So I reiterate here, the bill is dead.
The story of this great city is about the years before this
night. Hey everyone this is Ho Ho Hong
Kong. This is the live video edition
and that's we made a mistake and this is just purely the audio
edition with me, your host Vivian Wilbani and my Co host
who is Muhammad Magdi. There we go.
My own camera. And I have my own camera as
well. Looking over here.
Of course, if you realize that, wait a second, there's only one
camera. And somehow they're saying they
have three cameras. We messed something up.
Yeah. So we've done.
We've done it. We finally put the room
together. Oh my God.
We've got the cameras on. Took what, years?
Yeah, years. Years, I mean.
Months of actual building, years of planning, Yeah.
Yeah, years of planning you're discussing of like, oh, how can
we squeeze this into the space without having to rent an actual
studio? It is actually, it is quite
impressive to have your own studio in central Hong Kong.
Yeah. Yeah, it's exactly quite a feat.
So I have thanks everyone who is tuning in and supporting and
exactly paying for Patreon. Yeah, I wish you can see how
beautiful this thing is. We will never invite you here,
but you know you can still listen.
Yeah, exactly. And watch I.
Appreciate, I hope you enjoying the acoustics.
So like I don't see the difference.
I'm like that's your headphones problem.
Yes, exactly this is. This place is perfect.
Yeah. This is actually natural light
we are on. Yeah, the sun is lighting us for
free. That's what we did for months.
We were like, we did that one good day that was happening at
the right time. When the sun comes out, we're
like, this is it, this is it more.
Let's go, Let's go. Yes, yeah.
So very, very lucky that right now we can you do this.
Of course, hopefully soon enough we'll be looking at this video
one day and be like, Oh my God, remember the day when we did in
that? Little small room, yeah, yeah.
And now we're. Invited to like Macau casinos to
just do 10 minutes of the recording you know so they.
Had to take our own screen as well with us because Macau
couldn't afford. Absolutely.
And we were like, no, we want that specific size screen.
Don't give us a whole LED. Despite that, that's why it's
not fitting the screen. Doesn't fit the whole screen.
We try to squeeze into the video again.
This is the best thing about this one, right?
Is like everything is theoretical.
Yes, exactly. It's as it can be as simple as
we want it to be, or as complicated as we want to be.
Well, also theoretically your camera is recording because your
camera is the only one that doesn't have a display screen.
Yeah. So theoretically it's recording.
Right. Theoretically.
Exactly. I'm looking at these two and
they are recording and this one. Maybe we'll see after.
After 30 minutes when your damn camera runs out of it's
recording time. So for anybody who owns a camera
that has that stupid 30 minute recording limitation, this
apparently, I remember before when I had cameras that had the
limitation, I was like, why is this 30 minute thing?
Is it the overheating thing, is what's going on?
No, it actually is some sort of tax evasion thing where if it's
a 30 minute or longer recording camera, yeah, it's counted as a
video camera. I had no idea.
Yeah, and the taxes are higher, so they all decided 30 minutes
is good. Enough.
Yeah. And who decided on the 30
minutes? Like you can still shoot
multiple 30 minutes and then like merge them.
I'm, you know, exactly, I'm guessing that some lawmaker in
Europe, yeah, who was like my kids told me they will never do
more than 30 minutes of reels or something. 30 minutes is way too
long if you're shooting a porno as well.
Hey, you know what? Some people can last.
Yeah, well, that's good on them. I do not know those people.
What I mean, there's a lot of reasons why you would need more
than 30 minutes for a porno. Tell me a couple all.
Right storyline, OK point like you set up punch time you have
to. Have so that means the setup is
too long. No, but that's the story arch
man you know like Oh yeah OK OK, so the typical story arch, I
wish I could just display it right now because we're not that
high tech yet. Yes the the step #1 is set the
scene. Yes, the pizza delivery person
is coming. Why do I have a delivery person?
Because I'm hungry, I'm human, we get it.
So 2. Human beings.
So you have to 1st set up by say like by showing them maybe in
the office getting hungry, Yeah, and like looking around.
And not finding any food. So like, there's there's this
person sitting over there going like, I've worked hard all day.
And of course, she has blonde hair and wearing glasses, but
the shirt's too tight. And so it has to unbutton 11
collar part, right. OK.
I just think I'm hungry. I need me some food, Right.
And then that's the setting of the scene, Hunger, people
working all day, very stressed out, needs to release the
stress. Right.
OK. And she's probably saying
something like, you know, we finished a big project and we
need to treat ourselves. Yeah.
Let's get pizza. So you're saying that the whole
office or just. Let's just say just yes, Sir.
OK, She's working overtime. Yes.
So that's setting the scene. That's step one of a typical
standard story narrative. Yeah.
All right. Once you've done that, what The
first thing you have to have is a problem.
So the pizza delivery person comes in and she's like, yay,
solved my problem, hunger pizza. And the problem is she has no
money. Yeah, I see.
So she ordered pizza and she didn't have money.
Exactly. So that's the problem, right,
You have to have a problem otherwise there's no point of
the story. Yes, OK, so the problem is she
can't pay for it. Delivery person's problem has
that he or she has to pay for rent.
Yes, you can't get a pizza out and that's some for payment and
she goes. Out we have it.
Yeah, exactly right. We have the conflict.
Yes, the conflict. And she's like, what can I do?
How? What is the equivalent monetary
value of a Domino's Pizza? It's it's not a lot of money.
Not a lot of money, but then again, at that point, you're
held hostage. Yeah, because you haven't.
You like, put it this way. Let's say you have your wallet
full of $100 U.S. dollar bills and you're taking a taxi.
It's. Always full of a. 100 it's
always obviously, I mean that's just a standard every single day
thing, right? And you take a taxi and you take
the trip for 3 minutes. The meter doesn't even jump.
Yeah. And you realize you have no Hong
Kong dollars. Oh no.
Right. And then so you kind of like, oh
shit, I got to give you something and you have to get
100 U.S. dollar. No.
Yeah, yeah, same concept, right. Pizzas are quite cheap.
But at that point she's like, I got to give something away.
Yes. All right, so problem.
And the key is a rising problem. She offers like, hey, what if I,
you know, pay you later? No, no.
What do you take credit card? No.
What about vouchers? No.
How about you come in and have had the pizza?
No. Rising problem gets worse and
worse and worse. How are you not a porn director
already? I'm telling you, man, this is 30
minutes of it right over there, you know, and.
It's already did. You're already on 5 minutes,
right? Setting up.
This exactly and. Everyone is very excited, right?
Yeah, and they're like, what will she?
Do If we had any hope in monetizing on YouTube, we blew
it. We're talking about porn.
Exactly. The first episode, immediate
blacklist. Yeah, the algorithm of ads.
Right now you're like, I think YouTube can do those ads where
it fills it in through AI. Besides, which part of the show
is the best? I bet you anything right now
we're going to go to a Domino's ads go.
Yeah, it's straight up like you heard, hungry.
You have no money. Get Domino's on credit with the
HSBC credit card. Don't give them free ads for
meals. Yeah, yeah, Anyways, yeah,
problems. And then they and of course, in
the story arc, there's always a climax.
Yes. So you jump to that point.
Yes, exactly after the climax. A little climax.
A little climax and then you have the final resolution.
Which is the guy leaving exactly?
Yeah, and forgetting never calling her.
Again. Never calling her again.
Yes, she gets her pizza, he goes home happy.
Yeah, win, win. OK, you know, And then it's the
end. And that is exactly the 29
minute mark when the when the director presses the stop button
on the camera to shoot the next scene.
Yes, there you go. That's 30 minutes.
That's why that European. Is usually him yelling at his
wife. Yeah, scene #2 would probably
realizing, you know, that actually turns out that she has
a share in the pizza company. Oh no.
And she didn't realize she ripped herself off.
Pizza company goes under, she's broke, and now she has to do the
same thing now. But not for pizza, not for
pizza, other stuff. Not for love.
That's not for love, you know. Everyone does want to be so
there. Yes, that is the 30 minute
reason. And now?
For love. I love our fans and it's because
of that and because we're setting up for this beautiful
day where we are starting to do a video.
I went to my regular Barber shop as you can see here, very neatly
groomed and everything, but it was such an an adventure.
Where do you go? I go to Kowloon Image hair salon
in Kowloon. I would.
Actually give image hair salon. Yeah, image hair.
Salon. It's run by a bunch of Indian
guys. Yeah, shout out to our buddy
Tambi Chan. He told me about them years ago.
The time we go there, yeah. Oh, wow.
I don't know if he. Still goes there, but like back
then he used to and there's just like a bunch of Indian guys and
he's basically as ethnic as it can get, so.
You want to hear some music? Yeah, there's music.
It's it's Bollywood music, like basically Indian music.
Yeah. Do they have ATV like this where
they're playing Bollywood movies?
No, I think they used at the old shop.
So the old shop was actually shared like with their, the
women's section. Yeah.
So it can be like men and women
and everything. And now they're like independent
men. Like they move.
They used to be on Temple St. Yeah.
So you'd also like get like like a haircut, but outside there's
like a Momo shop and stuff. Pretty cool.
Now they upgraded and moved to Battery St. so like two or three
blocks away. And now they have more seats for
men. Yeah.
And it just meant wow. And that was good and bad
because now there is no women touch.
So the whole the whole place is kind of feels like a guy's.
Living. Oh yeah, just the guy put the
stuff here. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There is no organization, nothing.
Everything is everywhere. But the good thing is that there
is a lot of characters in the shop now.
Because there's no women around. Yeah, there's no no worry of
like I better put behave. No, no, no one is behaving.
There is. I wish I understood Hindi.
Yeah, so I can understand more. But you.
And me both buddy, yes. I wish I had you to translate,
but you would be as useful. As I go there but like I'm
guessing he's saying he has hair like that was pointless.
But they're all talking non-stop.
But also sometimes like a random character.
I just like Thinker in a video game.
So a random character would walk into the shop and see that it's
busy and he would just grab a razor like an electric shaver
and just start like trimming himself.
Oh, I just looking. You're like, why would you?
What? Yeah, I'm like.
Is he a customer? Is he like works there?
No idea round the whole Sala. Chai coming into so.
So you're there getting a haircut.
Oh yeah, or waiting to get a haircut.
No getting a haircut. Getting a haircut used to know
there you had to wait to get your turn.
Yeah, this last time I actually locked out.
Luckily because of my schedule, I can kind of go in there like
downtime. Yeah.
So I went on Friday afternoon. OK, early evening.
OK, so the other time when you didn't get lucky, you had to
wait? Yeah, you could.
Just times you. Could just walk in but like
you're busy I'll do half your job for you and start trimming
your own hair. Not just that, they also don't
take reservations. They're just, like, first come
first. You also can't just, like, peace
out. Yeah, because someone else will
come. You just have to sit there like
a hostage. Yeah.
Until. Yeah, until.
So So here you are getting your haircut.
Yeah. Doing the legit way of business.
Yes. And this other guy comes in, he
looks around like I see. I see what's going on here.
I he's observing a surveying gun.
Hold on. OK.
Yeah. I have the skills that these
people have. They have hands.
I know what scissors are.
They know what scissors are. Why would I need you to do
something I can really do? Exactly.
Yeah, but I choose not to at home because the only difference
is that after he trims his hair and everything doesn't have to
clean up. Yeah, correct.
So he just goes down to Image Hair Salon and does it
apparently for free because he just trimmed himself, spoke in
Hindi for a little bit. Yeah.
And just peace out, Yeah. That's VIP status.
Yeah, that is VIP. I wish I, yeah, I had access to,
to them a lot more when I was like, you know, maybe here's on
a date or something and he just wanted to like, you know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little through me, through me.
And then he's like, I'm not going to have a whole thing.
Yeah. I'm just going to like, yeah.
I mean, we technically, technically, technically we in
the comedy world, we have something equivalent.
Let's say you're big enough. Yeah, there's a show going on,
Yeah. Everyone's got the line UPS.
Everything's happening. And let's say someone, let's
just say. You do a drop.
In I drop in, I'm like, I want to do 3 minutes yes.
And you literally give the light to the person on stage.
Oh yeah. And like, get out, Yeah.
And I just walk on grab. Yeah, what we call bumping
people. Yeah, you can easily bump
somebody. So basically the guy Kanye West
without? Taylor Swift, yeah.
He literally just went and did the thing with that.
But no harm. No harm this time, right?
No. Harm.
No, because he was just doing it to himself.
The only problem is that I think if he harms, if you harmed
himself, yeah, I don't think you can sue because you're the one.
Yeah, yeah. But then the tools are there's.
Oh, this is a good. One, it's a good one.
Yeah, lawyers write in. Can this person sue if they walk
into the shop and just grab a razor and just start like?
All right, seeing as this is a video edition of the podcast
with Asterisk, you know, I think we can upgrade ourselves and say
we may be able to solve that question.
How? OK, so if you were in a shopping
mall, right, and you go walk on their stuff and you hit you cut
yourself or hurt yourself on their escalator, you can see the
shopping mall. Yeah, for sure.
So it's the same thing. I went to your mall, your salon,
use your trimmers and cut myself back.
Your trimmers are are not safe. Yes, it's still Speaking of.
I might have mentioned this ages ago.
I'm still mad at Annie for not for saving me at the Venetian
because I actually slipped on the floor in Macau.
Oh, and she saved me last minute.
And caught you. She caught me and I was so mad
at her. I was.
I was like, I was like, that was a legitimate slip too.
Like, it was like, I think it was, yeah, I think it was wet
and it's like weird or whatever. And she just like, caught me
last minute. I was like, I would have been so
happy to have like the face plant, right?
Now she's been in Australia. For two, it's in the Venetian.
Yeah, it's like. Give me a room upgrade at least,
no. Room upgrade.
I'm not living there without millions of dollars.
Are you kidding me? Oh man.
Like you want the backyard? Do you want me bleeding all over
your floor? Hey immediately going on
Instagram live going I fell at the Venetian floor.
You know what, I think maybe back then they knew we did not
have the video version of the podcast.
You don't give a shit about this.
Yeah, that's true. However, now that we have video,
yes we can. Literally again, this is this
week what we can do. Yes, it's all theoretical as
well. It is theoretical.
We could tell you like have overlay video of you falling
down, hitting your head in the Venetian while we're discussing
it. Yes, super meta where people are
like I'm watching it happen, but he's described it's.
Going above the screen above our heads right now.
Right now and on loop. Yes.
Like a like a boomerang? Yes, like one of those things.
It's like literally those animated GIFs that people send
you on WhatsApp that's just boops itself.
Like old Rebecca is animated GIFs.
I go with the old school man. What are they called now?
No, no, that was a big argument. GIF or GIF, right?
I'm pretty sure it's GIF now instead of.
I guess, yeah, I'll give. It to you.
Oh my God, man. Yeah, but that'll be, oh man,
the day will come when this podcast gets big enough where we
literally have a whole production team, Yes, just to
compliment everything we say. I agree.
And what I'm hoping is that we are able to go to, like,
backtrack to old episodes like this one.
Yeah, and then remaster them. Yeah.
Can you imagine? What?
The only problem with this is that the Internet is forever.
Yeah. So this someone will hold on to
the original video. That's fine.
And start start debating. Yeah.
Hey, you know what? Hey, they tempered this one from
2000. End of 2024.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean this.
Is not the original version, I'm an OG.
I remember what it was like the. Internet Archives.
Hey, Speaking of the Internet, you know, like remember way back
there was this kid that had the lightsaber thing and he did it
this video where he was in front of green screen and the whole
Internet went wild. Yes, right.
Yeah, yeah. Buddy, I think, I think we can
give like a little moment to everyone right now.
Yeah, today we'll do like a little quick green screen one
minute, sure. And see.
We can do it right when we are restarting this camera, yeah.
Exactly. We got OK, OK, what's going to
happen to everybody is like, I want you to keep watching this
video. Do not like, you know, don't do
one of those things where you have YouTube on.
Yeah, but minimized. I think that's why how everyone
listens to podcast, like people like the one of the main reasons
we switch to or we're moving on to video and audio at the same
time. There's how people listen on
YouTube. Yeah, which is not like, here
you go, here is the video. Enjoy.
Yeah, but I still don't understand it because this is
mainly audio. We don't have a lot of visual
aids or anything. Why do people listen on YouTube?
The only explanation I can think of is that they don't want to
pay for Spotify, which is fair enough.
But also Pod Bean on a lot of other like, podcast platforms
are free. Yeah, So it still doesn't make
sense, but hey. Fair enough man.
I mean I'll put it this way, like every scientific study of
like sensory stuff actually does prove that visual is the most
impactful for anything. Because obviously, like most of.
Our yeah, except that what I'm saying is that they don't even
watch. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing,
right? But hey, you know what?
Sometimes it's about the the it's the intention.
True, they intended to watch, yeah, but they didn't.
Yes, they're they're listening while they are also cleaning or,
you know, playing with a cat. Yeah, you know, so maybe I then
again we are the previous generation now.
Yeah, maybe we have evolved to point now we can multi sensor
task. True, right?
Look at us catching up. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
We're trying to be hip with the kids.
You know we do the do the whole. Video with the kids.
Yeah, I mean, Sally, we're still doing the 16 by 9, not the 9 by
16 video. True, right, Which already he
shows us our age. We're like, oh, Luke.
Well, if we had TikTok in Hong Kong, I would bother doing that.
True, true, true. That's my excuse, yeah.
You know, no TikTok in Hong Kong, there is no point.
Yeah, there you go. I mean, but what we do have in
Hong Kong was image hair. Salon Image Hair salon.
Yeah. You can go ask for Sam.
I'm not sure it's. It's a real name.
Yeah. Is Sam a common Indian name?
Could be Samir. Oh yeah, that's true.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the guys are probably
Muslim. Not sure actually, but they do
speak. I think I've also heard some of
them speak Urdu, which they can kind of like differentiate
because it's like has a lot in common with Arabic.
Yeah. But image here is a long, great
place. And then, yeah, probably by
Temple St. where you can go and get some snacks on Temple St.
We pack. We walked by any and I walked by
Temple St. And there's a lot of new stalls.
Have you been there recently? Temple St.
I have not been to the shopping area.
Yeah, shopping area like the main kind of like like nightlife
thing. Yeah, yeah, night market thing
it's pretty cool. They have they have like a
Filipino stand now a cheese stand, Turkish like kebab thing.
One thing I would not recommend is the Tang Hulu.
Do you know what Tang Hulu is? I have no idea.
So Tang Hulu is like the the caramelized sugar, like a fruit
sugar thing. You probably know what it is.
It's Chinese. It's like basically strawberry
or a grape and. Then.
Dipped in sugar like and then it it.
What's the word it solidifies? Oh yeah, becomes hard.
Yeah, becomes hard. It was.
So we picked up one. I used to live in Dombe,
northeast China, and that is a NE delicacy, especially in
winter. So now I guess it's winter in
Hong Kong, even though it doesn't feel like it.
So people like they're selling it there.
Yeah, but in China it's like one of the cheapest snacks you can
get 50 Hong Kong per what for one.
For one like skewer that has four strawberries with.
Yeah. And I'm such an idiot.
Like I just went because I'm like, I know this is like, there
is no way. It's like it's going to be Hong
Kong price. It's going to be 20.
Yeah, and it's 50. I got me and Annie, I paid 100
Hong Kong for two. Oh, man.
And I'm like, this is actual. Like I almost called the.
Cops, you should have made any trip at that time.
Yeah, seriously, I should have just murdered the lady.
Like I should have actually just committed.
My goodness this is not OK. 100 bucks for two skewers 2.
Skewers of like strawberries, strawberries and she got, she
got mixed strawberries and grapes and I got all
strawberries. Wow, she went grapes.
Yeah, I know. Why would you like lower down?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, 100, because I actually
like, I'm such a dummy. Like I gave her the 100 and
like, oh, this is really nice. I'm eating it.
I'm just waiting for. Change.
Yeah, I know. And she's just like, she didn't
even say anything, just kept staring at me.
And then there's like a little thing with the prices and I
looked at it earlier, but I'm like, I'm pretty.
Like, you know, when you look at it, it's.
Not going to be yeah, yeah, it's not going to be 50 bucks I.
Think I saw the number 50. I'm like, this is for like the
whole cart, right? Like if you want to buy the
lady, yeah, you get $50. Yeah, that's fine.
Like you want to own her? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it makes
sense. Like 50, Yeah.
Then it turns out it was just 50 per one.
Wow. That's what I'm like, you know
what we should be paying in RMB and Hong Kong should not be a
separate thing. So I hold on.
Wait. Delete that, yeah.
Well, editor is your problem. Now look at me.
Yeah, yeah. Oh my.
Yeah, Yeah. That was, that was like that I
hurt my soul. Yeah.
Yeah, of course I was enjoying the snack.
It's like one of these things. You enjoy the snack and you look
at the price, you're like, I'm not enjoying this anymore.
I'm actually very upset. Yeah.
And you're eating one. You're like, that was like, that
was 1212 bucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was just, it was just upsetting.
Wow, dude, Oh my God. I don't know.
Like because The thing is for me is when I see these things,
they're a little bit too handcrafted.
I am like immediately thinking, Yep, surely this is going to
cost money. Yes, Someone feels that they're
time value so high, Yeah, that they're like, yeah, going to pay
me a lot of money for this. Thing Oh yeah, but like that one
it felt like a legitimate scam. I'm like, who is allowing?
Who is allowing tank Hulu for $50?
Yeah, who is allowing? Like someone must government.
Come on, there are two. People in Hong Kong who just
did, Yes. Yeah, exactly.
It was good. Yeah.
Like would you say? It was really good.
It was good, I guess, but it's also pretty simple.
You can't really fuck it up that easily.
Like, you know what I mean? Of course you can fuck up
anything, but like, it's not that.
Hard to make strawberries done for you.
Yes, you just pluck it in like that.
Yeah, it's just like, you know, fresh, like sugar.
Yeah. And then it's.
Just like it solidifies around the end.
Wow it was nice and everything for all.
Like the better quality in main mainland is like maybe 5 RMB.
Yeah, like legitimately five, maybe in like a super touristy
place. 10 RMB. Yeah, they probably figured they
were like, the fact that you're here eating this thing, like,
you must really want to have that experience.
Yeah, yeah. It's just it doesn't make sense.
I'm not very. Mad about it I would put it this
way it's probably it's quite targeted to people who are
curious like 50 bucks this must be something different that's
typical thing like so there's also like some studies I believe
they're saying that certain pricing when you hit a certain
price, people kind of no longer say it's expensive like this
must be good if it's. Yes, yes, yes, people.
Sometimes, yeah. We, we talked about this in
stand up shows as well. It's way harder to fill an open
mic that is free. Yeah, than a ticket show.
Yeah. Because people be like, oh, it's
free. It can't be good.
Yeah, yeah. And sometimes the same comedians
not necessarily doing the same material, but like, it's the
same comedians, yeah, maybe working on their new act or
whatever. You can come see us working out.
Yeah. And it's actually harder to do.
Then you're like, oh, OK, if he's there charging, that means
it's good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's difficult. And I ran open mics for years,
and it was always like, it's like people also thinking, like,
what's the catch? Yeah.
Like why are you promoting a free?
Show, yeah. Because we need an audience to
test out pneumatic, yeah. But you know what else?
What is not free image? Hair salon.
Unless you're trimming your own beard, dude, I, I, I'm still
trying to visually image like I'm looking at as a very typical
hair salon where people come in, you've got the guy hanging out
on the corner. Yes, they're just walking.
So there's a guy usually like smoking outside the shop.
The shop is also like, Sam, don't hate me for this, but the
shop also like, you can't just enter.
You have to ring the bell, which always makes me think, no, no,
it is on the street level. But you have to ring a bell.
You don't just walk in and they have to like, let you in from
inside, which always makes me think, no, no secret code.
Yeah, OK. But it always makes me think
like, aren't you like a public? Regular shop?
You want me to easily come in? Why?
The people. Yeah, I make it difficult.
Yeah. Like, yeah, I always wonder like
do you guys like not let people in at some point and do
something else which not. Sure, who knows, I mean maybe.
OK, so I'm guessing alright, yes.
So why they have the doorbell thingy is because they've had
way too many people come in and trim their own beards and like
dude, this got to stop man. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Yeah, they might just like yeah, yeah.
Stop the hobo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're just coming in like, buddy, no, you can't.
This is not the. This is not the boss, man.
You can't just walk in. Like, Are you ready?
Also, yeah, for the moment of truth, the moment where we see
you can look at your camera and see if it was has been
recording. Or not, but we can 20.
Yeah. What about Yeah 24 Mark so.
The most got to go and do the. Little stop and do a little stop
and restart. They're doing the stop and
restart. Oh nice, it is recording.
There you go. And it was saying 5 minutes left
and whoop, I turned it on too many times.
There you go there. You go all right.
Don't think that was picked up by the mic, but it was
recording. Yeah, yeah.
Now it's good. We need to do another.
Sound. Clap another.
Clap. I had that.
There you go to do it. That's just.
Amazing. That's eventually we'll have
some producer. Person do that stuff for us.
Yeah, do that stuff for us. But for now, camera is working,
everything is good. Get your time.
We got that for another what, 25 minutes for the camera?
25 minutes for the camera and the one the the guy going into
the image hair salon doing for himself I feel is on par with
you how you get your haircut, which yeah, what a time.
I just walk in. Hey, let me tell you something.
Where I get my haircut there is, in fact, the doorbell.
Yes, there is impact the. Door and I literally have to
have someone from the inside open it for me.
Yeah, except I should like it myself.
Just like that guy. Both.
Of you guys have that in common, is it the brown people thing I.
Think it is now two of them are doing it.
So tell everyone, Rebec, why don't you pay for your own
haircut? So because through years and
years, the tradition, my hair is cut by my dear mother.
Yeah, from years and years and. Years, everyone.
Rebecca Bhavani, Hong Kong's arguably most famous comedian
for the last however many years. His mom cuts his hair.
Yeah. Why is that prepared?
So long if I remember correctly. Don't do the long story, Sure.
Do the long story long all of. It OK so many, many, many, many,
many many years ago there was a time when I was let me go get
some haircut outside now in Hong Kong because of my curly hair
and everything people are not familiar with it so they always
end up like somehow cutting it wrong and like the.
Shape. That's why you go to Kowloon.
I had the same problem as you, the Hong Kong Island thing.
You walk and it's either like a very local, like hipster shop.
No idea. Yeah, or there are.
Actually like foreigners, like there is like a run by like a
Irish guy or whatever, but it's literally like $700.
And I'm like, I'm never like yeah, saying yeah, yeah.
So like a beard and hair and just.
Like how much is the hair? Could I image hair salon?
It's so last time I did this, by the way, we can go back to you.
But yes, so this this very last time to do.
You know, I usually do like just a beard trim, which is nice.
Like you do like the the blade thing.
You do the foamy thing. A lot of times it don't cut my
hair because I like a bit long. This time I did as well.
And that's kind of where I'm expecting it to end.
I had like an Indian uncle this time.
I did not see there before. Again, it could be like a
friend. Sure, he's like practicing.
You have no fucking idea. But halfway through here I'm
like, oh, beard. And here this time showed him a
photo. All good.
So pretty much close to the end, he goes wax.
I'm like, uh, oh. And then I just went, OK, so he
started putting like, hot blue wax on my face.
Damn. And like here.
And he started like, yeah, yeah, blue wax.
And it actually made me look like a bearded Blue Man Group.
Damn. Yeah.
Number. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and it was like everywhere.
And then he started like waxing all of my.
Ears, OH. No, Yeah, yeah.
So the ears like completely blue.
Yeah. I couldn't like move my arms to
take a photo, but the both ears are completely blue.
Both ears have two earbuds each sticking.
Out. Yeah, yeah.
And then and then he goes inside nose and that's when I'm like.
Absolutely. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
No. Because I can, I can already
know that when it's coming out, it's going to be painful as
shit. Yeah, yeah.
I'm like, inside nose is actual torture method.
I'm not going to let him do that.
And yeah, it was like this, like parts and stuff like forehead,
cheeks and stuff was like relatively painful, but like,
OK, ears were very painful, like very painful.
But I can imagine inside nose would be way more painful.
Absolutely not. That's not necessary inside the
nose. You need that nostril.
Hair. Yeah, exactly.
Why are you even? Yeah.
Why do people like wax inside their nose?
And this uncle also, his English was not great.
Like Sam, the main guy in the shop is English is very good,
That guy. No ideas like, you know, kind of
like your classic chubby Indian uncle.
And then after that, without asking me, just started
threading my face, which, again, I have not done before.
And it's very painful. Again.
But of course the women would be rolling their eyes like.
Every whole life, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.
But it doesn't make my experience.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like what do you want from me?
Exactly. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. So, yeah, I did all of that.
So I did. And then a proper haircut, beard
wax and thread. 280 Hong Kong. Really.
Yes. God damn dude, that's pretty.
Good. It's really.
Good. Oh man.
OK, so when I go like attempted. Yes, when I go do just my beard,
which I usually do like once every three weeks or whatever.
70 Hong Kong dollar. Not bad.
Really not bad at. All damn.
Yeah, haircut with all the other shenanigans. 280 Hong.
Kong OK, OK, no, I'm actually. No, no, those guys are legit.
Very. Dude, I'm actually curious
enough now, especially end of year.
Yes, I can. I technically get away because I
technically have like 9 days before my final New Year's Eve
gig. Yeah.
Huh. OK, I might actually.
Oh, yeah. OK, well, tell Sam.
Show him a photo of me. Yeah, he knows my name, but he
probably has too many Muhammad's.
Yeah, So just show him a photo of me.
I'm friends with you, yeah, I recommended, you know, the
referral. And anyone else?
Yeah, go to Sam's to Image hair salon in Kowloon.
Where is it? Where?
In Kowloon. Batteries, I mean, you can look
it up. It's a battery St. 53 or 58 or
whatever. Yeah, yeah.
Just Berry St. Jordan, basically.
When's the when's the off peak season?
Off peak time I. Mean so they are like imagine
anytime people are not out, like out of work, it's busy, right.
So we can forget about it. Like Saturday, Sunday, forget
about it. Monday afternoon is great.
You know, like during when people are in office, that's a
good time to go. Yeah.
And I think during the week even in the evening would be OK,
better. Yeah.
But like Saturday, Friday night, like Friday when people because
they want to like get grouped for the weekend.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Saturday, Sunday, forget
about it. Don't even bother.
OK. OK.
So I went like Friday, right before people leave work, like
4:00 PM and it was great. Perfect timing.
It's like nobody there. Yeah.
But yeah, I think you'll you'll be fine.
But you should go back to you. So.
Yeah. So many, many years ago, back
when I first started my business and everything as web design and
all that, I was trying to cut costs with everything like
obviously this is your typical startup kind of mentality of
like everything is money yeah 50 bucks here, 20 bucks there.
So on top of basically. So this is the, the typical
story I have told people many times that I, I would actually
try to put all my meetings in one day.
So at a coffee shop obviously, and back then will be Pacific
Coffee at Starbucks. And my game was I would get one
juice, keep it there on my table for the whole day and they can't
kick me out of the place. And I just spent 23 bucks on the
juice and that's my whole day. Right.
And with the Wi-Fi as well? Yeah, yeah, all that stuff and
yeah. So everything I would do like
that and then and have my meetings and stuff.
Right. OK.
So then with the haircut, I was like, oh, if I go somewhere else
with like a few $100, that's still money.
And like if I do it once a month, that's 200 three, $100
gone for a month. Yeah.
And I was like, no, I want to save that kind of money as well.
I would literally try to save every single thing.
Dude. This was back in the day when I
was eating foot longs subways. Yeah, those were those days when
I was like. Yeah, that's not even bread,
dude. Dude, it's $19.00.
I think we might have mentioned it like years ago, like an Irish
court. Yeah, decided that stop bread.
Yeah, it's too much sugar. Oh, so it's like it's too much
sugar that it's actually not legally not.
You're not supposed to call it bread.
There you go. That's.
What's Yeah, there you go. I mean, so that's it was one of
those days where I'm like, yeah, I don't think quality is the
highest priority here. So then I remember I'll tell my
mom's like, hey, what if I get like a hair trimmer?
Those those ones with the little numbers on it and you can like
those ones. Yeah.
I was like, you know, could you just just shave the whole thing
off? Yeah, You know, I'm just like I
sure, whatever. Did you like but at the time you
just you were shaving your whole head.
Pretty much, but also like a little bit you could adjust the
the length for like the top kind.
Of thing, how many millimeters? Yeah.
Yeah, so, but it was nothing to the point I want this, you know,
the, the the fade and all that shit.
Obviously I'm like, whatever, just even yeah.
Yeah, that that is easier, but you still need to like use
scissors first. For the edges, right, Yeah.
So basically what would happen is that we would do the size as
one length and the top is another length and then that
little transition thing. Yeah, I would uses myself to
kind of like semi transition it. And then the back.
How do you catch the back? The the the lower part, you mean
the lower part? It was just basically just that
line, you know, like how they use that line to trim it off.
She does that. Yeah, she would do that.
I kind of do. Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
So that became a thing in the beginning.
I was like, whatever. It became like a thing every few
months. Easy.
You get that done to the point. Yeah.
I don't know. It's probably been 10 years,
man. Oh, my God.
I'm not kidding. Beard, obviously, do yourself.
Beard I do myself. Yeah, I trim it myself.
I've been to and I remember OK. I remember one time after comedy
started and I did go to what is is this one Tony and Guy?
Is that one of the hair salons, Tony and Guy?
I think it's called one of these.
Pants on the high on the island like side.
Yeah, on Windham St. and stuff. Yeah, yes, yes, and.
Those are the ones I'm like I would.
Never see, yeah. So I was, I was like, let me go.
I mean, they should know their stuff, right?
There's a lot of foreigners there.
I'm like, let me go there, right.
And and this lady was very nice over there.
She was cutting my hair and I was like, she finished cutting.
I was like, this doesn't feel like a $500 haircut.
This feels like just another haircut.
And now I can give the benefit of that.
I remember one time I went and because you can do different
levels, the normal Barber and you got the director.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. That is so funny.
And I remember the director of the.
The style director and stuff, right?
I'm like, I mean, maybe, maybe they can see something that I'm
not seeing. And everything I went there, it
was this white lady. She was like, OK, we're going to
book the head to that, cut it off.
And I was she was like, what do you want?
I was like, hey, you know what? You tell me what is good.
Yeah, you're director. Yeah, you're director post.
Yeah, You know, I was like, if I'm going to tell you, why do I
need you to direct the round, right.
And she's OK, Sure, whatever. Look at this.
And she just trimmed it. I was like, I don't see how this
is like a $800. He's the.
Director. Yeah, it's the same as like the
the surgeon versus like the like head surgeon, whatever head
surgeon or whatever. Yeah, the surgeon will do the
same exact thing. Yeah, but the heart surgeon as
you're paying for his time, basically, Yeah.
Yeah. The heart surgeon came and
bothered, then he's like, all right, here's a cut.
A better thing for you, but sure.
Yeah. Exactly.
Yes, exactly. And I remember I went there a
few times to the point I was like, I don't see how this is
that good that I need to go here.
Yeah. And I just went back to mom.
Like, I think I'm happy with what you have, you know?
So dorm. So wait, do you have a do you
have a Barber chair? So no, just these, these, these
wooden chairs, regular chairs. Yeah, we have and.
You have a little a little Towelie thing.
So actually, no, I don't wear T-shirt, I just wear my shorts
and then like from I get up from my seat and go straight into the
bathroom to go shower. So you're like, usually
shirtless. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
OK. Of course, Winter, winter, you
can't do that right? But some.
Wait, so nothing. Yeah.
So nothing, nothing like you're not wearing.
No, no. No.
So basically, so in the beginning, this is our design
and so basically we'd have a little plastic bag to cash.
So I will have the plastic bag here.
So when she's cutting it, because the hair gets stuck in
the razor, yes, you know, and then she opens it up and throws
the hair down, right. So that was the thing where it
was, it was it became such a common.
Thing what is happening with the floor?
Obviously it's sweeping later, so OK, you vacuum like proper.
No, maybe. Yeah.
But there is a lot of like little.
Hair, yeah yeah, so that's overtime obviously vacuum
happens every other day so like yeah, they'll be end up later on
as well so OK so this was the thing though, is that in the
beginning it would be daytime so you get the sunlight yes and
then mirror in front I have like a full standing mirror that I
can move around that was from before and I have it so in the
storeroom and I. So basically that would be there
leaning at the table and getting haircut yeah.
However, what's bizarre is that that 30 minutes, I would say,
would be a really cool time for me and I want to just like,
talk. Yeah, yeah, of course, because
you're not on your phone. I'm not my phone.
Yeah, we're doing things. Yeah, we're talking everything.
That is, that is adorable. And I'll tell you this like even
though now, yeah, you're actually correct that buddy,
you, you can afford to, you know, get.
Of course. Yes.
And part of me I'm like, no these.
Are it's just like that the bonding like yeah, yeah.
You know it has MO, however I am still it's an image I want to
give. You should.
Go to image hairs. Everyone should go to image
hairs alone. This is basically and and yeah
unsponsored. Very deserved plug for image
hairs alone. Yeah, Sam and the guy.
No, I mean, I, you know what? I might actually go try it out,
let's say tomorrow or something, just for the kicks of it.
And hopefully next episode, next, next podcast.
Yeah, we have a Yeah, we have a full review.
Vivek went to Image hairs alone. Yeah, yeah, cuz I think like
what is this? What happened?
Yeah, yeah. And like, do a little posing
like you, like you like, Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding.
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. There are a lot of services I
would say that are like, yeah, very.
The difference in price between between a Hong Kong island and
Kowloon is just like. No, but also like.
Obviously there are obvious things like rent and stuff like
that that go into the consideration, but it's also
given how close, especially if you are in central like here or
Chang Juan or whatever, given the proximity that you can just
go there and like buy like even the the shops that sell like the
supplements, like the, you know, the.
Pharmacies and stuff, yeah. Yeah.
And you just go there and it's like, oh shit, I just bought
like, you know, kitchen towels for like literally 40% cheaper.
Yeah, That doesn't make sense. Yeah.
Yeah, it's weird because like if you go to the convenience
stores, sure, especially the proper pharmacies and
everything, yeah, you're like, OK, I'll pay for this good
Watson's, whatever. But if you know, like the small
legit, let's say in yeah, these guys are way cheaper, Yeah.
And you know, in the middle of the markets, you have 1/2 of
these. Yeah.
Yeah, just bought like a tripod from Shamshui PO.
Yeah, tripod. You don't need that in a
freaking. Tripod, you're not making a
movie. No, no, you're just like, even
if you are like the tripod brand, like, you know what I
mean? We bought 1, you know, haggled a
little bit, managed to haggle. It was like, you know, 170
whatever, which is already a really good price.
Yeah. Haggled down to 160.
Yeah. And then turns out it has like a
remote remote. I'm like, that can't be like, it
must be like bullshit, like cheap broken.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, the remote works.
It's like Bluetooth remote. So when you have your phone on
it, yeah. And then you can actually like,
you know, price record when you're holding, take a photo,
start a video even from your phone.
I'm like, how is that even for 160 dollars?
Yeah, that doesn't even make sense.
It doesn't make sense. And for the same, like if you
tried to buy that and then you walk on like, you know, small
shop in Central or whatever, it's probably going to be double
the price. Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
Yeah, yeah. And you might be some of the
same quality, just like, yeah, fancy packaging over, yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Fancy packaging?
Yeah, you put it in Central Hong.
Yeah, no, it's true. You're absolutely right.
I think those are the inside the things that I that overtime you
like. You know what?
There's no bullshitting. I'm better than this.
There's nothing but better than this.
No, just like you're basically, and I'm obviously guilty of
this, like having like walking everywhere and like eating in
the places around my house. But you're really are paying for
your laziness. Like you're just, you're just so
lazy that you don't want to, like, take the MTR for two
stops. Yeah.
And you would rather get completely ripped off on, you
know, a burger or whatever. Yeah.
Instead of just going to. Family people will argue about
the time cost and all that stuff.
I get it a little yes, there's like that.
I get it. I fully understand.
But I think that certain things, as you said, like if you're
buying the same product, let's say you're trying to save 10
bucks, we took the 5:00 and yeah, it's not worth it.
Yes. You can also toot the the
octopus card like. $2.00 yeah, yeah, you can do that as well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I get.
It I always do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think the thing so my way actually is that I have to have
that shopping list of like this is a bunch of stuff that will be
bought in that area. Yes, when I go there that is.
So you have to like kind of, yeah, make make the trip worth
it, yeah. I won't just go there, just.
For so while you have one for tomorrow, when you go to Image
hair salon that for. Sure.
All my calendar stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, Here's one thing you should not have Is Dunkolu for
$50? Yeah, actually, Yeah.
If you see that Lady, I would encourage you to physically
attack her. Yeah, you should actually make
people low. Yes.
Yeah, you should. You should.
What's the Undertaker? Not Undertaker.
What's the Goldberg? What's the Goldberg finish,
exactly? You know, you fucking come for
me. But I think everyone should go
and yell at that. At least yell at that Lady.
Yeah. Encourage you to do something.
Like illegal you should, but everyone else just yell yeah you
should actually do the Goldberg finish on.
Yeah, yeah, it's been a global finish, dude.
WWE Raw dude happening on Netflix.
Oh, really? It is coming.
Oh my God. Live on live.
On Netflix? OK, I guess we're no longer
going to watch. I think, I think for the first
time in my life, I'm going to get to watch WWE Raw live.
Amazing. And I can tell you now I will
not enjoy it. Yeah, because one day later I
can watch the top ten on YouTube and see the best highlights.
Yes, rather than and sit there and watch the people slowly
stroll down to the ring, of course, do a little spiral
around it. I mean, that's.
That's part of the fun though. That's.
Part of fun, I guess, yeah, but that's two hours when I could
like come back into 8 minutes and see all the best parts.
That is true, yeah. But it is still cool that like
Netflix, I mean, I don't know if it's cool, but it's like, you
know, Netflix going to getting into sports.
It's basically Netflix is going to just going to be the TV.
Yeah, it's going to be then that's that's it, I mean.
When they go, when they go to the West.
OK, first of all, I know this is like for some of you like, Oh my
God, really? People are like, look, let me
remind everyone, after the Mike Tyson issue, yeah, it was more
about, like, the fact that the new generation and the older
generation could now sit and watch something that, you know,
like I said, the father's not bringing his son.
Yes, you go watch something. He watches it with his father.
Of course. Yeah, same with this.
Like, just imagine, you get home.
Everyone was like, don't believe you, bro.
You're like, whoa, yeah, yeah. Insane.
Yeah, don't worry. Yeah, the wife it would.
Be crazy. You're like, give me a beer,
Yeah. Give me a beer, girl.
And the wife is like, you see that Lady on the screen kicking
the ass? Yeah.
So I'm involved.
I get to enjoy this too, you know.
Yeah, exactly. Live stuff, you're like hell
yeah, man. They are they coming back?
They haven't done tours in Asia for a long time, right?
No, I guess since COVID, right? Kitech, man.
Oh yeah. Kitech.
Yeah, Kitech. You think we can actually sell
50,000? Thank you dude.
I use. I think we can do. 55,000
people. Well, here's your pitch.
You have one minute to Vince. I don't know if Vince is still
around. One minute, whoever's in charge.
All right, so we come back. Yeah, we're.
Going to do like the wfromo, you know?
All right, brother. All right, brother, let me tell
you, we've been in in Asia of our whole lives and we wash
yourself back in the other side of the planet.
We supported every part of it. Now I'm telling you, from
Hakamania all the way to the pile driver, we were there, man.
Brother. Let me tell you, brother.
Let. Me tell you brother, it's about
time you brought it the Smackdown to Hong Kong.
Actually, I should say the WWE role Smackdown the different
brand as well. But hey, we're waiting for you
and Kitech Stadium can do Coldplay now it's time to do
some hot play with your fighting, with your drama.
And the most important thing is yeah, LA Knights said.
It's going to happen. I've only.
That is, that is very impressive.
Yeah. Yeah, it was really good.
Nice, good work. I love those WWE promos before
when they have that person interviewing, Yeah.
And like the wrestler is just like, let me tell you.
He's just like it's usually the the the Hulk, not the Hulk.
Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan's always the brother
thing. Yeah, Yeah.
He's a macho man, right? Yeah.
Did we talk about this like Hulk Hogan was opening for Trump?
This sounds like a different universe.
He was like, he obviously wanted to RIP his shirt, but he's way
too old. It was just sad.
It was so sad just seeing that guy try to RIP it for, like, 50
seconds, just going just like, you see it and like you, you're
facing your own mortality. Yeah.
You're like, this is one of the strongest people.
Like I know he's in front of Madison Square Garden.
He's like, brother, it doesn't matter, brother.
Yeah, because with this guy over here, but.
Also, just like Hulk Hogan opening for Trump rally just
sounds like a Simpsons episode. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Really, this is the day. Yeah, this is the day, yeah.
Yeah, man, I'm telling you, it is a wild world that we're
living in. Oh yeah?
Where now we get to watch WWE at home?
Yes, without those bootleg tapes that you have to sneak in from
friends. Yeah, you get to watch that.
Without all the crazy ads as well.
All the stupid ads, yeah. Well, Netflix will will find a
way to monetize this somehow aside from the subscriptions.
First of all, this is now going to lock in so many subscriptions
just for that show, of course. Yeah, yeah, millions of people
are going to be like, yeah, we got to watch this now, of
course, yeah. Anyway, So Speaking of
subscriptions, hey, patreon.com/hell, yeah, Pod is
what you can do if you want to subscribe to this.
Now, of course, all this equipment is thanks to people
who are Patreon subscribers. Yeah.
So if you Join Now as a new Patreon subscriber, the good
thing is that it might be other equipment, Yeah.
Other new stuff that could happen, Yeah.
You know. We're also going to have guests.
You know, you can imagine a guest here that will eventually
happen on on Patreon. Yeah, literally everything that
they're like behind jokes aside, behind.
Like there's three cameras here, like nice lights and everything,
mics and mixer and all of that. I mean, like a legit like and
look, this is The thing is that people who know us would know
that we're not just gonna like, I just got a quick light over
here. We were like, no, let's save up
to get the proper. Stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. We do work with certain quality
and we don't compromise on it. And we actually, when we're
setting this up for the first time, it took us basically an
hour. Yeah.
To just like, test everything, you know, the align, all the
cameras. Yeah.
And then all of that. And it will keep getting better
too. Like this is obviously like
almost like a test episode. Yeah.
And it will keep getting a lot better.
So eventually we'll see the studio coming to shape.
And yeah, you guys have been on this journey with us for many
years. A lot of the Patreon people when
we're doing the promos for the 200th episode, I looked at some
people are have been members as early as 2020, which is really
cool. Also on the when we did the
200th episode, thanks for everyone who showed up to the
live episode. We ended up covering the bar tab
because the bar there's like a venue higher and but you can
also try to cover it with the drinks.
And we did actually, people bought enough drinks that the
ticket money now went into the Patreon bucket basically.
So thanks again for showing up to that.
It was so much fun for me at least that I actually would love
to do it more often. Yeah, the the.
Live recording. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's pretty. Cool at least once every like
six months or something yeah, we shouldn't wait for another 100
episodes. I think once every six months
would be cool. If you guys want to see live,
specially now that you're seeing our beautiful faces, we can do
this live with a with guests, with games as well.
Shout out to our friend Kristen Tolani who gave us a copy of
Ride the Minibus and we did that on the Patreon episode.
So much fun. Actually, I do encourage because
we enjoyed this so much. If you have a fun card game that
you would you would suggest for us to play with the with the
audience live, we'll take that in consideration for next time.
That was really, really fun. But yeah, a lot of good stuff.
This is basically, let me look at the date quickly.
Yeah, it's it's going to be the not.
We'll have one more episode. This year, the end of the year.
But yeah, that's the 2024 is wrapping up.
I can't believe this is actually what's happening.
You are off to Melbourne again next year.
Yes, I'll be going to Melbourne to do Cantonese shows in
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth.
Shows on sale. Yet.
No, I think beginning January will be on sale.
Most of everything is already all done.
Nice. Yeah.
So that's all ready to go. It's just a matter of putting up
online and people buying tickets.
And yeah, I'm also going to Gold Coast as well.
The new place I never before. Yeah.
So listeners, we do have a bunch of listeners in Australia
especially, so we'll announce that when it comes out, yeah.
Do you have any other plans for for Labour in 2020?
Five. I mean like, so now that this is
all kind of set up and I'm sure people have heard me talk about
clearing my house and everything, finally organizing
it and hopefully. I would like to not trip on
things when I when. You arrive.
Yeah, that's great way importante man.
That's way importante. Yeah, no.
But like, definitely, hopefully I will finally get myself all in
track to do my daily writing and this and that.
So hopefully you get a lot of new material.
Yeah. Honestly, it's really just a
matter of getting my life back, man.
Yeah. Like the last two years have
been absolutely wild. But now I think I'm out of 2025
is the year to get things all back.
I agree. I've always said, you know, I'm
42 now. And when when I turn 45 is the
year, I want to be like, I only do the things I enjoy.
Yes. I'm not doing things because I
have to do it because I'm like, no, no, I'm responsible.
But I'm like, I want to do it because I'm thoroughly enjoy.
It that's really cool. Brush my teeth because I have to
but like I want to use toothpaste that I enjoy.
Yes, yes. So you just want to set up your
life in a way that is really comfortable for you.
Yeah. Because now like setting it up
that is not comfortable on purpose.
So you're not lacking. Yeah.
That is what, yeah. And also the journey to that
enjoyable thing is difficult, right?
However, yeah, that's what about you?
I for 2025, I think we actually just wrapped up the Irene 2 tour
with Backstage comedy and it was really good because this is a
low season basically for live comedy, as you know, late
December, a lot of foreigners or even locals, everyone's just
like kind of like doing Christmas parties and stuff.
So the fact that we're able to completely pack the house and do
another show, which is also sold out is really good.
And that means like we we can do the right things with the right
people. What I'm hoping to do with
Backstage comedy for next 2025 is to bring in more of the
caliber of Irene, which is not only really good comedians, but
also comedians who can sell tickets.
Because at the end of the day, this is a business and there is
a lot of really talented comedians out there.
Not many people who can sell tickets.
Some of them are really good, better than Irene even, but
they're not special enough to sell tickets.
And that's really hard. It's kind of hard even to
confront as another comedian, you know, as a fellow comedians,
Like, man, like, I wish there was more of an angle to you.
You're a solid writer. But like, I just can't, you
know, the audience is like, OK, it's just another good comedian.
And the market here is not mature enough in the most
respectful way. They don't know.
It's like, oh, yeah, this is just like, you're going to enjoy
the stand up regardless. It's like, no, they want a bit
of a hook. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. And Irene was the perfect match
for that because obviously she's queer.
She we don't have a lot of like touring female headliners who
come to Hong Kong in general and we just kind of managed to tap a
different market. Yeah.
And it just worked. So I would like to do more of
that for 2025. So I'll be around most of the
time not doing Melbourne, not really going to go on tour much
like maybe a couple of dates here and there for Asia, but
nothing like too crazy or not like even a long tour.
So I'll be mostly in Hong Kong for the year.
And another thing I would like to do for for, for especially
with the video here, before we end, we will do the the, the
Patreon also on the video. Yeah, which would be fun because
it will be on a different server, basically the Patreon
server itself. But before we go also, I'd like
to propose something that we can start doing now that we have
video, hopefully from now on, which is we can have people send
us stuff to review. It can be anything.
OK, I will. Obviously I'm not dumb enough to
reveal your address, but I have an idea which is that you can
send it to base hall and I'll just pick it up from there.
Oh, items actually. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Send us. Some e-mail?
Oh yeah. No, no, no.
No. Send us anything to review.
Yeah, Yeah. And I think it'll be really fun.
We'll just review it on camera. It can be as bad or good as it
can be. Literally anything.
You can order stuff from Taobao. Yeah, and just send it directly
to Backstage Comedy. If you go on the Google, the
maps, I actually Google listing backstage comedy, it does have
the base hall address. So you can just send it to
backstage comedy at base hall and just kind of keep it for us
and I'll pick it up from there. So send us anything you want us
to review. It can be like the worst
Bluetooth speaker ever. It can be, you know, overpriced
in Hulu. You, if it's food, you obviously
have to maybe message us on Instagram and let us know that
there is food coming. But I would really, really like
to start that from next, like from the next episodes.
Yeah, You can send us anything. Obviously, you know, nothing
fancy or whatever. It's up to you.
But the goofier and the more fun, Yeah, the better, you know,
the better. Yeah.
Just go in Taobao and try to get as creative as possible.
Or even if you see something on the street, if you didn't like,
all these guys are going to have fun reviewing it.
We'll just basically do an unboxing situation here in front
of the camera and review it. And I think that will be a lot
of fun. So hopefully for even people who
only listen to audio, we will be doing those reviewing unboxing
or reviewing clips and cut them up and put them on social media.
Yeah. So yeah, that's, that's my plan
for that's I hope that takes off for the next few episodes for
the for the video. That'll be a lot of fun.
Sounds good. Yeah, and thanks everyone.
You can look at this, you watch much hot ones, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So Shawn Evans at the end, he
always was like this camera, this camera and this camera.
Like he usually tells the guest, like, look at this camera, this
camera, this camera and tell people what's going on in your
life. That's like his closing spiel.
So now we have our own cameras to do this and have to copy the
same spiel. But like, you can look at your
camera or look at mine and say, yeah, thanks everyone, this was
a lot of fun. This will see the light when
this is fully edited and everything.
But until then, take care of yourselves and we'll see you at
the next one. Bye.