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#107 - Mohammed’s mom flew to Hong Kong a few hours before her passport expired!

If it's travel, passport or visa related, we can rely on Mohammed (and evidently the rest of his family) to make some highly entertaining bad decisions. This is probably the riskiest one so far. Mohammed's mom flew into Hong Kong just a few hours before her only passport expired.

Happy year of the rabbit folks!

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#106 - What to do when your family visits Hong Kong?

Hong Kong has its borders wide open and the CNY holiday is upon us. Mohammed's family decided to visit from Egypt for the first time and he has a lot to rant about. Where do people actually go for "touristy stuff" and why is visiting the Big Buddha isn't the best idea? Vivek gives a lot of solid advice.

Mohammed also got locked out of his friend's house at midnight with the dog inside the house and he tries to make it back in and the story ends unsurprisingly with the cops showing up.

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#105 - Turns out trolling banker wankers is easier than you think! w/John Buckman

We are back to our regular scheduled programming and this week we have a retuning fan-favorite, Mr. John Buckman. John has a long history of starting, running and selling successful startups and he was the head of the EFF

John is not shy about his love for Hong Kong, and one of the things he has in common with many Hong Kongers (and Mohammed!) is his displeasure with banks and bankers in general. While most of us are happy with laughing at memes about banker wankers, John decided to do something about it, way before memes were the main median of showing discontent and boy did he go all out, then things turned scary. It's a fascinating tale. 

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#104 - What the hell happened in Hong Kong over the last few months?

Happy 2023 everyone! We are back. We made it through, well .. kind of. This is more of a #yolo episode but hey we are back with a stacked episode, catching you up on everything that happened in Hong Kong over the last few months, as well as catching you up on our updates as well. So many news stories, fun moments and ridiculous HK shenanigans to get through. It's good to be back!

 

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#103 - Hong Kong is opening up (for real this time!)

The city seems to be opening back up for real! Quarantine for inbound travelers continues to be only one week (3 days if you're flight crew!), restaurants are allowed to run up to 10 pm (yay!?), some stand up shows are back. We have a classic episode discussing it all, we catch up on the standup gigs we did recently did, from Sai Kung to Soho House, the upcoming CE "elections" and the new Batman movie (no spoilers!) 

 

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#102 - The reality of Shanghai lockdown with Jorge Castellanos

Shanghai is still under arguably the world's most strict Covid lockdown since the pandemic began. Some residents have been locked inside their apartments for over 50 days. Amid news of food shortages, internet censors taking down posts of frustrated citizens, Shanghai residents are keen to have their voices heard. 

We talk to Jorge Castellanos, standup comedian based in Shanghai. Jorge owns two businesses, he's married to a Chinese citizen and has been in lockdown in over a month now.

 

Sounds of April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bguwCndTUOA

Photo by Nico De Rouge, check out his work here:  https://nicoderouge.com/

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#101 - When is the best time to donate your organs? With Dr. Krishnaa Mahbubani

Family drama alert! Vivek's sister made it to Hong Kong literally a few minutes before her PR expired, we take the opportunity to catch up with her with one simple goal in mind: Understand what she does for a living.

Dr. Krishnaa Mahbubani tries her best to dumb it down to us, and before you judge us, here's one of her bios:

Krishnaa completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University, and after a period there as a Post-doctoral scientist, moved to the Department of Surgery as a research associate and is applying her engineering expertise to develop methods to extract tissue resident lymphocytes, and design a single semi-automated tool to extract the lymphocytes efficiently. Her other interests are in the fundamentals of cryopreservation, with a focus on understanding the relationship between ice nucleation and post-thaw cell viability.

CBTM: https://www.cbtm.group.cam.ac.uk/contact-us

Cambridge Enterprise: https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk

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#100 - Special outdoors episode at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park

We made it to episode 100! Yup, we can't believe it either. For the 100th episode, we pack our equipment and head to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park in Sai Ying Pun. We riff on everything happening around us at the park, chat to a couple of people, Vivek gives an update on his sister's dramatic journey to come back to HK from the UK before her PR expires, and we launch our YouTube channel!

 

Check out Tuners Sparks on tour if you're in Melbourne or Sydney: https://www.turnersparks.com/

Pre-order Ben Frank's album "Goodbye Shanghai": https://www.benfrankcomedy.com/

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#99 - Flight ban is finally lifted, then airlines started getting banned!

You get a ban, you get a ban, and you get a ban!

This week on HK shenanigans: The government lifted the flight ban on 9 countries then immediately banned Emirates Airlines far a week. Everyone in HK is getting a "goodie bag" from the government, Vivek's sister might be able to come back to HK after all. We try and fail to not about the Oscars and we have an announcement about next week's 100th episode! 

 

Check out Kareem Abdul-Jabbar substack on the Oscars drama: https://bit.ly/3jjuagZ

 

Comedian Andrew Shultz roast of Will Smith: https://bit.ly/3K5IrcQ

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#98 - Hong Kong to cut quarantine for inbound travelers to one week, where is everyone going?

As of April 1, Quarantine for travelers coming into Hong Kong will be cut to 1 week, which means we can probably start making plans for some summer travels! We chat about our favorite travel destinations, share some fun traveling stories and what would our first trip ideally look like.

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