So I reiterate here, the bill is dead.
The story of this great city is about the years before this
night we are free. Hey everyone this is Ho Ho Hong
Kong with me Vivek Mababani and my Co host who is.
Back there. That's right, We are recording
in one of the other rooms in the space of recording.
And this is the room where soon enough, once we get our stuff
together, technically, once I get my stuff together, really
Mohammed's always been on ready to go.
It's just me going like, oh, I, I have to do that gig, I have to
earn that money too. And therefore the studio is
still on its way. But we've tried to work out with
the cameras but. This is officially our first
recording in the studio in the. Studio.
Yeah, in the studio space, Roomy, whatever we want to call
it, we'll give it like some sort of name, the whole studio.
Yes, the whole studio. Like when we have guests over,
we're like, hey, you got to, we got to go into the studio.
Like there's a studio and then the walk and we're like, yeah,
it's the studio. And we say it enough times,
Yeah. Where they no longer look at and
say, oh, this is just a room. We're like, no, no.
No, no, no. It's the studio.
Yeah, yeah, we're. Sitting, yeah, under like pretty
nice lights as well. Comfortable.
It doesn't get your eyes. Yeah, the room's cozy enough
where you feel like this is a studio.
Yeah, right. And also acoustically, thanks to
Hong Kong's small room nature, there's really not much room for
it to be acoustically bad. Exactly.
Yeah, the sound does. I mean you can also see 100% of
the room exactly given time. And hence, just like a studio,
yeah, point, the studio should be designed in a way where you
get to enjoy the whole studio. And that's why we're doing that.
So. And I really hope what will
happen is that people will soon enough, when they come over,
they will get excited to be like, I need to see that studio.
Yeah, you know. And then they're like, oh,
they're like, oh, this is where the magic happened.
This is where you had all these guests.
I'm like, that's right. That's as well.
Yeah. Yeah, this is.
I mean, business idea that you're not gonna like is we can
rent it out to other people to come recordings.
Yeah, come get recordings. You said the word business.
OK, all right. I knew how to get you.
Yeah, yeah. All right.
Hell, yeah. I would pimp out the studio.
I mean technically in in full we can.
This could be the whole Hunger Studio yes, the what's the
version is like as you know, like how people will record
songs at a studio because so and so people did their song, they
just. Recorded their Yeah, I know, I
know, yeah. So I feel like the fact that
we're already recording this year has already upped the
quality of the studio and the value of this space.
Like people want to come here and they'd be like, we want to
have a conversation in the same room that Mohammed Magdi and
nobody records their whole Uncle podcast.
And so we create Recreate the magic.
Especially when we have all these, like, guests who are
planned for next year. Yeah, they're really, really big
guests. Yeah.
Like, you know, when Trump is in town, we're going to have him
on. We're going to try to give a
Coldplay a call, yes, but they're coming out.
Be like, hey man, I know you're performing tonight.
I know. But what are you doing at 2:00
PM? Exactly.
And we'll tell them we're like, I'm sorry, but we can't fit all
of you. No, you think like.
Basically, they cannot fit. They cannot fit just that one
guy who jumps from the stage. Whatever.
Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
I. Actually don't know any of their
names, they usually. Don't know, I listen.
I know the song's enough to know like, oh, that's a Coldplay
song, Yeah, but not enough to be like, Oh my God, that's Coldplay
I. Only know.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah, yeah, that kind of stuff.
Yeah. So we'll see.
I mean, it'll be, it'll be bizarre because like I'm sure
when they come to Hong Kong, I believe it's March or something.
Yeah, it's March. It's like I think they added
another show that also sold out, of course, obviously.
So yeah, I think it's like 4 shows now, Four or five, I don't
even know. Yeah, yeah, I would go if
someone would give me a free ticket, but other than that.
I I feel it's a matter of time because the AIA is sponsoring
it. Yeah, I'm very sure if you were
to buy some sort of entrance from them, true, they'll
probably give you a ticket. Yeah, Yeah.
So there's that as well. But other than that, like I
said, like I I, I'm open to the idea of them wanting to come
over here and get on the podcast to sell a few.
More I would think about it, I will have to like, you know,
listen to their music and see. If I mean, we'll have to promote
their their their show. OK, fine.
All right, all right, all right. Yeah, I think.
You can. You can.
Also it would be good to for them to promote the studio.
Yeah, that as well. And I mean, unless they're just
one of these obnoxious like we're too big for us, you know,
these small kids who are trying to do a little podcast.
I mean, balls in Europe, I. Think we're too big for them to
be honest. In a way.
In a way, in a way. I mean, like, let's say they're
selling it. You've been selling shows every
Saturday. Yes, exactly.
They only have to sell like what, 5 shows?
Five shows in like 5 years or whatever.
Like, yeah, yeah, you know, like, I mean, like you've been
in Hong Kong long for that. You do shows every weekend.
They're going to be here for a week and they do only 5 shows
Like yeah. Yeah, two days, Goofy.
Yes, I agree. You know, if you ask me, let's
give them a chance. Fine.
Yeah, yeah, I'll think about it. Yeah, we'll think about it.
So that's the idea. That's one of our invitations to
the next year. Yes, letting everybody know like
if copay. As long as they have to, like,
agree amongst themselves who's who's gonna come, we'll have two
people. I think two people do the
excellent. Yeah, exactly.
And also that applies to every other guest, like every other
recording. Yeah.
We cannot have more than two people.
Because. When we did the one in Melbourne
we did like 12 comedians or whatever.
The mic was all over the place. The mic was all over the place.
That was a fun episode. That was very fun.
It was literally like a village bicycle mic.
You know, it's like everyone shit 11.
I'm done with it. You take it, you enjoy some time
on. Yeah, so you have that one.
And also, I think what we can do is that, you know, like how when
you go to a law firm or a lawyer's office and you have to,
like to say, do something, an oath or something.
Oh, yeah. And they tell everyone in the
room to leave. I think that could be the new
rule of this studio where once that door is shut, nobody gets
to knock on the door. But hey, hey, don't say that.
Don't say that. Yeah.
No. What happens here stays in here
until the podcast is released. And then the whole world can.
Hear and then the whole world can hear, you know, and then
that will be yeah. And then that way they can, they
can be either worried or not with.
In other words, like let's say they're like, Oh my God, you
know, I said something wrong, you should edit it.
I'm like, look, this is this depends on your faith and how
many listeners we have. Yes.
So if you feel that we're such a huge podcast just like we in a
hard think so yes, then yeah, we'll edit it out.
But if you deep down kind of like, oh, you know, these kids
do a little podcast in a little room, whatever, then we won't
edit out. Now the question is the balls in
your court and then be like, oh, deep down in my heart, I think
you guys are really huge. I'm like, in that we said it
that way. We will respectfully edit that
stuff. Yes, I think yes, if you ask
respectfully, yeah. And give us the the respect that
we deserve. That you say we are huge enough
to have an impact on your career.
Yes. And also when you look at the
quality of the studio, yeah, you can be like, Oh yeah, these guys
must have impact. Damn straight man.
I mean. Society, yeah.
Exactly, You know, so all that added up together, I, I believe
what will happen is that people will be coming here.
We'll be having those, you know, like when you have you seen like
this on, let's say NBC and all those news networks when they
have like a certain person, Rod Rosie talks to serious stuff.
Yes. It should be that level where
like he talks to Obama and talks to Trump, all that stuff.
I'm like, that's what we're talking about here.
That's the idea. And again, Joe Rogan does it on
his podcast. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, he also started in like a basement, yeah.
Or like, you know, his laundry room or whatever.
Exactly, I am actually looking at.
Laundry. Exactly.
It won't be on camera, but yeah, there's laundry hanging.
They always be behind the camera, Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, that's how every every little like now huge
project, yeah, starts. It's usually in laundry room.
So we're on the right. Track.
I mean, Apple started in the garage, so yeah, there you go.
That's why we're standing here. You think I don't want to do it
outside of the living? Room, that's true.
Exactly. That's the whole This is where
the match. That's an inspiration.
So that exactly, yeah, that's the inspiration of the whole
thing. Yeah, I agree.
OK, that's very exciting, Coldplay being here.
What Like, what would you think that we like?
What would be your wish list for the like if you are for Santa's
asking you to write down your list for things like or events
that you want to see in Hong Kong?
You mean like live shows? Live shows particularly, yeah,
OK, it doesn't have to be music. You can also include stand up
comedians and all of that. OK.
How about, how about we go category by category?
Yes. OK, let's start with the music.
OK, let's do 33 music ones. OK.
Does this have to be financially successful or just my wish list?
I think a bit of both, Like, yeah, if you have something like
super obscure, then maybe that's like too selfish and Hong Kong
would not listen to you. OK, so just because we have to
also be financially maybe possible, yeah, you can't go for
the really obscure heavy metal bands where you're like, yeah,
there's no way people hung along that.
But if you ask me, if a band, let's say Slipknot Lamb, have
got those bigger ones where I'm like, OK, they could sell
tickets. Yeah, they can sell tickets.
Not the Kitek Stadium, I feel. I don't think, maybe not in Hong
Kong. Not in Hong Japan.
For sure, but. Not in Hong.
Kong but it would be cool like again hopefully I don't know AI
to Coldplay. Maybe Manulife will do Slipknot.
Yeah, that'll be so crazy. Yeah, that would be cool.
But has Hong Kong had like, since I come here?
I don't think I even saw any. Obviously there's like COVID
years, but I don't think I saw any interest in like metal
bands. So way back, corn came to Hong
Kong. Oh fine, corn came.
I went to watch it. That was way younger back then.
Because this is like easily almost 20 years ago.
Where was it? Convention Center.
Yeah, OK. I remember specifically 'cause I
went there, it was one of my first big name metal concerts.
Yeah, I go there and you know, King La Chi, one of the Hong
Kong local big brands, they were playing and I will never forget
this. Cause like, unfortunately the
audience were there for Korn and it came like she's playing.
And that day, I don't know why they chose like a bit more like
Rocky music rather than like metal, you know, like guys, this
is a Korn concert. Why are you playing that?
Ding, Ding, Ding Ding. And I was like a.
Like a Nickelback. Don't do that, you know?
But again, all, all props to reside.
He listened to podcast as well. Yeah.
And like he was there rocking out with the Hong Kong flag and
I'll remember. I'm like, that's awesome.
Yeah. However, this is what I remember
the best is that they finished their set.
I'm like, yeah, I can't let you eat.
Well, all that stuff. And then behind the drum kit of
the King Lachi drummer Kevin also is the corn drum kit that
was covered the whole time. Wow.
Nobody realized that? I didn't really notice it.
Sure. And then they took off the
cover. Yeah.
And I was like, oh, shit, that's a drum kit.
Yeah. You know, you're like, oh.
Yeah, it's like. A video game.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know.
Like, yeah, the final boss, yeah.
This is like, you thought you beat the boss.
Like, buddy, that was just the beginning of the boss, you know?
And then that big drum kiss, I'm like, oh shit.
Like a Nintendo, there is this game Contra.
Yeah. And yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're like, you're shooting at something and you're like, you
know, finish a little target. Yeah.
And it turns out it's just like a small part.
Of the game, it's like the ninja Turtle guy with the little the
bigger boss of the Shredder has a guy in the stomach yes yeah,
yeah, that's the bigger guy like.
Exactly. Yeah, so I remember that because
that game, it was so cool to see like a Hong Kong band opening
up. But unfortunately, some of the
audience were like, Oh, no, shut up.
Because they wanted like, corn. They want that kind of heavy
metal, like that kind of thing. I get it.
Right. So that was one of the bigger
concerts. They've had other big like Dream
Theater and everything Hong Kong, but not big enough for a
Convention Center. Has has Metallica not come here
because I saw them? Yeah, they they probably the
same tour as Shanghai. It was 2013 when I moved to
Shanghai, and I might have said this in the podcast before.
It was like two or three weeks right after I moved.
I'm like, I made the right call. Yeah.
Because I wasn't like, I didn't know they're gonna be in
Shanghai. And as soon as I moved, I'm
like, oh, fuck, Metallica's in town.
Yeah, yeah. So they probably did the same
tour. They probably did.
Yeah. OK.
However, I would you go or not? I was in Hong Kong.
I was out of town. I was so pissed off.
Yeah, but that's annoying. I flew to Singapore with my bad
guys to watch them. Oh, you did?
OK, so I've seen them as well. Yeah, and the best thing was
Singapore, and I highly recommend everybody, if you were
to watch concerts, go to places like Singapore and Hong Kong,
the especially metal haunters. The reason why Singapore, Hongo,
Taiwan, OK, I'll explain this to you.
People in Hong Kong are a little bit more civilized, hence why
they were not pushed around enough.
Physically, mentally, a lot we get pushed out, we will fuck you
up. Mentally, physically, hence why
we're in Singapore. Me and my bad guys, we were
like, OK dude, we don't. We're not from here.
Nobody knows us. We're gonna go and fucking push
our way through the front, and we did that.
Yeah, OK, we did that. We're in front.
All the way in the pit. All the way into the pit, man
wow, I don't care, dude. We're.
Dude, I was young enough to like, Oh yeah, I.
Don't care. Yeah.
I went to the front where at the grailings I'm like, Oh my God,
that's James had to go right in front of.
Me. Holy shit.
Dude, I was. Awesome, right?
I was so far away. I was at the Mercedes-Benz Arena
in Shanghai, so big, and I was actually upstairs.
No, physically I can't. Even can't even get that.
Yeah, no, this is all ground floor stuff.
And I was like, I don't care, I'm going to push these
Singaporean kids around, man. Secondly, I went to Taiwan for
Lamb of God, also much younger. Yes.
The like the idea that just about this is the time in my
life where I could be like, I'm going to go Taiwan just to watch
a concert. Yeah, yeah.
Now is like I don't have time to even travel, but we went there.
Me and my bank guys were like, we're going to there.
Fucking Go do. You can go to Taiwan to watch a
concert probably faster than you can get to Cycong on a weekend.
Yeah, if you are stuck in traffic.
Absolutely right. That's the bizarre thing of Hong
Kong. Yeah, You can actually go there
and be like, hey, where you at? You're like, I'm almost there.
You're like, I'm actually already in Taiwan watching
Metallica, right? Exactly if if Metallica is
performing on Taiwan Beach, yeah, you can actually.
You better fly. Yeah, fly to Taipei.
Exactly. Getting getting on the the
Cyclone Pier and then haggling for a speedboat.
Yeah, get to that thing, Yeah. Metallica's career, yeah.
The Metallica headlining Thailand one, Yeah.
Well, that well, we can we can fix that by having them on the
podcast because they will have more than exactly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe they can play baseball and
then. And then, yeah, we'll talk about
this. Yeah, career, career safe stage
comedy will promote. It will be fine.
But yeah, those definitely, I'm saying like going to these
places where you can push people around.
Yeah. You same same with dude.
I'll tell you the story. Lamb of God, me and the band
guys went to Taiwan. We went there.
We and that was also when my band called Eve of Sin was like,
that was the thing in my life. And we got Eve of Sin, right.
We took stickers everywhere. We're gonna we're gonna give it
to Lamb of God. You know, they're gonna see our
band. So we push our way to the front.
There's Randy Blythe on stage. I'm like losing my shit because
I'm like Chris Adler, one of the drummers.
I'm like, he's one of my idols. I'm like, this guy's awesome.
Yeah. And then and Chris Adler is also
the reason why I have like AI wanted to have a long goatee
anyway, so we're in the front. I thought that.
Search Thank you and actually. No, he was later.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, since the down was later.
But Chris Allen was one of the reasons I was like, first of
all, I love Lamb of God. Second of all, his long beard,
like the one where it just goes straight down and like, that is
a go ahead. And he's a drummer.
I can identify. Yeah.
OK. So we pushed the front, right.
And then what happened is like, we're rocking that.
I was losing my shit. Randy Black jumps in the crowd,
all that stuff like this is the best thing in my life.
And this is what happened. We had our stickers.
We started giving people how we think we were the shit.
Look at that. He was saying, come to Hong
Kong. Someone wrote a blog post.
They were like, there's a bunch of fucking guys from Hong Kong,
Yeah, who push people away. Oh, no, got to the front, pushed
away me. I then the blog Blogger was
like, I got to the front like an hour ago.
Yeah, to be there. And these fuckers all of a
sudden from the back to stop ramping.
You're identifying yourself with stickers.
Yeah, and literally a blog post. And there's a crumpled eosin
sticker in the photo saying these guys, whoever you are, I
know. And we were like.
Is that good or bad? It's probably bad.
Right. We're like, oh shit, we
shouldn't. Have that.
It's also like a like a rivalry thing, probably like Taiwan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You have that you're.
Like, yeah, this fucking Hong Kong people can't think, Yeah.
Yeah, Oh my God. And The funny thing is like at
the end, like, you know, because they normally stick their
setlists on the front monitor speakers.
I think my guitars, he ripped the set list like they left the
stage, right? Yeah, he ripped these.
Yeah. I gotta sell that.
Everything. And like, we kept the sellers
out of band room for all those years.
And after a while I'm like, what do we do with this?
Yeah, it's just a piece of paper.
Yeah, I mean like technically. Can you sell it on eBay?
I guess there's no proof. It's just an April people with
their sellers printed on something masking tape around.
Oh, yeah, yeah, You can't, you know.
Yeah, But it was. I remember that.
So yeah, definitely bands like that.
Yeah. Damn of God and stuff like that.
They came to Hong Kong like, wow.
That I want to see. Yeah, on.
Did you see? I saw in Shanghai, I saw
Children of Bottom. They kept Hong Kong.
Yeah, yeah, probably same tour as well.
They were really cool. And that was also like my me and
my buddy Kareem, same thing. Because of smaller venue, we
went all the way to the front. There was actually like it was
not super busy, which I was surprised.
About they did. They did like a small venue.
A small venue. Like how is this not like, Yeah.
Yeah, Super, super cool. One of the best shows.
Like, you know, they all go shirtless and they go
absolutely. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
One of the best live shows I've seen.
Like, just the energy of it. And these guys, like, you know,
it's also like as a performer, you kind of learn.
You're like, oh, you just give it all.
Yeah, like they, they're not like, oh, fuck.
It's a small crowd. Like, you know, sometimes even
comedians are going like, Oh yeah, you get the crowd shit.
Yeah. And we talked about this like
you're punishing the people who showed up.
Yeah, I'm still. Here support Yeah, exactly I'm.
You know, others didn't. That's not my problem.
Exactly. So you saw this guys and maybe
the venue, I don't remember very well, but might be like, you
know, 3-4 hundred people for a venue that takes like 800.
Yeah. You know, And he was just like,
just the energy of the room. And they're like, oh, it looks
like they're playing a stadium. They just don't care.
Yeah. And it was a very kind of
personal experience. And they're really, really cool.
Avenged Sevenfold, I saw in Wow, I actually have the guitar pick.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They threw, yeah, they threw the
guitar. Yeah, I got the Lamb guitar
pick. I was like, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, So that, yeah, people can make a bid if they want.
Sure. Haggard as well.
I saw in Haggard, it's like a European band.
It's like melodic, a bit like symphonic, like heavy metal.
Yeah, yeah, Very, very cool. Also have a drumstick.
Yeah. Yeah.
Those are the ones like that I can remember in from like
Shanghai. And fortunately now you just
like as a foreign band, it's like almost impossible to get
through. They did have James Blunt
recently. I think this is like the first
one that's like, oh, big international artist kind of
thing. But also that was like a month
ago, which is very, very surprising.
They had Kanye West do a random gig in How and Hawaii in Hainan.
Oh, was it like a big event? Yeah, yeah, it was quite big.
Apparently he has some sort of like someone can write in and
explain this to us. Apparently he has some sort of
like a China connection like he I'm.
Sure, the guy makes so much money like he must have someone
as a China connection. But I was very surprised.
I think he debranded as like the listening party, which is one of
his weird things. Yeah.
But yeah, I saw photos and videos and stuff as like, fuck
Kanye. Kanye West is performing one of
the biggest artists in the world in China.
Where it's notoriously difficult to get licenses.
Yeah, and somehow Kanye West is performing.
I'm sure China's so strange. Yeah, actually, it's one of
those things that it must have been the daughter of like one of
the head of authority. And they're like, oh, my
daughter wants it and you know this person.
Make that happen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm.
Sure. I think like he would obviously
do very well here. I mean, he would do anywhere.
Well, anywhere really. Yeah.
I'm not personally a fan at all. I don't like his politics and I
don't like how psychotic he is. Yeah.
And it's like, you know, it's
one of these things like, Oh yeah, he's artist is crazy.
I'm like, it's too crazy for my day.
Don't care for I don't like for me.
Like when I go to school then feel like Kendrick Lamar or
Drake. I don't even listen to either.
I'm big fan of Kendrick Lamar, so I I like his music.
I don't like Drake. I don't like, you know, like now
they have the beefing or whatever.
Yeah, which I don't care for much, but I think Kendrick is
like. Very cool, I've.
Listened to the guy for a long time.
Yeah. So it's cool.
And that song he wrote about Drake is now like, you know,
Drake is suing him for. He sued Spotify and those
companies because he thinks they're amplifying.
They're not like a song. Oh, I remember reading something
like, oh, back then Nast did not sue this.
Peter didn't sue that. Like I said, why would you?
Like it's been done all these years.
Exactly. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, but yeah, here I would say Metallica would be, would be.
They'll do well. Yeah, they would do well.
To Hong Kong, But yeah, they'll do well as well.
Yeah. Yeah.
Big enough. Yeah.
Yeah, I saw also Flash's snake pit came to Hong Kong.
Was fun. Yeah.
I even had dinner with him. Man.
What? OK, so I explained to you.
So classic, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. So that was one of the things I
remember that he came to Hong Kong and I knew the organizer
ISL like Scott basically Jamie's friends stuff.
Yes. And because I've done gigs with
Scott before and Scott was very cool.
He said hey, you want to come and then afterwards they had the
dinner thing and like hey, you want to hang out with them.
I'm like. Yeah, absolutely.
We went to that American Peking restaurant in Wanchai that
doesn't exist anymore. It's like it's a very typical
old school white person's Chinese food restaurant, right?
Right. It's one of those.
Yeah. We went there and like the
weirdest thing is that Slash was just, and that was one of my eye
openings where I'm like, he's just a guy.
Yeah, same. Same for Jim Gaffigan.
Yeah, he is like, very. And you're like, oh, you're just
hanging out with another person. Yeah, You know, I was like, this
guy's a yeah, Guns and Roses. Like, this guy's the biggest
thing ever and you're just one. Guy, I think that's something
you learn like seeing these guys, like once they're
comfortable. Yeah, they're just like, I
don't. And for Jim, at least he would
he he was really proactive as like asking people questions.
Yeah. So people don't ask him.
Yeah. Or start like, you know, saying
how amazing he is, Like, he's clearly uncomfortable with that.
Yeah. And he's just like, he's heard
it all. Yeah.
You know, he's like, people gonna be like, you know, what's
the point to tell him I really like your shows.
Like, yeah, I know. Yeah, one of a million people
told me exactly. All the time.
So it's like really, really curious and like asking like,
you know, like even asking the wait staff and stuff like about
like the origin of food and stuff like, but you can see
what's behind it is that he just doesn't.
Want people? Yeah.
Keep the people busy. Exactly true.
Kind of. Reflective.
Yeah. Yeah.
For him to ask those questions exactly.
Why didn't you tell me? I'm great.
I'm like, yeah, OK, OK, yeah, that's the small talk to me.
But that's cool, slash is like same as well.
Yeah, yeah. I was like, honestly, man.
And I think that's the one thing I really appreciate.
When you have these kind of stuff, they're like, yeah, after
the concert, they're normal guys.
Like this is so weird. Yeah, because for them it's just
work, right? Like, same for us.
Like, obviously much smaller scale, but like, sometimes even
if you do like your Ocean Park show and I was with you that
night, it's like, yeah, yeah. When it's all done, you're like,
all right, It's just you and me and and your mom and your
girlfriend. Yeah.
And we're just like standing there.
He's like, all right. I guess that just happened,
yeah. That just happened and.
That's that's true, actually. Yeah, you're right.
Because like, I mean, you've done big gigs and you finish the
gig and just go. And I said when I saw Bill Burr,
yeah, he finished his gig. He was just walking.
Standing, waiting for the game. Yeah, I was like, this is like,
no big deal. Yeah, OK.
Yeah. Where did he get taxed?
I'm like, did you do you just kill like A500 seat of man?
You completely destroyed an hour and you're trying to just like,
Oh yeah, I know, but with exactly.
And I want to I want to see like the guys or like like a Justin
Bieber kind of like when he is like really in his like, you
know, obviously he gets whisked away by like a private jet and
all of that stuff. But like, when is he like, oh,
OK, I just like the gig is done. I'm just like in the shower or
whatever. Just chilling.
I mean sure that, but then like his whole environment allows him
to sustain something of such a expensive premium level at all
times. Oh, true.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah.
He's at the level where, like, even the shower has to have,
like, all the different Jacuzzi heads.
Yes. Yeah.
He doesn't have a normal shower. Yeah.
Whereas like someone like Bill Burr, again, I'm not saying he's
not settled. His personality is not the type
to spend on splurge. Yes.
You know, like he says he lives below his means.
And I'm like, yeah, I totally get it.
Yeah. So in that sense, he's like,
yeah, so he has that leeway to enjoy the very general basic
person's life. Yes.
Yeah, That's right. Especially if you go to, like,
somewhere in, like, Hong Kong. If Bellbird walks around central
Hong Kong, he might not. He might get away if he's
wearing a hat or something. Yeah.
Nobody most people wouldn't like.
Yeah, but Justin Bieber would never get away with it.
Hence why he has to have that leg.
Exactly. Yeah, true.
Into the thing. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that, I think. And that was one thing.
I remember talking to someone about this.
I was like, would that be the life I want?
I'm like, not really. I mean no.
Yeah, I think. I think, yeah.
Because you also don't know who is real.
That's the problem. I think that's, to me, that's
the biggest problem. Yeah.
Like you don't know if like, you know a woman is talking to you
at a bar is like she does she like.
Me. Or she obviously she knows who I
am. That's like, that would really
fuck with your head I think. And I'm sure you'd worry like,
you know, anything you tell people in relationship you have,
you're like, Oh my God, I gotta be careful this because if
someone's hour, she's going to not if you sign an NDA, it's
like, Oh my God. Yeah, imagine like, yeah,
talking to somebody, like, you know, someone new sign this.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's just difficult.
Yeah, but I believe like, you must have some people who
basically would scout the whole space for you.
Again, you have to literally have someone coming to a bar and
be like, I vet everyone before you even hang out.
Yeah, God damn. That's like, that's not the life
I want. Yeah.
You know, So I think Yeah. And however, obviously that's
but they also got the power of the experienced life you'll
never get to see. Yes, of course, you know you'll
never get invited. P Diddy's party.
Damn it, we missed the boat. Yeah, right.
Yeah. So I think I'm just too old.
For it that as well that as well.
Or like, maybe we're not. He's not good enough for us, no.
Yeah, I feel like those parties, like, you know, from where we're
standing now, like, but like if you were invited to AP Diddy
party back then, yeah, you're 1000% going.
Oh yeah? No chance not.
Going, I told you, like the other episode, I said I would go
just for the curiosity. Yeah, exactly.
Don't even let me be a wait staff.
Yes, yeah, I just. Want to see what we're down?
I cannot imagine someone who's never, there's a billion.
Yeah. What type of party they would
throw. Yeah, I've been to like People's
Party show and as a performer, MC or whatever.
And I'm like, God damn, this, this is insane.
Yeah. And to just think that that's
what they regularly do when you're inviting celebrities, I'm
like, you better let take to another level.
A buddy of ours, a common friend, a comedian who was just
booked for a private keep. This very general he got booked
for a private gig and he coded a thing for for the private people
and it's like a small group in a house and on the peak.
So he just give a number that like we usually code and they're
like, OK, OK, fine. And then turns out the person
who bought like the the person who's in charge of the party,
like the the person in the middle just kind of revealed who
the client is. Like they had just bought the
house and that was like the celebration.
And our friend realized he under coded way too much And then his
brother sent him an article about that particular house was
just sold to that guy and he was like fuck it's so little.
And I actually told them maybe I can message them and be like,
hey, I'm his agent and he should have not talking to you like I.
You know what? In all food, I think that could
actually work. I told him and he doesn't want
to do it, but yeah, I told him I'm like literally I can be
like, no, no, no, he was sorry. He was.
Not like the other option you do is like literally contact them
and say I've cut word that this person replied you this.
Actually, that's not even a real account.
Oh. That's great.
And then like literally tell them and show them like I run
these shows and this is that and I'm.
Trying to, yeah, that's great. And like this other fake guy,
yes, takes these bookings and then tricks people, shows up
with someone else and say, Oh yeah, he's not available.
That's great. You know.
That's really smart we should do.
That and then tell them be like, yeah, but it's the bait and
switch thing. They agree into the last day,
like, oh, this comedian is falling sick.
They can't come, but this guy can come.
I have a feeling like that. You know what's actually how you
know you severely under coded is that he asked them for the
deposit. They paid the full amount right
away and I'm like, dude, you got fucked.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not good.
Yeah, yeah. When they're like, great, Yeah,
exactly. Done.
No signing contract, nothing. Nothing.
They're like, just they. Just want to lock it in.
Yeah, yeah. Oh my God, that is.
That is. Yeah, that's not good.
He listens to this, so he knows all about it.
But it's like, yeah, it's, it's quite.
I think it's funny. Yeah.
That's OK. Oh.
Man, but also for these guys, like I think the person who's
like new in town, like just moved from another country or
whatever. So it's obviously very good for
the connection of it and objectively for the amount of
work, because it's like a private set of like 15 to 20
minutes to a very small number of people.
Yeah. So it's not that.
Much work if you multiply per head.
You like that? Yeah, it's fair, but.
But it's still, you could have quoted so much more.
Yeah. Because of course, like once you
know that the upgrade right away, yeah, that's when you're
like, ah, OK. See, that's the one.
Like this is where when people contact me, I guess I'm like,
OK, so it's a small group of people and you want to hire a
comedian? Yeah, I'm trying.
To understand the logistics and the logic behind it.
So why would you feel that's a good idea?
Yes, unless you're like, yeah, I, whatever.
I want to try. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I have money to burn. Yeah, money to burn or like.
Because yeah, you're risking like, you're risking a pretty
bad time for everybody, right? Like.
And it's in your house. Yes.
And these are 12 people, 10 or 12 or 15, whatever people.
And, like, they could be looking at you.
Like, what the fuck is this shit?
Yeah. Yeah.
And you're, you know, like if you've got a magician, sure,
that's going to work. I already see the set.
But Tommy, you never know, right?
Yeah. So the fact that you.
Can imagine if you go up there, you know, you start like making
fun of people and people are sensitive, like, yeah.
You don't know that or whatever. Like you should just doesn't
click and it's like, yeah, yes, oh man, yeah, yeah.
The fact that someone do that for a small house party is great
on paper. Usually either you get the ones
where they're like, oh, I have a little gathering.
We thought it'd be great to have some comedies like, yeah, you
didn't think this through the D No.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you sometimes you go in
and we're both done stuff like this when you're like, oh, there
is no like, like, yeah, no, they, they thought they thought
work. Exactly.
It would just work. Yeah.
So knowing that you can just like talk to people at a regular
volume, Yeah. Like what are you doing?
Right. And like, the bizarre thing is
that you would be here already mingling with your guests.
Yes, you're already chatting. And also this stranger shows up
and says, everyone sit down. Yes, let me talk to you.
And it's it's. The same thing that I was saying
like a year ago, exactly ago on New Year's Eve, my gig.
Then if you can go back to listen to the the problem, there
was many problems with the gig, but one of the main problems for
me is that I am interrupting their fun.
Yeah. That's not a good setup for for
you to do anything. Yeah.
Whether you're an entertainer or a cook or whatever, if people,
if you can see that you are having more fun without you.
Yeah, not good. Yeah, it's really not good.
It doesn't make. Oh, hey, guys.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to stop you from that.
Yes, because I've got to do this now.
And they're like, who are you again?
Why? Why?
Yeah, exactly. Like what was the objective of
the party for have fun and? Yeah, reduce that.
I think this is also, if you listen to this and you're like
hiring somebody entertainer in general, you have to think of
also your own headspace when they go up.
Because in my case, the host also just didn't care anymore
because he was drunk, and he was having a party, enjoying his
millions of dollars, and his wife is drunk and wants to dance
and jump around. And it's like, yeah, when you
booked it on paper, you're sitting in your office with a
suit on. Yeah.
And you're like, Oh yeah, this is a great idea.
Some comedy be funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
But then and you, you probably part of you like I don't even
want this anymore. Yeah.
It's a random thought. Yeah, it's a random thought, but
you can't afford the random thought.
But you also made someone change their fucking New Year's Eve.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you give the depression
for a whole year. Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
That your money couldn't fix. Yeah, yeah.
Piece of shit. We're ready like the end of the
year. Like fuck you man.
Yeah, exactly. To go to process what they did
to me was not worth it. I would go back and do it again.
Oh my God, this is so much watching you lose your shit.
Everyone here, it is not common for Mohammed to lose his shit.
Yeah, exactly. His voice is going higher and
higher. Like literally rewind and
literally a whole second ago. Watch his voice speed up.
Yeah, his voice going higher up. And it starts getting really
personal talking about the gig, like they did this.
And then, you know, you traumatize somebody.
Oh, yeah. You know, it's like piece of
shit. I'm like, whoa.
Yes, I blame that guy for anything that happens to the
whole. Exactly for all 24.
With that said that please hire me again.
Yeah, because I need to receive. It would be great if they rebook
me for the game. Let me go this way.
Honestly, if after doing that shitty gig last year and let's
say someone calls me and like we only have a house party for like
the 10 people, yes years if countdown, yeah, a lot of part
of me be like let's fucking rock.
Yeah, of. Course, let's do this, man.
Yeah, you know, like as I'm like, OK, but a lesson learned,
man. Yeah, I'm going to tell them.
Read up. Yeah.
Show me a rundown. Yes.
I you know what? I will MC myself.
Yes. You get it?
Yes. And honestly, like, I'll tell
you this, I've done this where I'm like looking at running
like, Oh my God, this is not going to be good.
You know what, guys? Let me be your MC.
I won't charge you more, but just to save my ass from dying
in my segment, I'll do you a whole night, yes, You know, and
I'm sure, yeah, something like that.
You know, if you get it again, you'll be like fucking let's do
it. Fine, the 10 people, let's do it
couch. OK, I'm going to rock'n'roll,
but because honestly, think about this way.
If you were to do that, let's say the party, let's say the 10
people party, right? And you are the comedian, only
you don't know how you're going to be introduced.
You don't have the vibe of the whole night.
Yes. What I would do if it were me, I
would be like, what time is your party?
6:00? I'm performing at 8:00.
How about this? How about IMC from the
beginning? Yeah.
The good thing is that from the get go, they already seen you.
They know who you are. Yeah, by the time it's comedy,
they're like, oh, OK, this guy's pretty cool.
OK, let's see. We already made us laugh a
couple. Times, you know, familiar with
him. Yeah, you know, it's not just a
random. Now it's this guy's turn.
It's like, oh, here, let me try and entertain.
You. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, they're like, no, the dancer just now did a pretty
good job. What are you going to do for us
then? Yeah, So that.
But yeah, I, I think, I think definitely, especially comedians
like us where we're looking at comedy, and This is why I tell
people very often is that it's the, it's the Kobe Bryant theme
of the Kobe Bryant quote of while they're playing checkers,
I'm playing chess, right? You and myself look at comedy as
not just I'm doing a comedy show, but of.
Course as well, Yeah, right. Yeah.
Hence why we're not looking at the picture like, oh, is this
going to be funny? Is it going to be a fun game?
Like how can we make this work? Yes, right.
Yeah. And hence for us and for them as
well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So we go in there because. Otherwise it's just short
sighted. You're like, OK, I'm just going
to go tell a few jokes and go. Yeah, exactly.
It doesn't work that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I think that's the difference as well, but.
Yeah, Speaking of comedians, who For comedian's wish list?
We did. We did a bunch of.
Music stuff, yeah. Yeah, who would you like to see
personal? Trevor Noah has to come.
Yeah, well, we have actually, we can.
We can talk about this publicly now.
We have Wilson Vince's opening act is coming in March with
backstage comedy. So we can ask Wilson, Vince to
ask Trevor Noah. Trevor wants to open for him.
Yes, exactly. I mean, I think the lineup is
booked, to be honest, So I don't know if I can squeeze Trevor in,
but I can ask the opening people if they want to, if they want
to. Let me let me let me tell you a
little if. You want to get bumped?
Yeah, exactly. I think, Trevor.
Yeah, exactly. I mean like.
I mean, you'll be telling like. Andy was working on a new bait
so I don't think he would like that very much.
Yeah, but you see, the problem is this is that the like factor
is not the top priority here. Yes, Yeah.
I mean, but yeah, No, actually, I I know what you mean.
Yeah. You know, when if you tell me,
hey, man, I'm sorry. You're going to be kicked off
like, oh, man, I hate you, but you get to watch Trevor Noah for
free. That you know.
Fine, fine. I'll try the bit tomorrow.
Yeah, exactly. Fine at the open mic in front of
0 people. Yes, fine.
And we got, I have to work a little later for my bit.
Fine. Yeah.
So yeah. Wilson, Vince.
Yeah. Third weekend of March will be
in Hong Kong. But yeah, Trevor Noah, you're
right. Like, because he cancelled due
to the protest. Yeah.
It was a Live Nation show. Yeah, yeah.
Working for their company at the time.
So it would be cool to see him again.
I think. I think because also.
The weekend like through Will, who actually shouted to Wilson
Vince through him like so the he was opening pretty much all over
the world and in when they were in Abu Dhabi, Emirates, he come
to my brother and I, my brother and his wife who are based on
Dubai, yeah, to go see the show. And then when they went to
Melbourne, he come to Annie and her sister to go see the show.
So cool guy, super cool guy. Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, that also means we can have like front row seats.
Nice. To see or like to see his show.
I mean, I'll put it this way, man, if we didn't get front row
seats, yeah, I'd power myself through to the.
Oh yeah. And I would have stickers as
well. It's also evil and.
For all you know, maybe Trevor does have a set list.
Yeah, that's your favorite? You take it from there.
Yeah, Just take it like a lot of his hair.
Yeah, yeah. Throw my name card at him.
Yeah. Excuse me?
Yeah, exactly. If you want an MC for the.
Next. Yeah, exactly.
I'll do, I'll do. Yeah.
The New Year's party. So you want to see Trevor Noah?
I think he'll be a very good one in Hong Kong.
Yes. I think there is also like the
yeah versus like what would be good for Hong Kong versus what
we personally would like to see. Yeah, Yeah, I think you're right
for Hong Kong. He would be great.
I think Ali Wong would be. Fantastic Jimmy O Yang.
Jimmy O Yang, the what's his name?
The third Asian guy. Has a Minaj no.
No, no, no, Ronny Chang. Oh.
Yeah, Ronny Chang would do well, yeah.
Yeah, Ronny Chang, like like the top.
I think they're the top three Asian stand up comedians.
Ali Wong, Ronny Chang, and probably would be.
Suitable for a Hong Kong audience, Where, I'll put it
this way, like when a Hong Kong audience watches an Asian
comedian. Yeah, there's still a little bit
of comparison immediately where they don't want this Asian
community who's like clearly super white.
They don't want the banana. Yes, yes, they're OK with a semi
banana, but not like a full on banana, but like so like Asia,
right? Right, right.
Yeah. So I think like all three of
these guys are not like that. Yeah, they've.
Embraced their Asian. Yes, right.
Yeah, yeah. Exactly.
People like Oh yeah, yeah, I get you.
Went over I think. I want me less because her
topics are generally like quite general.
Yeah, but also it's still, it still has the Asian value of
like the woman's expectations. Yes, yes, that's true.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah.
It doesn't have the whole, like women should be equal to, you
know it, you know. Yeah, I think that would help.
Yeah, I would like to see Louis CK because like, because now
he's actually in a funny way, like after his whole thing
happened, he's now back to like, almost like not club level, but
he's now more like, like easily like he tours.
Around just a general. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
As opposed to like crazy arenas and stuff.
Yeah. So I would love to see him here.
Don't know if you know who would take a chance on him.
Yeah, I would do it if, you know, if I have the means and
resources, people can slide into his DMS and tell him those
people in Hong Kong, Yeah, would like to see you.
Yeah. I mean, Kevin Hart obviously
just because I like the guys story and everything where he
came from and all that, but I feel like his style will not be,
it would be. You'd have to be an expat to
really appreciate it. Yeah, I feel like that's
actually quite interesting thought because I think
generally the black comedians, like if you think of like Dave
Chappelle, even Dave Chappelle, people would come see him.
But like, you get Chappelle, yeah, because of Dave Chappelle.
But you can maybe answer that as a local.
Do you think people would know? No, that's what I think too.
Yeah, because like his style is very like thought provoking in a
way, but also like there's a certain American style to it
where like the local who did not grow up with that culture would
be like, I hear the words, but I don't get.
I don't know. Yeah.
I don't know what's. Yeah, yeah.
Where's like Aliwal and Jimmy, only they're telling.
So situation Dave Chappelle is talking about more like his
thought about a situation. Yeah.
And also Kevin Hart is talk about the light being black and
that kind of thing. Yeah.
And so as much as I call people, a lot can relate to him being
short. But in Hong Kong, we're not.
We're not compared to tall people.
Right. Yeah.
Whereas he's like short, short, short, yes.
Here we're just short in general.
Right. Yeah.
So I think. Definitely the relation.
Yeah, it would be like more expat kind of audience.
Like a Junkies audience, you know?
Yes, exactly like Junkies are like.
I don't get what this is going on.
Yeah, there was a lot like we're both there and I think there was
a lot of like clearly like girlfriend, local girlfriends
went with their British. Like we have.
Boyfriends and they have to go and they're just dragged it like
I was surrounded by so many of them.
It's quite funny actually. I'm like, oh, yeah, these people
have no idea what's happening. Yeah.
And I didn't even grow up with
it. And I missed, like, half of it.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Like, I didn't, like, I knew what Monty Python is.
I watched a bunch of it, but I I didn't grow up with it.
Yeah. Saving that connection for me as
a comedian wasn't that strong. Absolutely.
So imagine, like, you know, a Chinese gonna grow up in Hong
Kong. It's no fucking idea.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so, OK, so then what else?
Is there any other comic that you can think of that you would?
OK, let's put aside the successful, successful level of
that comedian. Yeah.
In Hong Kong, Yeah. If you, if it was a matter of
like, yeah, don't worry, we're going to find people to fill the
audience. From the younger New York guys,
I think Sam Morel is great. Yeah, I think he's very good.
And might as well, yeah. Very smart, you know, self
deprecating, great writing and you know he does like good crowd
work as well so I think he would do really.
Well, I think what I would like to see is Jeff Ross.
Jeff Ross would be great. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That that just brutal and like him coming to Hong Kong, let's
say, and being told on stage by the audience side.
Do not worry about being politically correct.
Yes, yes. He will finally.
I'm sure He has so many ideas in his account, of course, doing
that. I'm not doing that.
Yeah. And he was like, are you
serious? Like.
Yeah, like. No one is filming.
Don't worry about it. Yeah, we don't give a shit.
Here, Yeah, we all signed an agreement that we will.
No one is going to cancel you. Yeah, yeah.
Go nuts. Go nuts.
And. I bet you you'll get to a point
where we're like, Oh my God damn dude, Jesus, calm down.
Good, right? And yeah, it would just be funny
because. He roasted people in a prison,
Yeah. And it was fantastic.
Thick. Yeah, right.
It's like this guy that. He opened the show with Where My
Rapist at? Like, that's something that's
like, it's so wrong. You're like, yeah, but in this
situation, that actually is very correct.
Literally. Where am I right with that?
It's highly likely that they're probably in one group.
Exactly. They can stick together.
President of Feather. You know what you do, man?
You wait. Hey, I get you.
You look like 1. Only.
Yeah, exactly. Only Jeff Ross be able to get
away. With this right, I think that
would be really good just to see how that combination dynamic
would happen in Hong Kong, in Asia for that matter.
Yeah, I agree. Can you imagine Jeff Ross in
Singapore being told you can do whatever you want?
Oh yes. Oh my God, like trash the city
so hard. Yeah, the best thing is like,
he'll probably mix up all the races, of course, and then have
a joke. About help now, yeah, yeah.
He'll be, Yeah, he'll be old white guy, like Chinese, Asian,
whatever. Yeah, Yeah.
And like, I bet you anything after that And when someone
correctly. Oh, actually, no, no, that
person's Korean. Yeah.
And he'll probably make it seem like it's your fault for not
being Korean enough. I mean, you God damn.
Or did your parents fucking Japanese?
Like you don't agree. To me at least, Yeah.
Him and Dave Atal has this bumping mics on Netflix.
I highly recommend you go back and watch it.
I think seeing that show and Dave Atal on his own for people,
Dave Atal is like very much a comedians comedian.
So people who don't know him look up Dave Atal just like
absolute legend. Super fun.
I would love to see him. He's also getting.
Apparently he just doesn't tour outside of the.
I can imagine that age, yeah. Exactly.
But I would love to see him. I would pay any money to even
bring him here. Yeah, if someone has.
Yeah. Dave Patel again, slide into his
DMS. Yeah, those kids in in Hong Kong
would love to see you. Oh, man, there is.
Yeah, there is a lot of Zainab Johnson is great.
She came through a few times, like tall black woman.
We did it. We had her in Shanghai.
She's not as big now, like not big yet, but she, we had her in
Shanghai a few times and she's very, very funny.
She she basically is just very tall black woman who was kind of
a basketball player at some point and then had like an
accent or whatever and just became a comedian.
So her story is very interesting.
And now she's also like acting and and stuff like that.
And yeah, Jimmy O Yang would be great for for Hong Kong as well
for the Kaitak Stadium. I think the only like the only
one who can realistically feel it is Ali Wong in my opinion.
What do you think? I think Jimmy O Yang, Ali Wong,
Trevor Noah, those. But those are like what, 50-60
thousand? Yeah, man, that's the hard.
It's too. It's very hard for a comic.
I don't know, man. Yeah, you have to be.
For a comedy show. Like, I guess what's that guy,
the one who's really big on Instagram?
Jordan Lung. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 5060, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
No, Mike, the guy that does a lot of short reels and the crowd
work and all that stuff. The one that just recently got a
Netflix special. White, Asian would say.
No white guy. Recently got a Netflix special.
Does a lot of crowd work. You see, he he, he got huge on
Instagram. Oh, no.
Oh, Andrew Schultz. Oh, Andrew Schultz, Yeah.
That's one guy. There's another one, but Andrew
Schultz is one of the ideas. Yeah.
Like he is again, like just fun to watch.
Yes, smart as well. Very good.
But he can't sell 60,000 tickets for sure.
No, no, that is not the one. I'm like, it'll be cool to
watch. But I, I, I can't think of
anyone a 60,000 seat selling comedian in Hong Kong.
Yeah, in Hong Kong I don't. Know I think it's very hard
yeah, you're right. Going back to music so we have
let's say let's shortlist our wish list yeah.
And then hoping to give it to Santa.
Yeah. And for next year, let's do 3
each. OK, live bands in Hong Kong.
Successful as in like, doesn't matter, doesn't matter.
Right. Yeah, Yeah, it's Santa.
Like he can grant all of your wishes.
All. Right, OK, if you ask me
honestly, remember, I don't know if you remember.
Seeing we'll do 3 bands like 3 music acts and three comedians.
OK, yeah, music acts wise, I think I have to go with let's
say Lamb of God just because Big Impact Slipknot and just for the
kicks of it, let me think of like one random band that I'm
like, yeah, there's no way in hell it.
Doesn't have to be a band as well.
It can be just like a single artist.
Yeah, yeah. OK, the guy who did the Doom
game soundtrack, Mick Gordon. Everyone go check this guy.
Yeah, Gordon. Yeah, go find him on Spotify.
His stuff is phenomenally great. Nice.
I would love to see this him rock out.
There's no vocals, just pure music.
Yeah. But yeah, it's like one of those
like, Oh my God, this is great. Nice.
So those three, I would say, yeah, OK.
You. I would go with Metallica again,
yeah. Because, you know, at some point
they're gonna stop touring. Yeah.
And you know, I would like to see them more intimately like,
not like. From the fire.
Yeah, Kendrick Lamar would love to see him like.
That can easily happen. That can easily happen and it
could you know, And the last one is Hans Zimmer.
Oh, I love it's the same things like Hans Zimmer live.
Wow, that's. Probably like and I'm not.
Actually, if he is anywhere in Asia I would go like.
Like, yeah, yeah, it's it. And this is, we're not talking
about like an orchestra who does his song.
So it's not like him. Yes, yeah, conducting.
Yes, yeah, the Hans Zimmer conducting and I've seen videos
of. Hans Zimmer is ridiculously
town. Yeah, yeah.
It's like it's like one of these things, one of these artists you
watch, you're like, that's not you shouldn't be that good.
Yeah, no, it's. Like James Cameron?
Exactly. Yeah.
It's like everything you touch is go like the hell.
Yeah, what the hell? Yeah.
George Lucas, Like, dude, stop. I mean, Oh my God, yeah.
I would love to see Hans Zimmer, yeah.
I would actually bump Slipknot out for handsome.
Yeah, because Slipknot is highly probably in Japan.
Everything go easy but Oh my. God, like, I watched like a
video of him conducting the Pirates of the Caribbean.
So. Yeah.
And it's just like, it's like goosebumps magic.
It's just magic. Exactly.
You're in the room. You're like, oh, yeah, this is
pure magic. Yeah.
And as an artist, you look at it, you're like, this is the
deep appreciation. Yeah.
Of what like, you know, people like this can do.
Yeah. And you're like, OK, it's a
different set of skills. This guy cannot make anyone
laugh. Yeah.
You know, so. But it's like, oh, man, this is
like the, the command of of like that many people as well.
Yeah. Like doing stuff like this is
just like incredible. And also like the, the, the, the
many track, like the, the sheer number of amazing tracks.
Yeah. That like, you know, from
Interstellar to like, yeah. Pirates of the Caribbean.
Inception. Inception is like, that is like,
yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh, Speaking of, then, who it
is? Danny Elfman?
Who's that? He's the guy that did the
Mission Impossible. He did.
Oh yes he did. I think The Simpsons as well.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of these composers that are like,
super cool. There's also Ramen Jawadi, who
did the Game of Thrones music, also fantastic.
Absolutely. And I've seen it like there like
videos as well of like the, the live experience kind of thing.
Yeah. So he tours with the Game of
Thrones tracks. Oh my.
And the production value on that stuff as well, because they make
it a whole. That's what they call it
experience, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They make it a whole experience with like, you know, lights and
smoke and whatever, and it's just like, it doesn't even you
don't even have to be a fan of the show.
Oh my God. To see stuff like this.
I mean, yeah, so exactly. I, I think honestly, because
that will be so cool to just feel like you're in the movie
again. Yes.
Oh, dude, yeah, 'cause like Danny Edmond Simpsons, he did
like all the Tim Burton shows. Nightmare.
For Christmas, yes. Yes, and.
You just like watching the show again?
Yeah, exactly. Oh my God, dude.
Yeah, but I always be there. Yes, I would actually go back
and bump Metallica, sorry Metallica 4 system over that one
because I've never seen him like.
Yeah, I do, because Metallica, again, like I'm saying,
regional, you can definitely find them.
Yes, they go in Hong Kong, they go into Singapore.
Yeah, you're right, but. System of down, they might be
like we might do one or two spots.
We don't think we can sell everywhere.
Yeah, some of that system of down, they probably go to let's
say, Philippines. Yes, I was thinking more than
Hong Kong. Yeah, you're.
Rightly. To come to Hong Kong.
Yeah, That's a rare vacation. Oh yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, I would. I would do anything.
Oh, man. OK, comedians.
Comedian, I think, yes, I got to stick with that same Mr. Trevor
Noah, for sure. Trevor Noah because the
international thing, his identity and I, I read his book.
I love the stories. I identify with that the second
one. Yeah, it doesn't matter if he's
successful in Hong Kong or not. Then definitely Kevin Hart,
because I really want to see his energy on stage.
Yeah, and I think Dave Chappelle just because legendary.
I would say Jerry Seinfeld, but. That's so funny, like you just
went with three black artists. Yeah, right there, right the
well, half, half. Yeah.
Trevor knows how. Yeah.
I didn't put Jerry Seinfeld for one reason, because like, I've
seen his specials recently and like it.
He, you know, he's doing his comedy, sure, but the evolution
and reinvention is no longer there.
Yes, you're. Just a bunch of rants and
everything, which, again, I I get it, that's his signature
style. But I think I myself have grown
as a comedian where I'm like, I don't just want the rant.
That's interesting to think about.
I want the wool that is. Well, that is a smart twist.
You know, I need that more now. Yeah.
What about you? I would stick with Louis CK, I
think just, you know, as a fan and just like watching him live
as well. And because as you said, like
these guys, they are under such scrutiny in in North America
that I feel like if they come here hypothetically, they're
going to be a bit more loose. And you really get to see to
hear their ideas. So that's really cool.
Dave Chappelle for sure. Just yeah, again, because you
have to see it like you just kind of need to see what this
guy's like. And I would go with Ronny Chang.
Ronny Chang, I think is, is. Yeah, yeah.
Just like, because I think I can identify a little bit with his
style of being annoyed at everything.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I have a little bit of
that as well. And he obviously does it in such
like a clever way that you can't really dislike it.
He has a point because he has a point, but he's also so annoyed.
And which I, I personally like his style because I'm watching
it. I'm like, I can, I'm also there.
You know what I mean? I can identify so easily.
Yeah, I would love to see Belber as well, but that's cheating
because we said 4 already. Yeah, 3 already.
I'll be, I've seen live. Oh my God.
Yeah, you have seen him live as well.
I I will never forget that. Yeah, it was.
I'm so grateful he came to Hong Kong that time.
And yeah, I just. I'm telling you, man, like
there's some magic watching these guys in front of you and
do their thing and you're like, Oh my God, yeah.
This is what it's all about. Yeah.
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