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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 070726 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Wake up
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  Speaker 1: next to you.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and Joakim on the shock circuit. Good morning and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to the show. Well, you know what? School visits have returned.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and we can't wait to tell you which school
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  Speaker 1: we're dropping by this week. It's somewhere around the Yishun area.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot wait to go back. We'll tell you more in
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: just a while. Stay tuned. We got BTS first. Singapore's
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: number one hit music station.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Joakim just run off to the bathroom for a sec.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be right back with us, but happy first day
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  Speaker 1: back at school. Yeah, yesterday was Youth Day, so I
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: completely forgot about it until Joakim told me and I
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  Speaker 1: had made some plans with my mom to hang out
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  Speaker 1: with her in the afternoon. So we, we went to town, right,
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  Speaker 1: and she texted me saying like, wow, why is it
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  Speaker 1: so crowded today? It's, it's like a Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And, and I was just parking in the car park
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, the car park is really,
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  Speaker 1: really full. It must be because it was youth Day. So,
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  Speaker 1: I think plenty of you were out with your, your
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  Speaker 1: family and your friends. So it was nice to say
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  Speaker 1: hi to some of you in town as well. Zara
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  Speaker 1: Larson will be here in Singapore in a matter of
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: months for the Formula One Singapore Airline Singapore Grand Prix.
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: I've never seen Zara Larson in person, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: in real life. Have you? No, um, like watch her perform? No, never.
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  Speaker 1: A long time ago when she was here for like
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  Speaker 1: a small promo tour, but this was like before she
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  Speaker 1: blew up right back in the year 2017, yeah, OK, OK,
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  Speaker 1: when people were confusing her and Sabrina Carpenter. It's the
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  Speaker 1: blonde hair, la, I think, but thankfully now, you know, they've,
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  Speaker 1: they've figured out their branding. Yeah, but speaking of sports
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  Speaker 1: and all that, Cristiano Ronaldo out of the World Cup.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Was that what I predicted or, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, it's not. Honestly, looking at all your predictions, right? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just the opposite way and half wrong. Oh yeah, it's
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: not too bad, you know, there was a, there's a
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  Speaker 1: cat out there apparently that has predicted everything correctly.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I'm worse than the cat if that's
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  Speaker 1: what you mean. Yeah, so if you're a fan of Portugal,
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: it might be quite sad today and all the Messi
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  Speaker 1: fans will come to you saying, OK, the goat debate
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  Speaker 1: is settled. Yeah. So Messi is the goat. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: from what it looks like and the way he's playing
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  Speaker 1: at his age, you can't deny it now. And is
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  Speaker 1: he older than Ronaldo? No, no, they're the same. So
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  Speaker 1: Ronaldo's 41, Messi is 39 this year. What? You can't,
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  Speaker 1: it's so hard to.
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  Speaker 1: their age, you know, sometimes I keep thinking they're like already, I, I,
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  Speaker 1: I keep thinking Messi is in his 40s. Yeah, both
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  Speaker 1: of them are 6 World Cups in, and that's quite
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  Speaker 1: legendary already. And how many wins for Lionel Messi has
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  Speaker 1: won World Cup. Ronaldo has none none. Oh, so this
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  Speaker 1: was his last shot. It was his last shot, and
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  Speaker 1: you are forgiven for thinking that Portugal would have won
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  Speaker 1: the World Cup with the squad they have. They have
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  Speaker 1: star players, but not the, not, not a team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can put a bunch of stars together,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: but can they work together? That's the question, right? He
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: also can be football pundit. You'll be someone like Ted Lasso, OK.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: Is that an insult or a compliment? I can't tell
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  Speaker 1: Dance Terrier is what you just heard. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: already listened to a whole album, I think some of
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  Speaker 1: the reviewers and the critics are calling it like one
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  Speaker 1: of her best albums ever. OK, but to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, I think Madonna picked the wrong time to
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  Speaker 1: release her album. Why? Because in all the celebrity websites, yeah, very.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Little mention of Madonna. It's all Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, um, I think she timed it with pride,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest. So I don't think it was anything
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  Speaker 1: related to Taylor Swift and when she was doing her. Look,
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  Speaker 1: if we had to plan our lives around like big
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  Speaker 1: celebrities getting married or announcing something, we'll never release anything.
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  Speaker 1: So to her, I think she just wanted to do
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  Speaker 1: it and
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it really affected her in the sense
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  Speaker 1: that some of her tracks still ended up in the
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  Speaker 1: top 10 on Billboard. I'm gonna read to you some
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  Speaker 1: of the ratings given by all these iconic critics, right,
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  Speaker 1: for Madonna's Confessions 2 album. The Times gave it 4 stars.
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  Speaker 1: Rolling Stone gave it 4 stars. Pitchfork gave it 8.1
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  Speaker 1: over 10. The Independent gave it 4 stars. The Guardian
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  Speaker 1: gave it 4 stars. It's a 4-star album according to critics,
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  Speaker 1: but
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  Speaker 1: Everybody worldwide are saying nope, it's a five-star album to me. Yeah, well,
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: you know, music is so subjective. You, you can love it.
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  Speaker 1: Someone else may hate it, but for what it's worth,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a super like dance album. You're definitely
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  Speaker 1: going to hear it. I gave it a spin yesterday
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  Speaker 1: on my speaker without paying attention to the track. It
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  Speaker 1: was good, just lots of dancing music. I realized I
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  Speaker 1: like the one with Martin Garrix. I think that could
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  Speaker 1: be the next single, Bizarre. It's good. It's good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: love it honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Um, anyway, coming up in just a little bit, got
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  Speaker 1: quite a cute story coming your way. It's all, it
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  Speaker 1: all began with a cat. That's what I'm going to say.
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  Speaker 1: It all began with a little cat. No, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not a Singaporean cat. It's in Japan actually. But everyone
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  Speaker 1: around the region knows about this cat. So, um, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you would have seen this story floating around on
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  Speaker 1: social media, TikTok, Instagram. Um, do you remember there was
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  Speaker 1: this black cat in Japan, specifically in
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  Speaker 1: Hiroshima that kept trying to enter a museum. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: would have seen it for sure, like 100%. Um, it
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately passed away in 2025. I think it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps old age and stuff, but um, he was called
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  Speaker 1: Ken Chan, the black cat that tried to enter the
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  Speaker 1: museum to the point where for a whole decade, right,
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  Speaker 1: the security guard became like besties with this cat, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, naturally, I think, you know, even though it could
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  Speaker 1: be seen as a bit of like a nuisance, like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, cats keep trying to come into the museum, um,
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  Speaker 1: the people around there just started to make it a
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  Speaker 1: part of their family, you know, and it just became
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  Speaker 1: an unofficial security cat as well. Um, ever since his
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  Speaker 1: death in 2025, I think it's, it's, uh, the loss
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  Speaker 1: has been felt for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And they've decided to have a statue in replacement of
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  Speaker 1: Ken Chan. That's officially outside the museum right now. It
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  Speaker 1: it looks like as if he's guarding the museum. It's
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  Speaker 1: the cutest thing.
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  Speaker 1: And this very cute uncle of a security guard who
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  Speaker 1: I think became very close friends with this cat, um,
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  Speaker 1: was seen taking photos with the cat statue and in,
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  Speaker 1: I think sometime towards the end of Ken Chan's life,
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  Speaker 1: he was accompanied by an orange cat as well, and
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  Speaker 1: its nickname was Goh Chan. So I think Goh Chan
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  Speaker 1: has since gotten adopted, but they've erected this cute statue
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  Speaker 1: of these two cats.
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  Speaker 1: Outside Ken Chan and Goh. I know it's the cutest thing,
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  Speaker 1: and you know Ken Chan has become a part of
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  Speaker 1: that museum's merch because he's so iconic to the museum.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Chan better be getting some good royalties in the afterlife.
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  Speaker 1: His family better be getting royalties or whoever his wife
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  Speaker 1: and kids are crossing that rainbow bridge. I'm not too
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  Speaker 1: sure if the same thing for cats applies to dogs,
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  Speaker 1: but anyway, I just googled the Japanese for cat is naked.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I actually didn't know that. Oh, Nico, yes, now I
• 7:16
  Speaker 1: recognize that name. You would have been better off saying
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: Kato or something. Kato. Welcome back to school. Um, your
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  Speaker 1: first day back this week, I'm assuming for most of you.
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• 7:44
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  Speaker 1: so much for the love and for tuning in to
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  Speaker 1: us every morning. You know, they always say about this segment,
• 7:51
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• 7:54
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• 7:57
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  Speaker 1: This week, next week, we'll still be here. So make
• 8:01
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• 8:06
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• 8:09
  Speaker 1: don't think so. Yeah, but she said a lot of
• 8:12
  Speaker 1: people from ACS call in. And we're so upset. Ashton,
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• 8:23
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  Speaker 1: But Ashton, we're sending you love. Thank you for the call. Um,
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: you know, unfortunately, things happen. We tried to call you back,
• 8:49
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• 9:01
  Speaker 1: and loads of things happening here on the shock circuit,
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: of course, not forgetting your $100 dining experience. All thanks
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• 9:09
  Speaker 1: back at just past 7:00 a.m., maybe after news, weather, sports,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: and traffic, I wonder whether you've realized that in some
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: of the neighborhoods here in Singapore, there are green.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: Green strips on the road. Green strips on the road. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and they are called friendly streets. And when did this
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: get kicked off? Exactly. Let me break it down for
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: you in just a while here on the shock circuit. Again,
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: don't go anywhere. Loads of fun happening here on the
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  Speaker 1: show as Sonia and I take you to work as
• 9:36
  Speaker 1: well as school from now all the way till 10:00 a.m.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: And in terms of World Cup updates,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: We have kickoff happening in maybe say 1 hour's time.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the update. USA against Belgium. You know,
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: some of my friends, um, actually replied to me at,
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: I think 4 something in the morning. One of my
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: group chats started pinging off and I was like, what
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: are you guys doing this early in the morning? She
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, had to catch because it's Ronaldo. I
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: was like, OK.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: Shout out Renu, you know her. OK, we're gonna head
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: to the phone lines before you get to school right now.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: Who's this on the line? Hello? Skyler. Skyler, gotcha. OK, Skyla,
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: who are you with right now? My mom. Hi, Skyla's mom. Hello. Alright, Skyla,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: so which primary school are you in? Tifa, Q I
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: S A. Oh, Tifa Primary School. There we go. Sorry,
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: your reception is a bit fuzzy. OK, so
• 10:30
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you're in what? Are you in P1, P2? P1.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: And how has school been for you so far? How
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: has primary one been? Quite easy. I like that. I
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: like that. I love it. Let's go. OK, what song
• 10:44
  Speaker 1: can we get you this morning?
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: To kickstart your day. Well, Skyler loves the song Swim. OK,
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: by BTS. Yes, that's correct. Alright, that's coming up just
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: for Skyler. It's with faking smiles right here on 987.
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: Hopefully that's not what you need to do at the
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: office or at school.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: In that case, what do you mean? I genuinely laugh
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: every time we're on the show together, OK, with you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm OK. Yes, yes. It's when we step out of
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: the studio. Enough, enough, enough, enough. I put on my PR.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: Enough, enough.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: Pretty sure some people are tuning in right now. What
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  Speaker 1: to do? You're my only friend in the office. Yes, OK.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the acknowledgement. OK, I feel so honored.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the word friend, welcome to friendly streets. OK, alright.
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  Speaker 1: I need to know what you mean by this. And
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  Speaker 1: it's quite cute, because when you go to a friendly street, right,
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  Speaker 1: the moment it ends, you see a sign that says
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: end of friendly streets. No, they legitimately called it that. Yeah. OK,
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  Speaker 1: so explain to me what does a friendly street do.
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  Speaker 1: To make me happy. It's a movement started by our
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: friends over at LTA to kind of encourage motorists to
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  Speaker 1: slow down because these friendly streets, they want to prioritize
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  Speaker 1: pedestrians and cyclists. OK, so there's like curbless crossings, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they want people to slow down and make sure they
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  Speaker 1: are more observant of.
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  Speaker 1: Each other, it's almost like your silver zones and school zones, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just that it's called friendly streets and you know that
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  Speaker 1: you're in a friendly street because it's they have green
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  Speaker 1: strips on the road. The smiley faces there. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: it's just green, but the comments section is quite funny.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, the Mario Kart boost. Oh, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like it is it the color.
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  Speaker 1: Please do anything but boost your car and the friendly streets.
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  Speaker 1: Observe the speed limit and be on the lookout for
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  Speaker 1: more pedestrians. So places like maybe say Ang Mo Kio.
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  Speaker 1: They were part of the pilot as well by our
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  Speaker 1: friends over at LTA Bukit Batok West, Tampines, Toa Payoh,
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  Speaker 1: and West Coast. So I think there'll be another 10
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  Speaker 1: locations that will have friendly streets this year. I wonder
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  Speaker 1: what's the basis on how they pick a friendly street. Like,
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  Speaker 1: how do they identify, OK, this is the location we
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  Speaker 1: want to change it into a friendly street. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: judging from Ang Mo Kio, Tampines, Toa Payoh, West estates,
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  Speaker 1: is it?
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. It sounds like it. OK, well,
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  Speaker 1: something to spot and not be alarmed by in case
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  Speaker 1: you didn't actually see the visuals and you're driving along,
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  Speaker 1: suddenly you see why is the street, what does this mean? Yeah,
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: that's for you to know. You, you just know the
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  Speaker 1: meme videos are coming. Oh yeah, like you're walking on
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  Speaker 1: a friendly street, you're smiling, when you pass the sign
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  Speaker 1: of friendly grumpy angry.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm waiting for those videos because I, I'm
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: sure the netizens are out there doing it already. So
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: a quick supermarket run just about a week or two
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  Speaker 1: ago got me realizing something.
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  Speaker 1: Do you remember back in the day when we go
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: to like FairPrice, right? NTUC and stuff, their plastic bags
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  Speaker 1: would be the old, the white plastic bag with their
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  Speaker 1: logo on it. Do you still remember that? I want
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: to throw you back to the early 90s or late
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  Speaker 1: 90s there was the NTUC logo logo prints all over.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that plastic bag. OK, I was, I
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  Speaker 1: think I didn't, I didn't, I I.
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  Speaker 1: I was not of the age to accompany my mom
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  Speaker 1: to go supermarket shopping. I was just looking at anything
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  Speaker 1: but the plastic bags. Have you ever gone through supermarket anxiety? No, where,
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  Speaker 1: for example, you and your mom are in the queue
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  Speaker 1: paying for the cashier, right? And then you're about to
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  Speaker 1: get to the front and your mom realizes, oh, I
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: forgot something, and she leaves. OK, no, she's, she's asked
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  Speaker 1: me to go and look for the item. OK, yeah,
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: either that or she'll go.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll just be standing there because I've got no money, right,
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  Speaker 1: as a child. So I'll just be waiting. You know,
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  Speaker 1: that gives me anxiety. Really? OK, well, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: it happens, it happens too, I'm sure you can relate,
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  Speaker 1: but you might have noticed they've got new plastic bags
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  Speaker 1: that are gray in color, no logo at all. Um,
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  Speaker 1: they've actually switched to using gray plastic bags made of 30%
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  Speaker 1: recycled plastics.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very sustainable, um, or more sustainable rather than before.
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  Speaker 1: So say goodbye to those old plastic bags with the
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  Speaker 1: logo on it, no more already, OK? Yeah, so I
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: initially I thought like they ran out of their plastic
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  Speaker 1: bags or something because before they switched to this gray one,
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  Speaker 1: it was a white one. The white one didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a logo on it either, because I think they were
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: on their way to getting a more sustainable option. But
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  Speaker 1: now it's gray, so.
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  Speaker 1: Initially I was like, oh, maybe it's just temporary. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they ran out. Nope, it's permanent. It's a sustainability effort,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: so don't be surprised the next time you shop at
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: a fair price. Speaking of sustainability, when we come back
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: here on the circuit, I'm inspired to ask you this question, OK? Yeah.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: It involves the bottle and the can return machine. Oh, OK, yeah,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: that's another discussion, OK.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Sam Smith right here on 987, Singapore's number one hit
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: music station. Sonia and Joy are with you. Only because
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: you mentioned grocery shopping earlier and how our friends over
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: at NTUC are no longer using the logo bags and
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: all that. It's recyclable gray material. It looks, yeah, it's
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: gray in color. Yeah. Um, I'm also curious about this
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: one on the topic of being sustainable, right? It's been
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: close to about maybe 3 or 2 months already.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: Ever since they rolled out the BCR machines, the beverage
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: container return machines, how's it going, by the way? It's
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: readily available at most of your supermarkets and maybe say
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: some of your void decks or neighborhood towns, right? I
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: wonder what the take-up rate is because, uh, I rarely
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: see anyone use it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: So it's, it's a bit of a white elephant. So
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: people are buying, buying drinks from the supermarkets as well,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: hawker centers and all that, but I rarely see anyone
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: keeping their bottles and cans with them to go use
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: the BCR machine. Do you think it's because, OK.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I admittedly I haven't used it yet. Also, I don't
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: really buy any bottled or canned drinks, to be honest.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: I'm very boring. I just drink water and black coffee,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: so no canned drinks. Um, is it an extra step
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: for people? That's why.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Because you know the barrier of entry needs to be
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: very low, you know, for most people they're they're trying
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: to make it as accessible as possible and if you
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: return a can, right, you get your 10 cents refundable
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: deposit depending on whether it goes into your Easy or
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: your DBS.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I, I, I'm just curious. Maybe there'll be
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: a survey very soon. You know how Singapore in our surveys, right? Exactly, yeah.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: We'll see. I would not be at all surprised if
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: there's a survey. Coming up in just a little bit, um,
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: this may seem like an interesting idea, especially in our industry, Joakim,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure how the world might take it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: In fact, I feel
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: There were moments where I thought it would move into
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: this space, let's say even in Hollywood, for example, with
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the use of AI, OK. I, I know, I know,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: people either love it or hate it, but it actually
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: depends on how it affects your industry, you know. I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: think for us, and the reason why, if you remember,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I think it was a year ago or something.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Um, the Screen Actors Guild, if I'm not wrong, in
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: the US, they had a bit of a demonstration or they,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: they went on strike or something because of the attempted
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: use of AI on some of their likeness and images.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: So find out what this actor in Southeast Asia is
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: doing that is actually earning him money while he's just
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: sitting about at home. When you say earning money, you
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: mean like in the, maybe. I think more hundreds of thousands,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: not millions, but yeah, maybe.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Hundreds of thousands, um, but I'll I'll tell you more
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: about it and you see whether it's something that you
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: might consider in like 10 or 20 years, OK? OK,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: so in a world where AI has become such a
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: hot topic of discussion, um, in, you know, it could
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: be a good way or a bad way, some people
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: are embracing it, some people are worried that it's going
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: to replace their jobs or steal their jobs, right?
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I'm taking you to Hong Kong right now, where this
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: actor by the name of Lawrence Eg, I'm not sure
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: if you know him, if you don't watch dramas, you
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: may not know. I find him familiar only because I
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: think back then, when I used to, when I was
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: still staying with my parents, my mom will sometimes watch
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: some of these Cantonese dramas that are dubbed in Mandarin
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: for the Singapore audience, right? So anyway, um, this actor,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: he's decided that he's going to embrace the use of AI.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: He's not afraid of it.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: He's officially sold some of his image rights for AI use.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So they actually use like a 20 year old version
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: of him in his likeness, much younger version of him
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: to create a drama, and he basically says the payout
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: is pretty good and he can sit around and do
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: nothing in his retirement. All I can say is he
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: better make sure his lawyers read the contract thoroughly. So
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it's interesting because
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He, he's 62 right now. So, you know, he's probably
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: in his retirement phase. He revealed that when he licensed
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: his right, the rights to his likeness to his face
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to a production company, um, and they recreated this 20
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: year old version of him using AI. He was very
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: amazed because he didn't even have to go onto the sets. Um,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: all the promotional events that he spoke at, he actually said,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: This opens up a lot of opportunities. We should see
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it differently instead of just being worried that it will
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: steal your jobs, both good and bad. Can you imagine
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: that his lawyers did not read the contract thoroughly? Neither
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: did he and this production company pivots.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: One day to maybe say producing naughty videos. Oh, I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: know what you mean. I know what you mean, but
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure for an actor of his level
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and his repertoire, they would definitely have got that in
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: an ironclad agreement hopefully.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: But for any other people around the world thinking of
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: doing this and you don't have the right representation, you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: don't read the contracts properly, you better be careful. But
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he's said that, um, you know what, let's embrace AI.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it replacing actors. OK. This is one
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: point of view, but I don't know whether everyone else
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: shares the same view. It's one of those cases where
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: if you know him in person, you would tell him, Sir,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: don't project, OK? You do you.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: You like AI. That's your problem. But here's the thing.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: If let's say if you're 70 years old already, you
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: don't really want to go be on set for 20
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: hours a day or whatever, and they are gonna pay
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: you like half a million dollars to use your face. No,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you don't want to do it. You wouldn't do it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Given our industry. I'd rather be on set. I'd rather.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Be on the stage, you're 90? As long as I'm walking,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: as long as my voice box is walking, I hope
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: your voice box walks for a long time. Thank you.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: World Cup update. Belgium 1 USA nailed. We are 11
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: minutes in. OK, that was that was that they stastic.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Anyway, name me one Belgium player. Um, Belgium, uh, OK,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: hold on, let me think, uh, uh, Dave.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Is there a person called David's Dave. No. No, stop it.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Can you stop? Go. Anyway, opening up the phone lines
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: for something a little spicy today, OK, that may or
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: may not bring back some not so savory memories for us,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I would say. Oh, it has already. Oh, it has? Yeah, OK,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: just by me saying that earlier. Um, have you ever
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: been forced by someone that you're going out with, OK,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that you're dating?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: To unfollow the people that you used to be involved with. Yes,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: so straight up is it? It was a bit of
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a stupid for me. I look back at my younger
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: self and I went, why did I not draw boundaries?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: But you were a lot younger back then. I mean, OK,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I know, I think I know which situation you're talking about.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: You were much younger, but there were boys my age
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: back then who knew what they were doing what to do,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: you know, why was I a stupid one?
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And, and you know what, no amount of reasoning can
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: reason with a rather insecure person. This has no gender.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It could be a guy or it could be a girl.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, 100%. Um, I was catching up with a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: friend of mine and this happened to, to my friend.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Like the exact thing is happening right now where, um, my,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: my friend is saying that he doesn't really know what
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to do in this situation because he's not sure whether
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: it's moving in the direction that he wants to because
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: he doesn't foresee.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: That this is a healthy thing at all. You're right.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Leave the girl or guy, whoever it is, whoever it is, because, OK,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: if you're in like an early dating stage, right, and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: this were to happen, I'm not sure whether this is
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: just the start of a lot of other things that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: may reveal itself along the way, you know, disclaimer, I'm
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: not active.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: searching up the girls that I've dated in my life.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: If I still follow them, if I see their posts
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and they are happy with their new partners or kids,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I will like it. Like, you know, we ended on
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: good terms. I'm happy for you. It doesn't mean I
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: want to sleep with you again, or be on a date. No,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: it's just why, why, why must unfollow. What are we, 10? Yeah, exactly.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So I.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I've just stayed um well, online friends with most of
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: my exes or people I think only, only one of
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: them unfollowed me because I guess he had a new
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: partner going on or something you tell me you've dated
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: before suddenly saying, hey, you know, I've been thinking about
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you quite a bit, how have you been? Yeah, that
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that could be.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: The start of an avalanche which I want to avoid.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: So that's a different story altogether, different story altogether. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: if you're in a committed relationship, I guess you would
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: know what to do. You would just either politely decline
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: or say like, hey, you know, I hope you understand,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: not the best time for me to do this, but
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I hope you're OK. I think there are ways to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: navigate it than forcing your partner to unfollow.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: The people that he or she used to be involved with. OK,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: to me, if something bad happened or some incident between
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the two of you caused a lot of distrust, then maybe,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know, it could be justified in selected situations.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: But this one that my friend told me about, I
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: was like, oh, this girl seems like a red flag, man.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I gotta say I'm sure that when we open the
• 25:12
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• 25:13
  Speaker 1: We're gonna get plenty of people sharing the same experience.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: But hey, we are open to all types of views. So,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: so really, like if you want to tell us why
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: you think this is OK or this is the right
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: thing to do, or maybe in your situation, it was
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the thing that you wanted to do, then OK, why not, right?
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• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you
• 25:39
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• 25:41
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• 25:51
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• 25:55
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• 26:06
  Speaker 1: One coming in from username Alan. Alan says, Hey, Sojo,
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: back in the day I followed tattooed chicks group on Facebook. Wait,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: that that's an actual group. OK, I have no idea.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know. When my kids started using Facebook, I
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: had to unfollow. I didn't want them to happen to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: see my feed. Oh, OK, OK. That's a, I would
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: say that's a valid reason in a way, I mean.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: We're gonna head to our WhatsApp, uh, channels as well.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I think we've got someone by the name of E here. Morning, Sojo.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: I actually broke up with my ex of 4.5 years
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: a few months ago. When we broke up, we promised
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: that we wouldn't break contact, but a few weeks ago,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I found out that my ex blocked me on IG.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: It's quite disheartening for me, but my guess is that
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: um he doesn't want me to see that he's moving
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: on without me. OK, I mean,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, um, if you either that or your ex's partner
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: made him do that. Exactly. So you would never really
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: know the answer, I guess. How would he realize that
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: this person blocked him, his ex blocked him? You can't
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: search him up, is it? You can't search him up
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: or see the post anymore. Sonia, any experience? No, um,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I'd be very surprised if you're the kind of girl
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: that makes a guy block all his exes or I'd
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: be very surprised. I've never done that. Neither have they
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: tried to do that with me. Yeah, that's why I
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: said only one unfollowed me before. Actually, to be fair.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: unfollowed him too because it ended quite badly, I think.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so I think I unfollowed him. He then
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: realized and probably unfollowed me, but it's not that we
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: don't wish each other well. I just don't think we
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: have a friendship anymore versus some of the other exes
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: that we still like sometimes react to each other's stuff on.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Like Instagram or IGS or whatever, you know, why Sonia
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: chew like your picture? Go back to her lah. Go lah.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: You like her, right? Go lah. Go, go, go. You
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: want your media girl, right? You'd be surprised, you know,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: like there was, there was an incident of, um, a
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: guy that I didn't even have a romantic, romantic relationship
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: with at all, but he did like me like a
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: long time ago. It was like school, honestly, it was
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: school days, like, you know, uni age, that kind of thing.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: We never, nothing ever happened. Like I don't see him
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that way, right?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: But I don't know for what reason he must have
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: told his, his current partner about me or something. I
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: don't know why, because he told me once, um, that, uh,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: he can't catch up anymore because his partner isn't, isn't
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a fan. Then I said, oh, OK, what happened? I mean,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I don't even know. Honestly, I didn't even know the story.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Like what, what did he tell her? I have no idea.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I said it's fine, no loss to me. It's not
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: like we were very close or anything. Again, keep the
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• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a situation where you were maybe pressured to unfollow the
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: people you used to date or be involved with? OK,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: here we go. OK. This one I can relate to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a whole new level. Hello, I was in a relationship
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: with this girl which was quite toxic.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I used to have a lot of female friends because
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: I was more comfortable with females than guys, so naturally
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: she was a bit jealous of it. But as time
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: went on, she started to be more wary with all
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: of them. I didn't just have to delete them all
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: from my social media. I even had to block them
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: from my messaging apps. Thinking back, it was a clear
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: red flag, but I guess love blinds us all. From
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the sound of it, since he's talking in past tense,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming they are no longer together.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like it, doesn't sound like it. OK, you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: having the female friends. I relates the female friends I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: relate
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You got to make sure there's nothing hanky panky and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: boundaries are clearly drawn, you know what I mean. You know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: when you say hanky panky, you sound like my grandma.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I, I, I can't obviously say what I want to
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: say exactly on directly, you know what I mean, but
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, because I, I, I
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: know there are girls and guys who have guy friends
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: and girlfriends, and some are quite suspicious. We know. I
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: get it. Yeah. So, OK, from my own experience as well,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, you've met a lot of the
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: guys that I've dated previously, um, enough for you to
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: estimate like how comfortable they are or maybe how
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Um, insecure they are or confident they are. Jeremy gets
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: the gold medal for self-confidence. OK, I'm very happy about that.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I will say that in my circle of friends, um,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: my men friends, that includes you.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Um, at least for, you know, with, with Jeremy, who's my,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: my lifelong partner now, right, you know, my, I'm very
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: proud of my straight man friends who actually make an
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: effort to get to know him and like hang out
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: with him. It's not just like, oh, hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, hi, bye,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of thing. If you give sketchy behavior,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you're gonna get a sketchy attitude back, that's for sure, right?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: To the point where whenever I meet Sonia and Jeremy, right,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: who do I hug? Jeremy. Yeah, exactly.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: You know, I was laughing so hard. I sidetracked, sorry,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I was reviewing some of the wedding footage which I
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: sent you the link already, right? wedding photos, sorry, from
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the night because it takes some time for them to process.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: So they only just sent it like 2 weeks ago, right?
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: I looked through some and I was like, this one
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: my wedding or Joakim's wedding?
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Some of the pictures he's hugging my parents, hugging germs.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Where am I?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I was like this one Joakim's wedding. It honestly looks
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: like you and Germs were celebrating a party together. I,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I'm the son your parents never had. Hello, hello mom
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: and dad. I just want to hear that conversation. Anyway, sorry,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: sidetrack with a spicy question for you. Have you ever
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: been forced to unfollow some of your exes or people
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you're involved with? Very sad.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: very sad, can be a bit toxic sometimes depending on
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the trust levels that you all have. But anyway, I
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: got one message that just came in. Anonymous staying anonymous.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: My then girlfriend, now wife, made me unfollow girlfriends, models, influencers,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: and even some guy friends. Early on in.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Relationship, I thought this was very intrusive, and we had
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: many arguments, but at this stage in life, if she
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: asks me to do anything, send my life location, picture
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: of what I'm doing with my boys, I would just
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: do it. No questions, no hesitation. In fact, no need
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to ask, I would just do it automatically to avoid
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: any confrontations or unwanted arguments. So did this relationship work out?
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I think they're married now.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, they're married now, OK. So it means times have changed, right?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I mean to do this to avoid negative reactions. Actually,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: this is an interesting spin-off for another day, right? When
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: you are dating someone, do you allow each other to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: have like your life locations or is that a thing
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: that you do? I never asked you this actually.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I, I will tell you where I am. Yes, but
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: you know some couples actually share their locations with each other,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: so they know where they're at at all times. Is
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: that weird or sweet? I don't know. I'm, I'm curious. I, I,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: I can't really judge because I've not done that. Me neither,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and I think I'll be a bit uncomfortable because I'm
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: telling you, yes, OK, I'm at Penny Black having a Guinness.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Must I really turn on my live location to let
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: you trust me?
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know. So I, I'll definitely send you a bubble.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: That's OK. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I just
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: know some couples who like they, they need to share
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: their life location, so I don't know. Yeah, to each
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: its own, floats their boat. Anonymous is on the line
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to wrap up this topic here today as well. So Anonymous, what,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: what happens? So,
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: um, my current partner found out that I've been friends
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: with my exes, and you know, uh,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: I tried to end amicably with my exes, so we
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: maintain good friendship and I sometimes I know they are
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: um partners as well. So we would naturally react with
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: each other's Instagram stories and all. But when my partner
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: my partner found out, she took it as a cheating,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I guess. And then she, yeah, yeah, and she gave
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: me the option to unfollow them and block them everywhere,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: even in my messages, delete every single thing.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm a very sentimental person. So it took me,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: it took my everything to delete everything, you know, from
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: the memories and all, so we talked about it. Yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: everything's all good now and healthy cause uh I'm pretty
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: sure it's not just unfollowing, but it's the principle behind it. Yeah.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I think, OK, seeing how you
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Both of you have talked through it, right? I guess
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the question she may have had in her mind is,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I know you're a sentimental person, but why do you
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: need to look back at these messages and moments that
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: you shared with the exes? Maybe that's what she's thinking.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I, I personally would have approached it differently.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have probably forced you, but
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: If it works and you guys have talked it out
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: and you know, it's all OK now, then that's, that's
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a good thing. Yeah.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: And as a partner, and I wanna be a good partner, ah,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: you know, I wanna see where this is coming from,
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: you know?
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: 100%, right? But if it works, it works, like we said.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: So thank you so much for sharing your stories with us.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Came through with a spicy question for you. If you've
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: ever been pressured to unfollow the people you used to
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: be involved with, that includes exes, people you dated, people
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: you were just involved with casually.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Has this happened to you? And you came through with
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of stories, a lot of anonymous texters today.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Rightly so. I mean, nobody would want to say their
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: name in case they're currently going through it. Actually, even
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: if you didn't specify, we chose to keep most of
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you anonymous, to be honest. We're sending you all the
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: love you need in case you find yourself in this
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: toxic situation. But anyway,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: What's coming your way? It's a very nice dining experience.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: All thanks to our friends at Broadside. Wanna give it
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: to an anonymous texter who shared about his long-term relationship
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and his ex unfollowing him after the breakup of 9 years. Well, congratulations.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: At least you get something by sharing your
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Painfully honest story. Sometimes these, you know, these stories bring
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: back bad or good memories for us, but we appreciate
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: you being so open with our with. Actually, I realized
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: we're giving you the perfect experience. Go have some good
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: food and then you drink some beer from Bata. Oh yeah, OK,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the oldest brewery in Germany, if I'm not wrong, really.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I still remember like, um, in Germany they had this
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: like 1 L.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Pints and these beer girls, like they just have a talent, man.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: They're mad strong. They can carry like 4 in one arm,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: in one hand. Only, only in Germany, the beer is
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: cheaper than water. That's true. OK, so you asked me
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: what's up for food news today. I said it's a
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: new opening. Here we go with food news. Do I
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: sing it? Yes. Happy or sad? 123, food news, foods.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: News. Sonia with the good food news. Hopefully for this
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: entire week it's happy news. I hope so too. I
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: mean this definitely is a positive spin on things with
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: all the closures and unfortunate things happening in the F&B sector.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: It's not easy to maintain. OK, wait, when you say
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: new opening, can I guess on what it is not? OK, OK,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I hope it is not a new mala. No, it's not. OK.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Nope, it's not. Hot. No, it's not a chain. It's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: not a chain. When I say new is new. So
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: this guy has worked in cybersecurity for 16 years. OK.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: My guess is that he's a millennial. OK. He's worked
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: for 16 years in various, I'm assuming cybersecurity firms, and
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: he had a managerial position. So quite comfortable, you know,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: like doing well in life, but he pivoted suddenly, quit
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and became a hawker.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: At this place called Nasi Lemak by Brown.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Um, he gave up a cushy job to run his
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: lemongrass chicken Nasi Lemak, and he's doing it solo. Congratulations,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Melvin Brown. That's his surname actually. Yeah, you're gonna ask
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: why it's called, why is it called Nasi Lemak by Brown, right?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: So, um, he left the corporate world at the end
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: of 2024, opened his brand new hawker business in March
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: this year, and he kind of said, you know what,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: like he spent so many years building systems, streamlining workflows
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and managing risks. It unexpectedly prepared him for life as
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a hawker, his cybersecurity background. OK, I'm.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Mr. Brown right now. Yes, that's his real surname, so
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: it's so cute. Yeah. So apparently we are very common. Yeah,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you're mixed, right? Because he has Indian and Portuguese blood, yeah,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: but he also has Chinese and British descent. This is
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Eurasian of the Eurasian man. Yes, exactly. So, hey, you
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: know what, he wanted to create something that entirely belonged
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: to him. So things like even
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: The, the sambal, he took maybe 6 months to perfect,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: you know, things like that. He really put his heart
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and soul into it. Um, he did say definitely he
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: was worried about the pay cut, but it's a necessary
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: step to really just get out of your comfort zone.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: He's not drawing a salary at all. He's pumping all
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the revenue back into the business, so I'm wishing him
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: all the best. Um, it's easy for us to go
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: pay him a.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Is it, you know, it's a one-man show for now.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Maybe let's just show him some love and, and support.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I have to say the Nasi Lemak looks glorious, something
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that we would love to have for breakfast, but I
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: think it's time we got to go to Golden Mile
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Food Center. Exactly, yeah. So 505 Beach Road. I wonder
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: when was the last time you went to Golden Mile.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So Golden Mile Food Center has that very good clay
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: pot rice stall, which
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: The last time I went was maybe 2 or 3
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: years ago when it was about to go through renovations. OK,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: so time to pay them a visit. It's 1, once again,
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Golden Mile Food Center, as mentioned earlier. All the best, Mr. Brown.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: We're giving you some love, Melvin. Now there's confusion. Oh, Mr. Brown,
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the blogger and Mr. Brown.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it looks perfect. We can't wait to dig in
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: and give it a try. OK, I think our friends
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: over at Netflix, yeah, very busy, is it? If they
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: ever need a new crime series and they need inspiration
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: for it, they should come to Singapore. Singapore. Are you sure?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether we're very exciting crime-wise. not, not,
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: not that that's a thing to flex at all. OK, disclaimer, I, I,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I know we're like a safe country.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: And all that, but sometimes when I read about the
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: crime news, right, I'm like, wow, like these are the
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: kind of things that you read about or you watch
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: in cinemas or you watch in the television series or whatsoever.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Does it make you wonder why they even tried in
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: the first place? Yeah, OK. When we come back, a
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: new case of money laundering, oh boy, involving Nvidia chips.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Nothing related to Invader the company, right? Like they are not. OK,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: let me try to break it down for you as
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: I understand it, OK, but it involves a GCB just casually, just,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: you know, a good class bungalow out there and millions
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: of dollars. Wow, yeah, we're definitely not involved. Do I
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: sing the Bodo crime jingle for this or not. OK,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: this one is quite smart.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Because it involves millions of dollars, money laundering, a good
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: class bungalow. I'm pretty sure some sports car somewhere as well.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: More money and but unfortunately, unfortunately got caught, so good. Yeah.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: So I was reading this on the train yesterday. I
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: was what really draws my attention when it comes to
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: crime in Singapore, it's not like theft.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: For robberies, those are serious as well, but it's your
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: white-collar crimes. It's those that involves money laundering and all that.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: So apparently this one involves a group CEO of this
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: place called Aparia. Have you heard of it? There's a
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: mall with the same name. I don't think it's I don't,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: but the CEO has been hit with 9 additional charges
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: including fraud and money laundering, so.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: The prosecutors are saying that he bought a good class
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: bungalow worth $55 million using money that allegedly was a
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: value of $38 million in criminal proceeds. How, how did
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: he get this $33 million from your understanding of the story?
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I think they misled suppliers on who the final users
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: of high-end computers would be, and these servers.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Contained allegedly the Nvidia AI chips that were later shipped
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to Malaysia raising concerns that they may have bypassed US
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: export controls. Oh yeah. So did the product even exist
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: for them? That's the thing I want to know. So
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: police have since frozen the bungalow from being sold and
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: also seized about $1 million from the bank accounts under investigations.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: So where, where
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: Where is this bungalow situated? Do we know? Like where
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: is this GCB? You got me there. I mean, there
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: are only that many places in Singapore that have GCBs lah. So, uh, disclaimer,
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: the case is ongoing and the allegations have not yet
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: been proven in court because the, the group CEO of
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: this kind of pleaded not guilty to everything still being
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: looked into right now, but we are invested as with
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: every developing story when it comes to crime here in Singapore.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: Wow, wow, that, that, that's another level. I have to say,
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: another level. Before we wrap it up, we actually saw
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: a pretty interesting video that we didn't even realize this
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: was going on. I think the students over at Primary
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: School for today, they just received a new core memory.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Jackie Chan of all people appeared.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Their school. Yeah, I think this is in partnership with
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: the Lim Foundation, the Lim Family Foundation, where a few
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: years ago, if you remember, they brought down Ciano Ronaldo. Yeah,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: they are like besties with him, right? Somehow they're really
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: close with him. I mean, for Ronaldo to even fly
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: down personally to congratulate.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Was it? I think his daughter gave birth to congratulate
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Peter Lim Kim. I wonder who will fly down for
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: us for that.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Sons.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm just saying there's being delusional and then
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: there's this.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: Hey, one can hope, you know, like out of nowhere, like, uh,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: Chris Martin comes to congratulate you on your wedding or
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: or performs at your wedding. Actually, you know what, yeah,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: if it's possible, I already found my future wedding singer
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: if it takes place. Me? No, hell no.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Hey, why are you so rude? Please don't say what
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: kind of, what kind of budget you have? You can
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: afford me not.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: You can afford my singing now. I didn't know $1
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: was very hard to give.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Hey.