Everything you need to know about Hong Kong. Each Monday local comedian Vivek Mahbubani and Egyptian comic Mohammed Magdi dive into something great about the city.
Episodes
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Comedian Drew Fralick was among the first wave of the OG China-based standup comedians. He performed standup comedy all over mainland China in both mandarin and English! Drew is still the only comedian to win both of Asia's biggest standup comedy festivals, China and Hong Kong!
Drew moved back to his home state of Detroit a few years back but his passion for comedy has never changed. He recently became a pastor at his church, so we catch up with him via Zoom to try to understand how can one make the leap from comedy to preaching Sunday sermons!
Check out Drew's blog "A Bright DrewTopian Future" here: https://www.drewfralick.com/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Bugs Harpley and John Buckman have a true success story. They are the power couple behind Decent Espresso , over the years, John has founded multiple companies including Magnatune online music service supporting independent musicians get their revenue share, BookMooch: An online community for exchanging used books. John is also a Member of the Advisory Council for the Open Rights Group and he is the former Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
We chat about their love for Hong Kong, their choice to live in Tsuen Wan, how they wouldn't trade the Hong Kong life they have now for anything else back home and the challenges of living in a very local area of Hong Kong without speaking much Cantonese.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
It's a new year folks! Happy 2022! For the first episode of the year, we decided to make it a thing and have comedian Garron Chiu back on for the new year's episode! If you remember last year Garron was also on for the 2021 NYE special!
This time we chat about how much has the holiday traditions changed over the years in Hong Kong, from Hong Kongers' favorite holiday destinations back in the day, to "glamping" during Covid and why comics don't exactly enjoy working on new year parties!
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
For Christmas this year, we have Icelandic comedian Kári Gunnarsson on, we chat about "Icelandic Santa" , how we celebrate Christmas in our respective cultures and we make very poor attempts at pronouncing "Eyjafjallajokull"
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Harry Harrsion needs no introduction, if you have been in Hong Kong for more than a couple of months, you must have come across one of his drawings. Harry is the principal cartoonist for the South China Morning Post, his work appearing six days a week. We chat with Harry about his new book "Add Ink: Cartoon Chronicles of Life in Hong Kong", his beginnings, his influences, his "sketchy" office and if the constant political changes affect his work.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
On this very special episode, Mohammed's voice is suspiciously different, Vivek chats with "Mohammeded" on how comedians like any performers need to sometimes do shows when they're not feeling 100% but unfortunately, they cant have an "under study" or have a "substitute"... unlike other artforms, they are the art itself.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Vivek has a big announcement to make regarding his ongoing Facebook page saga, then we delve into part 2 of the "Before Comedy" series. This time it's Mohammed's turn. What was life like in Egypt when he was growing up? Way before the 2011 revolution, the move to China and taking up a career in comedy?
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
"All comedians are depressed", "Good comedy has to come from a dark place", "tragedy+time=comedy" are among some of the most common phrases you hear thrown around in the comedy world, but are any of them actually true? And why does it seem to be a pretty common narrative in the comedy world?
We ask our guest: psychotherapist and one of Hong Kong's top mental health counselors, Tim Hoffman.
Check out Tim Hoffman's website here: https://www.hoffman-counselling.com/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
At nearly 5am on Tuesday October 12, 2021 a taxi carrying a foreign passenger drove along Queen’s Road West and the 50-year-old taxi driver in the vehicle was suspected of arguing with the passenger for some reason. The foreign passenger then used a hard object to hit the neck of the driver which resulted in injuries. In order to escape, he got off the car and fled.
The passenger then got off the vehicle and continued to attack the taxi driver before he finally collapsed. When the taxi driver was about 20 meters away, the assailant also took the opportunity to escape. Afterwards, a passer-by called the police for help.
Police officers sped to the scene and found the 48-year-old man lying unconscious on the floor. Sustaining serious injury to his neck, he was rushed to Queen Mary Hospital and was certified dead at 6.17am.
The police released a recent photo of the suspect Wednesday the 13th of October. On Wednesday afternoon, our guest Tracy* ran into the suspect outside a small store on Lamma island, not having any idea who he was. She had a friendly chat and shared a beer with him. It's quite a baffling story. Strap in for this one.
*Tracy's voice has been changed to protect her identity.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Conspiracy Chocolate makes high quality small batch craft chocolate from bean to bar. They use cacao beans from a single farm in Vietnam and process slowly and manually over 5 days to retain the natural health benefits and flavor of the cacao.
We chat with its founders Celine Herren and Amit Oz. They are a Swiss and Israeli couple who met in Hong Kong with a passion for creating food and discovering new combinations of flavors. After a few months of learning and refining the process in their kitchen in Sai Ying Pun, Conspiracy Chocolate, a small-batch bean-to-bar craft chocolate company was born. They now craft their chocolate in their own licensed chocolate lab in Wong Chuk Hang.
Check out Conspiracy Chocolate website here: https://www.conspiracychocolate.com/
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