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
Under the current restrictions, it's illegal for us to have a guest in our studio (Vivek's living room), so we take this opportunity to discuss what went wrong with Hong Kong's handling of the pandemic.
There has been a lot of frustration and confusion in the community about how badly the Covid situation is being managed, we try to understand why that happened, how we got there and our insane ways to stay sane during these difficult times.
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Photographer Justin Lim has been featured by Instagram as a "Suggested User", and his work has been highlighted by VSCO, 500px, Flickr and more. As a result, he has collaborated with numerous brands on their social media branding, Influencer/KOL content creation and visual identity. Clients in this space include Omega, Tumi, MR PORTER, DJI Global and many others. Across his various social media platforms, he recently passed 100,000 followers.
We chat with Justin about the world of photography in HK, the vicious wedding photography industry, the often problematic relationship between photographers and young models as well as why film photography is making a come back!
Check out Justin's website here: http://www.justlimphoto.com/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
With HK gov insisting on chasing "zero Covid" policy no matter how unrealistic it is and how devastating it has been to the local businesses, we are seeing so many of our favorite businesses and venues disappear. Too many to count at this point. We decided to do everything we could to save our most favorite venue in Hong Kong, The Aftermath.
The Aftermath is an awesome live music/performance space, a great hang out spot/super cool bar right in the heart of Central, and just like all other F&B venues right now, The Aftermath is really struggling to keep its doors open. We chat with co-founder Kyle Haynes about the story of The Aftermath, what makes it so special and what we can do to help.
Check out the many ways you could support The Aftermath here: https://theaftermath-hk.club/
Follow The Aftermath on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theafterm/
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Happy Year of The Tiger everyone! We're taking a break from having guests on this week and we do the long awaited Ask Us Anything episode. We asked our listeners on social media and on the podcast WhatsApp group to submit any questions they want to us to answer and we got many interesting questions. We answered them all, ran long had a lot of fun.
We answer questions like:
How do we get along and what it's like managing the podcast?
What would make us pack our suitcases?
How does political repression differ between Egypt, India and Hong Kong?
Assuming HK will remained closed for international travel for the foreseeable future, what are the plans to keep Backstage Comedy alive?
Our favorite comedians in HK?
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
Another one bites the dust. La Rotisserie, a staple of the Hong Kong F&B scene since 2012, decided to pull the plug on all its branches on Jan 7, 2022. La Rotisserie was famous for its moderately priced roast chicken – a staple family-style dish in France. We sit down co-founder with Jerome Carlier to talk about the decision to shut La Rotisserie down, the challenges facing the F&B business in Hong Kong recently and how to make a perfect roast chicken in a small home oven!
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Monday Jan 02, 2023
Monday Jan 02, 2023
In December 2019, American Lawyer Samuel Bickett was leaving Causeway Bay MTR station when he saw a couple of older men in plain civilian clothes beating up a teenager with a baton. He tried to stop them and ended up getting arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer despite the men repeatedly saying that they're not police officers. He ended up spending over 2 months in a Hong Kong maximum security prison and he's now out on bail waiting for the next hearing. We sit down with Sam and get the full story.
Check out Samuel's blog here: https://samuelbickett.substack.com/
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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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