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987 THE SHOCK CIRCUIT REPLAY🔁 250826 · 987 The Shock Circuit

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  Speaker 1: Good morning sunshine.
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  Speaker 1: Shock circuit with Sonia and Join on 987. Very different
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  Speaker 1: from the Hayley Williams of 10 years ago. Paramore, I
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  Speaker 1: would say super different. You know, I want to throw
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  Speaker 1: you back to was it 2008 or 2009 when Guitar
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  Speaker 1: Hero was a thing. It was still all the rage.
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  Speaker 1: It's still a thing, right? I think people still do
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  Speaker 1: competitive stuff with it. It's slowly coming back thanks to TikTok, OK,
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  Speaker 1: but then they released Guitar.
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  Speaker 1: Hero world tour to compete with rock band. So it
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  Speaker 1: came with a drum set, guitar, the actual, the full
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  Speaker 1: setup and the microphone. And if I'm not wrong, Paramore,
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  Speaker 1: they had their song Misery Business, only one of the
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  Speaker 1: most classic songs of all time. Then I believe Guitar
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  Speaker 1: Hero went with Aerosmith and Metallica, and it went downhill
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  Speaker 1: from there. Oh no, yeah, I, I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: resonate with it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It was all the rage from maybe say 2005 to
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  Speaker 1: about 2010, 2011. Maybe they need to bring back like
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  Speaker 1: old school, uh, you know, like I don't know, Blink 182,
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  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Maybe to appeal to like the
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  Speaker 1: millennial generation and above, you know, they should bring back
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  Speaker 1: Dance Dance Revolution and Para Para Sakura. Oh, I've never
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  Speaker 1: gotten into that. If you understood what I just said, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you're a millennial.
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  Speaker 1: Um, it was so funny because as I was coming
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  Speaker 1: into the studio today, I just saw a, um, a,
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  Speaker 1: a picture of Zoe Kravitz actually.
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  Speaker 1: Um, she's accompanying Harry Styles because he's kicking off his tour,
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  Speaker 1: and I think he's going to be somewhere for a
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  Speaker 1: month or something in the UK probably. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: he'll bring his tour to Singapore? Um, I don't know. I,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know because the last time he came in
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  Speaker 1: was a number of years ago already actually. And I,
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to look up when they're gonna get married,
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  Speaker 1: but hm, no, no sign just yet. I mean, they
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  Speaker 1: got engaged as of this year.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe a 2027 wedding. I have a feeling for
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  Speaker 1: Harry Styles and Zoe Kravitz, they're gonna do something very quiet,
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  Speaker 1: like low-key type. You know Harry Styles, right? If you
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  Speaker 1: watch Marvel Eternals, he actually made an appearance in a
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  Speaker 1: post-credit scene like a cameo. Will he come back in
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  Speaker 1: Marvel's Avengers Doomsday or what? What's happening to him in
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  Speaker 1: the Marvel Cinematic Universe because nothing's been done so far.
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  Speaker 1: busy making music lah. Maybe that's why he go back
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  Speaker 1: there and running marathons. That's true. Yes, every mid midlife
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  Speaker 1: crisis millennial. Hey, but this guy is fast, man. Is he? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he is. He's very good, is it? His timings are amazing,
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  Speaker 1: but then again, he's running it in the UK where
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  Speaker 1: it's cooler, yeah, or maybe even Berlin if I'm not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: You, you were actually commenting that Benjamin King runs very
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  Speaker 1: fast as well. How do they match up? Because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I think of him as like Singapore Harry Styles. I
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  Speaker 1: want to see Harry Styles' 10 km timing first, then
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  Speaker 1: I'll compare alongside Benjamin Kings at 43 minutes if I'm
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  Speaker 1: not wrong. for how long? 10 km. That's pretty fast.
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  Speaker 1: That's very fast. How tall is Harry Styles? Does that matter?
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  Speaker 1: Does height matter? No, it doesn't. Harry Styles? No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think so. Hold on, Harry Styles height. I mean, I, I,
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  Speaker 1: I googled Zoe Kravitz height earlier because I was very curious, um,
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  Speaker 1: about her height because her OOTD like popped up she's
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  Speaker 1: accompanying Harry Styles. She's 1.57, OK, which means I'm 2
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  Speaker 1: cm taller than her. Yay. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Nothing. Exactly. Yeah, exactly. And by the way, for, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think he really matters. You guys are about the same.
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  Speaker 1: He's about 1.8. I mean, yeah, he doesn't matter. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. Aerodynamics. I mean, I don't know how tall
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  Speaker 1: he is.
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  Speaker 1: is in person, but I look at Sean Goh, the
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  Speaker 1: national record of the 2.4 km run, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: 6.57 if I'm not wrong, and, yeah, he finished 2.4
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  Speaker 1: in 6 minutes, 6.57 if I'm not wrong, that could
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  Speaker 1: have been the timing. Sean Goh national record. you were
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  Speaker 1: saying his height.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sorry, 6.47.6. 0, that's now. Yeah, I, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he's that tall as compared to like a Kenyan
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  Speaker 1: or Ethiopian. Sometimes I feel like, you know, the closer
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  Speaker 1: you are, your stable.
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  Speaker 1: Says the person with a sprained ankle. I'm mentally stable, OK.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how really into the running scene you
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  Speaker 1: are here in Singapore. Not at all for me. Following
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  Speaker 1: the SG International marathon Instagram page, I'm getting excited because
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  Speaker 1: we are what, less than 4, less than 16 weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: To the BYD Singapore International Marathon. We're talking 5 km.
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  Speaker 1: The stand chart 10 km to which Sonia, you can
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  Speaker 1: do either or I'll do it with you. My ankle's
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  Speaker 1: not great. There's the Adidas.
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  Speaker 1: It's injured. It'll be OK in 16 weeks. There's the
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  Speaker 1: Adidas half marathon and the BYD full marathon. The roots
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  Speaker 1: are out already, so please go study it and train
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  Speaker 1: as you would. And if you're doing the full marathon,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you practice your uphills because we have Shears
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  Speaker 1: Bridge and then Merdeka Bridge. That one is very sneaky.
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  Speaker 1: Merdeka Bridge looks like a straight, but it's actually an
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  Speaker 1: uphill as well, an uphill gradient. So it's misleading you
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And what's gonna be very mentally draining
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  Speaker 1: is as you're doing Shears Bridge and Merdeka Bridge, you
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  Speaker 1: can see National Stadium. The end point is right there.
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  Speaker 1: So it's so so far kind of feeling. Exactly, you're like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I get there. I understand. So train your mental strength,
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  Speaker 1: and they're looking for volunteers to do all sorts of races.
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  Speaker 1: Activities we're talking the start experience, the finish experience. You
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  Speaker 1: get some perks. I think they supply you with some
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  Speaker 1: bento meal and snacks, and there's free bus shuttle rides
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday and Sunday. So if you want to join
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  Speaker 1: them and be a part of something meaningful, you can
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  Speaker 1: go follow the SG International marathon account and hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you at the start line and finish line. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: it's something that I would do like if I was
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  Speaker 1: back in school, like in poly or uni, right? You
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  Speaker 1: get a group of friends and you just do it
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  Speaker 1: for fun. Perhaps, yeah, that's the kind of stuff like.
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  Speaker 1: The, the, the like, uh, orientation group leaders will do together.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly the feeling for every water point that is available
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  Speaker 1: for you at the half marathon or marathon, I'm very
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  Speaker 1: thankful to the volunteers because they are the ones pouring
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  Speaker 1: the water, making, making sure they're holding it correctly as
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  Speaker 1: well to give it to you. I was gonna say,
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  Speaker 1: even though we always joke about how I'm not like
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  Speaker 1: a marathon person or I don't, you know, have that
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  Speaker 1: much exercise done and all that, but, um, having hosted
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  Speaker 1: quite a number of marathons and sports-related events.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the importance of the volunteers are not highlighted enough,
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  Speaker 1: I feel, because when you actually see how they encourage
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  Speaker 1: you or like, you know, even just clapping for you
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  Speaker 1: as you walk by and things like that, it actually
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  Speaker 1: helps people's mental um state a lot. Yeah, especially when
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  Speaker 1: you're when you're struggling. So if you're above 16 and
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  Speaker 1: want to support our very own international marathon here in Singapore,
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  Speaker 1: volunteer if you want to.
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  Speaker 1: It's 987. Good morning. Who's this? My name is Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Elijah, good morning. How are you and which school
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  Speaker 1: are you from? I'm from Guangyang. Hey, Elijah, Guang Yang
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  Speaker 1: Sec over at Bishan. That's Avery Secondary School as well. Right, right.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you love about your school now and
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  Speaker 1: what level are you in? I'm in sec one and
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  Speaker 1: what I love about my school is my friends. Your friends.
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  Speaker 1: So how has sec one been?
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  Speaker 1: For you, Elijah from primary 6, jumping to sec one.
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  Speaker 1: Are you coping well? Yeah, a little bit. Any weighted
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  Speaker 1: assessments coming up this year? EOI Oh, end of year. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: that's all the best for that. Um, you do sound
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  Speaker 1: a little sleepy this morning, understandably so. We want to
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  Speaker 1: get you a song to perk you up. What would
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: you like to hear? Can you play Cat's Eye? Everybody
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  Speaker 1: loves this Cat's Eye song recently.
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  Speaker 1: I like it too. It's good. OK, is it going
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  Speaker 1: out to anyone? Uh, my sister. Alright, have a great day, OK? OK.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Bye. So earlier on, um, as Joakim ran
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  Speaker 1: down to get his breakfast, collect his breakfast, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I was just saying, you know, the heat doesn't spare
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  Speaker 1: our pets, especially if you have to walk your dogs
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  Speaker 1: and all that out there, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's been incredibly hot the last couple of days. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: whenever I run around Bishan Park at the dog, if
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  Speaker 1: it's 5:30 to 6:30, you see loads of dogs panting. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So on Sunday, I will say it was particularly hot
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  Speaker 1: and humid and stuffy, like it's almost like
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  Speaker 1: It's almost like the air wasn't moving at all. In
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  Speaker 1: the context of the last month or so, was it
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  Speaker 1: hot and humid here in Singapore? I know, I know.
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  Speaker 1: So um there was two pieces of news here. Firstly,
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  Speaker 1: Air quality wasn't so good the last couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: I think this um um is related to the hotspot
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  Speaker 1: and the smoke haze activity. So that one we already
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  Speaker 1: know is happening and ongoing, we were warned about it,
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  Speaker 1: but it may also contribute to how you're feeling, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like the heat and stuffiness. So, um, over in Japan
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  Speaker 1: right now, they've made the news because the dogs in
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  Speaker 1: Japan are getting fan-powered suits.
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  Speaker 1: As they go for their walks to cool them down,
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  Speaker 1: which my question now is why do humans not have this?
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  Speaker 1: We do, but it doesn't look good, is it, when
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  Speaker 1: we wear mascott. Yeah, but do you need to wear
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  Speaker 1: a mascot outfit to get a fan? I mean, shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: we invent, I'm sure there's something out there already, but anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the dogs almost need it because they are overheating.
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  Speaker 1: And um just by looking at this article that was
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  Speaker 1: and this video that was released by our friends over
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  Speaker 1: at CNA actually, the outfits use fans and an ice
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  Speaker 1: pack to circulate cool air, so it keeps the puppies
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  Speaker 1: and the and the dogs cool when the weather gets
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  Speaker 1: sweltering because they still need to go out for walks.
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  Speaker 1: They need to take a poop. Again, this is why
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  Speaker 1: my next life, I want to be a golden retriever
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  Speaker 1: to someone.
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  Speaker 1: Staying at 6th Avenue, or Tokyo. I'll be pampered. Yeah, dude, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when I was, we brought Maxi out to
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  Speaker 1: the Dempsey area because, you know, there are only that
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  Speaker 1: many dog-friendly restaurants that we actually like the food at, right?
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  Speaker 1: How's our favorite gal doing? Oh, she's living her life,
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  Speaker 1: you know, she's, she's a princess, but she was panting
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  Speaker 1: so much on Sunday, like I could feel.
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  Speaker 1: Her heating up and because she's black, right, like her
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  Speaker 1: fur is black, I wonder whether it absorbs heat more
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  Speaker 1: than like a white dog, for example. I mean, I'm curious,
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  Speaker 1: and when I touch her, she actually feels very warm.
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  Speaker 1: It's a daily sauna. So you know what, my, my
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: Dyson Hush jet mini fan, I gave it to her.
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  Speaker 1: She's using it, not me. But is the fan enough
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  Speaker 1: for someone like Maxi with all that? Yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's as best as we could do at that point.
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  Speaker 1: So keep your pups cool, you know, it's super random.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Do you have a good side of your face? Like
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: which is your preferred side? When you take photos, I
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: just randomly thought.
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  Speaker 1: My right side, right side when I look to my left. OK,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: so the jawline is there. Oh, what happened to the
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: other side? I don't know. The other side just seems
• 11:05
  Speaker 1: a little bit weird. I don't think we're symmetrical, to
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: be honest. Like I prefer myself smiling like with teeth
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  Speaker 1: on my right, but smiling with no teeth is left.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: I digress. I mean, I would gladly take it from
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  Speaker 1: you of all people who are so active on social
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  Speaker 1: media and very involved, but that said, Sonia, we know
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  Speaker 1: here in Singapore.
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  Speaker 1: Low crime doesn't mean no crime, which was actually the
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  Speaker 1: official slogan at one point. Yeah, and again, where is
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  Speaker 1: the worst place to commit a crime here in Singapore exactly?
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: Are we going there again? When we come back, it's
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: been a while, but we do have another episode of Crime. Borri. Oh,
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: I don't see it yet. OK. There we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's time for some Bodo crime, Bodo crime, Bodo crime,
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  Speaker 1: Bodo crime, and we are going to Changi Airport. So
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  Speaker 1: since this has been multiple times that people tried to
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: commit a crime in Changi Airport, I don't think we
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  Speaker 1: should put a negative word or connotation to Changi anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It should be the careless streets of Changi Airport because
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  Speaker 1: the criminals are being too careless.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we can even call them criminals. The,
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  Speaker 1: the wannabe criminals are too careless. I mean, they did
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  Speaker 1: indeed commit a crime, but I'm sure they got caught
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  Speaker 1: in like 5 minutes. Uh, yeah, somewhere around there. So
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  Speaker 1: a 26-year-old British man has been arrested by the police
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  Speaker 1: for his suspected involvement in the cases at Jewel Changi.
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  Speaker 1: cases. Yeah, in the transit area of Changi Airport Terminal
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  Speaker 1: 10 no. So what happens was at 6:35 p.m. on
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  Speaker 1: an August evening, he was walking he saw this mannequin
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  Speaker 1: wearing a very nice denim jacket that costs $350. OK.
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  Speaker 1: What does he do? He tries to take it off
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  Speaker 1: the mannequin, not tries, he stole the denim jacket.
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  Speaker 1: And the store retailers realized, hey, how come, how come
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  Speaker 1: our denim jacket is missing? How come the mannequin got
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  Speaker 1: no clothes? Yeah, exactly. So when the police established identity,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: he was already on the flight. So I think he
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  Speaker 1: flew off with the jacket. But when he came back
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  Speaker 1: while in transit, he was arrested. Oh my God, that's
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  Speaker 1: so embarrassing. There you go, so embarrassing. They're like, why
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  Speaker 1: did you steal a jacket from a mannequin?
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  Speaker 1: OK, did he not think he was gonna get caught?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. It's so, so many CCTVs. Sonia
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  Speaker 1: and I will never ever encourage crime, but if you
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  Speaker 1: were to do something cheeky.
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  Speaker 1: Changi Airport is the worst place to do it. Yeah,
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: not saying that you should do it anywhere else. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: Changi Airport? Why? It's only the most protected place, and
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: is he Singaporean, this guy, did he not say? Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's on a British passport. So maybe they underestimate or
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: they are not as familiar. Some people may not be
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  Speaker 1: as familiar with how strict we are. Still, I, I'm
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  Speaker 1: very sure they must have heard on how high the
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  Speaker 1: security is over at Changi Airport. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he's just testing.
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: A, what is there to test, test the system. Every
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  Speaker 1: 5 minutes you'll see the airport patrol walking around here
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: and there. He's doing it for research. Um, just a
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: quick one because you mentioned earlier, right? And we gave
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  Speaker 1: you one story there. Um, this just popped up on
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  Speaker 1: my feed last night and I wanted to address it
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: since you're on the topic of border crime.
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: Apparently, theft cases in homes have jumped 25% in the
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: first half of the year of 2026. Yeah, they're trying
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: to steal, yeah, break-in, steal from your home. Um, it's
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: not broken down into like, you know, whether someone was
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: already let into your home, then that person tried to
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  Speaker 1: steal or was it.
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: You know, unfortunately, a helper or something, they didn't specify. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like people have been trying to break
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  Speaker 1: in a little bit more on, you know, maybe they
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: find their ways to go in and gain your trust
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  Speaker 1: and then steal your items. I don't know. But I
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: have no idea whether this is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: worrying sign or is it a worrying number or do
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  Speaker 1: they have it under control because they also did a
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  Speaker 1: stat on like outreach of modesty cases and shop theft
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  Speaker 1: as well that all increased by a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: By a little bit in 2026. That's in the world
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  Speaker 1: of crime, but I think for our friends over at
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: SCDF maybe this year, yeah, a lot of fire cases
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  Speaker 1: as well. What's up with that, man? I just saw
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: one or two more from yesterday's news and one or
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  Speaker 1: so over at York Hotel Orchard. Thankfully nobody was seriously hurt.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: I hope the person that got sent to the hospital
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: is doing OK. Actually, I, it's funny enough, I just
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: saw a post by a
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: bakery that I used to, that I used to have
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: cakes from before. OK.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: It's J Petit Patisserie. It's just a little update. Um,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: it's with a heavy heart that we share a fire
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  Speaker 1: occurred at our shop. We're assessing the situation and we
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: will be temporarily closed. It's a longer, it's a longer message,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: but they, they're saying this isn't goodbye, we'll be back
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  Speaker 1: baking for you soon. But just want to give a
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: big shout out to Jay Petit Patisserie. They're so good
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: with their cakes, delicious cakes they've sent me for my
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: birthday before. I was sending you so much love. I
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: don't know if any one of them is tuning in
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: right now, but
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Looking out for you. It's funny, right, because the one
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  Speaker 1: over at Junction 8, the Yakiniku like this table grill place,
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  Speaker 1: it caught fire a few weeks ago. It's still been closed.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: It's closed ever since. Oh no, I think they're making
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: sure everything is working fine before they reopen everything again. Yeah, well,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I think we need to get an SCDF expert to
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: come in and tell us why are there so many
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: fire-related cases recently, and then we get the police force.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Why are there so many home break-ins.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm curious. You got to get a criminal
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: psychologist for that one. Yeah, that's interesting. But some stats
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: would be cool, right? Joining us here this morning. Coming
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: up in just a bit, um, an incident that, well,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: just happened to me yesterday when I booked some lunch,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: or rather I suggested a place for lunch, catching up with.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: The two girlfriends because they, they work around like town area, right?
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: So they said, OK, let's do a quick one, like
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: 1 hour, 1 hour and a half at the most,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: then they got to go already. So I was like, sure,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: this works for me, right after our show. So one
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: of my friends said, I really want to eat dim sum.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I'm super craving dim sum. So I said I got
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: excited because I said, um, this particular place that I
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: went to quite recently has good dim sum and it's
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: quite affordable. In town, in, so not, not overpriced or anything.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So then they say, OK, sure, like so excited, let's go.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I went there earlier, um, around the vicinity of the
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Dim Sum restaurant to take a work call, OK? So
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, do do do, like I'm early,
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I'm early. Then I went to the shop, right? It
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: never ends well, does it? Closed. Sign said closed on Mondays.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Gonna open up phone lines regarding this in just a bit.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: One you were early. I know, exactly. OK, so yesterday, um,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: I agreed to go for a quick lunch, catch up
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: with two of my girlfriends who uh who not live,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: who work around town, OK. So you live around town
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: with my girlfriends too. So you can stay there, right? convenient. Yeah, so,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: so usually when we decide to meet up for lunch,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: it will be either in Orchard or like CBD. So
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: either one of these places, right?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: So then one of my friends said, I'm really craving
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: dim sum. Can we please go for a dim sum lunch?
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: So I suggested this place that I've been to before,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and I said, it's, it's pretty affordable. Um, I can
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: walk in and get us a table because they don't really,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: they don't really do like online bookings. It's one of
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: those like, you know, very more old school places. So
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I said, OK, I'm, since, you know, I got some
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: work calls, I'll just go to the vicinity earlier. I'll
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: go and get a table. So they say, OK, see
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you there at 12, right? So I went and I
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: was like,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, OK, uh, work call done. Um, I'm just
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: gonna sit here and reply some, you know, messages and emails, and,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: and then I'll walk up and go and ask for
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a table. And by the way, Sonia actually, well done.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I'm very proud. Yeah, usually social gatherings, um, if we
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: say meet at 12, everyone arrives at 12:30 or 1. Anyway, so,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: so I went up and I was like, oh, do
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: do do do, like excited for my theme song, the
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: exact song you humming, in my head.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: And uh when I got to the entrance of the
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Dim Sum restaurant, the doors were shut and by right,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: they open at 11:30, OK. So then I woke up
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to the sign, which was quite a small sign, it
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: says closed on Mondays.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: To which I think I, I went, ah, and I
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: face palmed.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And uh I think one of the staff like in
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: that particular establishment walked past me and they were like, yeah,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: we're closed on Mondays. I was like, oops. I was
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: gonna say this, you should have Googled, but then, hang on,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: sometimes on Google it might not be updated as well. Oh,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: not accurate, is it? There were a couple of instances
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: where I thought the place was still there. I went there,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it's gone, right? Pently closed. That's the thing. So that's
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the thing. When I initially when I searched, I didn't
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: see anything about it being
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: This is a place, and I don't want to blame germs,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to. So this is a place that
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: did he do? Let me hear me out first. Stop
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: being on his side all the time, lah. You just
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: loosely blame him. OK, fine, I'll listen. Listen, listen. It's
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: just like it's his fault that I sprained my ankle also,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: by the way.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: So, um,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: So, so the previous day, can you listen to me?
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Why are you face palming laughing face palm. So this
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: is a dim sum place that um he brought me
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: to actually, and we've gone, we've gone there together several times, OK.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: So then the, the day before I had mentioned to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: him that like I wanted to go to this dim
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: sum place and I asked him actually, do you think
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: you can help me check for availability because he has
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the app or some sort of number or something like that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So then he goes on and he told, he told me,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I think you cannot reserve already, you just
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: got to walk in.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: But maybe what was shown was no available seats because
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it's closed, but perhaps there's, you know, it's not clear
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: enough as well on the app or on, on their,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: on their site. OK, I don't know. Anyway, he casually
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: tells me this. Oh, I cannot book already, so you go,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you just walk in. So I say, OK, which is
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: not wrong. What he told you the truth. I walked
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: in and it's closed. So how is that his fault?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Because he told me no more space. Just walk in.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Why you never check yourself or just Google me again? No,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: my fault again, my fault.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: OK, yes. I also didn't, you know, I, I trusted his, uh, yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I trusted that it was open. OK. Anyway, it was
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: closed and thankfully because I was there quite much earlier,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I managed to call my friends and divert them and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: told them to go to another dim sum restaurant in
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: town as I laugh at you.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: This happened to me and my dad recently. We forgot
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: that Sami's was closed on Tuesdays. Oh, Tuesdays. That's random.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Went all the way there, realized, right? Gone. I know, closed.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Poor guy. And I went to Little India in the end.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: So it's not gone. It was just closed on Tuesday,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Tuesday off, OK.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Give us a call, 669-11987 or drop us a message,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: 90050987 and tell us, has this ever happened to you before?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe you didn't quite check properly or maybe you just
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: relied on the fact that, oh, I've been to this
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: place many times and you just go and you realize,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: oh no, the place I wanted to go is closed.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Either closed for the day or permanently closed.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It could work both ways, OK. There have been times
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: where I ordered food from like a particular place, only
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: for the Grab driver to text me saying like, sis, uh,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: shop closed down already. I'm like, Why? Why is this
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: still listed? So how do you get a refund? Yeah,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: you get a refund. And does the rider get compensated?
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I can only hope so. I'm unsure about the back.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I'm sure they do. So you know what, 669-11987. Call
• 22:59
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• 23:03
  Speaker 1: do like your answer, a dining experience for two worth
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: $256 to Mosella, it is coming your way. Yeah, and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: this one they are there for sure, OK, over at
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Pan Pacific Orchard Hotel.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, this happened to me yesterday and I didn't
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: want to feel so alone, so I asked you this
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: question today. Have you ever made plans to meet at
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a particular restaurant or cafe or F&B place? Yeah. Only
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to realize upon arrival that it's shut. Saying good morning
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to PL. Morning So Kim. I have a real-life funny
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: story to share.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: The banana cake that broke my heart. I crossed the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: border into JB on a Sunday without checking on Google,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: and I went in with the mission more important than shopping,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: a promise. I told my parents, grandparents, and friends, Don't worry,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'll buy you the Yap Drew banana cake. Oh, it's.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: I could already imagine myself returning home like a hero.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: And then closed. At that moment my soul left my body.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't lose my wallet, I didn't lose my passport,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: didn't even lose my way in JB. I lost the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: banana cake. And worst of all, I had to face
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the people I confidently promised to. And you know what, sometimes.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: They also don't want to show that they're disappointed, right?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Because they don't want to make you feel even worse
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: about it. So I think I learned my lessons. I think. Yeah, yeah, honestly,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like in the recent years, a lot of
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: places might have changed their opening timings or operating hours
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and some places actually closed like 2.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: A week or they may only open for 4 days
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a week, for example, only dinner or only lunch, you know,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: so you gotta, gotta check. So to the F&B places,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: even our hawkers here in Singapore, auntie uncle, if you
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: can ask your niece and nephew to help you update
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Google for the opening and closing time because we want
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to support you. Yes, sometimes I think this definitely.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: It's an issue like my friend um was trying to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: make a booking at this place, not F&B related, but
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: it's also like appointment-based, and it's an old school like
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: jeweler where they actually do certain things for you, like
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: old school stuff, you know, and she's been wanting to
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: make an appointment there, so she can't speak Mandarin, she
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: can't speak Mandarin at all. So she asked me for,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: for my help, OK, of all people, right?
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Um, and, uh, I, she said when she reached out
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: she couldn't communicate with the uncle, so I managed to
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: knock something together in a bit of Mandarin and managed
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: to get the uncle to understand what I was saying
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and book her an appointment. But sometimes with the older generation,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: if they don't understand you, they just hang up, you see.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Can you give me the one phrase to use in Mandarin, please,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: to the uncle? I said, uh, Uncle Nisi, then insert
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: name circle, like, you know, are you this person? Then
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: he said, sir, like yes.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Then I knew it was him already lah because he
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: hung out with my friend who didn't know how to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: speak Mandarin. So how you I said, uh, Niowei ma.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Got space.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: That I it. Water Peng yo yao wei. OK, get,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: get to the point. Wow, your Chinese doing very good,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I must say that one F for fail anyway, when
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: we come back, more of your calls and your messages.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Still got time for you to call us and text us,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: by the way. Have you ever arranged to meet at
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a location only to realize that that shop was closed
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: based off my own experience yesterday?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: slash subscribe. Here's the message. Anderson Paak, too bad, right
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: here on 987, Singapore's number one hit music station, which
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I guess was what I said to myself yesterday when
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I realized the dim sum place I suggested was closed,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and I was like, ah, too bad. Really wanted them
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to try it. It's really good.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: But it was a lesson to just check next time, um,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: more in advance, I guess. So we are heading to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: more of your messages and calls right now. Has this
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: ever happened to you before? OK, I want to say
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: good morning to Yang Yang says, Hey guys, there's this
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: noodle store that I really love, Hok Heng Fish Noodle.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Google, it's closed on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday. But when
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I went on these days, sometimes it opens, sometimes it doesn't.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: So one day I went to ask the owner, when
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is their rest day. This is our convo. Uncle, when
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is your rest day? The uncle says, We rest on Monday.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: But that day, Tuesday, I come, you're never open late.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: The uncle replies, Woman qing liang lah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: We try our best, OK, OK. So I concluded their
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: business operating days is depending on mood. It is really
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: good though, and I always drop by. I'm here today.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Today Uncle Ching Yang got open. Hey, don't show me that.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get so hungry. I love noodles. OK, actually, wait,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: drop me the address. Hong Fish.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Heng Fish noodles, which area is that? Hong noodle. I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: check for you. Is it? OK, yeah, check, check. Upper
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Boon Keng Road. Upper. OK. I have a friend who
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: lives near there. I'll ask her whether it's worth the
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: trip down. Yeah, I'll ask her. Actually, I hear of
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a very popular Boon Keng fish soup store. It could
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: be this one. Boon Heng Hong Hong Boon Keng. Hello.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I misheard. with your hearing. What did I say
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what did I say? You
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: said.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: You said.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: No,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: I
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: said
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Boon
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: Heng.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Boon Heng. Can you stop it? You're showing me off. OK,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Louis is on. Where's the store? Boon Keng. What's it called?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Hok Heng. Good dude, they all sound the same, bro.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I'm done.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Louis, what about you? Has this happened to you before?
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, it happened to me before. Uh, so there was
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: once where, you know, I had a mad craving for rosti, and, uh,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: there was this, uh, specific, uh, western that sells, you know,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: rosti at along Simon Road, so.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: So, um, the night before I actually googled, uh, whether
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: that place was open. So apparently it was open, but, uh,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: little did I know that they actually changed the restaurant's name.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: So apparently the entire menu was changed as well. So,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: you know, the next day I woke up, you know,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: still had the craving.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Um, drove all the way down to, to Simon Road,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: and then I noticed that the store was looking a
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: little bit different. I didn't, yeah, and I didn't notice, uh,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: you know, like the signbox was different and everything, so
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I want to order Rosi and then the, the owner
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: just told me that, oh no, we don't sell rosti anymore. We,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: we still sell Western, but you know, the menu is different.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: If I'm not wrong, I think the store name was
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Piggy Snout. Here's my question, right? Like if you have
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a specific craving for Ros.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And you think of this restaurant. Isn't that their specialty then?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: The rusty must be good. So why did they remove it?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Maybe new direction, new owners. No, you know what, this
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: is always the case, right, with PS Cafe, OK, and
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I love PS Cafe. I go there, you know, sometimes
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: family quite often, but they changed their menu and they
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: took some items off, to which they're my favorite items. Yeah,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: and you won't, you won't know whether it's,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: exactly. So sometimes I'm like, hey.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I'll just ask the waitress, can I ask you
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: a question? Why you remove? Then she said, actually not,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: not us, but I don't know.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, that's quite sad because where do
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I get it now, right? OK, note to all customers,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: when the menu changes, it is not the waiter's fault.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Ask for the manager. It isn't, it isn't. I wasn't
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: blaming them. No, no, no. I'm so curious like why
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: is it removed and are people asking for it. Sometimes
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: they admit, they say, yeah, people ask like why, what
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: happened to that. Anyway, Simon, I your name is Simon.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Louis from Simon Road.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Sorry. OK, we still got time for maybe one last
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: message and one final call here. Talking about my experience yesterday,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I planned a dim sum lunch, a quick one with
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: my two friends who work in the CBD area, only
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: to realize upon arriving that they don't open on Mondays. Thankfully,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I managed to divert them somewhere else before they arrived.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: We got one text coming in from Evan, who says,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: morning people and listeners of 987.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: There was once I was craving for this particular laksa
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: and Eunos. Oh, I know which one. I woke up early,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: drove all the way down for it. Before that, I
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: made sure to Google that it was open. I checked.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: When I was there, I was greeted with a Hamilton
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: piece of note on the hawker shutters. We are closed
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for 2 weeks. Boss go holiday. I lost my appetite
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that morning and my wife was really angry with me.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: That I woke up from a beauty sleep to go
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: all the way there for nothing. OK, but not your fault.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: This one, they, they don't, I'm assuming hawks like that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: they don't have like social media platforms to, right, unless
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: they have like a second generation or like their kids
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: who can help them. You're right, yeah. OK, uh, last
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: but not least, Adrian, what about you? I'll tell you what, I,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I woke up late today, so I just tuned in,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: but before I tune in, my friend texted me, said, hey,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: listen to Sonia and Joakim, they're talking about a top
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: on you.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I have been to restaurants, hawkers. Everywhere that I go,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: they are closed, either for washing on hawkers, restaurants, they
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: are closed, and my luck has been down ever since.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So I've been relying on Google or even
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: NEA website on when the hawker is closed for washing.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: So my friend encouraged me to call in. Hi, morning.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So Adrian, when you plan it, it's closed, but when
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: others plan it and you come along, is it OK? Precisely.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: That's the thing. I shouldn't organize and that's that's what
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: we've been doing now. We organize, they will make the booking. Yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: COVID. Basically, you just have to show up. I mean
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: that's not such a bad idea. You just go along
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: with it. Yes, that's why. So we will propose a place.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: I cannot even propose a place now. They will propose
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the place, they will make the bookings. Yeah. And maybe
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: you need some like, you need to, you know, burn
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: some sage or like do some.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Change the energy or let me, let me search for you. What,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: what crystal can help you, please, please. I'm kidding. No crystals, OK,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: in your house or something. I'm not sure. I thought
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: this was only to my, my friends and my colleagues
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: if I were to arrange.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Uh, some, uh, dinner place. Apparently, uh, it happens to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: my wife as well. So when we plan to go
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: for some makan, uh, somehow or other the place is closed. So,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: between myself and my wife, we always make it a
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: point that we check, we ensure that the place is
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: open for business before we go down. So some of
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the places that we frequent, we know when are the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: closing dates, we try to avoid. And that's why, yeah.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Well, Adrian, I, I don't know what to say, but
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: I'm wishing you good luck for your next organized outing. Yeah. Yeah,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: maybe the tide will turn. The energy will shift time, yes. Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Adrian. Good morning. Um, down to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: another AI slot moment. Yeah, this one involving TikTok shop
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and Shopee. Well I think I'm more familiar with TikTok
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: shop because now
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: allowed creators, for example, if Sonia Chew has a TikTok
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: shop stall, you, you can basically register it to yourself
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: and you can start selling things and you can use
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: AI generated videos to promote the product that you're selling,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: to which there is a book called Ghost Hunters of
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Geylang written by Xie Shimin, not something Jo would be reading, yeah.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And it is not a children's book, but unfortunately the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: AI generated video depicted it as a children's book. Oh,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: like Geylang is our playground. We play there and we
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: fight ghosts. And more troubling for the author was how
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the video portrayed her young adult book with horror elements
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: as a fun 10 gosh, help.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: And and the book only has the word durian mentioned
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: in one sentence, OK, but in the video, plus all
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: the eylang details can smell durian already. Oh my gosh,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: but this wasn't sold by the author herself, right? It, no,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: like on a third party platform. So maybe someone bulk
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: bought the book and it was in the description, like
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: a written description, is it? Or like a video? It's
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: an AI video. It's an actual video. Oh no.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: What can, I mean, what can this author do like
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: she has written into Shopee's website and she's written into
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: TikTok shop as well, but not really much of a response. No. So, so, yeah,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of other people who are also having their
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: products sold by third parties on TikTok or Shopee because
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of these AI slot generated videos, they are not too
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: happy with how their products are being sold.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: I'm just, you know, this is, here's the problem that
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I have, right? And it's not that I don't embrace AI.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: I do. I think it, it's wonderful in some ways, um,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: but we need to have the right way of approaching it, right?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: But in school back then when I was in like
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: poly and uni, they taught us so much about, you know, uh, plagiarism,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: for example, like lifting and just dumping it into your essay, like, OK,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do that, you know, you have
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: to be very careful. You got to double-check, triple check,
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: and all that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Now, I feel like we've taken a few steps back
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: because a lot of people rely a lot on AI
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: to generate, like, let's say, generate a speech for me
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: today based on this. And sometimes you don't put in
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: the extra effort to go check it, check it twice
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: or 3 times, you know what I mean? So people
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: just lift it and go wholesale with it, which is
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: everything that we were taught not to do back when
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I was taking my degree.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: So the best thing you can do if if you
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: encounter an AI slot video for your live shop or whatsoever,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: just go to Google search it, read the proper reviews,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: and maybe even search the author's name or the product's
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: name and see what pops up and hopefully you can
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: read and verify for yourself. By the way, um, as
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: capable as your AI platforms are, they can still make mistakes. Exactly,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: like for sure, especially if you're not on premium, I
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: think maybe that's their way of pushing you to buy.