peeves. I mean, I'm paraphrasing,
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  Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing, but she did say that when she started
• 5:02
  Speaker 2: doing music, one of the things that she wanted to
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  Speaker 2: be very clear about were her words. So she wants
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that people can hear her lyrics. Not
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  Speaker 2: that she's condemning people that, you know, stylize it in
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  Speaker 2: a way where you don't understand. It's just that that's
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that she wanted to do.
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  Speaker 2: In her music,
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  Speaker 1: better not let her listen to classic Jay Cho songs.
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  Speaker 2: She might. I also, I'm Chinese and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what he's saying. Can you stop referencing that one song
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  Speaker 2: that you know? No, it's a different song. He has
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  Speaker 2: many other songs.
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  Speaker 1: The one song always says it's
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  Speaker 2: a problem and both sounded the same when you did that.
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  Speaker 2: I think you stick to your day job better. Coming
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  Speaker 2: up in just a few minutes, something.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that really, really, truly broke my heart when
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  Speaker 2: I saw this, um, article and images over the weekend, OK.
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  Speaker 2: You know that I love my animals, we both do.
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  Speaker 2: And I've especially a soft spot for dogs and anything
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  Speaker 2: that you can keep as pets, really. I've had a
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  Speaker 2: few pets in my life, but now, you know, with
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  Speaker 2: Maxine in our lives, although she lives with my parents,
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  Speaker 2: she is like the sister that I never had, OK.
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  Speaker 2: And my parents treat her like a daughter, seriously, like
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  Speaker 2: because I don't live with them anymore and she's like
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  Speaker 2: the second daughter.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to break it to you,
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  Speaker 2: even though she's her? Yeah, OK. Yeah, fine, fine, fine.
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  Speaker 1: Maxi enjoying life.
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  Speaker 2: I know yesterday, um, it was so funny because my,
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  Speaker 2: my mom went to like do something. So I had
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  Speaker 2: to walk up to my place with my dad and Maxi, OK.
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  Speaker 2: So we went to like go charge his vehicle and
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  Speaker 2: then we took the lift up.
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  Speaker 2: Along the way, she wanted to like stop and sniff around,
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  Speaker 2: you know, dogs just want to like sniff and then
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  Speaker 2: maybe they might pee a little bit or like mark
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  Speaker 2: their spot or something, right? But she's just kind of
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  Speaker 2: curious and sniffing, probably smelled other dogs. Then she go
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  Speaker 2: and lick some dirt on the ground, OK, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what, like a ball of dust or something. So
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  Speaker 2: then I, I saw her like sort of doing something
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  Speaker 2: weird with her mouth, like she was trying to get
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  Speaker 2: something out from her mouth, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, OK, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
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  Speaker 2: So I, I knelt down and I tried to, I
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  Speaker 2: forced open her mouth and grabbed out this ball of
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  Speaker 2: dust with hair. It was so gross, OK. So my
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  Speaker 2: dad like scolded her lah. He was like, Maxi, why
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  Speaker 2: are you like that? Like, don't, don't, don't anyhow eat
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  Speaker 2: dirty things, OK, in his dad's voice. And then she
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  Speaker 2: looks at him like with a pitiful face, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the, like, what did I do kind of face, right?
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  Speaker 2: So I yanked the ball of dust out and we
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  Speaker 2: walked up and he was like, Don't be a naughty girl.
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  Speaker 2: Like he scolded her. So we went up. I could
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  Speaker 2: see he felt quite bad, you know, after that. He
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  Speaker 2: started giving her treats, started telling my mommy, give me,
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  Speaker 2: give me some egg, give me some carrot. My mom
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  Speaker 2: was like, Stop feeding her. She's overweight.
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  Speaker 2: Then I looked at my dad and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: you feel bad, right? You, right? You score just now
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: you feel bad, right? Then he laughed. Anyway, I digress,
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  Speaker 2: but this is just to show our soft spot for animals.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us. So, like I mentioned earlier, very,
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  Speaker 2: very sad news. When I saw this, I felt very
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  Speaker 2: heartbroken as an animal lover, OK? And um, I, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not just like into dogs or like a fan of dogs.
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: It's all animals, right?
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  Speaker 2: And it broke my heart when I saw these boxes
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  Speaker 2: of rabbits allegedly abandoned at a roadside in the Seletar area,
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  Speaker 2: and some of these rabbits are just babies that were
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  Speaker 2: a few days old. Can you believe it, Joe? It's
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  Speaker 2: really sad. Um, several of the female rabbits reportedly may
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  Speaker 2: be pregnant as well. It almost seems OK.
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  Speaker 2: Judging from this, and um I'm just speculating here, it
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  Speaker 2: could be an unethical breeder that didn't quite know what
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  Speaker 2: to do next, because I think some of the rabbits
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  Speaker 2: were not in very good health and not in good
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  Speaker 2: shape at all. In fact, it was suspected that some
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  Speaker 2: of the rabbits might even have been abused or injured,
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  Speaker 2: or I don't know how they sustained these injuries, but
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  Speaker 2: They were abandoned on the roadside in very, very, very
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  Speaker 2: poor condition just two days ago.
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  Speaker 1: So
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there will be an investigation right now. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the
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  Speaker 2: police have been called in to check this out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they might use all the CCTV footage from
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  Speaker 1: lampposts or maybe even uh dashboard camera footage from all
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  Speaker 1: the vehicles around the area.
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, it's just so sad. Like, why would you
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  Speaker 2: do this? So, um, some people speculated that do you
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  Speaker 2: think
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  Speaker 2: They release rabbits into areas with large amount of vegetation
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  Speaker 2: because they think like, oh, rabbits can survive on their
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  Speaker 2: own or something, but they're babies and they can be
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: exposed to really a range of dangers, I think attacks
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  Speaker 2: by other animals, people who pick them up and abuse
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  Speaker 2: them and being hit by vehicles, because some of the
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: rabbits were hopping around the road. They didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: to
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  Speaker 2: do.
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  Speaker 1: And also if I'm not wrong, the Seletar, the quieter areas.
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  Speaker 1: Got a lot of stray dogs down there. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so they might just, you know, these are animals. These
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  Speaker 2: are wild animals. You can't stop them. That's the problem, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the pictures of the rabbit right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's very
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  Speaker 2: sad. I don't I can't. I can't. OK,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's sad, I'm glad they have been found.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are gonna be nursed back to health. Some
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  Speaker 2: of
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  Speaker 1: them are very cute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to adopt bunny.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, bunnies are not as high maintenance as dogs,
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  Speaker 2: I would say.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I must say if you adopt a male
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: and a female bunny, good luck to you. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: because they mate and they reproduce like
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: crazy
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  Speaker 2: would you do it? Just get one lonely, poor thing.
• 10:12
  Speaker 2: Then get him a bro lah, bro, bros hanging out.
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: Just a very random fact here. Olivia Dean never wanted
• 10:19
  Speaker 2: to do pop music, is what I just found out.
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  Speaker 1: And then look what
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  Speaker 2: happened. Exactly. So she just kind of fell into it,
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: I would say. She, I think she wanted to explore
• 10:28
  Speaker 2: other types of like genres before she landed on pop
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  Speaker 2: and she's just perfect for it. But hey,
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  Speaker 1: she's popping off, no pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the charts and her music, so
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: well done to her. When we come back though, oh,
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: what a weekend it was filled with controversy, interesting brands
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: with imagery, and of course Ed Sheeran.
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: Gonna summarize everything for you and I'm gonna be very objective.
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  Speaker 1: Shall we start with Converse and Espers Karina, Sonia?
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  Speaker 2: I guess you have to have a conversation about it. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: no pun intended.
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  Speaker 1: OK, controversy number one.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately involving the guys over at
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  Speaker 2: Converse,
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  Speaker 1: which I didn't know this, Nike actually owns the brand Converse.
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  Speaker 1: They do. I was like, really, that's interesting because I
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  Speaker 1: was wondering why people on threads and on Reddit, why
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: were they attacking both Converse and Nike? Then I realized, oh,
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: the
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  Speaker 2: relation acquired.
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  Speaker 2: A few years ago I think. So
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: all
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  Speaker 2: I
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  Speaker 1: can
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  Speaker 1: say is Sonia, I'm very happy this did not involve
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  Speaker 1: your shoe collection with Pretty
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  Speaker 2: Fit. No, not at all, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: So, um, the internet is actually very split about this
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  Speaker 1: one because you would know Espa's Karina. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she's the star of that video.
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  Speaker 1: She has a Chuck 70X trainer and the photos and
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  Speaker 1: the imagery that was used.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when I first saw it, I
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  Speaker 1: was like,
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  Speaker 2: oh, I know I had to do a double take
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  Speaker 2: as well, to be honest, on the picture.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna say it one time. What people
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  Speaker 1: online are saying is it's very akin to the Ku
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: Klux Klan and the lynching that they used
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 2: If you did history back in school, this would have
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: been mentioned before actually this whole era.
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  Speaker 1: So people are saying that, hey, you know, how can
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: you do this so blatantly in your face? It's racist.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: And then on the other side of social media, people
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: are like, I didn't see what you're seeing. How is
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: this racist? And by the way, to our friends over
• 12:32
  Speaker 1: at America, you guys aren't the only ones existing on this,
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  Speaker 1: on this earth. So when I saw the picture.
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a shock as well. And then when
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: I looked at it again, I went,
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  Speaker 2: oh,
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  Speaker 1: OK, and I moved on very
• 12:45
  Speaker 2: quick. OK, I have a theory about this, right? Um, perhaps,
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: perhaps a portion of the world did not see it
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  Speaker 2: that way because it is not a big part of
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  Speaker 2: our history.
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  Speaker 2: Our history, our culture and our history in our country.
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  Speaker 2: But for people who have been through that and who
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: have known their ancestors or their great great great great
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  Speaker 2: grandparents or who have experienced or gone through that, then
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: perhaps I understand why they identified it immediately. It is
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  Speaker 2: very contextual.
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  Speaker 1: I think Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Converse themselves, they put out a public apology. they did.
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  Speaker 1: We're sorry. We understand why this image is deeply upsetting
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: and recognize that we got this wrong. I think that
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: was about it. So people are asking, so who approved this?
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Is anyone getting fired? What, what's happening
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: here? There's some valid questions on social media, um, someone
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: actually commented saying a professional photographer actually weighed in on
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: this and said they always know what they're doing.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: As in that means people are thinking that it's intentional.
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: Like it cannot be unintentional, but I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 2: This is, this is a tough call.
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  Speaker 1: And
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  Speaker 1: your social media for the meaning behind the pictures that
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: they posted on social media.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, you know, it's a, it's, it's a very
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  Speaker 2: intriguing read, I will say, and I, that was not
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: a conversation I expected.
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  Speaker 2: To explode on social media. Oh yeah, yeah, that was
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: not something we expected.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Reddit and threads, the place you want
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  Speaker 1: to be for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Yes
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  Speaker 2: and no. I will say sometimes the comments and the
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: conversations they're quite triggering. Yes, it can be. OK, so
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: like I mentioned earlier, bit concerning now because last week, uh,
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: one of the pieces of news that dominated our Singapore.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Social media spaces and news spaces was about the closure
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: of quite a popular fitness and yoga joints. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so that one quite a big name that we've known
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: for a number of years already. On the back of that,
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: yet another yoga place called Yoga Inc. They're also a chain, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're a chain. They've officially closed the last two outlets
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: in Singapore and
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: The students and teachers were allegedly not told of the closure.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: another one, joking. What's going on?
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: I just checked the yoga.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Yo. Yes, it's still running,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: What do you mean you mean the website is still running? Yeah,
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: it's still up, but the, the outlets are gone.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: So, instructors were apparently informed that Yoga Inc.'s remaining two outlets,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: which are situated at Safra Punggol and our Tampines hub,
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: ceased operations effective immediately. Like it was just a very
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: short statement. It just said, dear all, please be informed.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: That Yoga Inc. is closed to further notice. We seek
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: your kind understanding.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Their Instagram profile is down. Oh, OK,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I wonder what's gonna
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: happen. Like, can you imagine you are an instructor, OK,
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: and this is your job. This is something that you
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: do every day. One instructor actually shared that, um, she
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: just woke up one day, realized all her classes at
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Yoga Inc. Tampines were canceled. That that's how she found out.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: So that was immediately suspicious and um she got a
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: message shortly after that they ceased operations, but no.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Not much explanation was given. What we understand is that
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: it could be operational issues, so maybe all signs point
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: towards like not being able to pay rent.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm the gym instructors, yoga instructors, even your instructors,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: anything that's a fitness studio, right, there's an instructor.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: They could be the last to know on how it's
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: being run and what's happening with the management of powers
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: that be.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: What's the scary thing is, the scary thing is that
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: customers have reported losses of more than $600,000 in total
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: in unutilized memberships and packages, OK.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: So our conversation that we had last week about unused
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: packages and that, it continues with this case right now.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So I guess you have to really do your research
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: and see if the studio you're gonna sign up
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: with.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you see, the problem is on the back
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: of all these sketchy incidents and lack of communication.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: It might hurt the other businesses that are actually reliable
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: and reputable and that are actually selling packages that people want,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you know. So I, I, I'm worried for some of
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: these other businesses and the perception of how the public now,
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: the perception of the public has about packages.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And in the practice of yoga, there are plenty of
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: studios here in Singapore.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Hey, um, if you're able to just support the ones
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: that you love, right, and the ones that are near you, perhaps,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: especially in your neighborhood or the ones that your friends are,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: are running.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the question that we
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: want to know.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: It's a really egg, man. So here's hoping that if
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: you're on your way to a fit.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: class today. Have a good one.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: we go from music to the world of sports now.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for the Asian Games and actually the Copenhagen
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: run that happened over the weekend in Denmark. So I
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: think we start with Asian Games first. Congrats to people
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: like Gan Ching Hui, Zen Law, as well as Tiffany
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Teo for winning medals for Singapore.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Performing very well in their sport of tai chi, swimming,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: and MMA respectively. And then we go to Copenhagen in
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Denmark where again this guy Sean Goh.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Lowering his national 5 kilometer record to 14.47. 14 minutes
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and 47 seconds, he ran 5 km. Can I read
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: to you his pacing? Are you ready? Yeah,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: OK. OK, it might be lost on me, but sure. No,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: he runs his first km in 2 minutes and 52 seconds.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: You what?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, his second KM 258. In the third km he
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: ran 302, 4th KM 251, and his last KM 252.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: So he's basically almost sprinting all the way.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Exactly, yeah
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I cannot even keep up with this pace for 400 m.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: mean, do you know how long I take to complete
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: 5 kilometers?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Like, OK, at my best, I think it was like
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: 35 minutes. 35 minutes was my best. I, I recorded it.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: But now I'm not at my fittest, I would say
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I haven't been running and you know, my ankle, ankle
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: injury and all that, right? Um, I haven't been tried,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: I haven't tried to run at all, but I would
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: say like sometimes I'll take even like 40 minutes like
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: a jog kind of situation. And then um I do
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: this thing where like if I want to do more cardio,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I'll listen to songs, right? When the chorus play, I
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: will sprint.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: And when the verse plays, I'll just drop. Interval training. Hey,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you know what? Whatever gets you there. Well done. I'm
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: very proud of you.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: OK, thank you.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: And shout out to Vanessa Lee, Nicole as well, all
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: who
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: are
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: in
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Denmark.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: lovely stuff. Um, keep cheering them on. Also, our friend
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Kathryn Roberts reporting live from the Asian Games itself. In Japan, Japan, yes,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: in Japan.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Enjoy one bowl of Iudo for me please Catherine. Hey, why, why,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: why you laughing? I do love it. I love it
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: as well, yeah, it's great.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: OK. Long story short to summarize the whole Ed Sheeran
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: drama before we give you an update. Uh, sometime last week,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: I think it was on a Monday or Tuesday, if
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you follow Macklemore the rapper.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: He posted a very long Instagram carousel post explaining why
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: he has been dropped from the opening act of Ed
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Sheeran's tour in the US and of course he said
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: free Palestine and all that, to which, um, the stadium
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: owners in the US didn't weren't too happy and they
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: called Ed Sheeran.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Saying if Macklemore performs for your opening act, we'll ban
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the tour from our stadiums. So I guess the tour
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: promoters actually pulled Macklemore off the set, and then all
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: the opening acts, because of this saying, hey, you know what,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I can't stand for this. I'm going to drop out
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of Ed Sheeran's concert as well, and his live band
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: even dropped out of the tour. So people are putting
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: pressure and asking Ed Sheeran, So are you gonna say anything?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna come out and say anything?
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: So during his concert over at Philadelphia, he, ah, this
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: one a bit, I also feel why did he do that?
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I feel that he should have at least memorized his
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: pointers and go out there and speak to the crowd
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: because
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you know
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: it's a very tricky and sensitive issue, you
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: know, at a moment like this people will be putting
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the cameras on
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: you.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: and social media would nitpick at every single thing that
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you do. So why give them more ammo? He was
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: reading off a teleprompter and he started his address by
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: addressing whatever happened on October 7th a few years ago.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And he went on a full explaining himself to which
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: again when it comes to something like this, half will
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: buy it and half will not buy what you're selling.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: I think you know, that are not what you're selling,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: there's nothing that you can say now that can fix
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the situation. I think that's what some people are saying
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: on social media right now. Like the damage has been done.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Whenever he says the phrase we don't take sides. I'm
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: just trying to be not political on my shows and
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: all that.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: That picture of him in the Ukrainian flag,
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: it doesn't help the situation resurfaces. And I think, you know,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: for a lot of people also, they're saying by not
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: taking a stand, you're taking a stand, you know, so.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: That, that, that's a very tricky one to navigate. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: don't know how this is gonna transpire, but apparently the tickets, uh,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: like the price of the tickets have dropped like 50%
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: or something. Yeah,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: but to the rumor saying, oh, I don't think anybody
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: will show up for his concert, uh, Philadelphia stadium packed,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: packed, right? sold out. So can you separate your love.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: For an artist's music and their own issues and political standing,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: that's the question if you think about it
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, it's an extension of you, right?
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Apparently September is quite a popular for weddings, OK. So
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: so far I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: have nothing to contribute to this.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I know I have. Don't I know it?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: But soon,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: maybe September of 2027, 2028. 2029.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: September of 2,027,030.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: OK, I give you the dateline.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Can you wait? Can I explain first, huh? September of 2027,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that means I must have met someone who is ready
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and we know, OK, we love each other, it's gonna
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: be convenient.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: Let's go. To be honest, I feel like.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: The more mature you are, or the, you know, well,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: as the years go by, when you meet someone that
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: you really like around the same age group as you
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: or same phase of life as you, it could happen
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: very quickly, you know, because you already, you don't want
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: to play games anymore. You're like, OK, I know, I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: want to settle with you, maybe we'll just do it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: People get engaged within like what, 11
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: year or 2 years. It doesn't mean I'm boring. It
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: means I've seen enough. OK.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Other people also seen enough. I
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: want to maintain my.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: OK, got you.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: But uh it being quite a popular month and maybe
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: there are some dates around this Q4 timing of the
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: year that are quite popular. I've attended a couple of
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: weddings already and um this this got me wondering because
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: for the most part, I would say 95% of the
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: guests are dressed appropriately, OK, for, for weddings and usually
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: they'll give you a dress code or something. Sometimes the
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: very particular ones might even give you a color palette.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: To which, you know, um, at least you have something
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: to follow,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: right? Yeah, and to the weddings, I think I've attended weddings,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the last ones, if you're going to invites with color palettes,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: can you put red, blue, orange, don't, don't come and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: give me all this midnight fusion.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Nonsense color palette
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: midnight blue.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, no, like they'll give some random phrase and
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: weird name whimsical tropical. Oh, you mean
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: like the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: theme, that's the theme
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: like hello, just give me a
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: color.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I'll wear it. You've been to a wedding with a
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: theme called whimsical tropical forest.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Close enough,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: yeah, something like
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Anyway, um, aside from the obvious, which is perhaps color
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: palette and whether it's extremely formal or smart casual or whatever, um,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I think everything else is really up to your own discretion.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: For example, what you deem as appropriate for a wedding, OK?
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: I can give you the color palette. I can say,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I can say formal.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: But you might still see a couple of people show
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: up in like plunging necklines or like super short skirts
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: or even um not a proper tux, you know, things
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: like that. And I feel that really comes down to
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the individual.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I think for the bro
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it's quite simple. You just wear your best suit. It
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: could be your
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: business,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: but even some, some people.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: I saw some people who didn't read the message obviously
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: or the invitation and they show up with no jacket. Yeah,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: I've seen bros who come to the weddings and jeans,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and then everyone else is in a suit or tux.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: So it's like what do you do and
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Um, it was, it was interesting because I did observe
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: a couple of, um, guests who wore what I thought
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: was quite inappropriate. OK, so you, you tell me whether
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: you think this is inappropriate, OK. Um, a super plunging
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: like V neckline where you can see like most assets
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: of this person, um, and it's not your wedding. I mean,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: it's someone else's wedding, OK? And this person was like
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: a plus one of uh someone else.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: And I did see another person. There was a guy
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: that forgot, I think forgot the, forgot to check the
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: dress code. OK, fine, that one poor thing la, he
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: was quite embarrassed about it, but there was another lady,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and she looked great. Honestly, I, I am not putting
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: my fellow women down. I think they look great, fantastic.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I think it's very flattering for your body type and everything,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: but I was given a choice, a personal choice.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I would have worn that to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: someone else's wedding, if you get what I mean, if
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: you get what I mean.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Given the lady was a plus one.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I was under the impression maybe she wore that to,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe meet someone at the wedding,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: OK,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: think you're asking the worst person here because I, I
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: You don't have any opinions on this. OK, so I,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I've had friends.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I have an opinion. I'm just scared to say it
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: out loud in case people say, how can you be
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: so
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: dated,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: I'll say it because I, I have a friend, and
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: she's Gen Z, by the way, who got married recently
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And she actually felt the need to tell one or
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: two people to dress properly because she had a feeling
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: that they might show up in such dresses. So she
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: openly told them and gave them a heads up saying like, hey, please,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: no mini, no miniskirts, no like plunging necklines, whatever, because
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: I think she already knew, she knows their style and
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: she
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It's not, it's not meant to have any bad intentions,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: but they may not be aware. So that's why she
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: decided to do that.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Were you
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the only one who felt this way about the ladies
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: at the wedding?
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: No, actually there were a couple of people who talked
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: about it as well,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and they were a mix of bros and cis or
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: mostly women.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Um, well, only I think the bros won't dare to
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: say anything.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was mainly like a couple of girls
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: that were like, hm, interesting choice of outfit, you know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: kind of thing, because a bit, yeah, I think it
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: was a bit too much.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: A personal
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: rule for me is I'll always ask, Hey, what's your
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: groom gonna wear or, you know, what, what color is
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: your suit? So I'll make sure I will not clash
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: with the groom and also yes.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Make sure that my style of suit is, how, how,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: how do I say this, a step lower from the
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: groom to make sure that he gets the spotlight and
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: no one takes away anything from the groom itself.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, I, I feel that way too. I mean,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's just our own personal opinions
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: because I wouldn't call us like prudes or, you know,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: old fashioned or anything. Come on, like it's
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: us,
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: me, a prudes. We're definitely not prudes.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Sonia's got jokes
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on a Monday morning.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Give us a call at 669-11987 or drop us a
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: message 90050987. Have you ever come across this kind of
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: situation before where you noticed someone dressed quite inappropriately for
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: someone else's wedding, or were you the bride and groom
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: that were not too happy with the way some of
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: your guests dressed?
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: You can remain anonymous if you want to. Please do,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: please do. You can call us or you can WhatsApp
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: us at 90050987. But
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: anyway, we want to kick things off here with a
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: bit of a spicy topic here today because September has
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: been quite a wedding season, wedding heavy so far. And
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: from what I understand from like my friends who work
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: in hotels and all, they say, yeah, this Q4 period,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: like September, October, quite busy. I don't know, there's some
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: auspicious dates coming up, I guess, quite popular timing for everyone.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So, generally, I think you might attend a few and
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: this got me thinking because just based on observation over
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the past few ones that I've attended, right, there were
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: one or two guests that were quite, in my opinion,
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: inappropriately dressed for a wedding.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And like we said earlier, we are no prudes. We're like,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: we're not, we're not people who like judge other people
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: because of your dressing and all that, but I think
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: when it comes down to weddings, a certain level of
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: respect is still
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: needed.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm proud the majority of us have what
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: they call common sense la. Yeah, you know what I mean?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: is your own personal thoughts. So
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: I
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: want
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: to say good morning to Kishan on WhatsApp.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Promakal. Hey Sonia and joking, we got married during the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: COVID period, so only our immediate families were there for
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: our ROM. We told everyone to dress well because we
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: wanted to take a very nice big family portrait with
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: both families together after the ROM. I went all out
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and wore a three-piece suit with a bow tie. Then
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: my brother-in-law shows up wearing the exact same three-piece suit
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: in the exact same color.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not usually one to care about these things, but
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: when we got to the studio, even the camera crew
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: couldn't tell who the groom was.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Then how? How? What happened?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I think they had a good laugh about it, I guess. OK,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: OK, OK. At least this one was quite funny. Yeah,
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: at
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: this point, I want to give a shout out to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: one of our favorite people, Sonia, Kelly Latimer.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she dropped us both the same DM and
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the pictures. Oh man,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Kelly, I'm gonna actually, uh, change a few.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Words with your message, OK?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: You ready? Can you change a lot?
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll change
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: a lot. OK. So Kelly sends us a picture of
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: someone and she types, this was a guest at a
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: wedding that I was at. All husbands were banned from
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: looking at this person's direction, and honestly, I can see why, yeah.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, um, I saw the picture as well. It was,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: it's just I, I, I did face palm. I
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: can give you reasons
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: as well. Can you, can you please move on, move on.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: and
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Kelly's husband Justin, what up Justin text me the same
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: thing as well. And yeah, Justin said, Kelly said, you
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: are not gonna talk to this person.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Look, here, here's the issue is, you know, you can't
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: do much about it in that moment. Everyone's already there,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: like you can't do anything.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: But it just goes to show what kind of person,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: you know, what kind of people are out there with
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: what kind of intentions also, right?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Honestly. No, that's why. OK,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: here's the problem because you're still friends with some of them.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: You can still be friends with some of them even
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: though you don't agree with the kind of energy or
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the the kind of image.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: They're putting out, right? That's why, um, one or two
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: of my friends who've had weddings, they specifically knew like
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: there are one or two people that will show up
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: in like crazy outfits or inappropriate outfits. They specifically texted
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: them directly saying, please, please wear something appropriate. OK. So
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: maybe you can just be direct like this in the future.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: We got loads of people wanting to remain anonymous on WhatsApp.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: One coming in. Hey guys, I once went to a
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: friend's wedding and I saw this lady with a super
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: long dress with a tray and it kept getting caught
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: on things. I could see the bride getting a little
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: bit annoyed when she almost tripped over the lady's dress too.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Actually, as a, as a guest, there's no need to
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: wear a dress with a long trainer.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the bride be the only one with the train.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, you should. I mean, OK, um, disclaimer, my,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: my dress has a bit of a drag at the
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: back like fabric, only because I'm too short and um it's,
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: it's not my dress. So it did drag on the
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: ground a little bit.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Was the tall as you?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: No, it's not. Don't be rude. Moving on to the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: next message.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: One more coming in. So, hey guys, my wife and
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I got married this year in January. During the dinner banquet,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I was shocked to see one of my colleagues actually
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: wore MCM t-shirt, jeans, and a pair of LV slippers.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Oh slippers. I mean, who would wear a pair of
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: slip-on slippers to weddings regardless, it's LV or whatever.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, agree. Actually, you know, I felt the need to
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: put that in my invitation, especially for the church wedding.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Wedding, you know, like I put, I, I did right there,
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: smart casual, but no shorts, miniskirts or slippers because I
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: was kind of worried that people don't really know because
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: a lot of people may not have stepped into a church. No,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: no, no,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: well done, but, but
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: also judging from a lot of our response, it's not
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: automatic for some people, you know.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Can I, can I give you the spiciest so far, Sonia?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Let's go. OK. Hi, Sojo, I'm a mixed Muslim.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: And my husband is North Indian. We had an ROM
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: ceremony in the morning and dinner at Asian Market Cafe
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: in the evening. I, I wasn't particular about guests wearing
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: white for weddings, but my lovely mother-in-law turned up wearing
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: a white, a white silk sari, which is a traditional
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: symbol of mourning in many Hindu cultures. Oh no. My
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: husband is still apologetic up till today, and I replied saying, Aiyo.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: She replied saying it's OK. I still get to spend
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: her son's money anyways.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: OK, at least there's a silver lining there, or you
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: could take a joke, you could take a joke. Yeah.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Was she unaware though? That's the question. She's probably just
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: mother-in-law oblivious,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: so I don't know, man. Yeah, you would think she
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: would know because she's like traditional and older, right?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: It's the Indian side. Yeah.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Well, this one blows my mind. I don't know what
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: to say. I don't know what to say. We've got
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: Ruben on the line right now. What, what, what do
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: you think or what happened that you can tell us about?
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: attended this wedding. Uh, it's a friend's wedding, uh, at
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: a Christian church. This friend usually wearing like those kind
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: of like wacky outfits, and he came in, uh, you know,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: those kind of like, uh, fishnet kind of like top. Yes,
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: he came in a fishnet top, and then, um, he
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: was covering himself with a, with a blazer, so I
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: think everybody thought that it was OK because they could
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: only see the, the portion that was not covered by
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: the blazer, which is like sort of his chest area,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: but then when he took it out, I think.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Midway of the the service, everybody got a bit of
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: a shock. It's like, like, oh my God, why is
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: he wearing the outfit? And did anyone say anything about it?
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Like was it even to the dress code. People didn't
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: really go up to him and say like, OK, can
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: you put your your blazer back on, but I think
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: they were giving him the eye, you know, like, like, oh, what,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: what's he wearing, you know, what, what's the outfit? Yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: you know what that is when you see an inappropriately
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: dressed guest.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Changing a few things here for our text messages here,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: because some are very detailed. If I were to read
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: it out, it's very obvious who we're talking about already. OK,
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: so I want to say good morning to anonymous 4.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Hey Sonia and Joakim, many years ago I went to
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: this wedding where you can wear a polo shirts, or
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: even a suit if you can take the weather here
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: as long as you look appropriate and semi-formal. But one
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: of these uncles decided to wear a soccer jersey to
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: a wedding.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Oh no, OK, what was it? I'm curious. Not that
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: it matters.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Not exactly a team, but, uh, I want to give
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: a shout out to, I mean, you mentioned earlier, Katherine Robert, right? Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Her cousin Michael Bernard is a good friend of mine.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: So his wedding was last year, and the guests came
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: dressed appropriately and all that, but the couple themselves, for
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the second walk-in, they wore Liverpool jerseys.
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: Oh, OK, but that's fine. They are the,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: yeah, to which there was a very loud boo from someone,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: you know him quite well, me.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: OK, another one coming in. Uh, morning, Sojo. I went
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to a good friend's wedding. The groom invited his army friends,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: and only one of them brought a plus one. She's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: very well endowed, and needless to say, she wore a
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: plunging neckline. We all thought.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: It was very inappropriate. Coincidentally, she's actually my husband's good
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: friend's ex who ended up cheating on him, and she
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: was quite a violent person. She's now a micro-influencer. As
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: she attracted a lot of attention, people eventually found out
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: that she insisted on attending the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: wedding.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Now I need to know who this person is.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Wait, that anonymous texter send us
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: the username, which I'm not gonna mention.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: So I think we still got plenty of spicy messages
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: to get through. Question being, have you, what are your
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: thoughts on inappropriately dressed guests at weddings?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: One is coming in from another anonymous texter. Morning, Sonia
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: and Joki. My wedding was back in 2015. It's a
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Malay wedding, by the way. Someone related to me wore
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: the red dress that I had blessed to her at
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: my wedding. Bless me, I think, given, you know, like, yeah,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: like I bless you my dress, you know, I was quite.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Sure, but somehow I expected it. It was like a
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: tank top long dress, OK, and I think she sent
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: a picture, but we can't really see it on my
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: WhatsApp web right now. Sorry about that one.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: It's OK.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: OK.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: What's next? Uh,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: actually, I think we've almost read out almost every single
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: text message spilling the tea about inappropriate wedding outfits.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: I would say the ones that are that we're able
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: to read out.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: There are some that I think uh we it's not
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: so safe for reading out to some of you,
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: thank you for the
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: pictures.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure. Always could use a visual, you know,
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: when it comes to these things. I mean, hey, when
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: it comes to dressing up for a wedding.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Um, I, I'm not quite sure this like the mindset
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: of why you need to, to dress in a way
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: that you're almost upstaging the bride herself.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: OK, can I ask you a question? Yeah,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: of course.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: So, uh, earlier, Kelly Latimer actually DM us on Instagram
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: and on WhatsApp. She sent us a picture of what
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: a guest was wearing at a wedding she was at,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: to which she said no husbands were allowed to look
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: at this particular guest.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: For example, if Jeremy, OK, at a wedding, sees someone
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: like that, and you know Jeremy is a very social guy,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: likes to make convo, right? If he goes, Hey, hi,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: how are you? Oh, OK, OK, fine. Will you, after
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the combo finish, right, will you go and go, Oh,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: go talk to her. Go and talk, talk, talk.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I would say he most likely won't
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: do that, because he's already very well trained and he's.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: He knows all the, he knows all the tactics for
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: self-preservation at this point. Self-preservation. No, but also, OK, OK, um, um,
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: this is not to, this is not to discredit the
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: reactions of other women or other couples, OK. Personally, I, I,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: I don't have a strong opinion. If you want to
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: go have a chat with.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Person, it's, it's fine. It's fine. I don't really, it
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter to me. But as long as you are
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: giving each other enough assurance, you know, like, oh I'm
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: just saying hi because, you know, it's a friend of
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: a friend or like I kind of know this person,
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: but nothing more. So if we already give each other
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: that self-assurance, then that's fine. I mean, look, he has
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: to deal with me talking to a lot of handsome
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: celebrities also, right, which a lot of
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: People may think like, hey, y'all don't have a problem
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: when it comes to this. I'm like, not really, because
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: it's part of my job, but I don't see these
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: open inverted commas, what society deems as very handsome celebrities,
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: be it from Thailand, China, or wherever, as like my
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: potential husbands, right? You know,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: there are handsome celebrities, but at the top of that mountain,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: it's Mr. Jeremy. Hey, why you laugh?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's true.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: I also must learn some self-preservation tactics. OK, so quick
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: question for you here. When you were in school back then,
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: were you ever part of like scouts or anything or
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: did you have to, but in the army, you guys
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: have to like camp out there, right, in the forest
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: and things like that? OK.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: In Tekong during our field days,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: were you given instructions on how to forage for food
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: or did you not have to do that?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: We had rations,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: the ration packets. So you didn't have to forage for
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: anything? Because the purpose of a field, right, for example,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: if you're in enemy territory.
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: OK, how would you survive?
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: Go and forage for food and all that, and you
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: leave hunting marks and then you set up a fire
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and all that, you might give away your position. Then
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: how? What if you run out of rations?
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: That that's why you must have enough rations and also
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: make sure you need to ration the rations.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Make sure you plan properly. This is where your kongguan biscuits,
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: it will taste like a Michelin meal, especially at the
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: field
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: camp.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can imagine. And it's important not to go,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: go all out at once, like, you know, when you're
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: really hungry, you just binge eat,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: how you dispose of the wrapping and wrappers is very
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: important because that could also give away your position to
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: the enemy. OK,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: OK. Oh, interesting. Alright. I mean, I, I thought that
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: you would have to have some foraging skills, but now
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: I know. Um, however,
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: You know, the concept of foraging and cooking and eating
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: stuff that you find in the wild, it's not very
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: common here in Singapore. We are a very first world country.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: We just go to the nearest supermarket to buy these things.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: On that note, this one I can't really, but I
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: know in commandos or the NDU or even the OCS, right, they,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: they might have a situation where they're supposed to go
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and hunt for their own food. So that one I
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: can't comment because I'm not too familiar with
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: that one.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Could be, or maybe quails.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: But um I wanna zoom in on this particular gardener
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: here in Singapore, OK? Um,
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: This, this is just, I don't know whether to face
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: palm or to feel, I mean, I feel definitely sympathetic
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: towards this woman for sure. Um, this gardener decided to forage, uh,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: for mushrooms, OK, and you would think gardener, you probably
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: know your stuff, right? Not a good idea. After cooking
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: these mushrooms that she foraged and she ate it, these
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: wild mushrooms, by the way, look, could, could pass off
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: as your like white button mushrooms, you know, it looks
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: However, she got hospitalized and it was pretty serious because
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: she had severe abdominal pain. Turns out that these mushrooms
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: are definitely poisonous. Yes, um, well, they're all fungi. Mushrooms
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: are all fungi. They are poisonous. Um, it's actually dubbed
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: as the vomiter. I'm not even kidding. It's the nickname
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: of these mushrooms, the vomiter.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: Um, because the full scientific name is very, very long.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: It's Chlorophyllium molybdites. I don't even know if I'm saying
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: it right. It is, uh, it contains this, um, chemical
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: that's a gastrointestinal irritant, and it's one of the most
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: common causes of mushroom poisoning worldwide, by the way. So thankfully,
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: she got to, um, the hospital in time.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: She was, I think it was on, on a lot
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: of uh news channels already. The mushrooms, by the way,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: were found in her neighborhood. So please be careful. Um,
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: she was showing pictures of these mushrooms to a friend
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: who was a fellow gardener, and they said, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: this looks edible.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: So even if you're in, even if you're in the
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: business of, you know, gardening and all that, sometimes it's
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: hard to identify.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: By the way, if you're in any buildings here in Singapore,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: if you're indoors and you see mushrooms growing, call the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: building immediately.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, please
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: don't eat them. There's probably some damp area or some
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: hidden moisture that's coming from a place that's not supposed
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to be there. Yeah,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: interestingly,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: Um, this was not the first case of mushroom poisoning
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: here in Singapore. Yeah, more than one person has done this.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: A middle-aged woman previously mistakenly drank a tea made with
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: an unknown mushroom, and she also started puking and having
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: the runs 3 hours later. So, experts are saying, please,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: if you see mushrooms out there growing the grass, do
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: not anyhow like forage them.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Only consume mushrooms that you buy from like legitimate food
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: sources like your supermarkets and all that. So, never thought
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I would have to say this on air, but yeah,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: please
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: be careful.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: can button mushroom maybe
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: button mushrooms.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I lovingly blame Super Mario.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, like the preserved ones and it's not fresh mushrooms.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: I guess it's
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: mushrooms because I always thought if I were to eat
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: a mushroom, I'll be a guy and I can shoot.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: And I can shoot fireballs like Mario in his prime,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: but yeah, that was a childhood fantasy.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: How's the progress on that? Well, still trying. OK, at
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: least you're a fun
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: guy.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: The fireballs coming from a different end, you know what
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: I mean.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: I really
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: did not need to know that this morning. Thank you
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: for the information.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: We
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: did not ask for.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Alrighty.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Way more. It'll be here in Singapore very soon. I
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: think they're targeting 2028 to officially launch it. So from
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: now till then, they're gonna be doing some testings and
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: most likely the Labrador and the harbor front area where
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: traffic isn't as
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Heavy as compared to the other prominent suspects here in Singapore.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So if you're not too familiar with Waymo, it's an OK,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: autonomous vehicle, correct me if I'm wrong, autonomous vehicle where
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: it's driverless, driverless, and I've seen videos of, I mean,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: you posted a video, muttons as well who whenever they
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: go to the US, they will take it, and I
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: have friends in the US when they post videos, I
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: get angry.
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: OK, I'm not gonna lie. I definitely felt the way
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: you feel right now when I was in LA. Um,
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: so this was already 2 years ago that I was
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: in LA. Hey, wait, 2, was it 2 or 3?
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Could have been 3 years actually since I was there. 2023.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: 2 years. I can't remember, maybe 2. So anyway, um,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: I went there and it was my first time taking,
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: taking a driverless vehicle ever in my life because, you know,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: here in Singapore, I think a lot of things still
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: undergoing testing and we, we have noticed some companies adopt
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: autonomous vehicles for like transportation of goods, like delivery and
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: things like that, right? But this one, when it comes
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: to humans, of course, I was a little bit nervous,
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: but it works exactly like your.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Grab or Uber. So you book and it's actually a
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: little cheaper than um Uber in the US. When it arrives,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: it's actually quite cute. It's this semi-robotic AI sounding voice
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: and um it arrives with your name, like um when
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: it approaches you, it will flash up your name in
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: an LED light, like in a club, you know. It's
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: quite cute.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: Can I change my name to your mother? Please don't.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Please don't.
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: I, I'm sure they have, I'm sure they have ways
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: of like, please input a proper name. You know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Singaporean trolls will do something stupid and fun. You are
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the troll. I'm the troll. Hey, it's great publicity for sure,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure whether they have any like um regulations
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: around that. Like you have to key in a proper name.
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm not sure. I'm not sure, but it was
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: very comfortable and it felt very safe.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: Singapore, the first vehicles that will be in our island
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: will be the Jaguar I-Pace cars. It's all electric.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: So that's the one they use in the US as well. Yes,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: there'll
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: be people actually driving these cars to get used to
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: the roads here in Singapore, especially over the Labrador and
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Harborfront area, and then it will adapt the autonomous system,
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: and then one day we'll see all these driverless cars
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: on the roads, maybe in 2028 and beyond. But here's
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: the thing, OK, from, from one AI skeptic here on 987.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: What I want to see Weimmu do before they introduce
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: it to the roads here in Singapore at the next
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: level of testing, the highest level of testing, test it
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: out at Orchard Turn, Grange Road, and Bideford Road. No, really,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: because of the jam, right? That is,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I feel, the most difficult junction to navigate because you
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: get a mixture of people who will obey the rules
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: and people who will flout the rules. They'll wait in
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: the Xbox
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: and all that,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: so, um, it is equipped with a lot of satellites
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: and like a lot of images.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: So I think that's how they have a lot of
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: sensors to react and respond to like real life, at
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: least that's what I noticed. And I'm not sure how
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: they're going to apply this in Singapore, but when I
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: was in LA, the way more cars are not allowed
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: to go on the freeway. The freeway, because, you know,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: there are high, what we call highways here in Singapore.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Their freeway is massive and like maybe slightly dangerous because
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: people are speeding quite a lot there. I'm not sure
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: what the rules are going to be like here. Like is,
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: is ECB considered.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Like a highway, like, I mean, we need to take
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: the highways to get to different parts of Singapore, right?
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: If you
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: say highways, then it rules out your ECPs, your CTEs, PIE,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: I guess because of like we're so much smaller than LA,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: I wonder how they will navigate this.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: We are just
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: speculating here, but maybe it could be from point A
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: to point B at your nearest neighborhood.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: They'll test it that way, I think. Or for example,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: for Orchard, right? Yeah, Orchard to Dhoby Ghaut, but it
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: won't take the highway or whatsoever.
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: We'll see how it goes, maybe.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Given how small we are as a country, its capabilities
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: are a bit better here than like in a place
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: like LA,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: right? So
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: people are on social media saying, oh, they're scared or
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: will take away jobs from drivers and all that, but
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, people are saying, and I kind
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: of agree with this, good, good to give Grab a
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: little bit of.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Competition and Gojek and Tadas and all that. OK,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: OK, yeah, I don't disagree with that.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Let's see what happens.
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: Interesting times there in that industry.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Alrighty, interesting news coming in as we always said, we'll
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: keep you updated on the auction when it comes to
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: the $3 billion money laundering
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: case.
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: Why you got some updates for me. What did you buy?
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: What did you
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: purchase?
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Hey, you know, I was looking at the property bids, right?
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Nobody could bid, you know. Nobody matched the starting bid.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: I mean,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: like 100 million at least. No,
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: no, no, slightly less than that. 80. Yeah, for some
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: of the properties around Singapore, some of the very high
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: class ones and some are still also very good class, yes.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: These are GCBs, right?
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Mostly some condos and some GPs, I think.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: The starting bit was priced a little bit too high,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: so nobody matched it, so they had to re-look on
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: how to do it again.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but there are other items that are on sale
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: that I think are very popular. Yeah,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: so I think the one that got the most attention
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: was the Louis Vuitton Yayoi Kusama pumpkin bag where the
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: auctioneers kind of priced it at maybe say 12,000 to 160.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: It sold for $87,000. Wow, nice one. And there are more.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: They are all your jewelries and all that that I
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: think they brought in.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Close to $1.1 million for the first round
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: I'm so curious of the auction. I'm so curious like
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: where the profits go to the auction house where the
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: profits go?
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: I think
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: it might go to the.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: The state, because the auction, these are, these are confiscated
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: items that I think the authorities said, OK, you're gonna
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: use the auction house to sell it, so the money
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: might go to the state.
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: You're saying even if it was worth 12,000 but it
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: sold at 80,000, the profit goes to the state. I'm
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: curious about this. OK, yeah, if anyone knows, please let
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: us know, OK? And thank you so much for joining
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: us this Monday morning.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we helped energize your start of the week. Well,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you know what, this Friday, it's 987's come out and
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: play at Super Park. Oh yes. Cannot wait to see
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: and meet some of you.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, you know, I'm, I'm so bummed. I won't be
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: there because I do have a prior work commitment, unfortunately,
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: but please go disturb Joakim, hang out with him. Yeah,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: I'll bring,
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: I'll bring a Sonia Chew stan if I can find
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: it.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: OK, so your challenge is to do the obstacle course
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: holding the stan.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, I paid to see that
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: we might set a new Singapore Book of Records for
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: fastest time, you
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: know.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I know without me because I'll hold you back instead.
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: Fastest
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: time to compete in an obstacle caused by a man
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: and a stand
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: a placard on a stand.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: No one's gonna beat that.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's a very odd thing, weird flex, but OK.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Hey, whatever goes in the book, man.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: That's true. That's true. I don't think we've ever attempted.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: anything to be in the Guinness Book of Records.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: OK, we, we start first. We go to Singapore Book
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: of Records.
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: Singapore.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: Then we go to Guinness.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: OK. That's the next step. Alright, goals for 2027. How
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: about this nonstop live broadcast five days.
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: Nonstop can sleep or not.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: No, nonstop.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: So how is that feasible so one of us will
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: sleep. We must take turns,
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: I think cannot lah.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: You can do it by yourself. I'm good. I don't
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: need to put my name in the Guinness Book of
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: Records for this.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not wrong. I think Gerald Koh back then actually
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: did something like this, but
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: this was before, way before we
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: knew him, yeah.