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 with me Vivek and my Co host who is.
I'm Hamad Magdi. That's right, he's sipping his
coffee and I'm just sipping some water.
Back from Southeast Asia country, particularly Malaysia,
Yeah, I was there for a for a quick business trip last week
that went by too quickly and was full of events that will fill
you in in a bit, but you are getting over a bit of a.
Yeah, man, I was, I was actually going to like I thought of this
stupid thing that I was like, if you ask, if you ask, hey, so how
you doing, buddy? That kind of thing?
I was going to give like I'll tell you in a Riddle when I and
I. This is you had the.
Riddle. I literally had the Riddle.
Of course it was so stupid because like I, I was having a
shout at the other day and I was like, I think let's I, I OK, OK,
so basically this is a stupid idea I had.
OK, if you asked me how you doing buddy, I would have said
I'll answer you in a Riddle. And this is the Riddle.
When I look up all I see is it is overcast today with the
humidity of 80% and the temperature of 31°.
How am I feeling today? You're looking up at.
Siri no, think about it again. If when I look up all I see is
it is overcast with a temperature of 31° and humidity
of 85%. How am I feeling?
I have no idea. I'm under the weather.
Oh, no. Ouch.
OK. Cancel.
Let's let's read record. This is terrible.
No, I thought that was. I was like, OK, that was pretty
all right. Yeah.
I did the weather because I was like, OK, what?
What? What could define the weather
like I would like. Yeah.
You're right. I mean, stupid.
It's close with Siri, but if you ask what is the weather?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
I was going to say the weather is, but I don't know that it is
too obvious then yeah. So anyway, no, I feel.
You're not. You're above or Are you inside
the weather or? I'm, I'm, I'm aligned with the
weather. I'm melting in the heat.
You are, everyone is, everyone is, man.
Dude, I don't know about you, but like this year, maybe for
some reason it just feels much more brutal.
And I've, I, this, I remember in May when it was good weather and
I told myself like, we're going to pay.
We're going to definitely pay, man.
I can feel it. It's going to suck.
And I don't know what it is. Maybe it's old age or whatever.
Dude, this year it's hurting man.
Yeah, it is hurting, but also I feel like the longer like, like
I feel like if you dig up like a podcast like two years ago, you
might have, you might have, you might find the title that says
like, we have had the hottest weather March on record.
Yeah, Yeah. And at this point we're like, oh
shit, Are we just old people? Yeah, we're just getting old.
Like just getting. Yeah, I know.
But the sad, the sad reality is like, it's not going to get
better. No, it's not.
And I. Don't know.
But also, like, I, I feel like the green spaces are kind of
shrinking. Like I didn't see a lot of like,
greenery. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like the whatever parks are around, especially in the
central area, they're just there, but like there's no
effort. I mean, you're only getting the
green in the built, the new office buildings.
They're trying to be all like, you know, environmentally and
all that stuff and adding the green roofs and all that shit.
Yeah, but otherwise the green, the green roofs are usually for
smoking areas. So you have no idea.
Yeah, killing the trees. In a maybe, yeah, that as well.
You know, that's probably what it is that like, hey, that's a
good neutralization some of that man.
Yeah, like they probably in currency and you can smoke and
not ruin the environment. Like, oh, in that case I'm not
quitting, right. Then go back up and just
continue smoking. It's ridiculous.
Yeah, the the staff at the the Grand Hyatt actually smoke in
like by the park in front of the Grand Heights, a beautiful park.
Which? Admiralty slash one time your
Art Center. Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And just old smoke there.
It's just like a big pile of sad, right?
Yeah. I know dude.
Sadder was like, just like, you know, whatever, like I'm not
judging anybody. It's just like, you know, maybe
just sit there and enjoy the. Fresh air.
Yeah. I don't know, man.
I, I, I, I can understand if you're a smoker.
I'm sure there's a certain level of addiction you have to deal
with, but then at the same time, it's like, dude, come on, man.
Take a moment, man. Like, you know, yeah, that's a
choice you made. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think it's, it is difficult.
Like people like are very stressed here.
So yeah, you need something. I I feel like, you know, if you
choose smoking over alcohol, that's probably a better choice
anyway. It will kill you in a different
way. Yeah, exactly.
And you live a little longer, maybe?
I guess so. I don't know.
Yeah. I mean, here we are, the
doctors. This.
Yeah. Exactly you.
Know. I mean, let's what do?
You think, Doctor? Yeah.
Exactly. I mean Doctor Mohammed,
actually. Yeah, exactly.
The doctor says we are correct.
Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding. Yeah, we, yeah, maybe even
Doctor Jason Young would would count as a doctor.
Exactly. Yeah, we'll take it.
At this point, who cares, you know?
Yeah, no, but So what happened was on Thursday night, I started
feeling a bit like 6 PMI remember, I was like, you know,
I'm not feeling very good. Something's not right.
And I was like, you know what? I've just not, you know, done
any exercise. I should go in and do some
stretches and everything like that.
So initially I went to the gym. I said, you know, I'm doing some
really gentle yoga. I just stretches this to loosen
up the muscles because honestly, I've been so busy, I've had no
time to really properly exercise.
Right, OK. And you pay for pure.
I know you still don't go. It breaks my heart for pure.
I would live there dude. It breaks my heart.
My subscription, it annoys me. Number one, I have not been
enjoying the showers. I should be over there.
Number two, that yes, I have paid for subscription and
genuinely I've just been too. And you're paying for any
subscription is already like. A big deal.
Oh, dude, it's a big deal, you know?
But I mean, yeah, that's so I remember I was like, I'm just
gonna go there, stretch a little bit.
I did that and I was like, I feel a bit better, but still a
bit very tired and everything. I come home, I have dinner and
I'm like, this, something is not right.
I check my temperature, I'm like, oh shit, have fever,
right? So I decided to go lay in bed
and just just rest for a bit. Now I don't really have any.
Like my Netflix account is out, I I'm not.
You haven't renewed it I. Haven't renewed it all that
stuff at the same time I have no nothing to watch YouTube has too
many ads and so I have this thing called Plex.
Have you heard of it Nope. So Plex is basically like like a
Netflix but for your own media. OK, you're.
Watching your own stuff. No, no, no, no, no.
Basically the idea obviously is like, oh, you know, the family
videos and everything, but what it's turned into is basically
all the stuff you've BitTorrent, right?
All your it, it will help you organize it and to a point that
it will actually search the database and basically find and
organize and give you the the covers and all that stuff.
So I I technically have that account, like a lifetime account
with that, but all my data is in my hard drive, which I haven't
connected yet because I'm so goddamn busy.
So it has live TV. All right, so check this out.
It has nonstop 24 hours TNA wrestling streaming for free.
Wow. But I'm not talking about 2024
streams yes, I'm talking about 22,002 right Those matches yes,
when the TV was still four by three yes dude.
It is so cool really to watch TNA wrestling back in the 2008
and watch these guys do stuff. Feel like this is so wrong.
This is I'll give you an example.
At the entrance of the the wrestlers that walk in, they
would have two ladies in cages dancing.
Nice. Can you imagine in today's
world? Yeah, Yeah, to do that whole.
Thing would be like shut it down.
I know, right? It's modern day slavery.
Exactly that kind of stuff. Putting them literally in cages,
right? Imagine one of them not being
white. Yeah, it's.
Over. It's over, right Yeah, exactly
but they were two white ladies yeah, of course, obviously.
And the best thing is, you know, like how between fights and
stuff they are during fights, they'll have like little ads and
everything. OK, So when the the ads come
back, you know how they don't cut straight into the fight?
They'll have some, you know, they'll cut shots into the
audience stuff. Every time it's cut, shot to the
lady dancing. We'll be right back with the
next. And she's like dancing with the
butt and everything. And the cameras just focus on
her butt, scrolls up to to her breast, goes back down to her
butt. I'm like this would never.
Has no head. We don't care about it.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, You know, And it's just
the crazy because like every time the fighter walks in, they
will put the camera on the lady while she's dancing for like
then the fighter comes out and then they zoom in, goes pan to
the the fighter. I'm like, do it.
This is 2002. Yeah.
I mean I was like, how is this even allowed?
It's. So funny, there is a story from
Hulk Hogan, like during one of those commercial breaks because
they keep fighting, right? Yeah, Yeah, obviously there is.
The audience is there. Yeah.
But they're supposed to like
kind of slow down. Yeah, a little break for them.
Yeah, a little break for them, but he was like fighting some
young guy, and the young guy was still going at it, and he
whispered his ear. Slow down, brother.
They're not paying us for this. This is like a legendary life.
We're not. You don't need to do.
This. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, this is not a part. Yeah, nobody cares.
Yeah, the. Cameras are not on.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's the one time I
remember when I watched the UFC in Macau, and that's when I
realized, whoa, live TV is so different from the actual match
itself. UC Macau was clearly designed
for live TV, right? Because like between the live
segment, I mean, when there was ads, dude, it was just dead
really. They wouldn't have music and
stuff like that. It was just like, OK, we'll,
we're a commercial break. Everybody we'll take, we'll come
back. Anyway, that's not when not the
fight, the fight is not over. No, they're not all over, but
actually between fights and stuff, I.
See. I see.
Yeah. Just like everyone was just
hanging out. Yeah.
No music, nothing. Nothing holy shit, because like
they were live streaming to the the US and stuff, right, Sure,
sure. And so once that happened, you
could see like, like I remember they had so.
Even that like the the iconic, like UFC music there it's.
Not playing it was because then that's not the show yet, right?
So I remember they had a few undercards, right, no big deal
and whatever. And we said we're going to start
going live soon. Just everything just died like
huh, what's going? And this is when I've already
been doing like Legend Fighting Champion, when I've been doing
like live streaming, and I'm used to this, like you're doing
it for the live audience and then the live stream is a
supplement. UFC, it seems, reverse.
The live TV is the main thing and the audience is a supplement
to make it happen. Yeah, same with WWE.
What I realized overtime. Yeah, yeah.
It's pay-per-view, right? Exactly.
Yeah. So they basically make the money
from people watching on TV, Yes. Not the live audience.
The ones in the audience is almost like they're the ones who
are like kind of paying the bills to like keep this, you
know, paying for the venue. Exactly for the venue, exactly
that I don't like. That's a genius, first of all.
Yeah, and then the real money comes from the millions of also
you can have an infinite number of people watching.
There is now not too big this about fucking Joe Rogan podcast.
There is a big controversy now with Conor McGregor coming back.
He was supposed to fight Michael Chandler on UFC three or three
and he cancelled with some quote UN quote injury.
But he was also like seen like partying and stuff over the last
like. Yeah, he probably doesn't care.
And everyone's like, yeah, everyone's like he's not coming
back. But like, he sold so much, so
many tickets for pay-per-view, same thing.
And now they have to like, scramble to refund people and
like, put in like another like, decent card for the main event.
And that's no one is Conor McGregor.
Yeah, you can't just replace him with any other guy if you want
to see specifically him. Yeah, yeah, dude.
I mean, this is what I've learned over time is that
there's so much, I wouldn't say scamming, but there's so many
methods to make money off of people's laziness.
Let me explain. OK, so life insurance, the
insurance companies, from what I've been reading and
everything, they provide life insurance for people right now.
Generally you think about the amount of money you put, unless
you put $4000 a month, but if you pass away, you get like
let's say $1,000,000 back. OK, now you're assuming every
family when someone passes away will execute that life
insurance. Many families don't.
Yeah, number one, I forgot. To even know about it.
Exactly. You forgot.
I forgot to tell you. Yeah.
They never got around to it. Yeah.
Have family arguments. Yeah.
We don't know what to do with the money.
Well, then that case, fuck it, you know, nobody gets anything,
you know? And I'm like, you're fucking
right. Yeah.
This is so crazy. It's like the interest comes up
the. Same thing with the warranties.
Yeah. You know, you can actually have
like almost all of our devices are not guaranteed.
Yeah. Or have like a built in
warranty. Yeah.
A lot of times even if they do break within the warranty, just
kind of either forget or you think they're not going to help
you. Yeah.
So you don't do it. Yeah yeah, yeah.
And then they just get away with whatever.
However, however much they added to the bill.
Yeah. And the best part is, is the one
when they do the extended warranty, Yes, that's where they
get you. Yeah, extend for another three
years and then when you have the warranty time, yeah, hey, I need
my warranty like oh, do you have the actual original invoice of
this is? Yeah, like what?
Actually, funny enough, I will get to that particular thing in
in a bit, yeah. But yeah, there is a lot of I
wonder how we can, we should translate that to live events.
How can we scam people? So we can invite Conor McGregor
to a comedy fellow? Oh actually on that topic, might
have been mentioned years ago before there is the Shanghai
Heads again. I've been talking to them
recently over the podcast, but the people who have been in
Shanghai for a while, from like 20, I would say 2010 onwards,
there is a legendary incident of a Daft Punk concert in Shanghai.
Are you serious? Yep.
Someone, I think, well, it was, I want to say maybe a little bit
before I arrived or maybe right after, somewhere around early
2010, something like that. But there was, yeah, basically
an announcement that Daft Punk is coming to Hong Kong, to
Shanghai, a bunch of tickets sold, Someone made so much
money. And then someone started digging
like, hey, it's not on their website.
Yeah. This is a fake thing.
It's a fake thing. And someone, they completely got
away with it. Like, they just like they just
disappeared. And yeah.
And Daft Punk had to be like, sorry, we never confirmed.
Yeah, I think they might have had an Asia tour and someone
just jumped on it and everyone got so excited.
It's also before, like social media was so powerful, and also
before, like, China was blocking all Internet, like social media
back then. So it was harder so.
But the ads were everywhere. And yeah, someone got away with
it. Yeah.
And it was. I mean, it's a legendary story
because a lot of people still today, if you mentioned it, they
were like, Yep, I had a ticket. Yeah.
Well. It's it's like that, that the
fire festival, right? Yeah, same deal, right?
Yeah, except for the Fire festival.
That's actually one of the best documentaries.
Ever seen? Yeah, I, I remember seeing that.
I was like, OK, I mean, that's the one documentary.
In some ways I didn't feel bad. Yes, me too.
Also, when you have Ja Rule as your main guy, yeah, it's like
you already know something. Yeah, exactly.
So the guys they. Got Ja Rule to promote their
festival and he's not particularly known for his
integrity. Yeah, exactly.
So the guys, you know, like put whatever, yeah, yeah, see all
that stuff. So anyway, so coming back to the
wrestling thing. So I've been catching Blonde on
TNA 2002 wrestling, yeah, letting you know, like all these
the Stings and all those days. And it's really fascinating to
be like, how many wrestlers are actually in WWE but also went to
TNA, went to a, they were like, like the Hardy Boys, you know,
Jeff Hardy and all those guys. Like, I was like, Oh my God,
they they're here as well. You're still here.
Yeah, I know. And what I've learned is like,
you're right. They they, I mean, Hulk Hogan
was on TNA. Oh, was he?
He was. I mean, everyone needs to work,
right? And I think that's what I mean.
It's like, which comedy club do you belong to?
It's like, yeah, you're right. You don't really have a home
base. No.
Maybe they sign you for the six month contract.
You're with them. Yeah.
And after that you go with someone else.
Like. Huh.
Yeah, Very. It's very fascinating to me.
Watch themselves. Like yeah.
A lot of these guys like, you know, either they get older or
they just like, don't want to work as hard anymore, but
negotiate a deal, yeah, Yeah. Negotiate a deal.
Yeah. Because, you know, like the the
guys at the top level, the WWE guys, Yeah.
The like I told you before about the Undertaker interview.
And he was like, yeah, we're on the road 300 days a year.
Yeah, it sucks. And they're doing, like, private
matches before the main match for, like, you know, whatever
extra money. Yeah.
So they're just like, monkeys,
basically. It's a circus.
Oh, for sure, Yeah, it's a literal.
Circus with a cage. Yeah.
I mean, that's what I've learned over time is that there are two
layers of performers. There's one which is literally,
you're just a, put it this way, you have two types of guitars.
One is that the lounge guitars? Yeah, they just show up, do
their thing, the session guitars, whatever.
Right. Yeah.
Then you got the one that like, oh, you came to watch me.
Yes. And that's the difficult one.
You know where to be like people came to watch you specific.
You're just like, oh, if you're not available, we'll get this.
Guy yeah I mean WWE is like that everyone is replaceable no
matter how big you are yeah like you know think of the biggest
probably the Rock, You know the Undertaker all of these legends
like Ric Flair yeah all of these guys and Hulk Hogan and they're
all gone and the WWE is still going on yeah yeah because
you're always find new younger fans as.
Well, and younger fans who don't even know this, they all go.
There exactly, and now they know.
What's their name? The now.
Yeah, Yeah, now there's a. Isn't it so AJ Styles is a long
time already? Already, Yeah, yeah, there has
been a guy like a John Cena kind of character over the last like
10 years. Really.
God damn, I don't remember now, but I mean, so the classics
would be who's the one? The Viper.
God damn dude. Oh.
Man, the Viper. That's like Randy Orton.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's from our time.
We're showing our age right now. No, no, no, I'm talking about
current like. Oh my God, dude.
Yeah, there is a guy like I think he played, he's the one
who played Undertaker for his like the COVID match.
That was weird. Filmed as like a film.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So the Undertaker kind of like his last match when he like,
like the Undertaker. I don't even remember what was
the ending like, but he filmed it.
It was so weird. Dominic Mysterio?
Yes, that's the one. Yeah.
Real Mysterio. Brain Mysterio is the dad.
Yeah, Dominic Mysterio is the son.
Oh, really? Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't even know. Yeah, so he's the son and
basically, yeah. Yeah.
So OK, because I've been watching, you know, the WWE has
the top 10 highlights on YouTube.
That's what I watched. That is I should do.
Watch that. Dude, that is so good.
You like, that's good. 10 minutes of pure just brain dead
hilarious. Good stuff, you know.
So yeah, is he doing the same, finishing or over the ropes?
No. No, no, no, no.
Raiden series does that rope thing.
I don't think he does, but I mean not what he's done because
he and his dad don't get along. All right, Yeah.
So he would come sometimes. He would like, come and ruin his
dad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They had fights, obviously being the biggest main card of the dad
versus that kind of thing. And obviously Dominic doing the
619 on his dad, you know, that kind of a thing, you know.
And then so Ria Ripley, that's what it's Ria Ripley's the new
hottest face for female in WWE. On top of who's the other,
There's Roland. Seth Roland.
That's the one, I think the one. Yeah.
The Rockstar, Seth Rollins. LA Knight is huge as well.
Yeah. And then you got the Japanese
ones as well. I I keep forgetting their names,
but there's there's Bailey, Becky Lynch.
That's what it is. Seth Rollins's wife, Becky Lynch
is also very big as well. And I think that's the one thing
is that you've got so many characters with like, they're so
different in their own way. It's like a boy band, literally.
Who do you identify with? You know, it's so good.
And the best thing. I'm Bianca Belair, you know, the
one with the long ponytail. That's really good.
Yeah. So all this stuff is.
So you just watch that like highlights?
Yeah, and it's just so cool. Like Braun Strowman and all
these guys, they're like, Oh my God, this is so cool to watch.
Of course, like maybe like what? A couple of years ago, the Vince
McMahon got cancelled. So TKO bought WWE, right?
And now Vince McMahon cannot go into the WWE office building.
He just cannot go in. His legacy, that's the thing,
but also like his cancellation, like when I was reading the news
and it's like, you know, it's like he like he makes female
employees stuff and whatever. Dude, have you seen the guy?
Yeah. What did you think he's going to
do? Yeah.
Are you surprised? Bible reading circle.
Exactly. Have you not seen what he's
done? He's had like like he's got like
what the, the, the Bron panty fights and stuff like that.
I'm like, dude, that's his idea. That's his idea.
He's like also he made himself that he, he doesn't need to do
any of he's always the heel, he's always the heel and it's
like he was playing himself. Basically, yeah, he was just an
asshole and everyone has said that he's an absolute asshole,
but he exactly, he's a genius asshole in a way.
He's created all these characters.
But yeah, for sure. I mean, even his son Shane was
amazing. Yeah, like, playing the hero as
well. It's like, again, he's born into
money. He did not need to do any of
this. And he would just choose to go
into the ring and get the shit beat and get kicked out of him.
Exactly. And he was like, yeah, this is
fun. He's doing it purely for
entertainment. Yeah.
Like he doesn't need the money. I mean, Shane man did that one
iconic thing where he jumped off the top of the yes.
And he broke a bunch of rapes and stuff for sure.
That's actually what I was thinking.
Of yeah, because I wanted. To Instagram the other day,
yeah. Yeah, I was like.
Everyone remember this is like he did not need to do this.
He didn't need to do. That no, he's like, I'll do it
for the fun of the game. Yeah, and just to have this
legendary video for the rest of his life.
And I respect you for that. That's crazy.
Yeah. But I'm a goddamn if I.
Were in your suit, yeah. Yeah, I mean, but I'll say if I
were him, I wouldn't do it. I think, I think knowing the
kind of like insurance and like the hospitals and stuff that
you'll get, I'll probably do it be like, OK, I would probably
break my arm. He probably trained a little
bit, I'm sure. Yeah, he must have jumped and
jumped off of like the paddings. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
OK. I would probably break.
Psychologically, he's done it before, just like he's probably
never done it on the real floor table thing, you know?
So because if he's done it once, he's like, Oh my God, I'm not
doing that, you crazy. But he's done it enough to
psychologically trick himself to be like, no, I've done it
before. Yeah, but then you land on the
real thing and this is actual like of course the the the table
is like whatever, but the floor is real.
Yeah, exactly. It's so hard, you know?
I know. It's just so crazy, dude.
Like some of the stuff is like Mankind.
Yes, that guy's insane. Mick Foley.
You know he does stand up. I must surprise.
Yeah, he does stand up now. Every now and then I hear the
comics talking about him on the podcast.
They're like, yeah, I was on the comedy club on fucking Mick
Foley show now. And he just like does like
proper stand up. He just tells stories and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he would like headline clubs
in the middle of America and. Stuff and you, man.
That's very cool. I would love to.
I would. I would bring him here.
Oh yeah, for sure, man. Mick Foley.
Oh my God, Everyone should go watch him man.
Yeah. Just to see him, yeah.
Like, yeah, he was like, I think he was one of the biggest when
it comes to the stunts. Yeah, he would just do anything.
He was the one that was. A legendary fight with the
Undertaker. Yeah, the one where the cage at
the top and the cage broke. Just inside this is like I'm
like, oh this is actually real like this is.
You can't pick this. You can't pick this.
You know, like the thumb tax and everything.
I guess, you know, you can get certain sure technology, but
this is gravity. There's nothing to fake over
here. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was good match. Yeah, so if anyone doesn't watch
WWE and all that stuff, I highly recommend you go on YouTube,
check out the WWE videos. They don't need your view.
They get like millions of views. Yeah, within 10 hours, right.
It's ridiculous, man. They got like, well, they're
like one of the biggest channels on YouTube.
Yeah, I'm not surprised, obviously.
I mean, there is something to pure entertainment, like shut
off your brain entertainment. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Everyone. Like if you are judging us or
anybody who watches WWE, maybe, Of course, if you're like, if
you're dedicating your life to watching it, maybe do.
Something else? Yeah, exactly.
But. If you're, like shutting, if
you're, like, following it a little bit casually, yeah.
And you be like, oh, that we use for dummies.
Like you also watch action movies, you know, it's like the
same. Thing.
Yeah, exactly. They're all like, fake.
Yeah, you're watching fucking Transformers.
Yeah, exactly. Garbage.
Actual garbage. Yeah yeah, yeah, I think I think
that's The thing is that it's it's I mean same with comedy.
Like why laugh, right? Go read the book instead.
It's like, yeah, but I mean, life's not all about just
reading the book, correct Yeah, So again, go and.
And it's honestly, it's one of those typical grandfather,
grandson moments. Yes, the WWE used to be I.
Started watching it, it was actually with my grandpa.
There you go. I'm sure, I'm sure like I and I
remember before you would get that tape, the VHS tape of like
Summer Slam. You're like, Oh my God, you've
got Summer Slam, right? That was so cool, 'cause like
you would share with friends and we all I knew that was
bootlegged. Yeah, it was clear.
Yeah, right. We had we were big on
WrestleMania because once a year, WrestleMania.
That's it. That's yeah.
Royal Rumble, man, that was my royal.
Rumble money in the bank like when the.
Bank wasn't so big. It was newer, right?
It was, yeah. Royal Rumble, Summer Slam and
WrestleMania were the big key ones.
Yeah, yeah. Money in the Bank would be in
the WrestleMania. Event.
Yeah, there was one event on it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, they fight for like that, the briefcase, yeah.
Yeah, and somehow they have to look every now.
And how am I going to go up there?
Let me take a moment to climb. And I'm climbing halfway
through. I'm tired.
You're like a professional athlete.
Exactly. Somehow you can't climb a ladder
that is fixed like static. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, yeah. But.
Sometimes also like hang off the the.
Exactly. Yeah, They couldn't get the hook
done. Like shit.
I couldn't unhook it in time. What I'm going to do right?
You can see that he's waiting for the other guy, dude.
Yeah, it's so good. TNA had the same thing.
It was like an XX match where they have the letter X in the
middle and it's basically they use 4 ropes to connect it to
four beams. So money in the bank is like,
you got the ladder, right? This is you got the, and so you
can climb on the rope. So let's say think of it like
north-south, east, West. That's where the four beams are,
right? So you're on north climbing
towards the center where the X is.
I'm on South, I'm climbing. We're like, oh, I got, I got to
beat you to it. And then somehow we're going to
get to the X. We don't think, let me just grab
the X. I'm going to punch you first.
Of course, Of course. I need to get my anger out
before winning the match. Of course, of course.
And then you somehow punch, one punch and then you somehow pull
each other down like, no, we're all over again.
It's like, Oh my God. And somehow I always say this is
the running joke that I've always had as I, you know,
everyone has a finishing move, right?
Of course. And once you do the finishing
move, you can't get up from that.
No, unless it's like WrestleMania, then you have
that. Oh, how did you do it?
You know, yes, yes. I'm like, why don't we do the
finishing move in the beginning? Yeah, Just get it done right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got the build up.
Tombstone in five seconds. Yeah, boom, boom.
It's over. Exactly.
You know, But you have to have the build up.
OK, I think it's time. Let me signal to the audience
what I'm planning to do now. It's like Chris Benoit would
like the the the head thing. No, Yeah.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he would pass his thumb
over his. Neck.
Cutting that kind of thing, and then it takes like 30 seconds,
like slowly doing good and the other guys just waiting.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Somehow the timing is always correct.
It's so good, dude. It's so good.
I know. I mean, now that we know it's
kind of not real. The problems as a young kid, you
were like, I don't know, man. This seems pretty real to me.
Yeah. Yeah.
Notice. There's blood on the guy's face.
I mean, let's be honestly, half of the blood, some of them is
makeshift, yeah. And oh, that's another thing.
TNA 2008, every match was bloody, Yeah, to the point I was
like, dude, this is not good, man.
Yeah, he had a character called Suicide and his and he's like in
a full, like full body suit covers his face as well.
His face has a skull on it and stuff.
And his his move is he looks into the camera and uses his
fingers to gesture a gun to his head and shoots himself.
Right. Like dude, that would never
happen today. Wait.
So he shoots himself, as in like, I'm going to kill
everybody. No, he's suicide, so he kills
himself. Oh.
He kills himself. He's shooting himself in the
head. So when he that's his, that's
his, that's his, his pose. He doesn't kill himself.
Like he's that's the pose when he wins.
He looks in the camera and he's like, Bam shoots out and I'm
like, oh man. Yeah, that wouldn't fly today.
No way, man. On the other hand, the UFC
fights have a lot of real blood and that's, you know, like they
have. I think the break is maybe not
even a minute between rounds and they just fix them up quickly as
I go back in. There.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I that's the, that's the
extreme thing. So I think with USC, because it
is 100% real, therefore you can't control it, Yes.
You can't be like, hey, don't hit so hard.
It's like, no, we have to, right?
Yeah, with WWE or wrestling in. General, I can hear people like,
you know, people who refuse to tap and stuff and you just hear
a bone cracking. Oh, dude, yeah, he just broke
his arm. Oh, yeah.
Oh well. Like, that's like insane levels
of willpower. Yeah, where it's like, dude,
that's not a healthy man. But then again, it's like.
You get like the cauliflower ears.
You can't fix that with any money.
I must say the cauliflower is pretty cool.
I get. That I guess some like, girls
will be into it. It's like, Oh yeah.
He's like, I think cauliflower ears when you see someone that
yeah and like fucking turn around then, right, right.
Yeah, he. Does around.
Clearly doesn't care. Yeah, when you have cauliflower
ears. This person has been beaten
enough. Yes, with like, what the fuck
are you gonna do? To you have money and you can't
fix it because it's just damaged forever.
Now it's damaged forever. Yeah, but it's, I don't know,
like, I don't know the physical aspect of how much it ruins your
hearing and everything or like the pain or whatever you have to
do. Yeah.
But that in itself is like it's it's it's on par with a scar.
Yeah. That's like a fool across your
face. Yeah, yes.
Well, you're like that is not you can't buy.
That cauliflower ear also says that I'm never going to hold the
regular job ever again. You know, I'm not going to be a
flight attendant. I'm not going to be with the
bank teller. I'm not going to work in a
McDonald's even. Have you ever thought about
that? That would actually be a really
good thing for for airplanes to always have one flight
attendant. I agree with cauliflower ears,
you know what I mean? And the moment they identify
that one annoying passenger. Yeah, he's like, hey.
They're like you take charge of this guy.
Exactly. Matt is on it now.
From 2:00 AM till 6:00 AM, whoever presses the attendant
button, you deal with it and you walk away like, hey, man.
Yeah. Can I help you?
Yeah. Like, no.
I just want to say thank you for the service.
I'm good, man. Best flight of my life.
Best flight of my life, you know.
Oh man, that'd be crazy. I think, yeah, From the
entertainment point of view, it also doesn't really get like we
grow old and we still like look at it as like this is still
entertaining. Yeah, Yeah.
Like it doesn't really change the Ibe much.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'll put it this way.
The WWE, at least you can see now, is that they've put away
all those. Also, Roman Reigns is the one I
was thinking of. Earlier.
Reigns, he's the one who played the old Baker, yes, yeah, yeah,
yeah, he's the one who's like the new main guy, yeah, as.
Far as I know he's like the top guy basically.
He's still the top guy, right? He's still the top guy.
Yeah, yeah. That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, Roman Reigns with the with the UC brothers and all that
stuff. Yeah, but all the drama there,
all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but I think Roman Reigns
is connected to The Rock, right? Samoan and lots of.
Yeah, they all interconnected somehow, the cousins or
whatever, right? Yeah.
So there's a resting in there. There's also like they hire
comedians sometimes to write storylines for them.
I'm sure. Yeah, yeah.
So like, you know, the comedians would like write for like, TV
and stuff. They're like, yeah, hey, you
come, right? You do this, you do that.
That's a great gig. I would love to write for the
WWE. Oh my God, that would be so.
Because they're like, hey, you have all of these guys make a
story. Yeah.
Actors what's, Yeah, what's what's their thing?
You know what happened. What happened behind the CEO who
did like, whose wife cheated and how It's all think, oh, you can
just make up stuff and act it out.
Yeah, no, he's like, you know, you are.
You caught her doing something, Whatever.
You slap her and yeah, the guy comes and beats you off and
you're the writer. Like I made that happen.
It's so cool. Wouldn't that be so proud when
you call all your friends, Like, sit down, sit down, sit down.
Watch, watch, watch. Waste.
Exactly. Yeah.
And then what? Happened like just.
When they do, they're like, oh, you got to tell me, man.
They're like, no man, you're going to love this one.
This is good. This is good.
And then maybe like something a bit darker here, but like when
something like Chris Benoit thing happens.
Oh man, and your friends, like did you fucking write this?
I'm like. No, yeah, that's the real deal.
Who's am? Yeah, dude, he killed everybody.
Yeah. Fuck.
Oh, man. Just been out.
Was crazy. He was my guy, actually, like he
was. Yeah, yeah, he was one of those
guys were like, you could see that this guy was angry, man.
Yeah, he was an angry dude. Yeah, he was an angry dude,
dude. Yeah.
I mean, it's a shame because he was a really good wrestler.
Super good, super good man. But yeah, I'm sure he has his
own issues and all that. Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, anyway, that's a lot of WWE.
Promotion. So in case you want to sponsor
us, please let us. No, we'll take TNA as well if
you need to. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
ACW is also good. Going back to you being sick
watching TNA. Yeah, so basically all that
stuff. It was, it was fascinating.
And it is only when I'm sick that I can find myself lying on
my bed just watching random shit, half of it not being
processed in my brain, Sure. And then the other half is like,
oh, I'm watching this stuff. Great.
You know, without me, I'm like, man, I really should work.
Like when I, when I don't feel the need or the guilt of not
working, that's when I know I'm really sick, Right, Right.
The moment I start feeling the guilt, I'm like, I'm feeling
better. You know, it's really, I was
telling my mom I think Friday night.
No, I was still terrible Friday night, Saturday afternoon, I was
joking. I was like, joking with my mom
and Gloria. I was like, yeah, I could.
I I'm definitely better than like, why?
I'm like, 'cause I'm getting annoyed.
Yeah. I'm like, I have the capacity to
be annoyed with my weekend being wasted.
That means I'm getting better. Like, even right now I'm, I'm,
I'm alive enough that I can do this podcast without a problem.
And after this, I'm going to go back to my work.
But this time yesterday, I'd be like, I'll do the podcast and
I'll probably need to lie down. Yeah, pass out, Yeah.
You know, like when you when you get the flu and you get sick,
you usually have that one day where you're like completely
out. Yeah, right.
Then you have the one day where energy is up and down, up and
down. Really, really gravy.
Yes, yes. So I'm on the third day, whereas
like OK, the the energy is kind of bounced a bit.
Unfortunately, I don't have that discipline at all when it comes
to being sick and in terms of I actually ignore most of it until
I need to go to the hospital. Oh really?
Such a bad habit. Like I know it's.
About like give me an example. Like fever, I basically just
ignore. I just walk it off.
But OK, so if you have the energy to ignore then I can
understand that. I force myself like I just don't
like like there is very few times over the last I would say
10 years when I'm like I need to be in bed for like more than a
day. So you haven't.
So this is. I think part of it is also the
dog, like the dog forcing me out of the house to lock her.
And a lot of the times, to be honest, at least in my
experience for myself, stepping out helps you still feel shit.
Oh no, no, no, I agree. Do step out and you're like, oh,
I'm actually not dying. So I think, I think see that
what you're saying is that there's, I've noticed different
types of people. There's two types is one is that
they kind of do the WAVY sickness with that not feeling
good, feeling good, not feeling good, feeling good kind of
thing. You can get by.
Yeah. I'm the type of guy that when
I'm sick I crash like I'm talking like.
Yeah, but you also had like immunity issues and stuff.
Yeah, yeah, that is well, yeah, that that is what contributes.
But I think I've always been the type of guy that maybe for all,
you know, like how you have that what what Will Anderson one
called once called a doctor showbiz is that when you have
work something to do, your body's like, dude, we got to get
to work, you know, but you're technically kind of just like
cheating a bit and pushing it through.
I think that's what's always been happening to me is like my
body's like, dude, you got to work, man.
No time to get sick, man. It does go.
And then when it sees the opportunity or it sees like, oh,
sorry, I can't hold it, crash complete every single time.
If I honestly, I get sick maybe 4 * a year at best when I go
really crash, sure, which I think is pretty all right.
Yeah, yeah. But.
It's very healthy. It's very healthy as well, you
know, But I noticed I was checking the last time I crashed
like this was 29th February. Yeah, So I, I crashed like a
couple of days ago, but like 29th February was when I crashed
last time. And I'll be Yeah, that's one,
you know, four months. Ago.
Yeah, exactly. On the dock.
It's about time, you know, So I'm going to put my schedule
now, like, sometime, and let's say, I don't know, October.
I'm like, hey, man, you're going to be sick that day.
Like what? I'm like, trust me.
Yeah. I spent a lot of time, you know,
figuring this. I've calculated the way this
works. I think it's also the
inconvenience of if we have we talked before on the podcast
about the healthcare system here and it is good when it comes to
like a lot of the emergency stuff or whatever, but the
clinics, you can't just like book a GP for the next day
unless you have good insurance, blah, blah.
But like, if it is the case, because I I would go if it's
like, OK, I'm getting my throat is not right, I'm gonna go
tomorrow. Yeah, it's not gonna happen
because you need to book and it's talking three months in
advance or whatever, or you need to stay on the app and it's
annoying and this is my laziness comes like, all right, well, I'm
just gonna ignore it and see what happens.
In its way isn't as good like it forces you to not just go to the
article. Exactly.
It is like I've had like, something like weird with my
throat for like, maybe more than 10 days, which a lot of people
were like, you should do something.
But I did like, you know, whatever home remedies just
made-up. Like, I didn't even look up.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, hot water and like, you know, honey or
whatever. And then after like 10 days it
just went away, which means it's just like, you know, my body
processed it on its own and then now it's completely fine.
I mean, and I don't really, OK. It was something someone would
be like, oh, you should have checked.
I'm like. Dude honestly like there's so
much. It's good that I didn't go.
Then I would have probably had an antibiotic and that would
probably do something anyways and it would go on pretty much,
maybe a little bit faster, but it would just, you know what I
mean? I'm sure someone listening would
like screaming right now. You should not be, dude.
Idiot, you idiot. Ignorant.
Yeah. And again, I would have gone to
the doctor if it was super convenient, and it's not.
And to your point, it's probably a good thing.
Yeah, that it didn't just bother.
Yeah, I'm also the type of guy that I'm not the one to pop a
pill the moment I can. Yes, Mostly because it's again,
again, I'm not trying to be against the people who advise
you do that. What I'm trying to say is that
there's a certain level that you as a person have to decide like
is this the convenience thing or it's just like, you know, a
safety thing. Yes, because like, OK, let's say
when I get a fever, if I get a fever, yes, I will pop a
paracetamol, right? I'll get that because I'm like
that will help me out with the. Fever.
That's like candy, like, you know, Advil or paracetamol.
It's like whatever. Yeah, yeah, It's whatever, you
know, And that's not like I do it every day.
So it's like I'm like, OK, you know what?
I have a fever now. I know I need to sleep tonight.
I'll be struggling to sleep. If I take this, I will sleep
well, which will help me get better.
Fine faster and everything purely from the science and
everything if you not do this every day fine it's no big deal
once in a while it's fine and so that I will do reverse it
antibiotics. I'm really against it as much as
I can now remind everyone I have an immune system issue where I
am more prone to infections than anyone else generally.
Okay, in other words, there's let's put it there's there's
there's there's three different types of cells that fight
infections. I have very low A&B as I have
such I have very low A&B and I have very low G as well.
However, with GI can kind of replenish it with whatever I do
every week, as we know. And so that still means I'm very
prone to infections general. So this time I was on I got sick
and I was like coughing and I could feel this the Flemmi cough
and everything and my brain is like okay, you know I'm pretty
sure this is an infection cough. It doesn't feel like a virus
cough yes and I was you know what this one because I'm really
struggling to sleep like I'm just coughing on that.
I was like, I'll do antibiotics, right?
And obviously, like, I take it I'm much better within a day or
two. But that every time I've ever
coughed and stuff, I'm like, I'm not touching antibiotics until
it's like, to the point where I'm like, dude, I need the help.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that I think that's the
bounds you have to find and that the problem is that the doctors
can't tell that 'cause that's all for you, right?
Yes. And it's an art form in its own
way. It's just a comedy.
And I tell me like this is the older you get, yes.
The more philosophical you see about the world, you realize
that everything about life is art and science combined, right?
Just like comedy. You can go to all the workshops,
learn every technique, but when you get on stage, there's a
certain art to it. Just like music.
You have to learn to play the scales, know the theories, but
when you play it, you can't be that.
OK, so C# followed by B and doesn't work that way to.
Follow your own instinct. Feel it, you know, at the moment
you got to feel it out. Like it doesn't make sense on
paper, but it just makes sense in the real world, you know,
that kind of thing. So yeah, same with this as well.
It's like sometimes you're like, on paper, just have the pills,
like, yeah, but you know, that kind of thing.
Yeah, actually. Whoops.
Right over there speaking. Of but actually on this topic,
how, how do you handle the heat? Like a lot of people now, I, I
had a, a conversation with a couple of friends about like the
AC at night. How do you feel about it?
So like the how do you do the the sleeping situation?
OK, so basically. I think that's a pretty common
conversation in all of Hong Kong.
Like how do you you just blast off the AC at like the coldest
at night so you can sleep well the like that's probably not
good for you. Also the bills would get high.
How do you deal with? It basically my thing has always
been I try to keep just the fan on.
I have I have a ceiling fan on and I try my best now every year
I. Feel like almost none of Hong
Kong houses have ceiling fan. That's very rare.
It's very, it's, it's not a common thing because like #1 you
don't have that much. You might not have an electric
socket on the ceiling #2 you want a light and #3 most people
are like, oh, just turn on the air con, No big deal, right?
And I get it, I fully get it. There's there's two things to
it. On one hand, recently, yes, I
turn on the air con because I just seem to sleep.
But all these years, I've always been the type to sleep with the
fan on, mostly because like at the end, the end of the day, the
air con air is still, you know, circulating the same shit and
all that stuff. And it's always still better to
have fresh air. Well, fresh and cold, you know,
this is still Hong Kong after all, right?
So for me, yes, I've always been a fan guy.
However, right now what I've noticed is, again, this is
probably old age as well. Before when I had the air con on
at night, 25° is my my temperature.
And that was like the one that the whole government always says
that's the one, you know, the more efficient and all the
stuff. Dude, I sleep at 27° now.
Damn, it's not a big difference from 31 that is outside.
But it's the it's the dryness, right?
You get it? It's the humidity that's getting
you. I mean, let's be honest, that's
what that's what gets us. It's the humidity, right?
Yes. But that's why I was like
sleeping us. But if?
You have a dehumidifier in the house actually work?
That's what works for me. Exactly.
And that's a very. Powerful one and it's just like
I keep it on and then with the AC, I turn off the AC before
going to bed, but like it keeps the house cold during the day.
Yeah, yeah. But the combination of the.
Because I also have one of those Hong Kong two of the two like
the Hong Kong window style AC, not the.
Split one. Oh yeah, yeah.
Yeah, and these are because got really strong, especially the
brand new ones, like I have one, I'm the first tenant at my house
and they're brand new. Yeah.
And they're still to this point
on like the you know how like low cool, low cool.
They're exactly there is low cool, medium cool.
And I'm still it's like still on the highest when it comes to the
numbers, but it's still on low cool.
Yeah, because actually until now, even though it's really
hot, I did medium cool. I'm like I'm freezing.
Yeah, so too much. It's too strong.
So what I'm, what I'm planning on doing is I'm going to get
like dehumidifiers and I'm going to experiment and see because I,
I prefer fresh air. I'll be honest, I really much
prefer fresher than air on air. So what I'm going to try to do
is have the windows open, all that stuff, but have the
dehumidifier, but obviously not the windows fully open, like
blasting open, but have the dehumidifier just to kind of
balance off the rooms. So you're near the dehumidifier,
so your area is hopefully a bit more dehumidified and then we'll
see with that. The second thing is also with my
new place that I have, which I still have not moved into, is
that I've tried to make it a smart home.
OK? Now whenever we see smart home,
I mean, it's all connect everything.
So the idea is that I'm trying to see if I can make some sort
of temperate humidity checker to detect how much humidity is in
their house and then turn on the dehumidifier whenever it needs
every. Dehumidifier News for you has
has a screen with the percentage on it.
I don't know about what I'm saying is I want this to be able
to feel the temperature the. I think the new ones, I don't
have the new ones, but the new ones.
You can set it. Because I remember like helping.
Turn on whenever saying hi, yes OK with.
Her cat? Yeah.
And the cat has a dehumidifier that goes on automatically.
Oh, OK, OK. It's not.
The cat has a dehumidifier. It's a funny way to say.
Exactly. For the cat, yeah, exactly for.
The cat and it goes on or off on its own.
Yeah, when it's above a certain percentage.
Yeah, yeah. OK.
Yeah, Yeah, it's quite something
like that. Basically that's the idea.
So to see if that will work, if anything, at least be in the
room when you're sleeping with a little bit of window open.
So for some air ventilation and had the humidifier just to just
to dry things up a bit. But then, as you said, like it's
Hong Kong, like how much is the air?
Like you'd say, Oh yeah, open the window for fresh air.
Is it No, but I'm. Also on the main road, like,
actually it could work for me because I'm on typing Shine.
Yeah, yeah, tiny street with no traffic.
Yeah. But for you it could be like
probably worse. I mean, hard to say that's the.
Buses under your Rd. Yeah, you have that and also the
noise as well. Yeah.
So I mean, I'll look into that as well and see.
But I mean, so far so good. I'll, I'll put it this way, Like
my whole life, I've always been a fan guy at night.
Yeah, but it's always been a strong.
I remember every year I was like, so I read my journal.
I'd write from years ago, right. Every year this time I was like,
Oh my God, I'm dying. It's so hot, you know?
Every year, funny enough, the people like I have a friend who
just went to New Zealand for work and it's she's just sharing
photos of just snow just everywhere, just like just pure
snow. And I was like that.
Also doesn't look fun. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
I'm sure. I'm sure.
If we were in like snow, we're like, Oh my God.
I'd much prefer the warmth. Yes, I, I, I've said it on the
podcast many times. I will take the warmth any day
over, over the, the because I'm seeing her photos.
I'm like, yeah, this looks nice. I don't want to be there.
Yeah, yeah. That's good.
It looks fun for like half a day.
Yeah. And it'd be like, can I just?
Like, but I don't know, I've always been like, cold is easier
to handle than warmth. Because I disagree.
I mean, how many clothes can you keep taking off?
It's the opposite. How many clothes can you keep
putting on before you look like a Michelin Man?
But yeah, but turning on the heater and stuff is no big deal.
You get it. And then you just warm up your
body through exercise and. Everything but turning on the AC
is not a big deal. Either like how can you cool
your body down? It's much easier to warm your
body up than cool it down. You wear a T-shirt and shorts
and. OK, so let's say it's really
cold. Yes, you can go for a jog and
stuff and your body creates. That is insane that you're
talking gibberish now. No, but I'm saying like your
body creates heat, it doesn't create cold.
You want to go run in the cold? You find your maniac.
You can run around in your home. Let's just stop talking.
Oh my God, what the? Fuck what it's what it's called.
I've lived in -30 for a year and a half and it's like, just like.
-30 is not equivalent to 32°. Get my point?
Yeah. But these are the two extremes,
right? It's like, you know, the like 45
or 50° desert? Yes, that's also extreme.
Yeah. When it's 4550, you can do
nothing about it. You'll always be hot.
Yeah, your AC will be. And you'll burn inside your.
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.
Yes, but if you have to choose between the -30 and minus and
+50, that is either way. Yeah, so which one you pick?
The +50. No, I would actually pick the
minus. 30 Yeah, exactly. If it's come to that extreme.
Yeah, but I mean, you're not. You're comparing apples to
oranges, man. Everyone go, go to your
families, yes, and have this discussion over.
Dinner. I agree.
Also, get in touch. Let us know, yeah, if you have
to live with one of the two extremes.
Yeah -30 or +50, yes. And let's say the humidity is
the same. OK, yes, let's be fair for that,
Yeah. And I'm guessing with -30
humidity's probably got really low anyway, yes, So with +50,
I'm sure it's just low as well. Yes, because if you get +50 and
you have like 90% humidity you're probably dead.
No, no, that's that's I'm sure you that's actual hell.
That's actually that's Yeah, be checked in hell.
That's the temperature. Exactly, yeah.
So you have that Observatory said.
Actually exactly, yeah, yeah, the.
Temperature today is just like the last thousand years where
you are being tortured. Yeah, and it's a +50.
Dude, I think that that would be a very good life lesson for
people to be put in a Chamber of 50°.
Yeah, with like 90% humidity. Oh, wait a second, that's called
a steamer. I was going to say, that's why I
don't touch the. People do that go go there
voluntarily. Voluntarily.
Like fucking stupid. Yes, I agree.
We are. This is why we're going to go
extinct. It's like.
Yeah, I spent 7 minutes bro. I'm like.
Yeah, you're like, why would? You actual help.
Yeah, like what's the among? Other sweaty people.
I mean, I'll give you this though, like oddly enough, that
there's some other scientific. I love how we're going like, oh,
science I. Know.
Yeah, look at this comedian science bitch.
Science is, yeah. So there's been a lot of study
where basically if you put your body and yourself into difficult
situations, you actually come out happier.
In other words, just like the cold shower, OK, the cold shower
one obviously from a health point of view, is very good for
yourself, right? But for you to go into it and
then do it and get out, you actually become get out happier.
Correct. Than if you went for a warm
shower yes. This is a fucked up human
though. It is.
It is fucked up. I remember going with any to a
waterfall in somewhere in the middle of Australia and the
water, the temperature was I think maybe one or two degrees
maximum. It was fucking cold.
It was just that close was to being frozen water.
Yeah. And we were just trying to go in
and out. And then at some point I'm like,
I'm just gonna take the plunge. And I sat there and I think I
did like 5 minutes. And to the point she was kind of
scared. She was like, you're a
psychopath. I'm like, maybe.
But I was just sitting there and, yes, you get out and you're
like, God damn, I feel like I can conquer the world.
It's so weird how it works because maybe you just think
like, oh, I'm stronger than I think I am.
Yeah, you feel like almost like it's good about yourself.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like going to the gym and
having that pump feeling after you've like, Oh my God, I did, I
did it. I did, you know, and this is
what I've learned over time. Again, getting old on shit is
like, yeah, you have to put yourself in those difficult
situations, yes, to be happier yourself.
But I mean, everyone has their limit and my limit is the steam
room because this is I'm claustrophobic.
So yeah, yeah. So like.
This is the, the feeling is actually not the heat and it's
not the, the, the pressure you put on your body.
It's the, the feeling of suffocation.
That's what gets me. So like something like a dry
steam that doesn't make any sense.
I guess it's sauna. No, that's not sauna.
Whatever a room. Which one is a dry one?
The drowns. Sauna.
Yeah, with the wooden walls and
all that still. Feels claustrophobic because I
think it's just like that smell of like heat.
It still like feels. Because claustrophobia is also
psychological, right? Yeah, it's not real.
It's not real. Yeah, yeah.
But so that still doesn't work for me.
So I don't touch these rooms. Yeah.
But like the other extreme,
which is the cold plunges, I'm actually OK with it.
Like, it's still painful, of course, but then the few times
I've done it, I'm like, yeah, all right.
I think psychologically you've probably overcome that part, but
not like the warm part. But the claustrophobia part,
it's actually again, not the heat, it's the claustrophobia.
But I would like the listeners to jump in on the -30 or +50.
Tell us which one you prefer and why.
Get in touch. We'll probably we can actually
run a questionnaire on Instagram and see which one you guys
choose and let us know why. Funny enough, I wanted to tell
you guys about the Malaysia story and how I got robbed at
the Western Kuala Lumpur Hotel 5 star hotel by running out of
time. We will not do this on Patreon,
that's not fair. But we will do this next week.
I'll tell you guys a whole story, maybe with an update as
well. Quite a dramatic story, as it
happens whenever I go, I guess, involving the Malaysian police
and the Westin Hotel that's actually part of the Marriott
group. So now the Marriott group is
being involved because I escalated it.
Yeah, turns out, yeah, I'm not going to go into the full
detail, but turns out my incident was not the only
incident at that hotel. And the more I looked online,
the more I found almost with the same exact scenario of stuff
being taken from rooms and stuff and then the Malaysian police
being royally corrupt and, you know, basically covering up what
happened. And when the hotel also got
themselves on a pickle because they didn't know that I'm such a
loudmouth and I'll just keep talking.
So I think the, if they knew, they might have had like
somewhere a situation like, oh, look, we found it.
But now they can't because they had already said and the police
has covered up for them. So now they're like, oh, there
is no evidence of wrongdoing. And now I keep escalating.
So the hotel manager actually called me on the phone and asked
me to stop. I'm like, no, like you, are you
going to give me my thing back? He goes, oh, no, we have no
evidence. I'm like, OK, I'll keep talking.
So. But yeah, we'll tell you guys
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Summer is the kind of a slog in Hong Kong, as you probably know,
Vivek. Yeah, a lot of people leave, and
the people who are staying sometimes struggle to find
stuff. And this is your reminder that
live shows in Hong Kong are alive and well.
And especially for us backstage, it is kind of a big deal to work
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Base Hall just changed the bar vendor so now they are Draft
Land, which is a famous Taiwanese bar from Wyndham St.
Now they have the and honestly, the cocktails I don't drink, but
the cocktails what I heard from the customers and you were there
last. Night I had like the I think the
whiskey cocktail. Yeah.
That is like, that's if you want to drink, you go there and get
that drink. You're like, I'm having a drink.
Tonight, it's just one that's like will do the.
Oh yeah, yeah, I just had that one.
I'm like, God damn, dude. This is this is a drink.
Yes, You know, like there's a drink where you're like like
like a baby Chino and all that. This is a fucking espresso.
That is, it's like, all right, this is hitting the spot, Yeah.
Yes, yeah. So I heard that many times from
customers and comedians alike. So check us out at Base Hall.
We're also at Lips inside Grand Hyatt five nights a week.
We actually now have Thursdays is full improv nights.
So that's our friends at Improv Hong Kong, Pete Grella and his
friends. If you want to check out improv,
I don't think there's much improv happening over the city.
So you can come to Lips on Thursdays.
Wednesdays we're doing improvised stand up with Annie
Lewis where she is giving prompts to comedians and just
like we have to come up with stuff on the spot.
It's a lot of fun. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Tuesdays,
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