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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 150926 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Chinese
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  Speaker 2: Wake up
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  Speaker 2: next to you.
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  Speaker 2: Kicking off your day in the best way. It's Sonia
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  Speaker 2: and Joakim on the
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  Speaker 1: shock circuit. Good morning. Welcome to Tuesday, and I'm guessing
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  Speaker 1: most of you might be uh waking up right now
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  Speaker 1: heading for your listening comprehension exam very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, have you dug your ears?
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  Speaker 2: Are you OK?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what your mom used to tell you?
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  Speaker 2: You think inside,
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  Speaker 2: can you hear properly? Singapore's
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  Speaker 2: number one hit music station.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, like we said, a portion of you will
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  Speaker 1: be heading for your examinations. Yes, a portion of you
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  Speaker 1: may not even need to go to school today, actually,
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  Speaker 2: right? So
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  Speaker 2: please, for listening comprehension, listen to the passage. Don't be
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  Speaker 2: so caught up in trying to shade your answers in
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  Speaker 2: record time. No. Listen to the entire passage, comprehend it,
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  Speaker 2: and then when they ask you the question, shade the
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  Speaker 2: correct
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  Speaker 2: answer.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, you know, this is a, this is a great
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  Speaker 1: topic for another time, right, when you just that you
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  Speaker 1: just brought up.
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  Speaker 1: Um, I used to notice some of my classmates around
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  Speaker 1: me that will complete their exams like really quickly, and
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  Speaker 1: then they just like close up the paper and put
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  Speaker 1: their head on the table, to which sometimes I, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if that gives me any anxiety, but I'm like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: is it they're like so good, that's why they're so smart,
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  Speaker 1: they finished it, or did they not know how to
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  Speaker 1: fill in the paper at all?
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  Speaker 2: in that case, I finished
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  Speaker 2: my
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  Speaker 1: time. How did you, how long did you
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  Speaker 1: take?
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  Speaker 2: DNT we had 2 hours and 30 minutes. I wrote
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  Speaker 2: my name.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. No, you wrote your name and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Look,
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  Speaker 2: every single question involved,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was practical.
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  Speaker 2: The the
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  Speaker 2: answer involved a form of drawing and stuff, and I'm like, guys,
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  Speaker 2: art class or
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  Speaker 2: something.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you get one point. No,
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  Speaker 2: no, one mark. I
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  Speaker 2: knew I was gonna fail D&T anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But all I can say is you have now come
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the listening comprehension examination. Goodbye. Is
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  Speaker 2: that the
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  Speaker 1: song?
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  Speaker 2: I did not even notice that.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if it's changed already.
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  Speaker 2: I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure it has, but yeah, that was my time.
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  Speaker 2: I think for today the both of us are going
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  Speaker 2: to sound a little bit nasal and you can tell
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  Speaker 2: that we are battling a bit of a sneezing fit
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  Speaker 2: here in the
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  Speaker 2: studio.
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  Speaker 1: Actually, more so than you because I just, I have
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  Speaker 1: this chronic like sinus issues, right, which I think you
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  Speaker 1: solved quite a while ago, like with the sinus surgery,
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  Speaker 1: sinus surgery many years ago
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  Speaker 2: nasal
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  Speaker 2: septum wasn't really much of a sinus thing, but because
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  Speaker 2: when I used to breathe when I was a lot younger.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, what happened was one nostril is OK, but the
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  Speaker 2: other one is quite
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  Speaker 2: blocked.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I have the same problem and don't, don't
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  Speaker 1: laugh at me even though I know you're gonna laugh
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  Speaker 1: at me. I won't. When I, yes, you will. When
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  Speaker 1: I went to the ENT like uh, I think it
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  Speaker 1: was a year or two ago, OK, um, she had
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  Speaker 1: to do like a scope, right, to find out what
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  Speaker 1: was going on because I as a kid, I never
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  Speaker 1: went to get it fixed or solved or like consulted
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. I just sneeze a lot every single morning.
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  Speaker 1: She did the scope thing with the camera and she openly,
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  Speaker 1: she goes, she goes, you have like the smallest nostril ever.
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  Speaker 1: This is coming from the doctor, OK. She was like,
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  Speaker 1: your left nostril is like a kid's nostril.
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  Speaker 2: wow.
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  Speaker 1: But it's only one side, which is, you know, what
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 2: That's a statement and a half.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty, pretty funny.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, according to the press and our friends over
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  Speaker 2: at NEA, the PSI, it's in the hundreds now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah in terms of the 24 hour PSI, so if
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  Speaker 2: you're going to do outdoor activities or if you're currently
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  Speaker 2: doing your morning run or morning cycle, please observe the
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  Speaker 2: weather conditions and listen to your
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  Speaker 2: body.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, beyond that as well, like
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't hang my clothes outside actually at this point
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want it to catch the
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  Speaker 1: The funky smell outside. Oh yeah, yeah, so I mean
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  Speaker 1: if you have one of those like dehumidifier things at home,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just turn that on and yeah, pop your
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  Speaker 1: laundry inside.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be surprised if social media marketing. Hey guys, we
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  Speaker 2: got an indoor drying system with the available for you, um,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes the weather is unpredictable. Yeah, right. OK, well, regardless,
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  Speaker 1: hope you have a good start to your day, not
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  Speaker 1: so sneezy like us. Coming up in just a few minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this is the perfect example of why sometimes nosy
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  Speaker 1: neighbors or nosy residents around the area, not necessarily the
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  Speaker 1: best thing, OK. Sometimes people are nosy because they feel
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  Speaker 1: like they're doing good or they like want to intervene
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  Speaker 1: in something that they think is wrong, right?
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  Speaker 2: What's the term for it? Social justice
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  Speaker 2: warrior.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So, OK, sometimes I think fair, like if
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  Speaker 1: they see something odd that's going on and then
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  Speaker 1: It's a not so safe situation to go and approach
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  Speaker 1: this person. You take a video and you submit to
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  Speaker 1: the authorities. OK, fine, maybe you find something suspicious, but
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  Speaker 1: at times of, or, or rather, oftentimes I find a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are just very capable, and they just
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  Speaker 1: want to take videos of anything and everything. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: some citizen journalism websites actually give you money for submitting footage, right,
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  Speaker 1: which may in turn encourage different types of behavior and
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  Speaker 1: The motivation for people to take videos of others
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  Speaker 2: and others here in Singapore. It might make you feel
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  Speaker 2: like wow, I submit this
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  Speaker 2: rewarded.
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  Speaker 1: In some occasions it's a good thing because it might
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  Speaker 1: be a bad situation, but in others.
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  Speaker 1: like the one I'm about to share in just a while,
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  Speaker 1: you're just gonna face palm Jokim. Absolutely face palm. Jung area. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: like we said earlier, sometimes citizen journalism can be useful
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  Speaker 1: and it can apprehend certain people that are up to
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  Speaker 1: no good, but
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  Speaker 1: Um, on the other hand, sometimes, or rather maybe even 50, 60,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps even 70% of the time, um, it's quite
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  Speaker 1: capable people driven by the fact that, oh, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: get a small fee or be seen as a hero
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  Speaker 1: if I submit this footage, and they might submit things
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  Speaker 1: without even knowing the context.
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  Speaker 2: To quote a phrase that was said and it became
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  Speaker 2: a meme here in Singapore, I'm gonna call a spade
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  Speaker 2: a spade, OK.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, I think it was the storm culture from the
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  Speaker 2: late 2000s that really encouraged people to hey my camera
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  Speaker 2: phone can now be a weapon or can be a
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  Speaker 2: truth
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  Speaker 2: tool.
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  Speaker 1: And, and it's even worse now because of social media platforms.
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  Speaker 1: I mean TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, it can, it can go
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  Speaker 1: up like unverified as well nowadays without even submitting.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, um, this man was spotted attempting to, uh,
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  Speaker 1: hold a cat, OK, over at the Jung area, and
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  Speaker 1: he was squatting on the ground like a pavement and
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  Speaker 1: the cat was like resisting him in a way.
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  Speaker 1: Um, he looked like he has dealt with animals before,
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  Speaker 1: like judging from the way that he was trying to
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  Speaker 1: carry the cat, but he was filmed by some neighbor
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  Speaker 1: through a window. OK, it looks like this person was
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  Speaker 1: hiding behind a window, and this person posted it up
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  Speaker 1: on what I feel could be IGS that says at
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  Speaker 1: Ju Sing Roadblock 14, don't know this man and what
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do to this cat, was the caption,
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  Speaker 1: very big caption on the video. It's one of those
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  Speaker 1: out of context I'm guessing. Guess what?
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  Speaker 1: This guy was trying to bring the cat to the vet. Exactly,
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  Speaker 2: you see,
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  Speaker 1: he, he, after this video went viral, he was identified
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  Speaker 1: as someone who is a community caregiver.
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  Speaker 1: And this person who did not know anything and thought
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  Speaker 1: that he or she was being a hero went to
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  Speaker 1: video and upload this, you know, video of this man.
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  Speaker 1: So
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  Speaker 2: maybe right intentions but wrong execution because if you are
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  Speaker 2: the person who's about to video someone before you do it,
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  Speaker 2: maybe ask him first. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: exactly, you know.
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  Speaker 1: No, but from the angle of this video, it looked
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  Speaker 1: like this person was hiding behind a window, window pane, and,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a bit shaky and you know, just
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  Speaker 1: trying to catch this guy in the open inverted commas act.
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  Speaker 1: But um, hey, this man had only good intentions. He,
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  Speaker 1: if you know the area well enough and if you've
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  Speaker 1: been around the area, you will know that he's a
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  Speaker 1: caregiver there,
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  Speaker 2: most of the time, a 10 or 15 is not
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  Speaker 2: enough to tell the entire story. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what is stopping you from just approaching him
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  Speaker 1: and saying, hey, is everything OK, like, you know, with
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  Speaker 1: this cat?
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  Speaker 1: Then if he's acting suss, then you go and, you know,
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  Speaker 1: call someone.
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  Speaker 2: Again, unfortunately we live in a culture where
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  Speaker 1: people will confront, right?
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  Speaker 2: They
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  Speaker 2: prefer using their camera phones instead of confront
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  Speaker 1: non-confrontational.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but they use their camera phones to film and put
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  Speaker 2: it up online,
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  Speaker 1: and no one knows who they are most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: OK, stick around. We're about to open up phone lines
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  Speaker 1: and our WhatsApp channels in just a bit. We would
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  Speaker 1: love for you to text us if you're on the
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  Speaker 1: way to school. Maybe you're doing your PSLE listening compre today.
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  Speaker 1: You want some, you know, good energy. We'd love to
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  Speaker 1: play you a song of your choice. Yup, stick around.
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  Speaker 1: And to really perk you up and put you in
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  Speaker 1: a good mood, especially if you're taking.
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  Speaker 1: Your PSLE, we would love for you to send us
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  Speaker 1: a message or give us
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  Speaker 2: a call.
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  Speaker 2: 669-11987 or 90050987. Sonia, let's predict what do you think
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  Speaker 2: the listening comprehension passage would be
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  Speaker 2: about?
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  Speaker 1: Would be about um.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll pick a real-life situation or something like, OK,
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  Speaker 1: I think it'll be rescuing stray dogs.
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  Speaker 2: OK,
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  Speaker 2: rescue. OK. Yes. I predict that maybe for the listening
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  Speaker 2: comprehension passage, it could be about a historical figure.
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  Speaker 1: OK, OK, maybe, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they might focus on some Greek tragedy like Odyssey
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  Speaker 2: or for example,
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  Speaker 1: something.
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  Speaker 1: With AI perhaps in this day and
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  Speaker 2: age.
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  Speaker 1: OK, but P6 I'm not sure. Let's see, let's see.
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  Speaker 2: So
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  Speaker 2: once you're done with the listening, can you please text
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  Speaker 2: us and let us know what we're so
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  Speaker 1: curious. Let us know. You can call us 669-11987
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  Speaker 1: You can also drop us a message on WhatsApp at 90050987.
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  Speaker 1: I think Joy and I have been dying to get
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  Speaker 1: Telegram up and stuff, so we'll see whether we can
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  Speaker 1: eventually make that happen. Yeah, for sure. I think we're
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  Speaker 1: getting a few messages as well, um, earlier on about
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  Speaker 1: people going to school, people preparing for their exams, and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna head to the phone lines in just a minute.
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  Speaker 2: So
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  Speaker 2: loads of P6s, they got their listening comprehension today that
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  Speaker 2: might begin at say 9 a.m., but they usually go
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  Speaker 2: to school.
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  Speaker 2: Very, very early. Want to just tell you, say hello
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  Speaker 2: on WhatsApp to Darren. Darren says, Hey guys, it's my PS,
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  Speaker 2: it's my sister's PS early today. All the best to
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  Speaker 2: your sister, Darren. Make sure you listen well to the passage,
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  Speaker 2: tell her that, and also share the correct answers and
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  Speaker 2: check where A, B, C, and D on your shading
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  Speaker 2: sheet is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like my dad used to tell me
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  Speaker 1: I would lose points because I'm careless. That's what he
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  Speaker 1: would say. You're too careless. You, you don't check your answers,
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  Speaker 1: you don't double check.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, um, we actually have Caleb on the line right now. Caleb,
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  Speaker 1: which school are you from and are you a PSLE student? Um,
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  Speaker 1: I'm from Singan Primary. Alright, big shout out. Is there
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  Speaker 1: anyone you want to say hi to on air? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say hi to Keegan from my class.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be my kindergarten friend also.
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  Speaker 2: Oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's nice, a very long friendship.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, can I ask what time is the listening comprehension
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  Speaker 2: exam then?
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  Speaker 1: At 7:20. 7:20,
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  Speaker 2: so early.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if it's different for different schools or it's
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  Speaker 1: all the same.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's universal here in Singapore. It
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  Speaker 1: has to be. Well, you know what, Caleb, all the best.
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  Speaker 1: We would love to get you a song this morning.
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  Speaker 1: What can we play for you?
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  Speaker 2: Can you play
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  Speaker 1: Blue by Yuni? Blue by Yun Kai coming right up.
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  Speaker 1: You have a great day, OK? Take
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  Speaker 2: care, Caleb. All the
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  Speaker 2: best. Bye bye.
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  Speaker 2: And some places close here in Singapore, you might go, OK,
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  Speaker 2: what is going on? So when I saw this in
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  Speaker 2: the news yesterday, I'm just kind of wondering, is everything
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  Speaker 2: OK with our friends over at Crystal Jade? I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know. That's worrying.
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  Speaker 2: So before you panic and go, Hey, is it the
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  Speaker 2: Crystal Jade Lamian Xiaolong Pao outlet or whatsoever? I actually
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  Speaker 2: googled the different crystal Jade concept.
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  Speaker 2: That they have here in Singapore. So they have Crystal
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  Speaker 2: Jade Palace. I think that's the high-end fine dining one. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: no, Crystal Jade Palace is OK, you read out the
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  Speaker 1: rest to me. There's
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  Speaker 2: Crystal Jade Palace, Crystal Jade Pavilion, Crystal Jade Hong Kong Kitchen,
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  Speaker 2: Crystal Jade La Mia and Xiaolong Pao, and Crystal Jade Goh.
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  Speaker 1: OK, gold or gold? Go, go, go, go.
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  Speaker 1: OK,
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  Speaker 2: so I think it's
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  Speaker 1: like Crystal Palace, is that the most? I cannot remember.
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  Speaker 1: I think it sounds like it apparently.
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  Speaker 2: So it's like one tree with many different branches.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's, it's very similar to like
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  Speaker 1: Imperial Group, for example, a little bit Paradise Group. They
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  Speaker 1: have their different tiers. So
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  Speaker 2: the one over.
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  Speaker 2: at Great World City is actually the Hong Kong kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: Hong Kong kitchen, yes.
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  Speaker 2: It's closed.
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  Speaker 1: It closed already?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the third Crystal Jade closure in 2026.
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  Speaker 1: That's scary.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so a notice posted outside the store on September
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  Speaker 2: 2nd apparently.
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  Speaker 2: The landlord GWC commercial has taken back the premises according
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  Speaker 2: to the press in
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  Speaker 2: Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very, very shocked, honestly, because I've grown up eating
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  Speaker 1: Crystal Jade. Honestly, like on weekends, right, when my parents
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  Speaker 1: decide like, OK, we're going to Crystal Jade, I'm super happy. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's
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  Speaker 1: like
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  Speaker 2: a
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  Speaker 1: treat.
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  Speaker 2: So I think our friends over at Crystal Jade have
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  Speaker 2: told the press that, OK, we're closing this just to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, have a look at our business assessment and
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  Speaker 2: see what works best here in
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  Speaker 2: Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes it could also
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  Speaker 1: Be like maybe their lease was up or something at
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  Speaker 1: this particular mall and and maybe they wanna, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of explore another mall, another location. I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: man. I guess.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a Crystal. I think there's a Crystal.
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  Speaker 1: I think Crystal
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  Speaker 2: in Orchard. OK, I just think they got one Paragon.
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  Speaker 1: City
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  Speaker 2: and Crystal Jade Hong Kong kitchen
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  Speaker 1: and I don't believe, I don't think there's one I
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  Speaker 1: I is I is Imperial, OK, right, and Paradise, I
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  Speaker 1: think you're right. Yes, I know my Chinese food.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so there are 15 branches remaining here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: OK, well, um, whatever it is, I really hope they
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  Speaker 1: weather the storms, you know, I don't think it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like they're in any sort of problems. It doesn't sound
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  Speaker 1: like it. Maybe they're just.
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  Speaker 1: Re-looking at the locations that they're at, OK, yeah, yeah, hopefully,
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  Speaker 2: that's Crystal.
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  Speaker 2: Din Tai, I hope you guys are
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  Speaker 2: OK. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you guys are good. They seem fine fine closing,
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried. I'll start getting concerned about our economy and
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  Speaker 1: our spending rather. not to call you out or anything, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: but I remember this like I think it was a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. You've dropped one side of your
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: AirPods in the drain before, right?
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: Am I remembering this correctly? Uh,
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: or was it
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: the entire thing
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: wasn't an AirPod. It was my previous uh wireless buds
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: that I used to use
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: and it dropped in the drain or how how did
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: that happen?
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: After I
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: finished my run, OK, I wanted to take it and
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: put it back in the case, right?
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: I took out one side, it slipped because my, my
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: palms are very sweaty, fell into the drain, and it
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: was
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: gone.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: And you never got it back. It's just sitting there.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: OK. It's probably washed away somewhere now.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: No, well, uh, coming up in just a little bit,
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: this very touching story.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: And I think you will feel just so relieved for
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: this woman. I mean, if you put yourself in her position,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: you'd be so grateful. I'll tell you more in just
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Stay tuned. Like I mentioned earlier, um,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Joakim has had experience with this, dropping a pair of
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: uh earbuds into a drain. This happened years ago, I think.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: I think I've
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: done it twice, one of which was a very long
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: time ago.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: One of which was maybe say just after COVID restrictions
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: were
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: lifted.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: I think that's the one where you came to the
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: office and you told me about it.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: And I remember trying to lift up the
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: drain, couldn't do it.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: So that's the thing, right? The same thing happened to
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: this woman and she actually was using her AirPods, her
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Apple AirPods, OK. So this was over in the Bukit
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Batok drain. Um, she dropped it and unfortunately, like you mentioned.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Rightfully so, it's very difficult to, to, to lift up
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the drain cover, especially if she was by herself. Thankfully,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: there was a migrant worker around the area who offered
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to help her, apparently, and he retrieved it in like
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: less than 5 minutes. Yeah, he lifted the thing, he
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: lifted the drain cover, he retrieved it within 5 minutes
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: upon arrival, and she actually wanted to give him some
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: money for it, you know, like to thank him for
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: his time, but he refused. He said, no, no, no,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I don't want, I don't want, um.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: to accept the money. So she went and got him
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: some doughnuts instead. Oh, that's great. Like got, got him
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: some snacks, you know, but yeah, these things sometimes it
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: happens and you know with earpods, uh, earpods, with AirPods
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and even other types of earbuds now, it's quite small
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: and it can slip between the cracks quite easily. That's
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the thing, and they're not attached to you at this
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: point with the wire,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: right? That's why
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: and I see a drain cover, I try to avoid
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: it in case it falls in by
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: accident.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know and, and sometimes the earbuds don't
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: fit your ear, so you might want to switch the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: size of the buds so that it doesn't slip out
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: so easily.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all migrant workers, thank you very much for
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: Singapore for
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: us. Yeah,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: we appreciate you so much and big shout out to
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: this lady who also tried to do.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Her best to compensate him. She actually said she was
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: really impressed by the response and how quickly everything was handled,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: and she wanted to share this because regardless of who
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: we are or what we do, or what your profession is,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: a simple act of kindness and appreciation can mean so much.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Kindness is free guys. Let's keep spreading it. That was
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: what she she posted. Yeah. OK, we're gonna dive straight
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: into this one. It cannot be ignored because it became
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: quite public information.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be very factual here and maybe give
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: you one small opinion. That's about it, but I'm gonna
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: tell you something, Sonia. I do not want to be
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Ed Sheeran right now. Yeah,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he's in a sticky situation.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Only imagine the stress and the panic he could be
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: facing right now. So factually, and I'm gonna lift this
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: off Rolling Stone, OK.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Macklemore has been removed from the rest of Ed Sheeran's
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: stadium tour after several venues allegedly told the promoter that
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: they would not allow the rapper to perform. So apparently
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: there's a stadium owner by the name of Robert Kraft.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: He was able to rally other stadium owners and told
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Sheeran, if Macklemore performs as your opening act, you will
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: not be allowed to perform at our stadiums, and this
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: one is because Macklemore was on stage, and I think
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: you've seen plenty of videos of him going to the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: microphone doing his song for Palestine and shouting Free Palestine,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: to which, yeah, people were supportive, but then, of course,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: there are some organizers.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: They are very unhappy with it. That's what I'm gonna say.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: But now Macklemore has gone on Instagram. He's posted the
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: entire story from his point of view, and he said, Yeah,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: me and Ed Sheeran have been friends for 13 years,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: and due to Ed Sheeran being apolitical, where he means
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: that he doesn't want to
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: publicly support
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: when it comes to his music and stuff.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: So now
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: comments are coming.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: In thick and fast. I, I wonder what Ed Sheeran's
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: PR team is going to respond to this.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, there are musicians that want to use
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that platform for different reasons, which is fine, which is
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: fine because that's your own platform, but I think in
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: this particular case when it is tagged onto another artist's show, um,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and you may not exactly have the same.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Aligned in a way that like in the way that
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you want to do your show or your public appearances,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: then that's gonna be an issue for them.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: OK, so that's between Edrid and Macklemore. I want to
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: draw it to us here in Singapore, OK, and this
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: is not pertaining to any subject that's ongoing in the
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: world right now.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: If let's just say Sonia, you and I, we have
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: differing
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: views, which we will,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and we have, yeah, OK, can we still be friends?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I, I think yes. OK, there are some friends in
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: my friend group, right? And we're very close. We're like
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: really close, like it's the kind that I will call
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the night like you want to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: go hang out for a drink kind of friend, right? Um,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: but there are certain topics where we really don't align on,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: but because we know that our friendship is there and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: we know that we love each other very much, um.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Certain topics will just be, you know, I'll just keep
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: quiet when they have their own opinions. I'll just be like,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you know what, I just don't want to say too
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: much.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Again, politics and world events aside, there are some, I mean,
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: I use the word friends very loosely.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: They can be quite painful because they only want to
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: see things from their perspective and from where they come from,
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: and they just cannot open their vision to see an
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: entire view of the same topic we're
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: discussing.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I have a, I have a case in point here
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: where there's one particular friend and I really don't see
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: eye to eye when it comes to our view on relationships, OK.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: And it is something that I get quite frustrated about
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: because I'm trying to get this person to be more open-minded, um,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: but at the same time, this person is very resistant to,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to what people are saying, OK?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And every time we get to this topic, I feel
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: like it starts to get a little bit heated in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a way, and I try to then just like fizzle
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it out because I'm like, I don't want to get
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: into it, you know what I mean? And at the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: end of the day, like if there are that many
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: people telling you like, hey bro, you should be a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: bit more open-minded, you should be, you know, like this
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: or view it this way, and that person is still
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: not budging, then maybe it's that person's problem already lah. Again,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: it's my
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: theory of if one or two people tell you, alright, fine,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: maybe it's them, but if 20 people are.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Telling you the same thing. Yeah,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: please look in the mirror.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: But you see, some friends are not close enough to
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: tell this person their views. So they just like talk
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: about it behind that person's back, you know what I mean?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Whereas the moment I start talking about it because I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: feel like I'm close enough to this person to air
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: my views, right, then it starts getting a bit heated.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I also want to avoid the argument, right? You know,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: it's like, whose side are you on,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Sonia? Are
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you on their side or my side? You're my friend,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: That's when I fade out.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: That's when I just agreed to disagree, you know what
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I mean?
• 22:36
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• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Can you be friends with somebody who has differing views
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: from you or maybe even expressing their views differently?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I, I say yes, but there's a line. There's a
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: limit there somewhere. Fair enough. Give us a call 669-11987.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: We'd love to hear from you or you can drop
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: us a message as well, 90050987. A spicy question for
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you here today, inspired by what's going on with Ed Sheeran.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Macklemore right now. Um, if you missed it, you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: just go do a quick catch up on what's happening
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: between them. But the question for you is, are you
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: able to continue to be friends with someone even if
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: your views are not aligned or if
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you express them differently? Yeah, yeah. For example, I want
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to say good morning to Belinda on WhatsApp. Hey guys,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: good morning. I guess I have to say yes because
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: that friend of mine is my husband. Oh no.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: We've known each other for 10 years now, and I
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: think we're starting to realize that we have quite varying
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: opinions on a number of topics. I actually don't think
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: it's a bad thing because it opens up discussions and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: letting me see things from a different perspective. I also
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: think it's largely because of our oh God, Capricorn and
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Sagittarius combination. Sonia will get this.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, girl, I get it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: OK, for those who speak English, can you please explain
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: what is Capricorn and Sagittarius?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: OK, look, I don't know what, um, no, I think
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: she just means the differing, the differences between Capricorn and
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Sagittarius you know differences. I only know like some maybe,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: but for for Capricorns, we are quite headstrong, we can
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: be quite stubborn. Am I not headstrong
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and stubborn too?
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: What do you want to be stubborn? I, I am. OK. Well,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: I guess that's a Leo thing as well.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I could go on forever.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Oh
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: God, OK, let's stop you there. Uh, I want to
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: say good morning to Elston. Elston says, Hey guys, it
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: is possible to have friends with differing views. It only
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: depends on how mature we are to talk about it.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: The discussion point is the issue, not the person.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: OK, OK.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I think I, I agree and disagree. I think um
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I understand Elson's point of view, but I also feel
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: like some people are definitely less easy to convince than
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: others when it comes to like trying to get your
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: point across, you know, and, and I'm not trying to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: make you think.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Think like me. I'm trying to help you understand why
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I'm saying this. Does that make sense? Like I don't
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: need you to agree with me, you know what I mean?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: It's just be open-minded.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: If you're, yeah, I think you shouldn't beliefs or rubbing
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: your beliefs, no, no, you must see it this
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: way. Well, the funny thing is that even though both
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Jeremy and I are, um
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: We, we also, you see, when you put two headstrong
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: people and they get married, we tend to argue about
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: certain things, OK? And there was this one time we
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: disagreed on something so badly I started crying. And then,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and then he goes, so next time do you want
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: me to just agree with you?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He was like, it's OK. I just agree with you
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: next time. See,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: here is
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: an example of how Sonia and I, we differ in
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: our beliefs when it comes to astrology, but given how
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: we have a sixteen-year friendship, I respect your views and
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I allow you to be yourself. Oh, thank you.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Free doesn't mean I won't judge you. I won't roast
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: you for it. Damn rude.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: This kind of don't want. If you and your friend
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: or friends have differing views or the way that you
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: express your views, um, are not the same, are you
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: still able to keep that friendship?
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: I think when I was younger, I didn't mind arguing
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: with it, OK, but as
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I get older,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: no, I want to
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: list something Keanu Reeves said, OK, I'm at the age
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: in my life now. If you tell me 2 +
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: 2 is 5, I'll say you're right.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: OK, you're right.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I saw that meme, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well done.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: So basically agree to disagree because you just don't want
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: to expend that energy anymore
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: unless it's something I feel very strongly about it's a
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: core belief of mine, then I'll say, hey, let's talk
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: about this.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: To be honest, you're right, you know, like now that
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I mean our listeners, right, because now that I look
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: back and I reflect on my friendships right now.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I, I would say 99% of the time we're all aligned.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: It's only that 1% that we might get triggered about
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: certain things we disagree on, but it's very rare.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: But aligned doesn't mean your friends are men or I'm
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: sure there are still differing
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: opinions.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Yes, differing opinions, but there's a difference when I say I.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Understand where you're coming from. I don't need to be like,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I agree with you. Oh, you know what I mean?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from, but it doesn't mean
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that I'm maligned. Anyway, um, we're going to more messages first. Yes,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: and we wanna say good morning to, I think your
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: name is Benjamin on WhatsApp.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Hey Sonia and Joakim, like the similar texter earlier, the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: person who has differing opinions, my wife. But unfortunately for
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: my case, yes, I agree. Opening commerce
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: matters. Just, just for a peaceful life.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Really? Is it really happy wife, happy life?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, I will let me wait, hold on,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: let me answer this carefully.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Um, yes, but I don't expect my partner to agree
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: with everything that I, you know, that I say, all
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: my opinions, but what I appreciate about him is that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: he goes, OK, I hear you and I see where
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: you're coming from. I see where you're coming from. OK, OK.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Can I ask before we go to our caller, have
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: you ever said this phrase to Jeremy, because you said
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: it to me a couple of times, Hey,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: can you back me up?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: You bang the table. Hey, can you back me up here?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Whose side are you on?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: 000, this definitely happens when we're playing paddle or any
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: sort of like racquet sports, OK. So sorry, I digress
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but since you brought this up, ah, um, sometimes,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I may not be the best person on
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: the court, you know, because I'm not the most athletic.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: What do you mean may not be the best? I,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not too bad, OK, I'm not too bad. If
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: there's a 97 competition, I'll take part.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: But anyway, um, sometimes he will be like trying to
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: teach the opponent some skills, especially if they're beginners. So
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: he's just doing it out of like, he's just a
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: nurturing person. So he's like, hey, no, I think you
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: should do this. When we step back to our positions,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I will like whisper to him in like not such
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a happy tone. I'll be like, why are you teaching
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the enemy?
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Why, why are you imparting skills to the enemy?
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: FYI, the enemy is my friends lah, OK, it's like
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: usually our close friends.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: have
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: nothing to say.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Don't you agree?
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Why
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: would you teach the enemy skills?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Wow, we are really digressing here, man. When you, when
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: you beat someone, right, do you want to beat them
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: at their best or beat them at their most basic?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: It's not my fault.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: That's not the point.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we have Marie on the line. Marie, do you
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: have friends around you that, you know, you may not
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: necessarily be aligned in terms of your views and beliefs,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: but you're still friends. What do you think about that?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Well, I tend to weed out people who have differing
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  Speaker 2: views as I get older, um, but I think at
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the end of the day what's really important is you
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: have friends who will always have your back, uh, especially
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: when you are.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: lowest points.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: So did you ever have an incident where you got,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: you know, very tired of being friends with someone because
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you like disagreeing? Of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: course, definitely. I think throughout my whole life I had
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: friends in school who had differing views because they always
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: thought they were right. Um, and but I think at
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: the end of the day you're like, ah, you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: you don't have time for that, you have other things
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: to worry about, especially like your, your family.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: And your kids, I think they matter a lot more.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Can I be a cap and ask what was the
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: one topic that you and your friend disagreed over? Um,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: it was actually about like Sonia, yeah, it's because for
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: girls usually it's about like, oh, how about this boy,
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: that boy, I think he's not too bad. He's earning
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: so much more than me. When you see a red
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: flag of the guy, right?
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: You just know that, you know, it's not the right
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: relationship for them, but they just don't want to listen.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I think you just respect their choice at the end
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: of the day.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I think
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: it's a case of like they already know what they want,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: but they're just asking their friends out of like, so how,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: but actually they already know what they want to do.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: They're looking for assurance.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: But you know what, not to worry, I'll be on
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: your side for this one. Same, same, same views, yes.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Thank you so much, Marie, for sharing that with us.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: You have a fantastic day. OK.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I really wonder whether anyone stopped the wedding on the
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: wedding day itself.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: I'm quite sure, maybe in a less dramatic fashion, but
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's happened before.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Like when the priest or the celebrant says, if whosoever
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: shall object to this wedding, speak now forever, yeah, yeah.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Just kidding.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: No, no, no. Coming up in a few minutes, I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: have a small announcement I want to make, and um
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: it's related to my 987 TikTok live this evening.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I'm very disappointed you never call it the Sonia Shu, OK,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: because Sonia Chew, yeah, yeah, uh, anyway, maybe that's a
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: part two or round two, but
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'll fill you in on why Joakim's making fun
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: of me in just a little while. I'm very proud
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of you. Thank you so much. OK, so I just
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: have a small tiny little thing I want to share
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: with everyone.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: And because, you know, on, on the show, it's almost
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: like an extension of our daily lives, right? Like whatever
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: goes on and stuff. And Joakim has just been like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: cackling about this because um just yesterday on socials, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: particularly on Insta, I announced that I'm releasing a collaboration
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: when it comes to shoes this coming Thursday.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Not 1, not 23, right? 3 different designs.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, Joe. There was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: one day I was kind of like touching something up
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: on a piece of paper in the studio, and then
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: you peeked over, you say, what are you drawing? Do
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you remember this? This is like earlier on in the year.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Was
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: that what you posted online? Yeah, so that's handwriting and
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: part
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: of the sketch actually, because it was due that very day,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: so I was doing a bit of like last minute
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: touch-ups and Joe was like, wow, why are you drawing?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Why are you drawing today?
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: And turns out it's shoes. So, um, to celebrate that,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: I actually want to share that with you and this
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: evening during the TikTok Live, um, 4987, I want to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: give away one pair of shoes of your choice. And
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: this is, of course, my collaboration with locally grown brand
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Pretty Fit.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: OK, come.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, 3 minutes of our time. Let me interview you.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: So what's this?
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: This collection inspired by because I realized it's like on-air, off-air,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: and on point. Yeah.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: So how
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: do you conceptualize
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: this whole thing?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So, so when Pretty Fit approached me to do this collaboration,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: and they're a very well-loved local brand by the way,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: so a lot of like students and even like uh
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: office office people like they love to get their shoes
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: so comfortable, right?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: So I, I wanted to create something that of course
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: is in line with my identity, but I also want
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: to push through the idea that whether or not you're
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: on air, off-air, at work, at school, and then the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: moment you get off work or off your duties, you
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: still need to look on point. So that's, that's always
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: been the number one thing. That's why I came up
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: with flats, sneakers, and heels. OK.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: So for example, if I buy all three,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: for
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the price of 2
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: own code on their website. Yeah, so go check it
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: out um to see if it's applicable for your purchases.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: But I'm so excited because we designed everything from scratch,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: including the packaging, the box. I wrote a hand, I
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: did a handwritten message in each box as well.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Shout out to your designers who did a very good
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: job with the box.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Actually the designer is me and one friend.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: Oh wow.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like one friend and I, and we
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: did that. Hey, at this point, I thought you would
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: have a team behind you, but it's just the two
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: of you. No,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: it's done.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: When it comes to the shoe manufacturing and designing, there's
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: a whole team. So, you know, I just have so
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: much respect for them because the Pretty fit team came
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: through with their expertise. I'm no expert when it comes
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: to like how to make shoes comfortable, um, the cutting
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: and everything. I just told them aesthetically what I wanted
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and what I want to achieve and and they nailed it,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: including the colors and everything, which is very hard to nail.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: So asking for a friend in the
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: heels, God, I'll make for you, especially for which color
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: you want.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: If you do it, I'll wear it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I will. Let me go and talk to them.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Very interesting form of food news here today because I
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: never thought I'd see this place make the news after
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: so long of not being there, Joakim. This is a
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: place in the east side, OK, and I don't know
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: if you've ever heard of it. OK. No, no, no,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it's not, it's not specific to, it's not specific to
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a brand or a restaurant. It's a mall. Have you
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: ever been to East Point Mall?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Yes, you have. Yes, I have. Wow, I'm shocked.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: I think I was desperate trying to find like a
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: market or a grocery to go and buy something happen
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: to be in the I'm assuming I think.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: OK, well, East Point is very far east, you know,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: it's nowhere near East Coast or whatever, but anyway, I'll
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: fill you in because it seems like they are doing
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a bit of a revamp at East Point Mall. I'm
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: gonna be very honest, the last time I sat there
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: and I actually spent time at East Point Mall was
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: probably in secondary school.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: When there was like a Starbucks or some sort of
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a Coffee Bean or Starbucks cafe there and we would
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: sometimes do our homework because one of our very close
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: friends lives around the area.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: And the PlayStation repair center used to be there.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, is it? OK.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: I'll fill you in on some of their changes food-wise
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: in just a bit. Stay tuned.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Taking you to East Point Mall for food news today.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Hello to our friends over at Simei. How's the air
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: like over there? 123. Food. wait, happy or sad?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's good. They're revamping.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Food news.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Food news. Sonia with the good food news. Simei Tai.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, Joe, thank you, thank you very much. I think
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: it's
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: your joke. Did I ever say when did I say
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: that when we used to do joke videos did I say? OK,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: OK, now it's funny anyway.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Deja vu moment. I was like, it sounds familiar. Um,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: I can't believe Joki has such great memory when it
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: comes to these things. Thank you. Yeah. So East Point
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Mall used to be a place where my friends and
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I would go like study after school because one of
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: my very close friends at the time, she lived near Simei, OK,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: so we would go there, study, then go to a
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: place to like eat dinner or something like that.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: How is East Point Mall to Saint Anthony's? Is it
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: like a
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: bus? Yeah, you can take a bus or you can
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: take a train.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I would say, um, Saint Anthony's is closer to like
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Bedok area, but it's not too far out, I guess,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: so still not so bad. But anyway, um, they were
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: due a revamp for a long time. I will, I
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: will say that. Even my mom who sometimes thinks like, oh,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: maybe you should go explore different malls in the east, right?
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: She's like, East Point Mall, nothing much. So now.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Now they've actually gone through a bit of a revamp. Um,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: I stopped by there quite recently for um to meet someone.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: And everything was quite unrecognizable and I think they were
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: still filling in new tenants in a good way, in
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: a good way. So here, here are some things that
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: you can try over at East Point Mall as curated
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: by our friends from 8 Days
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Eats. Yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: no, no, come on, come on, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: This one, I think they will have it at some point. Actually,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: yes,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: there's a mala place.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: It's called a hot hideout, the Singaporean kind of mala.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: That's their tagline, OK. Um, I guess it's less of
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: an imitation of the Sichuan mala. It's more, um, curated
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: for our local palate. So, so you might find, yeah,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: actually you might find some of that. Um, they have
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: the mala collagen soup that looks a bit like laksa,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: to be honest, or you can go dry with a
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: mala stir-fry, um, and they've also got their.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Own tomato collagen soup and the um non-spicy alternatives as well,
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: but you can choose from over 70 different ingredients so
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: spoilt for choice there. Yeah. Something else that you might
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: want to take note of, um, a quick detour to
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Taiwan is Si Men Jie delivering Taiwanese classics. So you know,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: like lurofan, um, the miso, oyster misoan, the chicken cutlet,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: all that, they have that there as well. So.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: It's hard to choose because I love the miso and
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: I love um the Lurofan as well.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: OK,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: yummy. There's a halal cafe for everyone as well. Um,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: if I'm not wrong, this one is called the Tree Cafe. Yeah,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: the
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Tree Cafe.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: So I'm on Google Maps. I'm looking at where East
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Point Mall is, right? Unfortunately for East Point Mall, you're
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: in the middle of Tampines Mall and Changi City Point.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yes,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: yeah, yeah, if people don't want to go to the mall,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: they'll go to either I guess.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: By the way, there's an additional, um, really cool point
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: here for those aged 50 and above, so you can
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: tell your parents. You can register your birth year in
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: the free Fraser's Experience app and you actually unlock selected
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: dining deals for those above 50. I'm going, but for
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: above 50 only that one.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Bring your mom there, but there's, um, nothing normal in
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: this next particular announcement. Hey,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: the agency that funded founded BTS, they are having auditions
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: for males here in Singapore. So I come here to
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: stand a Xiao Ming or a Khairul or a Vinod.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Go guys, pursue your dreams if you
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: want to.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Honestly, this would be really cool. I can't wait to
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: see because usually it's always quite focused on the females, right?
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: So now I want to see the kind of guys
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: that come for the auditions.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Singaporean being as big as BTS, that'll be amazing.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so can you imagine like what what would
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: the next, um, big K-pop act be called, you know,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: like the next band or Glenn Yong,
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: where are you.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: I haven't seen Glenn Yong dance before. Have you?
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Have you seen him dance?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: I'm sure with training and practice.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It's possible. Alright. Anyway, on that note, thank you so
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: much for joining us today. We had so much fun. Um,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: if you want to catch up with all the laughs
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and the best bits of our show, it's gonna be
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: on me Listen and Spotify, and we will catch you
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: tomorrow at 6 a.m.