February 17, 2025 • 54 mins
This episode is not for the faint-hearted! Mohammed Magdi heads to the Philippines for a quick "holiday and a show" with Annie Louey, and boy, oh boy, do they have a rough time. Annie recounts the benefits of a power spew and how Dr. Showbiz always comes to the rescue. And of course, Vivek Mahbubani smugly reminds us all why he doesn't like to leave his house, ever.
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So I reiterate here, the bill isdead.
The story of this great city is about the years before this
night. Hey everyone, it's a new episode
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of Hong Kong. I'm your host, Mohammed Mehdi.
I'm sitting here with someone I have some feelings towards and
someone else. Oh.
That's definitely. A you don't love it.
Wow. So just in case you were not
aware, if you're listening to this, only Annie Louise with us
today and the feelings that Muhammad has, he didn't specify
(00:44):
good or bad feelings. Yes, I did not.
Specify who as well. So exactly I leave it up bro.
You guys can fight it out. I am happy.
To I want Momo. I think both of you guys should
go to Man MO Temple and try to pray to the gods.
Yeah, be like. You're the right which Which of
these two men? Yes.
It belongs to my mom. Anyway, so again we're here with
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another episode, this time with the guest.
With the guest for the first time in on on video yes and you
can see how beautiful Annie is in your.
Lives are probably going to get released in a while.
So yeah, you know, I might have since they've this was recorded.
They would, they would. Then they would remember how hot
you were. They're like, what happened?
Oh my God. It used to be so.
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Hot. At least you have some proof.
Yeah. I mean, some people have no
proof that I was hot. Like, no you weren't.
This is being recorded in mid February 2025.
Yeah. And if you are stalking any on
Instagram in April 2025, yes, that's how she looked like just
three, five months ago. I don't know what happened
either. No, it was not.
Lack of sunscreen. I thought that I was saying life
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here. Yes, yeah, You went hiking one
too many times. Decided I think it's a good idea
to go somewhere unnecessary and go in a method that's
unnecessary and get there and belike, wow, I did something that
was really unproductive, but hey, you know what I got to do?
Got to do what other people didn't get to do?
Age. I mean, Speaking of, you're
alluding to a trip that we just did.
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That's right. We came back from the
Philippines and. Let's compare and contrast real
quick. So today I opened the door.
I was feeling like it's a great day.
You know, my home's nice. I open the door.
The two of them, like, came backfrom the trip, like, oh,
vacation, people like that, you know, like, oh, people say it's
a good time. Get out of town, you know, fresh
in your mind. I see the two of them.
They're like. Yeah, nerds out there, you're
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welcome to compare this to the last few episodes and see how
pale my face is and how maybe I look like I lost weight.
Yeah, yeah. So we're in the Philippines and
I fucking hate to agree with Vivek ever or anything.
Ever. But yeah, maybe you have a
point. Yeah, when it comes to not
leaving your house. Because now I'm maybe I'm
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starting to see why. Right, Yeah.
I mean, we did a lot of damage for six days.
Like, yeah, it's a lot of damage.
Body was. So severe.
During the last six days, from what I remember, the only thing
I got sick of was looking at oneof the walls in my house and I
simply turned around and I solved it.
Yes, Oh it. Wasn't another wall.
Nice. Pretty good, yes.
Yeah. So that was my solution.
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Tell me your solution to whatever happened to you when
you flew out of the city, decided, hey, this is a great
idea, let me spend money, get into a little tin can, go
somewhere far, go trust the people over there I've never met
before. Just wash my salad and make me a
coffee. Exactly.
Let's not go to poison me. Exactly right.
You go there, you wake up, you're like, oh, it's got
vacation time. This is day one of six.
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Yes, you want to do the honor. Yeah.
So please tell me, please enlighten me about how I am in
the wrong. Yeah, so it was my idea to go
perform in another. No, that already tells me
everything. Yeah, exactly.
You didn't have to come. I was like, really want to do a
show there. If you're busy, you know, I'm
just going to go anyway. And my friends also we're having
a trip where she's Filipino and her boyfriend is a white
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Australian. He's going to meet her family
for the first time. Oh.
So she's going to see. She was all right, yeah, She was
going to Manila. And then she's like, oh, we're
going to take a little island trip.
Do you and MO want to join? And I thought, how often do you
get to go to a country with a local who can take you around?
So I was like, absolutely, I would love to go.
So then they'd been there for a week already.
We arrived, we started eating the food.
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They were just eating everythinglike normal, drinking the water.
We don't know what got us in theend.
Yeah, it we. Let's break.
Do you remember? So the the first meal we had
with them was this great like chicken, Filipino chicken
grilled. Yeah, charcoal chicken.
Charcoal chicken. And then there's like, this
special sauce. Yeah.
It couldn't have been that. That's like chicken fat that you
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pour onto the rice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like a yeah, it's like. Oil.
Fried oil. Hainani's chicken rice, it's
kind of the oily. It's a different style.
Yeah. But yes, the the oil, I mean,
any Filipino would know like that.
It's like, yeah, the take the after cooking the chicken, yeah,
the oil and whatever. And then they put it on rice.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So that was delicious. Couldn't have been that because
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our friends just kept going backthere without us to eat it.
And then we had a meal the next day.
Well, Mob found we were at a place having dessert and he said
we've got to come back the next day because there's some barn me
on the menu I really want. To try.
So you're in Philippines, you just had to go Vietnamese?
Yeah, well, you know, I'm racist.
I'm like, it's, it's closer. It's all the same.
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Yeah, it's all the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I. Just thought how is it that they
can keep bread fresh for that long?
Because they're operating from like all day long, you know,
they're serving barn meat till like night time.
And I just don't think the bread's going to be that fresh.
And he was like, Nah, let's try.So they ran out of the chicken
and then we had a tuna barn meatand I had a seafood like a prawn
rice. And I don't trust seafood
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anymore since I got the worst food poisoning on my my life in
Singapore from eating at the market.
That's from Crazy Rich Asians. Oh yeah, yeah, there's like a
food outdoor Hawker centre thing.
And I remember having bloody cockles for the first time.
So seashell things. And like famous last words I
said, should is it OK to eat theguts?
And my friend goes, you can if you want.
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And I did. And I blacked out that night.
Ohh man travelling this. This bout of food poisoning,
whatever it was, it could have been the the like prawn guts as
I was like eating. I'm I'm not so sure about this.
Yeah, it hit me like that night after a big Mexican meal.
(06:27):
So this food poisoning was not did not happen in your home in
Hong Kong. No, no, no.
Or in your home in. Australia No.
It was a home outside where you left your home.
Yes. Oh man, I'm seeing a pattern.
Yeah, wow. Okay, okay, go ahead.
And so then we, we ate so much Mexican that night.
It was like really good food. I don't think it was the
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Mexican. Yes, we just kind of I over ate.
That's that's a problem that is separate to the food poisoning.
But the guy also shamed us. He was like wow you 2 ate a lot.
Yeah, I went to pay. Was it like?
All you can eat. No, you just a cow and.
He still insulted you that you're willing to pay for every.
Day. Exactly.
And I did the math. We had five and a half tacos
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each, and they're the small ones.
I don't. Know what?
Like not that many. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe. I don't know.
He's not used to people like just getting what they want.
I don't know what his problem was.
I think the food was delicious. It's like.
So you were in Singapore, had Mexican food, no?
No, that was all in El Nido. This.
Was all on an island, a tropicalisland, A tropical island doing
a trip. Yes, OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, go. And so then that's what came up
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that night. At what point did you actually
come back to having Philippine Filipino food while you were in
the Philippines I. Think once we started feeling
sick, I was immediately out of the window.
No more Filipino. I need, I need other people
food, yes. OK, I if I have to be poisoned,
I would not be poisoned by other.
People internationally. Internationally while I'm
already international. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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OK. OK.
So you day 2 you tried Mexican food?
Yes. Yeah, it was.
Day one you were doing oily, greasy food, correct?
Day 2 you doing? Mexican food Day 2 we had the we
had Vietnamese and then Mexican.Yeah, So you went Vietnamese
where you were like, how the hell do they have so much bread?
Yeah, I need to keep it fresh. OK, so you were suspicious and
then you went and had Mexican and the beans, the the ones
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that's known for farts and stufflike that, right?
Yeah, didn't have any beans, butI had like a lot of chicken and
like spices and all of that and cheese and sour cream.
And so like, initially I just thought I've eaten too much and
I need to get a, you know, do a power spew and then like you
reset and then you're like, goodto go Got.
Our spew So is the name of this.So what's what's the power spew
(08:36):
ceremony like? Is it basically like you don't
eat, you detox it? Do you wheat grass it?
Do you yakult it? What do you do like to to to
recover the next Yeah, yeah, like.
Well, this this power spew phrase came from a friend who
works in film. She's a director and she said a
producer of hers like was they're on their way to some
event and she wasn't feeling well.
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And so she just yacked in a Bushmid conversation.
She was like, mid said. Please do excuse me for a
second. Just like, yes, anyway, when we
get to the awards, we're going to.
And then I, you know, might get a drink or something.
So she was like, this is the kind of person, the kind of
psycho that makes a good producer.
Yeah, Yeah. And so that's kind of where I
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got this, this phrase. But I also like that, you know,
in countries like Korea and Japan, if you've drunk too much,
you will have a a puke. And then you go again like you,
you know, like you got a second wave, you know, So that's kind
of all tied in together. I mean, I feel like in in any
like drink big drinking culture,that is a thing, right?
Like people who drink a lot, youlike, stop halfway if you're
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like really drunk and then you. Yeah, but I think the the
difference is that you like to start early.
So they'd be like, have your drinks at 6:00, be sloshed by 8
vomit, Yeah. And then like, come back and
like, you know, then stay out till two.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tactical.
Yeah. Wow, And this is like a weekly
thing, right? It's kind of like we gotta get,
I mean 6:00 noon, we gotta squeeze it in.
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Yes, power speed. I love I love how like we just
beautify all these words where like actually I'm throwing up
that might have a power spew. Well, I've never used the word
yak to I bet. Yes, Yak.
Yak is a great one. Yeah, I'm.
Gonna go yak for a bit, I'll be black back, keep my drink, keep
my drink on the table or whatever.
Yes. Yeah, right.
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So day day three, you decided I'm I'm gonna power spew.
No, day, day two, night time waslike, yeah, I was in the walls.
I was in the walls like every 15to 20 minutes.
Was on the clock. Yeah, shitting or puking just in
regular intervals and having like delusions and all of that.
There was I remember you asking me a question where you were
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like, are you okay? And there was a pause and just.
I'm like, I guess not, yeah. Yeah, body language.
Works too. And I was like, get me a plastic
bag and he was fluffing around going where like where, where
from, blah blah. Like too late.
And so it was all over the basin.
Sorry. Because these are trigger
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warning for people who are like,no it.
Could be. It's up to your imagination.
What do you think she was power spewing?
Yeah, it could have been a lot of confident words that she was
spitting into the basin because Smoke couldn't handle.
It it was, it was so powerful that I the stuff on the base
flew off. So do stuff like, you know,
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creams or whatever on the sink. Yeah, you managed to do it like
a water cannon for you. It's like Peter Griffin from
Family Guy all. Right, so let's understand this.
You're in the hotel Airbnb, but in the.
HH. Hotel, all right, cute local
villa kind of situation. Yeah, yeah.
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And so the next day that was so nice.
Like they just keep greening youand you know being.
Stands up every time you pass bythe reception.
And stuff until they come and clean your room.
That that's exactly right. So no, just politely goes like
also can you clean our room please?
Thank you. And that's when the behavior
turned on us. They actually hate even Did you
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actually got. At least wash away some of the
powers. She tried, we tried, and like we
put kettle. Water by we I mean she tried
because I refused to go into thebathroom, but like it was.
Not a good thing anyway, it was already clogged when you're
putting nothing in it. So not a good sink anyway, Let's
start waving. Exactly.
Developing country but not having good infrastructure.
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It was never a good highway. Not me.
Yes, I went there. They didn't get water in.
Boiled water to try to like dilute or yeah.
That's what you do if you clog atoilet.
So like we figured, same logic. So eventually we ended up just
leaving the sink just completelyfull.
Yeah, of power spew and water. Are you serious?
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And then get the, yeah, get the cleaning people in.
But they did such a good job. It was it was, it was pearly
white when we. Came yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
The problem is they would have thought that we were drinking
because it is a party district and it was like, you know.
I wonder about the drinks. Yeah, this can be the first time
it. Can be the first time, yes.
But then. Usually people spew in the
toilet, or at least on the floor.
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Yeah, not in the sink. They didn't understand that
like, you know, my ass was already on the toilet and they
couldn't bring me a bucket in time, so where else?
What else have you supposed to do?
So anyway, yes, these changed completely after.
They did not stand up anymore. Well one there's one lady still
kept standing and the other one would be glaring so I'm pretty
sure she was like yo sit the fuck down.
How? Many days did you still have at
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this place? Two or three, yeah, that's.
Tough halfway through the trip and yeah, so I start thinking
out of what do they think the situation is the most likely
person that would have spewed? Who do they think?
Like you probably thought it would me because, you know,
traditionally it's like the man who's drinking.
Yeah, Yeah. And that just.
Made me feel so awful. That actually makes me feel
(13:52):
sick. Like the kind of behaviour that
men do that like don't drink water.
Yeah, just have like 7 pints of beer and then go back.
And then the exact opposite. I exclusively only drink water
and I never touch alcohol. Yeah, so it's the opposite of
that. What do?
You. Yeah, it was completely framed,
Yeah. Yeah, this, this chick has some.
Way anytime MO like while Annie wasn't looking you walked up to
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the camp like it was her. It was, I actually wanted to do
that when we were leaving. I'm like, remember that this fee
was her. Yeah.
That's the Tuk Tuk is taking. You.
Yeah, it was. But then he he didn't suffer at
all until at least a whole day and 1/2 after that.
Yes. And we were making fun of how is
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it? Is it OK for me to say that it's
'cause he drank water from the Nile when he was growing up?
Yeah. It it strengthened his immune
system. Because it's possible.
Yeah, it is. Like my mum has the same thing.
As a vaccination. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My mum and so went to Bali. Didn't get in India, obviously.
Like, you know, you're exposed to all kind of like, sometimes
food's not very hygienic. Yeah.
And then, yeah, you just, like, grow up with stronger, like,
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resistance. Yeah, like whatever.
You've been through this shit, Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. But you kept saying like, stop
being racist, Yeah. Well, I was, obviously.
Not proofing. Why blah blah.
And then you've probably now hadthe worst yeah, poisoning of
your life. Well.
So we're on day three, day three.
Day three they. Cleaned it up day three.
All right. Day 3 1/2 they cleaned up the.
Room you get. Back like damn this is good and
they were like fuck this guy yesall right so day three you're
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still feeling good you're looking at and you're like.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of bullying.
So there was also a time, a mealwhen she's feeling at her worst.
Yeah. And I'm like I need.
To yeah, you've got like a six course time meal for himself.
Yeah, tie of. All choices.
Still not eating fellow food at this.
Yeah. And I'm just pushing rice grains
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around on my plate. Like I just, I want to leave so
bad. And I have to.
I'm like this, he's just startedthe meal and I have to sit here
and watch him. Because I was also, like,
celebrating how cheap the food is, like how good the food is.
Like, you know, obviously good Thai food here is expensive.
Yeah. And yeah.
Like we found a really good Thaiplace and like, you know, had
like a few courses and mango sticky rice.
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And I'm like, you can eat something and just, like, give
her something that you go. It's just like old, you know?
Like, really, really, really oldpeople forget how to do things.
Yeah. Shopping. 3 rice, 3 grains of
rice around the plate. I'm like, I don't know if she
knows what eating is anymore. Yeah.
But I'm like loving it. Yeah, having a time of your life
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and then after that we go back. You're still good.
I'm still good for that night. I'm still good the next day,
mostly good. And then like starting from the
afternoon, that's when I'm like.So many.
Oh yeah, We went to a like a really nice private kind of
beach. So we had to get on a scooter on
and that's when you went and dida sneaky diarrhea.
(16:47):
That's when it's not on the. Beach, though not like not.
In the sea, yeah, OK. Because it's so clear, I would
have done it. I'm not above it, but the water
is so clear that actually. People would have seen it on the
plane. Exactly.
I think Google Satellite would have caught it, so I couldn't
risk it. The water was actually the
clearest one I've ever seen. Yeah.
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It was so clear, so beautiful, Just like a quiet, private
island. See, that's the problem with
these places, you know, in Hong Kong, had you been to the beach,
yeah, you would have cleaned up the water.
Instead it would have been the. Cleanest thing has never been
better here in. This is literally digested.
Yes, exactly. Already digested material.
(17:29):
Yeah, it's. Organic.
Visha having a yeah meal every. Show chasing him like they're
trying to like, pick on your toes like please, what is this?
Yeah, fertilize it. Let's do it.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that's when I, yeah, I went to like the toilet of the of the
resort and then yeah, I did the sticky diarrhea as you said,
yeah. And he came back.
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I'm like, yeah, it's something'snot right.
But also getting to to that beach is we're on a motorbike,
rented a motorbike and it's verydifficult, like up and downhill
the inclines. So I'm like, if I'm not feeling
well, she she doesn't ride the motorbike.
I can't get out. She can't get out, we're fucked.
Basically. So it was sunset already.
So watch Beautiful Sunset. I'm like, yeah, well, let's get
out before I start feeling worse.
(18:10):
Yeah. And yeah, we get out and then we
find an arcade. And because we're both actual
children and like, of course we're going to go to the arcade.
So we go to the arcade. That's when I'm like, it really
hits me. And that's when the power spew
started. I'm like I need to go to.
Arcade. Power spew.
I remember the exact moment we're playing The Walking Dead
(18:31):
shooting game, which we play in every arcade we find.
It's really fun. And then after a while, like we
started getting onto the motorbike racing thing.
Yeah, just like I go like this I'm.
So and you can't get on motorbikes.
I don't know how to drive. I don't know.
I'm not, no. No, but like you just like to
get out of the place. You said you're uncomfortable on
motorbikes. No, no, no.
It's the incline is so steep without.
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Downward, actually, it's very challenging.
It's like, it's like Rocky, likemountainy kind.
Of, and I know this from cyclingas well is that it's very hard
to start on an incline yeah so if you stop and then you need to
restart like I have to hop off the bike yeah the centre of
gravity and everything is off soyeah he would just go around and
like go zoom up and then I wouldhop back on and then like get
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the momentum and just. Go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just need to be like really
focused. It's also getting dark so it's
like you need to not be sick andthinking of sharing yourself at
the same. Time, yeah.
So yeah, and that's when, like after the arcade, that's where I
realized, okay, it got me. We need to succumb.
Yeah. So we went back and then you
were the chills, I think was. The chills was really.
(19:32):
Bad. So let's reinterpret just what's
happened over here. OK, so basically the two of you,
there's like this, this fun, happy background music where
you're on your way to this private beach.
Yes, it's got like that. Like at the private beach.
Yes, you both get there and you're like, well, the world is
so clear. You dive in and you're like,
(19:52):
like doing snow angels but in the water.
And were there other people as well?
No, no, no water. There was like a lady reading a
book, a man using some weird douchebag device that's like a
surfboard but with a powered powered.
Surfboard, we call it a do surf.Yeah, I made it up.
But I like to think it's also like a like as if South Park
(20:15):
does an episode on that, they'regoing to call it man check out
my do surf. So he is has like yeah, there.
He's 2 surf, 2 surfing. That he just took to like
fucking depth of the ocean. He just beer.
Yeah, oh man. I think he's dead.
Yeah, yeah. We started going like, oh, maybe
he's like a drug, like a drug. Maybe he really.
(20:37):
Needed to go and he was. I had to get far away from these
people so. Maybe you wanted to do a power
spiel deeper to the Yeah, he. Literally had to clean his
douche or something. So, so you're at the beach,
you're like, well, this is this is what life's the.
Better how I living, I'm feelingbetter, life's good.
You're in the water, right? And they're like splashing each
(20:57):
other, like, yeah, you, you mademe win.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're doing that and all of a
sudden you have that moment where, like, you know, like how
in the movie Jaws, you suddenly have the scene that cuts to the,
the, the, the. Shark.
Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
And like, yeah. And it cuts back to a moment and
yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Your intestines, dude.
(21:17):
Because like, yes. I still have no idea.
Yeah, and then, Yeah. And then all of a sudden, the
camera starts chasing up. Basically.
It's like it's in your intestines.
It's going downward. I'll do it to you, actually.
Like, oh, no. He's like swimming as my.
Oh, my God, it's gonna get me. It's gonna get me.
Like MO runs out of the beach. He's like running.
And then you have the chariot tofire.
Turn, turn. Turn, turn.
(21:39):
Yeah. He's like, I'm gonna get there
now. Pretty similar actually.
Get there, you go in and you open the door to the bathroom.
You're like praying. Please be empty.
Please have no one else. I mean, have one empty
compartment, but having no otherpeople there being perfect.
Yes, You sit down there, you do your thing.
You'd make all the sounds that you're like, oh God, nobody
should hear the shit, right? It's all done.
(22:01):
And you had the one moment of relief.
You like. Oh, man, yes.
Oh, that was something. Yeah, that.
Was yeah, that was something. No one should ever hear of that
except for everyone of the world.
And then you have the moment where you're like, oh shit, do
they have tissue here? Well, luckily.
They have spray. They have, yes, but they because
(22:22):
they are civilized people. Yeah.
So you're like, OK, yes, yeah, all right.
But they is great. And again, you are close to the
beach, you can just go back to the beach and.
Yeah, an ocean. Yeah, You can clear it up for
you. Yes.
You're over there doing all the classy cultural bidet shit.
Yes, Yes, after doing the uncultured diarrhea shit.
And then you're done, all right,You go back out.
You're like. And what is it?
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I came back to
her. I'm like, got me or whatever.
Yeah, I'm like, not feeling great.
Yeah. And she actually texted me when
I was on the toes. Just like you're missing the
sunset. Yeah.
You're like, trust me, there's alot of things setting.
Yes, exactly. Yeah.
The sun is not one of them I'm caring about.
All right, so. So you come back out and the
sun's still setting. Yes.
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And at that moment, you're like,I feel much better now.
Yeah, I was feeling a bit better.
Definitely. We took we took some photos of
the sunset. Beautiful.
So were you sitting on the beachor still in the ocean?
On the beach, On the beach. Yeah, we're going.
Yeah, at this time, you already had the idea of like, oh, we
need to get out of here. Yes.
So on your right side is the exit to the beach.
On your left side is the sun setting.
Well, the the sun is in front ofus, yeah.
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Behind you is the exit, right? Yeah, yeah.
All right. So then you're over there, and
you're like, we have to see thissunset.
Like, technically speaking, yes.The sun pretty much sets the
same in everywhere. Yes.
Right. So this is not something you
never see. Like, Oh my God, it sets this
way over here. Well, I will actually back to
disagree because the the sunsetswere really spectacular.
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Yeah. I mean when we are editing this,
I'll probably add like people can see I'm pretty sure
apparently. I could probably Google a better
photo of a sun setting than whatever you saw.
That's true. But yes, look at this.
Oh. Yeah, that looks straight up
Google Images. Yeah.
We're talking like beautiful purple yellow.
There you go blue every on my camera now yeah there is a lot
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of yeah like like beautiful colours and it's.
Also on my Instagram if you're listening.
Yes, you can find it on Annie's Annie Louie on Instagram.
Ironically, that is literally what it looked like at the
toilet after you were done. What did you eat right now?
Ice cream. Then the water at the bottom,
it's got the little splashy at the.
Top yeah, you can even see like the phones now do all this like
moving. Oh yeah, moving photo stuff.
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Exactly. Yeah, the live photos or
whatever, yeah, but yeah, it wasvery beautiful.
So you're watching the sunset. You're like, but we got to get
out of here because, you know, the the slopes are steep.
Yeah, you know, might not feel better, but you're like, but
still. I mean, that sounds going to go
down. Yeah, so we finished the sunset
and we just. Yeah, we had clocked this arcade
earlier so we wanted to go back and it was pretty small, pretty
small arcade. And I at this point I actually
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thought if you have it, it couldbe gastro like this could be
worse than we think and we should not even be outside right
now touching anything, talking to anyone when?
You say gastro? You mean like what, some
bacterial? Like that, yeah, that's that's
viral, whereas like food poisoning, you just ate
something bad, you let it out ofyour system.
But gastro is like someone couldhave breathed on you with their
like I don't know if. Like bacterial?
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Germs or whatever and so then then you're sick for like 2
whole weeks. It might have been that dish
surf guy. It might have been you probably
went up to zoomed away. Yeah, these guys do some.
I'm out. Viral warfare.
Yeah, he's a spy. But then, yeah, that's when I
started contacting my friends aswell, who we've been hanging out
with saying just check out for the site.
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You're right. Yeah.
And then that night, you just kept complaining about how cold
it was and that you wanted your heater.
And I'm like, this man's not well, we are in a tropical
location. I'm dying.
I'm like literally just had to be nude in the room all day
because I was like, they can't have the air con, what are you
doing? I have this beautiful little
foot heater here. I might have mentioned this on
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on here like in Hong Kong here Ihave like a small heater that I
use for my feet and this amazing.
So I really was thinking of that.
Second MO, yes you have a foot heater, yes that you use where
in bed. No, I.
Used it last night on the couch.Was it fuck?
Yeah. Wait, what is the shape of this
heater? Like you put your feet on it.
It's. Just like one of those little
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round ones that sits on the floor.
It just, it just blows hot. Yeah, at your feet.
Yes, at my feet, fucking. I've been using it this whole I
want to say summer like not. Summer it.
Will be oh. My God on the couch.
This is what we have planned. Change you.
Know yeah you're literally warming it's like how do.
You think that it's not like blasting hot?
Like, I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old.
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Leave me alone. I think you're from, like, a
very hot country. So you always run cold.
You're always. Yeah, Yeah.
And you have no body fat, so youwant it hot all the time.
And so you're, like, delirious and, like, calling out for your
foot heater. Yeah, it's not.
Like was he doing complete sentences or just like random
key? Yeah.
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OK, well, this was actually not the peak of the worst of the
sounds, but then the peak the next day was yeah, in, in
Manila. So wait, wait, no, you skip
over. We have to fly in this
condition. Yeah, we have to hold on.
So you you went to the the mall,you arcade played the game, took
another. Shit, that was our last night in
El Nido and we have to fly the next morning at 7:00.
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AM so early, yeah, so early. So we had to get there.
We had to get the hotel at like.So at one point, is this going
to be a fun trip? It hasn't been so far like I.
I I'm trying to understand the decision making of doing this.
Well, the decision making was obviously always based on the
information, like the best case scenario, yeah.
You never think of like something will go wrong.
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Yeah. But also the part when we are on
stage in Manila, yeah, that's super.
That's what it's worth it. That's when it's worth.
All. This, but I could have also just
gone to Manila for a couple of days.
Just. Catch up with my comedy Manila
Friends. Yeah.
I've done the show and completely skip over needle.
Yeah, and being sick for a week and.
Yeah, All right, Get up. And you felt better.
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Then I was feeling, yeah. And had a Full breakfast.
No, not really. I just like because I was like
empty basically I needed to eat something.
So I had like a very quick like like hotel breakfast, like
scrambled eggs, whatever, just to have something in me.
And then we get on the little tuk tuk.
That's that's the official meansof transportation to the
airport. And if you have ever been to El
Nido Airport, it's a literal villa with one runway that is
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also a hotel and an airport. And it's pretty cool there's.
No carousel or needing to pick up your bag somebody.
Comes. They just come and give you the
bag, Yes. And the check in is just like
some lady in Hawaiian shirt. It's all very ghetto.
Sure. Yeah, I know had a had a power
outage as well. When my friends were there, they
were stuck for three hours like this.
Is your power outage airport happening every?
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Yeah, every few hours. So yeah, we fly to Manila.
I'm starting to feel worse againafter feeling better in the
morning. And then we get to the hotel in
Manila. That's what I'm like, starting
to. Basically, we're just dying.
Yeah. So we get to.
How long is the flight? How long is flight?
It's only one hour. 1 1/2. Yeah, OK.
But to get to the hotel in Manila, we're there at like
10:30. They obviously wouldn't let you
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check in, but I preempted this by going hi, we're here, I need
to check in. I'm basically dying like.
Please, you said tired. I'm really tired.
I'm very sleepy. Yeah.
I didn't want to tell them that I'm sick.
Yeah, I just said I'm very sleepy and tired.
Please give us a room. Yeah.
And they did, which was nice. OK.
So go there, try to sleep for the whole day, and yeah, that
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the whole day is basically. Yeah, my recollection of that
hotel room was just complete darkness for about 24 hours.
Yes. Like, so I had to kind of work
at the desk and like, live like a bat and.
Well. That.
So was the rent you're paying inyour honking apartment exempted
on that day? It wasn't.
No, it was. Not so.
You're paying rent in Hong Kong in an apartment that no one's
using, and you're paying rent for the hotel room where you
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basically just slept what you could have done in Hong Kong,
Correct. Please continue.
So that's when he was maximum dying and I.
Parallel to that, and without going into any details that
would get us in trouble, we're also parallel to all of this.
We're having a bit of a side discussion with the production
company, with the with the with the documentary we're working
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on, on some final details. Got it.
Basic. And some people have different
opinions and stuff, but it's notan easy discussion.
Let's just leave it there. So we're having two separate
discussions about that. One is about, you know, some of
the credits and stuff and 1 is about a screening that we're
having in Hong Kong. Both of the conversations are
not going great. OK, they're very stressful.
Very stressful works. Why not?
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Basically so work is blown. And they're like, we can't put
the name first. Sure.
In the credits it's stuff like this and the other.
Yeah. OK, OK.
It's stuff like this that in, you know, in the bigger
projects, like it happens, yeah,when people, oh, no, this is my
opinion. Like I've done this, whatever.
But they were being difficult and we were not budging,
basically. Yeah.
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And we just like, OK, it's not gonna happen this way.
And, you know, it started escalating a little bit.
And it's stuff that like you cannot, it's not.
It's quite urgent because the the release data set and the
screening data set. You know what's interesting?
And there is also funding. There is also a government body.
Involved now even more so, yeah.More so there is funding
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involved that now they might pull and.
And it's like, this is all happening while she was dying,
and then she stopped dying. And then I started dying and it
was like, yeah. So I'm typing emails where the
background noise is my going. Yeah, yeah.
And it's really annoying. It makes me sound like a harsh
person, but I'm. Like caring, yeah.
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Yeah, but I'm like, that's really stressing me out.
Like unless you're really reallydying, can you keep the noises
to a minimum? Yeah, well, I don't know,
actually, I'm doing this. I think it's in my mind, I told
her as well, like as you start like getting better, I think I'm
reminding myself that I'm still alive.
So it's like you make any kind of noise, You're like, oh, I'm
still here. That's just.
The weirdest logic. That's such an Egyptian thing to
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do, man. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe I moved on to the next line, Yeah.
Yeah. It's like, you know, Yeah.
You know, you go to the pyramidsand every movie is like MO being
Egyptian. Yes, exactly.
Like, does she know I'm still? Does she know?
Yes, exactly. She's.
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Got on with her life. She's typing emails.
Don't. Forget about me.
Don't forget about me, I'm goingto ruin your life.
I actually thought about taking him to the hospital and there
was a really nice looking one across the road and we looked at
some reviews. I think this is like at like
midnight. So we're staying in BGC Manila,
which is the newest nicest part of town book.
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Ditto Group Central or whatever,BGC, whatever it stands for,
super nice, like really high end, like bunch of malls like
Tesla shops and crazy, crazy forManila.
And we're staying there. And she found the hospital right
next to the hotel, yeah, and started looking up the reviews.
Yeah, the reviews and some are bad, but the good ones said like
really efficient and for a priceof so they, they one review said
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5000 pesos to get checked in andthen another 5000 for the
medication. Yeah.
Which is 10,000 pesos is a little bit over 1000 Hong Kong
dollar. I can live with that and they're
going to fix me. However, we had a show the next
day. All of this is happening while
we have the Comedy Manila show the next day and I couldn't risk
the hustle. Yes, exactly.
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But also that's when like my cheapness also saved my life
because I'm like, or you know, like my cheapness also saved me
and stay being cheap because I'mlike, I'm just going to try to
power through the night. I have done this before, even by
myself. Usually it's like your buddy's
trying to fight something. That's me just completely using
man logic. That's not this.
Is not medical information. Here is like for medical
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information, please talk to yourdoctor.
I just try to keep myself as warm as possible.
Yeah, and it's as comfortable asit can be.
Just try to sweat it all out. That's my again, this is my self
remedy. Yeah.
And some people be like a fucking idiot.
Yes. OK so I did that and the bed was
fucking soaked. It was soaked, it was so sick
and I'm glad that they had a mattress protector because the
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hotel before this, no mattress protector.
What kind of hotel doesn't have?A yeah, that's crazy.
So the Manila Hotel, yeah. And I started, I wore like my 1
jumper that had like like long sleeves.
So you do like to Rocky Balboa? Yeah.
For the fight, Yes. Yes.
You had like the the black, likethe garbage bag around you.
Yeah, yeah. Pretty much.
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Actually I wanted to put a garbage bag over his head.
Like shut the fuck. Up.
So yeah. And it like I was like, you're
basically I was just violently shaking a bed for a while trying
to like just stay as warm as possible.
And then at like 3:00 AM it did start to pay off because my
temperature started to go down because I always had a little
fever on top of all of this. Yeah, started to go down a
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little bit and started actually being like, not delirious.
I'm like, OK, I need water. Just.
Because the problem was that you, you couldn't puke.
Yes. And you couldn't drink, Correct.
But you didn't want to drink anything because it made you
want to puke. And so I'm like, this guy's not
getting any fluids in. Yeah, I think I'll take you to
the hospital and put you in an IV drip or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, OK, I, I am aware
of that, that it can be like pretty scary.
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Let's just get to the morning and see what happens, you know,
hopefully nothing happens between them.
And yeah, by like 3:00 AM I'm like, oh shit, I'm just, I think
I'm, I'm starting to get throughit.
And by like maybe 4:00 AM or something, I'm like, oh, I can
actually sleep kind of normally now.
Nice. Yeah.
And then like slept from like 4 to like 7 or 8 or whatever.
We had to wake up again. And yeah, from there started
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like being good again. And yeah, we got to the show.
Show fantastic, great, great show.
Comedy, Mini lab crew. Last time I was there was 2018
and they were still like, they're not at the structure
that they have now. Now GB and the guys have a
corporation of of production, which is just nuts.
So Mikey Andreas was in charge of my show, him and this other
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guy, JP, and they had they had us.
So she was headlining and they had us at a brick wall, which is
one of their venues that they just now hold shows at.
Big Comedy Manila Logo. How was your experience?
I've been before. I really liked that there was a
mix of the languages and that nobody really complaints or
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like. Apparently, the touring acts
might find it a little annoying that they can't understand all
the jokes, but the audience members are really.
Respected. But that's typical.
Like even in in Mumbai, I remember like half the
committees would do like their punch lines in Hindi and they're
like, oh, OK. But there was like, you know,
people would ask, like, what language are you doing your set
in today? Even if the audience is like.
You know, mixed. Yeah.
So then I was on last and did 20minutes.
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They were working on standard brown time for sure.
So we started the show like, Oh yeah, 45 minutes late.
Yeah, by the time I got on TV. Music before.
Oh, no music after. Yeah, Yeah.
But they were tired by the time I'd gone on.
You know, a lot of people had checked out a bit, but did my
best and had a fun time. Yeah, that lot of I didn't
realize so many people actually knew me.
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They actually came out for me, like, oh, this is just for my
own selfish enjoyment of going to a new place.
But yeah, some really nice old ladies came up at the end.
There's also a memory of that. We skipped over that.
We were in a food court at some point.
It was exactly the the Thai restaurant.
And Alito was switched. Yeah, when she's eating pepper
lunch and having a great time and I was dying.
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Yeah, and please let me leave. Yeah, I need exactly a sweet
relief reverse. Yeah.
So that's us in Manila. She's eating pepper lunch,
having a great time. I am like And then this random
old white guy walks up to us. This is the exact conversation
that happens. The first thing that comes out
of his mouth was pointing at me and he goes, where are you from?
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No, no, hello, no hello. Right after he is like I'm
dying. Please, let's leave.
I'm like, I'm literally like, myhead is, is on the sticky like
like court, food court. Table.
Just trying to, oh, after I tried to plug my turn on my
laptop because again, that's howurgent our documentary stuff
was. I wanted to open my laptop and
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send an e-mail or whatever and then turns out my laptop is not
charged. I'm like, fuck this.
I was just going to die. And as soon as he put my head
down, this random white guy comes.
Older white guy goes, where are you from?
And I go Egypt and he goes, I'm Australian.
I'm like, she's Australian. Yeah, she.
Just points to me and I'm like, you know, knowing full well that
if I prolong this conversation, I might be mad that we're not
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leaving. Yeah.
But also I don't want to get outof these.
Kind of chats and then he startssaying he's from Sydney and then
he looks at me and he goes do you do stuff on ABC?
He said. Do you work for the?
ABC I was like, oh, you have done some Yeah, I've done some
stuff. And he then he recognized me.
I'm getting spotted in a random food court in Manila, and he
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goes, because whatever happened to China tonight?
Like, because I haven't put out publicly.
That show got axed. So then we got chatting and
turns out he's like a preacher, like missionary.
Yeah. So he's out there.
So he had approached me. We found out that he had
approached me first because he approaches like foreigners.
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Yeah, to because he knows the Filipinos are already converted.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So but then once I said she's
Australian, he really recognizedher from ABC.
So he's, he's like the whole conversation changed.
But at no point did he try to heal you.
No. Well, exactly.
Saying that you were ill, I mean.
You should have. I looked like.
I'm ill. I mean the fact that he was you
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were like Egyptian and not saying I'm Christian.
Yeah, this guys ill. Well, it's also, I think if he
had started his pitch, we joke about this, if he had started
his pitch, and I go, my name is Muhammad.
That's like the ultimate Uno reverse car.
Yeah. And he's like, have you heard
about Jesus? Have you heard about?
Have a nice day have. A nice day, Sir.
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Now it's my turn. Exactly right.
There, man. Yes.
So yeah, that random. And then he was and exactly like
he came to preach or whatever. Yeah, we started converting him
to like converting him to come to our show.
Yeah. Yeah, he got, he got his
WhatsApp. Got his WhatsApp and then he
sent me a message going is that does the show have a rating?
I'm like, well some people swearand you know, whatever.
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And he just never responded. So he was like, the Lord doesn't
take it. Swearing, Yeah.
Yeah, thou shall not speak at the fuck yes.
Well, there was a there was a lot of sex in that show.
I'm glad he didn't come along. One of the opening acts I was.
I mean, he is. Very surprised.
A religious guy, I think if all people, the ones who are doing
the most of those, yes. I mean, have you seen the
(40:37):
newspaper? No one, no one's reporting about
like, oh, in tempo court, peopleare copulating and don't say
that like the father, Yeah. The Father, yes, yeah, the one
of the opening acts was particularly like very, yeah,
explicit. And she's also like making a lot
of references to church and priests and stuff.
I'm like. Yeah.
Thank you. I'm not particularly even like
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obviously I'm not from that religion, but also I don't, I'm
not that sensitive to stuff likethis.
And I was standing there going, that's a little much.
No, that's crazy. I don't know.
That's why he probably sensed like a comedic angle from you
and that's why he came up to you.
Like, where you from? Yeah, yeah.
Probably was trying to ask whichcomedy club are you from?
Yes, he. Gets the dirtiness in your
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thoughts? Yes, yes.
Yeah. So, yeah, we did the show and
then that was that was great. You ate a full meal after My.
It's too soon because I believe in the soda water cracker diet.
And he's just so against it. We're like, look at me now.
Yeah. But I feel good after two days
because I slowly reintroduce solids to my diet.
(41:41):
Yeah. And him, he's just yo, yoing off
eating like a whole chicken. Nothing like how to feel good.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I really, and also I wanted to hang out with with the guys
as well. So have a meal.
And Mikey Andrews is a good friend of mine.
So we wanted to have a dinner after the show.
Yeah. And the only thing that was open
or available at the time was a chicken wings joint.
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So of course I just had like a bucket of a chicken wings and.
Quesadilla and. Quesadillas and you know, just
living it up for a night. But the night was fine.
But then again, the next day we have a flight to back to Hong
Kong at 3:00 PM. She wants to buy suitcase before
that. And Manila traffic being what it
is, we means we need to leave the hotel at like 11:00 AM doing
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all of that, cut the suitcase, whatever, cut to all of this we.
I had the breakfast. You were now unwell again.
Unwell again. Surprise, surprise.
Yes. So I'm not eating the breakfast,
I'm just sitting there sipping tea and it's fine.
All of this goes fine. We come back to Hong Kong and we
need to go straight to base hallfor the show.
So after so also, I don't know if we did mention that very
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clearly. We left like Hong Kong last week
when I handed you over. Yeah, Vivek.
Halfway through the show. Halfway through the show to run
that show. So I basically left Hong Kong
from base hall. So MO messages me at like 8.
No, sorry, 845 when the show starts at 8:30, 'cause I won't
laugh. I'm like, yeah, I'll show there
by 9. I'm good.
Yeah, I want to finish some workat home.
And yes, he's like, when are yougonna be here?
I'm like, I'm on my way. I'll be there like 915.
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He's like I need you need to help me finish the show off On
what? Have you met me?
This is when you get instructions, OK?
Just stay. Stay on your phone.
Yeah, yeah. Immediate.
Yes. I'm like, I need you here now.
So. Were you always supposed to host
the show? Last night, like the one after
we arrived from Manila, there was no host.
Like I couldn't book any other host.
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There was no one available. Because I would have definitely
not recommended that from the time of.
No, but there was no other one available and people on the
lineup were not comfortable hosting.
Like yeah, because you're rushing the check in tickets and
then like there was stuff that you were saying that I'm like
this is not normal more but he would never say anything like
this is. Not yeah.
Yeah, I was. What are you doing?
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Actual fumes. Yeah, he was like, I almost
cancelled the because like, you know, we're running late from
the airport. Like, why are you telling people
this? Yeah, you never would have
cancelled something helped you like run.
It or whatever, you run like oneafter, not just like you.
You introduce the next person. That's it, you know.
No, no, we we actually like it started like pretty like as as
like a lot of the smaller shows are started like, oh, no one
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knows what the energy is like towards the second-half.
It was really good. Like, yeah, like, especially
when we're doing crowd. Work stuff.
Every people were on board more,but yes, they can also tell.
And I wanted to do that in the beginning to be straightforward,
but like why? My energy was not that great.
I'm like we literally just landed but.
People also can't tell. Like that's the, yeah, that's
the magic of showbiz. And I had good advice that you
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should only ever give them maximum 80% of your true energy,
you know, because then like, yeah, if you have to reserve
something for yourself as well, like if you always go at 100,
you just, it's not right. True.
Well, we should probably talk about the documentary at some
point. We have about 7 minutes.
To. Documentary.
(44:54):
But yeah, this is the whole trip, including the two shows in
Hong Kong, the one in Manila andthe power spews.
Yeah, the documentary is a Yeah,it's.
Been released. It's been released finally after
working on this for almost a / ayear.
More than a year. More than a year since the first
concept was pitched to ABC. So from having done some stories
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about comedy in China, the old producer that I had got got a
pitch together and said we should make something longer.
So then we got more to choose the countries of where we should
feature in Asia to showcase someof the comedy scenes.
And Manila was on the list as well.
We considered. I was on the list originally.
Yes, and if I had seen experienced it myself, I would
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think that it does have a strongangle still because of the
language and I. Mean to be honest, every scene
has a strong Yeah, if you go if you go to Mongolia, you'll find
that crazy interesting scene. If you go to Indonesia, I'll
find a crazy interesting scene. I've performed in Myanmar.
This is there is a scene there, you know, so like ideally you
want to actually cover all of them.
You want to cover the random show that happens in Korea every
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six months? That's also interesting, yes.
So we had to stick to three. Countries and Hong Kong made the
cut and that's how Vivek is in the doco and we went to Malaysia
and Cambodia as well and now it became a one hour documentary.
I managed to convince the heads that it deserves more than half
an hour because of how many guests.
Actually, we started on 20 minutes, the very or maybe 30
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minutes. Yeah, it.
Was like a 28 minute, like yes, with provos and whatever things
they wanna run, but yeah, all wewere thinking about it being
three different chapters, like 3episodes in each.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, we have to give
ourselves credit for doing something that they're saw and
they're like, oh, this deserves a full hour.
That's. Really amazing, yeah, yeah,
definitely. Especially how hard it is to
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pitch anything and then doing yourself like if you have a film
stuff, how expensive it is to even do 5 minutes of quality
production. So yeah, it's quite a long time
and being able to go in depth with all of these characters of
the scene. So yeah, shortlisting who should
represent Asia? And I found that it's actually a
really solid group. Like the unit of comedy in Asia
(47:12):
is very united. I think that's something cool
that I also thought this tracks in Manila too, because they all
know each other. So if you know someone who's a
good person or not a good person, you all hear about it
so. So quickly, yeah, I I will say I
know what you're alluding to or maybe on purpose or not, but
there was like when we are announced the show in Manila,
(47:34):
there was someone who like got in touch and then I'm like,
that's, that's a little weird. And then I immediately asked the
guys in Manila and they just give me like the full rundown.
It was like, oh, this is like our resident.
It's. Like printing, printing out.
Like. Like asking the CIA.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. But it's true, like and Vivek
like you must have had the same experience like after so many
(47:56):
years, like you know the key players in every market
obviously, and you can so quickly get any information
about anybody. It's.
Asking me, hey, this guy contactme.
Bam. OK, Exactly.
Yeah. But yeah, you have also been
with, with me in like Asia, likeAsian markets long enough to
know like, yeah. So when I'm talking to Sam
Thomas in Cambodia, I'm talking to Mikey in, in Philippines or
all of these play or result in in Malaysia.
(48:17):
All of these places were all just like at least 10 years
known each other. And it's just as you said, it's
very united, like one unit. And also people know those are
the guys that you can get reliable information from.
Yeah, and honestly, our scene isso like we, because we're in it,
it seems like anything like if you're in the family or
whatever, you just don't appreciate and don't know how
(48:39):
cool or how special it is. And then you do something like
that documentary and you're like, look how cool this is.
Like the Cambodia part I'm so proud of.
Like when you see it on the final part, it's it looks
amazing just how the scene is and how Sam talks about it with
so much passion. And you're like, why is this
white American guy so clearly passionate about comedy in
(49:03):
Cambodia? And it's like, yeah, this it
takes a special kind of breed ofpeople to do this for this long
year with clearly no financial goals whatsoever and just the
passion of like, hey, man, this comedy in this part of the world
is very special and I want to keep doing it.
Yeah. Wow.
Well, where? Where can we watch the show?
(49:24):
It is going to be on YouTube. That's going to be an easy way
to find it anywhere. But very excitingly, it's going
to be the first time I've done abroadcast this long in Hong Kong
where you can watch it on an actual TV.
Yeah. So yeah.
With your grandma? Never.
With your grandma. So it's on Now TV on Thursday at
11:30 AM, Thursday, 20th of February, yes.
(49:46):
And you, there'll be some repeats, I'm sure.
Maybe Now TV even has like a, you know, a little streaming
file style or something that youcan go back to to watch.
And also, if you're in Australialistening to this, it's on ABC
iview as well and. YouTube is available everywhere
for everybody. I don't believe it will be Geo
blocked like. Certain countries, right?
(50:07):
No, Yeah, yeah. So you can just watch it on
YouTube obviously when it drops.So one of the one of the things
we talked about earlier is, you know, people's roles and stuff.
So I can now officially say I'm one of the main producers of the
show, which I had a little bit of a thing with the network to
try to clear. But now I can say it on public.
So I'm one of the producers. And to have that as well after
(50:31):
working for so long on it is I'mvery proud of it.
But that also means that I will be talking about it on my social
media, and you can find it on mything, and then we'll put all
the YouTube links. Yeah.
And so people can watch it everywhere.
Some of the voice over that had to be picked up, which means you
needed something changed or it was missed.
Some of that audio was recorded on this equipment that you
(50:51):
listen to right now at Vivek's house.
So you're all tied into this? Yeah.
You like it or not? You had to, yeah.
You had some pickups to do, so you came here.
Came here and just smashed them out in an hour.
I dare you to figure out which audio bits are recorded here
versus in an actual studio with the sound engineer and.
Everything. Maybe.
Yeah, maybe. Maybe they should.
Try that. That would be a very good like
(51:13):
fuck you too the sound in here. Literally.
Yeah, you're like, I have the red light on air.
You're like, we didn't need that.
Yeah, and Speaking of the equipment, equipment is bought
with Patreon money. That's right.
So that's what we're about to doright now after we finish this
free episode is go into the Patreon when we will touch on
some of the spicier stuff that Ikept jumping around.
(51:35):
I don't know how we left anything in the tank.
Like we've talked about our buttholes.
Yeah, how it's feeling. I'm gonna go into the stuff that
we cannot talk about publicly and because people have lawyers
and stuff, but on Patreon, yeah,we take the risk.
You don't have to sit through this.
Yeah, I will talk about it. I.
Don't have a lawyer so. I have one and I'll give him to
(51:56):
you. He's great.
But yes, we're going to patreonpatreon.com/O Pod is the
best way to support all of this.And yeah, sometimes when you're
like talking about the work likethis and Vivek, I respect that
about you a lot because sometimes you casually go like,
Oh yeah, I was just, you know, hosting for Carrie Lam or
whatever. And you just like never stop and
(52:17):
realize how cool some of the things you're doing are for like
almost anybody else. And this is one of the things
like when you're even retelling the story of like, oh, I did
show in Hong Kong, went through the Philippines, got sick, still
did my show in the Philippines, came back, did a show in Hong
Kong. All of that while trying to work
on like, you know, finishing thedocumentary and fighting with
this person a day, whatever. And then do getting legal advice
(52:40):
or someone else. It's like the whole thing is
just a. It's like it's not.
Normal. Yeah, yeah.
It's completely. Not normal.
What you should be doing is on an island watching a sunset.
That is what that's what. People we started like, yeah,
like what? Until like what, 1000 years ago?
They're like, oh hey, I found the rock.
I want to show this rock to everybody and talk about this
(53:03):
rock forever. We're doing all of these things
and we're not even stopping and appreciating how cool it is.
Like not even how difficult to whatever, it doesn't matter, but
how cool the things that we're doing are.
So yeah, that's that's all I want to say.
Yes, that was. Long story short, most still
shitting himself so this is. Less so.
But unresolved. Unresolved.
Like how is he doing now? Yes, it's it's still not great
(53:25):
and I'm still not eating and next week he can compare and see
if I got even skinnier. All right everyone record the
picture before I pass out. Thank you.
Thanks, Annie for joining us. Our first guest on video wanted
to have the most the best good looking person just cut this
thing out. I'm just going to ramble.
He's waving to. OK Thanks everyone.
(53:46):
Bye.
So I reiterate here, the bill isdead.
The story of this great city is about the years before this
night. Hey everyone, it's a new episode
(00:24):
of Hong Kong. I'm your host, Mohammed Mehdi.
I'm sitting here with someone I have some feelings towards and
someone else. Oh.
That's definitely. A you don't love it.
Wow. So just in case you were not
aware, if you're listening to this, only Annie Louise with us
today and the feelings that Muhammad has, he didn't specify
(00:44):
good or bad feelings. Yes, I did not.
Specify who as well. So exactly I leave it up bro.
You guys can fight it out. I am happy.
To I want Momo. I think both of you guys should
go to Man MO Temple and try to pray to the gods.
Yeah, be like. You're the right which Which of
these two men? Yes.
It belongs to my mom. Anyway, so again we're here with
(01:10):
another episode, this time with the guest.
With the guest for the first time in on on video yes and you
can see how beautiful Annie is in your.
Lives are probably going to get released in a while.
So yeah, you know, I might have since they've this was recorded.
They would, they would. Then they would remember how hot
you were. They're like, what happened?
Oh my God. It used to be so.
(01:31):
Hot. At least you have some proof.
Yeah. I mean, some people have no
proof that I was hot. Like, no you weren't.
This is being recorded in mid February 2025.
Yeah. And if you are stalking any on
Instagram in April 2025, yes, that's how she looked like just
three, five months ago. I don't know what happened
either. No, it was not.
Lack of sunscreen. I thought that I was saying life
(01:52):
here. Yes, yeah, You went hiking one
too many times. Decided I think it's a good idea
to go somewhere unnecessary and go in a method that's
unnecessary and get there and belike, wow, I did something that
was really unproductive, but hey, you know what I got to do?
Got to do what other people didn't get to do?
Age. I mean, Speaking of, you're
alluding to a trip that we just did.
(02:14):
That's right. We came back from the
Philippines and. Let's compare and contrast real
quick. So today I opened the door.
I was feeling like it's a great day.
You know, my home's nice. I open the door.
The two of them, like, came backfrom the trip, like, oh,
vacation, people like that, you know, like, oh, people say it's
a good time. Get out of town, you know, fresh
in your mind. I see the two of them.
They're like. Yeah, nerds out there, you're
(02:35):
welcome to compare this to the last few episodes and see how
pale my face is and how maybe I look like I lost weight.
Yeah, yeah. So we're in the Philippines and
I fucking hate to agree with Vivek ever or anything.
Ever. But yeah, maybe you have a
point. Yeah, when it comes to not
leaving your house. Because now I'm maybe I'm
(02:55):
starting to see why. Right, Yeah.
I mean, we did a lot of damage for six days.
Like, yeah, it's a lot of damage.
Body was. So severe.
During the last six days, from what I remember, the only thing
I got sick of was looking at oneof the walls in my house and I
simply turned around and I solved it.
Yes, Oh it. Wasn't another wall.
Nice. Pretty good, yes.
Yeah. So that was my solution.
(03:17):
Tell me your solution to whatever happened to you when
you flew out of the city, decided, hey, this is a great
idea, let me spend money, get into a little tin can, go
somewhere far, go trust the people over there I've never met
before. Just wash my salad and make me a
coffee. Exactly.
Let's not go to poison me. Exactly right.
You go there, you wake up, you're like, oh, it's got
vacation time. This is day one of six.
(03:37):
Yes, you want to do the honor. Yeah.
So please tell me, please enlighten me about how I am in
the wrong. Yeah, so it was my idea to go
perform in another. No, that already tells me
everything. Yeah, exactly.
You didn't have to come. I was like, really want to do a
show there. If you're busy, you know, I'm
just going to go anyway. And my friends also we're having
a trip where she's Filipino and her boyfriend is a white
(03:59):
Australian. He's going to meet her family
for the first time. Oh.
So she's going to see. She was all right, yeah, She was
going to Manila. And then she's like, oh, we're
going to take a little island trip.
Do you and MO want to join? And I thought, how often do you
get to go to a country with a local who can take you around?
So I was like, absolutely, I would love to go.
So then they'd been there for a week already.
We arrived, we started eating the food.
(04:20):
They were just eating everythinglike normal, drinking the water.
We don't know what got us in theend.
Yeah, it we. Let's break.
Do you remember? So the the first meal we had
with them was this great like chicken, Filipino chicken
grilled. Yeah, charcoal chicken.
Charcoal chicken. And then there's like, this
special sauce. Yeah.
It couldn't have been that. That's like chicken fat that you
(04:40):
pour onto the rice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's like a yeah, it's like. Oil.
Fried oil. Hainani's chicken rice, it's
kind of the oily. It's a different style.
Yeah. But yes, the the oil, I mean,
any Filipino would know like that.
It's like, yeah, the take the after cooking the chicken, yeah,
the oil and whatever. And then they put it on rice.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
So that was delicious. Couldn't have been that because
(05:01):
our friends just kept going backthere without us to eat it.
And then we had a meal the next day.
Well, Mob found we were at a place having dessert and he said
we've got to come back the next day because there's some barn me
on the menu I really want. To try.
So you're in Philippines, you just had to go Vietnamese?
Yeah, well, you know, I'm racist.
I'm like, it's, it's closer. It's all the same.
(05:23):
Yeah, it's all the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I. Just thought how is it that they
can keep bread fresh for that long?
Because they're operating from like all day long, you know,
they're serving barn meat till like night time.
And I just don't think the bread's going to be that fresh.
And he was like, Nah, let's try.So they ran out of the chicken
and then we had a tuna barn meatand I had a seafood like a prawn
rice. And I don't trust seafood
(05:44):
anymore since I got the worst food poisoning on my my life in
Singapore from eating at the market.
That's from Crazy Rich Asians. Oh yeah, yeah, there's like a
food outdoor Hawker centre thing.
And I remember having bloody cockles for the first time.
So seashell things. And like famous last words I
said, should is it OK to eat theguts?
And my friend goes, you can if you want.
(06:05):
And I did. And I blacked out that night.
Ohh man travelling this. This bout of food poisoning,
whatever it was, it could have been the the like prawn guts as
I was like eating. I'm I'm not so sure about this.
Yeah, it hit me like that night after a big Mexican meal.
(06:27):
So this food poisoning was not did not happen in your home in
Hong Kong. No, no, no.
Or in your home in. Australia No.
It was a home outside where you left your home.
Yes. Oh man, I'm seeing a pattern.
Yeah, wow. Okay, okay, go ahead.
And so then we, we ate so much Mexican that night.
It was like really good food. I don't think it was the
(06:49):
Mexican. Yes, we just kind of I over ate.
That's that's a problem that is separate to the food poisoning.
But the guy also shamed us. He was like wow you 2 ate a lot.
Yeah, I went to pay. Was it like?
All you can eat. No, you just a cow and.
He still insulted you that you're willing to pay for every.
Day. Exactly.
And I did the math. We had five and a half tacos
(07:09):
each, and they're the small ones.
I don't. Know what?
Like not that many. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe. I don't know.
He's not used to people like just getting what they want.
I don't know what his problem was.
I think the food was delicious. It's like.
So you were in Singapore, had Mexican food, no?
No, that was all in El Nido. This.
Was all on an island, a tropicalisland, A tropical island doing
a trip. Yes, OK, OK, OK.
Yeah, go. And so then that's what came up
(07:30):
that night. At what point did you actually
come back to having Philippine Filipino food while you were in
the Philippines I. Think once we started feeling
sick, I was immediately out of the window.
No more Filipino. I need, I need other people
food, yes. OK, I if I have to be poisoned,
I would not be poisoned by other.
People internationally. Internationally while I'm
already international. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
(07:52):
OK. OK.
So you day 2 you tried Mexican food?
Yes. Yeah, it was.
Day one you were doing oily, greasy food, correct?
Day 2 you doing? Mexican food Day 2 we had the we
had Vietnamese and then Mexican.Yeah, So you went Vietnamese
where you were like, how the hell do they have so much bread?
Yeah, I need to keep it fresh. OK, so you were suspicious and
then you went and had Mexican and the beans, the the ones
(08:14):
that's known for farts and stufflike that, right?
Yeah, didn't have any beans, butI had like a lot of chicken and
like spices and all of that and cheese and sour cream.
And so like, initially I just thought I've eaten too much and
I need to get a, you know, do a power spew and then like you
reset and then you're like, goodto go Got.
Our spew So is the name of this.So what's what's the power spew
(08:36):
ceremony like? Is it basically like you don't
eat, you detox it? Do you wheat grass it?
Do you yakult it? What do you do like to to to
recover the next Yeah, yeah, like.
Well, this this power spew phrase came from a friend who
works in film. She's a director and she said a
producer of hers like was they're on their way to some
event and she wasn't feeling well.
(08:56):
And so she just yacked in a Bushmid conversation.
She was like, mid said. Please do excuse me for a
second. Just like, yes, anyway, when we
get to the awards, we're going to.
And then I, you know, might get a drink or something.
So she was like, this is the kind of person, the kind of
psycho that makes a good producer.
Yeah, Yeah. And so that's kind of where I
(09:17):
got this, this phrase. But I also like that, you know,
in countries like Korea and Japan, if you've drunk too much,
you will have a a puke. And then you go again like you,
you know, like you got a second wave, you know, So that's kind
of all tied in together. I mean, I feel like in in any
like drink big drinking culture,that is a thing, right?
Like people who drink a lot, youlike, stop halfway if you're
(09:37):
like really drunk and then you. Yeah, but I think the the
difference is that you like to start early.
So they'd be like, have your drinks at 6:00, be sloshed by 8
vomit, Yeah. And then like, come back and
like, you know, then stay out till two.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tactical.
Yeah. Wow, And this is like a weekly
thing, right? It's kind of like we gotta get,
I mean 6:00 noon, we gotta squeeze it in.
(09:59):
Yes, power speed. I love I love how like we just
beautify all these words where like actually I'm throwing up
that might have a power spew. Well, I've never used the word
yak to I bet. Yes, Yak.
Yak is a great one. Yeah, I'm.
Gonna go yak for a bit, I'll be black back, keep my drink, keep
my drink on the table or whatever.
Yes. Yeah, right.
(10:20):
So day day three, you decided I'm I'm gonna power spew.
No, day, day two, night time waslike, yeah, I was in the walls.
I was in the walls like every 15to 20 minutes.
Was on the clock. Yeah, shitting or puking just in
regular intervals and having like delusions and all of that.
There was I remember you asking me a question where you were
(10:41):
like, are you okay? And there was a pause and just.
I'm like, I guess not, yeah. Yeah, body language.
Works too. And I was like, get me a plastic
bag and he was fluffing around going where like where, where
from, blah blah. Like too late.
And so it was all over the basin.
Sorry. Because these are trigger
(11:02):
warning for people who are like,no it.
Could be. It's up to your imagination.
What do you think she was power spewing?
Yeah, it could have been a lot of confident words that she was
spitting into the basin because Smoke couldn't handle.
It it was, it was so powerful that I the stuff on the base
flew off. So do stuff like, you know,
(11:24):
creams or whatever on the sink. Yeah, you managed to do it like
a water cannon for you. It's like Peter Griffin from
Family Guy all. Right, so let's understand this.
You're in the hotel Airbnb, but in the.
HH. Hotel, all right, cute local
villa kind of situation. Yeah, yeah.
(11:45):
And so the next day that was so nice.
Like they just keep greening youand you know being.
Stands up every time you pass bythe reception.
And stuff until they come and clean your room.
That that's exactly right. So no, just politely goes like
also can you clean our room please?
Thank you. And that's when the behavior
turned on us. They actually hate even Did you
(12:06):
actually got. At least wash away some of the
powers. She tried, we tried, and like we
put kettle. Water by we I mean she tried
because I refused to go into thebathroom, but like it was.
Not a good thing anyway, it was already clogged when you're
putting nothing in it. So not a good sink anyway, Let's
start waving. Exactly.
Developing country but not having good infrastructure.
(12:28):
It was never a good highway. Not me.
Yes, I went there. They didn't get water in.
Boiled water to try to like dilute or yeah.
That's what you do if you clog atoilet.
So like we figured, same logic. So eventually we ended up just
leaving the sink just completelyfull.
Yeah, of power spew and water. Are you serious?
(12:49):
And then get the, yeah, get the cleaning people in.
But they did such a good job. It was it was, it was pearly
white when we. Came yeah, yeah, yeah, but.
The problem is they would have thought that we were drinking
because it is a party district and it was like, you know.
I wonder about the drinks. Yeah, this can be the first time
it. Can be the first time, yes.
But then. Usually people spew in the
toilet, or at least on the floor.
(13:10):
Yeah, not in the sink. They didn't understand that
like, you know, my ass was already on the toilet and they
couldn't bring me a bucket in time, so where else?
What else have you supposed to do?
So anyway, yes, these changed completely after.
They did not stand up anymore. Well one there's one lady still
kept standing and the other one would be glaring so I'm pretty
sure she was like yo sit the fuck down.
How? Many days did you still have at
(13:31):
this place? Two or three, yeah, that's.
Tough halfway through the trip and yeah, so I start thinking
out of what do they think the situation is the most likely
person that would have spewed? Who do they think?
Like you probably thought it would me because, you know,
traditionally it's like the man who's drinking.
Yeah, Yeah. And that just.
Made me feel so awful. That actually makes me feel
(13:52):
sick. Like the kind of behaviour that
men do that like don't drink water.
Yeah, just have like 7 pints of beer and then go back.
And then the exact opposite. I exclusively only drink water
and I never touch alcohol. Yeah, so it's the opposite of
that. What do?
You. Yeah, it was completely framed,
Yeah. Yeah, this, this chick has some.
Way anytime MO like while Annie wasn't looking you walked up to
(14:15):
the camp like it was her. It was, I actually wanted to do
that when we were leaving. I'm like, remember that this fee
was her. Yeah.
That's the Tuk Tuk is taking. You.
Yeah, it was. But then he he didn't suffer at
all until at least a whole day and 1/2 after that.
Yes. And we were making fun of how is
(14:38):
it? Is it OK for me to say that it's
'cause he drank water from the Nile when he was growing up?
Yeah. It it strengthened his immune
system. Because it's possible.
Yeah, it is. Like my mum has the same thing.
As a vaccination. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
My mum and so went to Bali. Didn't get in India, obviously.
Like, you know, you're exposed to all kind of like, sometimes
food's not very hygienic. Yeah.
And then, yeah, you just, like, grow up with stronger, like,
(15:00):
resistance. Yeah, like whatever.
You've been through this shit, Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. But you kept saying like, stop
being racist, Yeah. Well, I was, obviously.
Not proofing. Why blah blah.
And then you've probably now hadthe worst yeah, poisoning of
your life. Well.
So we're on day three, day three.
Day three they. Cleaned it up day three.
All right. Day 3 1/2 they cleaned up the.
Room you get. Back like damn this is good and
they were like fuck this guy yesall right so day three you're
(15:22):
still feeling good you're looking at and you're like.
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of bullying.
So there was also a time, a mealwhen she's feeling at her worst.
Yeah. And I'm like I need.
To yeah, you've got like a six course time meal for himself.
Yeah, tie of. All choices.
Still not eating fellow food at this.
Yeah. And I'm just pushing rice grains
(15:44):
around on my plate. Like I just, I want to leave so
bad. And I have to.
I'm like this, he's just startedthe meal and I have to sit here
and watch him. Because I was also, like,
celebrating how cheap the food is, like how good the food is.
Like, you know, obviously good Thai food here is expensive.
Yeah. And yeah.
Like we found a really good Thaiplace and like, you know, had
like a few courses and mango sticky rice.
(16:05):
And I'm like, you can eat something and just, like, give
her something that you go. It's just like old, you know?
Like, really, really, really oldpeople forget how to do things.
Yeah. Shopping. 3 rice, 3 grains of
rice around the plate. I'm like, I don't know if she
knows what eating is anymore. Yeah.
But I'm like loving it. Yeah, having a time of your life
(16:27):
and then after that we go back. You're still good.
I'm still good for that night. I'm still good the next day,
mostly good. And then like starting from the
afternoon, that's when I'm like.So many.
Oh yeah, We went to a like a really nice private kind of
beach. So we had to get on a scooter on
and that's when you went and dida sneaky diarrhea.
(16:47):
That's when it's not on the. Beach, though not like not.
In the sea, yeah, OK. Because it's so clear, I would
have done it. I'm not above it, but the water
is so clear that actually. People would have seen it on the
plane. Exactly.
I think Google Satellite would have caught it, so I couldn't
risk it. The water was actually the
clearest one I've ever seen. Yeah.
(17:08):
It was so clear, so beautiful, Just like a quiet, private
island. See, that's the problem with
these places, you know, in Hong Kong, had you been to the beach,
yeah, you would have cleaned up the water.
Instead it would have been the. Cleanest thing has never been
better here in. This is literally digested.
Yes, exactly. Already digested material.
(17:29):
Yeah, it's. Organic.
Visha having a yeah meal every. Show chasing him like they're
trying to like, pick on your toes like please, what is this?
Yeah, fertilize it. Let's do it.
Yeah. Yeah.
So that's when I, yeah, I went to like the toilet of the of the
resort and then yeah, I did the sticky diarrhea as you said,
yeah. And he came back.
(17:49):
I'm like, yeah, it's something'snot right.
But also getting to to that beach is we're on a motorbike,
rented a motorbike and it's verydifficult, like up and downhill
the inclines. So I'm like, if I'm not feeling
well, she she doesn't ride the motorbike.
I can't get out. She can't get out, we're fucked.
Basically. So it was sunset already.
So watch Beautiful Sunset. I'm like, yeah, well, let's get
out before I start feeling worse.
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Yeah. And yeah, we get out and then we
find an arcade. And because we're both actual
children and like, of course we're going to go to the arcade.
So we go to the arcade. That's when I'm like, it really
hits me. And that's when the power spew
started. I'm like I need to go to.
Arcade. Power spew.
I remember the exact moment we're playing The Walking Dead
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shooting game, which we play in every arcade we find.
It's really fun. And then after a while, like we
started getting onto the motorbike racing thing.
Yeah, just like I go like this I'm.
So and you can't get on motorbikes.
I don't know how to drive. I don't know.
I'm not, no. No, but like you just like to
get out of the place. You said you're uncomfortable on
motorbikes. No, no, no.
It's the incline is so steep without.
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Downward, actually, it's very challenging.
It's like, it's like Rocky, likemountainy kind.
Of, and I know this from cyclingas well is that it's very hard
to start on an incline yeah so if you stop and then you need to
restart like I have to hop off the bike yeah the centre of
gravity and everything is off soyeah he would just go around and
like go zoom up and then I wouldhop back on and then like get
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the momentum and just. Go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just need to be like really
focused. It's also getting dark so it's
like you need to not be sick andthinking of sharing yourself at
the same. Time, yeah.
So yeah, and that's when, like after the arcade, that's where I
realized, okay, it got me. We need to succumb.
Yeah. So we went back and then you
were the chills, I think was. The chills was really.
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Bad. So let's reinterpret just what's
happened over here. OK, so basically the two of you,
there's like this, this fun, happy background music where
you're on your way to this private beach.
Yes, it's got like that. Like at the private beach.
Yes, you both get there and you're like, well, the world is
so clear. You dive in and you're like,
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like doing snow angels but in the water.
And were there other people as well?
No, no, no water. There was like a lady reading a
book, a man using some weird douchebag device that's like a
surfboard but with a powered powered.
Surfboard, we call it a do surf.Yeah, I made it up.
But I like to think it's also like a like as if South Park
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does an episode on that, they'regoing to call it man check out
my do surf. So he is has like yeah, there.
He's 2 surf, 2 surfing. That he just took to like
fucking depth of the ocean. He just beer.
Yeah, oh man. I think he's dead.
Yeah, yeah. We started going like, oh, maybe
he's like a drug, like a drug. Maybe he really.
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Needed to go and he was. I had to get far away from these
people so. Maybe you wanted to do a power
spiel deeper to the Yeah, he. Literally had to clean his
douche or something. So, so you're at the beach,
you're like, well, this is this is what life's the.
Better how I living, I'm feelingbetter, life's good.
You're in the water, right? And they're like splashing each
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other, like, yeah, you, you mademe win.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're doing that and all of a
sudden you have that moment where, like, you know, like how
in the movie Jaws, you suddenly have the scene that cuts to the,
the, the, the. Shark.
Yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
And like, yeah. And it cuts back to a moment and
yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Your intestines, dude.
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Because like, yes. I still have no idea.
Yeah, and then, Yeah. And then all of a sudden, the
camera starts chasing up. Basically.
It's like it's in your intestines.
It's going downward. I'll do it to you, actually.
Like, oh, no. He's like swimming as my.
Oh, my God, it's gonna get me. It's gonna get me.
Like MO runs out of the beach. He's like running.
And then you have the chariot tofire.
Turn, turn. Turn, turn.
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Yeah. He's like, I'm gonna get there
now. Pretty similar actually.
Get there, you go in and you open the door to the bathroom.
You're like praying. Please be empty.
Please have no one else. I mean, have one empty
compartment, but having no otherpeople there being perfect.
Yes, You sit down there, you do your thing.
You'd make all the sounds that you're like, oh God, nobody
should hear the shit, right? It's all done.
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And you had the one moment of relief.
You like. Oh, man, yes.
Oh, that was something. Yeah, that.
Was yeah, that was something. No one should ever hear of that
except for everyone of the world.
And then you have the moment where you're like, oh shit, do
they have tissue here? Well, luckily.
They have spray. They have, yes, but they because
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they are civilized people. Yeah.
So you're like, OK, yes, yeah, all right.
But they is great. And again, you are close to the
beach, you can just go back to the beach and.
Yeah, an ocean. Yeah, You can clear it up for
you. Yes.
You're over there doing all the classy cultural bidet shit.
Yes, Yes, after doing the uncultured diarrhea shit.
And then you're done, all right,You go back out.
You're like. And what is it?
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Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I came back to
her. I'm like, got me or whatever.
Yeah, I'm like, not feeling great.
Yeah. And she actually texted me when
I was on the toes. Just like you're missing the
sunset. Yeah.
You're like, trust me, there's alot of things setting.
Yes, exactly. Yeah.
The sun is not one of them I'm caring about.
All right, so. So you come back out and the
sun's still setting. Yes.
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And at that moment, you're like,I feel much better now.
Yeah, I was feeling a bit better.
Definitely. We took we took some photos of
the sunset. Beautiful.
So were you sitting on the beachor still in the ocean?
On the beach, On the beach. Yeah, we're going.
Yeah, at this time, you already had the idea of like, oh, we
need to get out of here. Yes.
So on your right side is the exit to the beach.
On your left side is the sun setting.
Well, the the sun is in front ofus, yeah.
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Behind you is the exit, right? Yeah, yeah.
All right. So then you're over there, and
you're like, we have to see thissunset.
Like, technically speaking, yes.The sun pretty much sets the
same in everywhere. Yes.
Right. So this is not something you
never see. Like, Oh my God, it sets this
way over here. Well, I will actually back to
disagree because the the sunsetswere really spectacular.
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Yeah. I mean when we are editing this,
I'll probably add like people can see I'm pretty sure
apparently. I could probably Google a better
photo of a sun setting than whatever you saw.
That's true. But yes, look at this.
Oh. Yeah, that looks straight up
Google Images. Yeah.
We're talking like beautiful purple yellow.
There you go blue every on my camera now yeah there is a lot
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of yeah like like beautiful colours and it's.
Also on my Instagram if you're listening.
Yes, you can find it on Annie's Annie Louie on Instagram.
Ironically, that is literally what it looked like at the
toilet after you were done. What did you eat right now?
Ice cream. Then the water at the bottom,
it's got the little splashy at the.
Top yeah, you can even see like the phones now do all this like
moving. Oh yeah, moving photo stuff.
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Exactly. Yeah, the live photos or
whatever, yeah, but yeah, it wasvery beautiful.
So you're watching the sunset. You're like, but we got to get
out of here because, you know, the the slopes are steep.
Yeah, you know, might not feel better, but you're like, but
still. I mean, that sounds going to go
down. Yeah, so we finished the sunset
and we just. Yeah, we had clocked this arcade
earlier so we wanted to go back and it was pretty small, pretty
small arcade. And I at this point I actually
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thought if you have it, it couldbe gastro like this could be
worse than we think and we should not even be outside right
now touching anything, talking to anyone when?
You say gastro? You mean like what, some
bacterial? Like that, yeah, that's that's
viral, whereas like food poisoning, you just ate
something bad, you let it out ofyour system.
But gastro is like someone couldhave breathed on you with their
like I don't know if. Like bacterial?
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Germs or whatever and so then then you're sick for like 2
whole weeks. It might have been that dish
surf guy. It might have been you probably
went up to zoomed away. Yeah, these guys do some.
I'm out. Viral warfare.
Yeah, he's a spy. But then, yeah, that's when I
started contacting my friends aswell, who we've been hanging out
with saying just check out for the site.
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You're right. Yeah.
And then that night, you just kept complaining about how cold
it was and that you wanted your heater.
And I'm like, this man's not well, we are in a tropical
location. I'm dying.
I'm like literally just had to be nude in the room all day
because I was like, they can't have the air con, what are you
doing? I have this beautiful little
foot heater here. I might have mentioned this on
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on here like in Hong Kong here Ihave like a small heater that I
use for my feet and this amazing.
So I really was thinking of that.
Second MO, yes you have a foot heater, yes that you use where
in bed. No, I.
Used it last night on the couch.Was it fuck?
Yeah. Wait, what is the shape of this
heater? Like you put your feet on it.
It's. Just like one of those little
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round ones that sits on the floor.
It just, it just blows hot. Yeah, at your feet.
Yes, at my feet, fucking. I've been using it this whole I
want to say summer like not. Summer it.
Will be oh. My God on the couch.
This is what we have planned. Change you.
Know yeah you're literally warming it's like how do.
You think that it's not like blasting hot?
Like, I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old.
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Leave me alone. I think you're from, like, a
very hot country. So you always run cold.
You're always. Yeah, Yeah.
And you have no body fat, so youwant it hot all the time.
And so you're, like, delirious and, like, calling out for your
foot heater. Yeah, it's not.
Like was he doing complete sentences or just like random
key? Yeah.
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OK, well, this was actually not the peak of the worst of the
sounds, but then the peak the next day was yeah, in, in
Manila. So wait, wait, no, you skip
over. We have to fly in this
condition. Yeah, we have to hold on.
So you you went to the the mall,you arcade played the game, took
another. Shit, that was our last night in
El Nido and we have to fly the next morning at 7:00.
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AM so early, yeah, so early. So we had to get there.
We had to get the hotel at like.So at one point, is this going
to be a fun trip? It hasn't been so far like I.
I I'm trying to understand the decision making of doing this.
Well, the decision making was obviously always based on the
information, like the best case scenario, yeah.
You never think of like something will go wrong.
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Yeah. But also the part when we are on
stage in Manila, yeah, that's super.
That's what it's worth it. That's when it's worth.
All. This, but I could have also just
gone to Manila for a couple of days.
Just. Catch up with my comedy Manila
Friends. Yeah.
I've done the show and completely skip over needle.
Yeah, and being sick for a week and.
Yeah, All right, Get up. And you felt better.
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Then I was feeling, yeah. And had a Full breakfast.
No, not really. I just like because I was like
empty basically I needed to eat something.
So I had like a very quick like like hotel breakfast, like
scrambled eggs, whatever, just to have something in me.
And then we get on the little tuk tuk.
That's that's the official meansof transportation to the
airport. And if you have ever been to El
Nido Airport, it's a literal villa with one runway that is
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also a hotel and an airport. And it's pretty cool there's.
No carousel or needing to pick up your bag somebody.
Comes. They just come and give you the
bag, Yes. And the check in is just like
some lady in Hawaiian shirt. It's all very ghetto.
Sure. Yeah, I know had a had a power
outage as well. When my friends were there, they
were stuck for three hours like this.
Is your power outage airport happening every?
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Yeah, every few hours. So yeah, we fly to Manila.
I'm starting to feel worse againafter feeling better in the
morning. And then we get to the hotel in
Manila. That's what I'm like, starting
to. Basically, we're just dying.
Yeah. So we get to.
How long is the flight? How long is flight?
It's only one hour. 1 1/2. Yeah, OK.
But to get to the hotel in Manila, we're there at like
10:30. They obviously wouldn't let you
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check in, but I preempted this by going hi, we're here, I need
to check in. I'm basically dying like.
Please, you said tired. I'm really tired.
I'm very sleepy. Yeah.
I didn't want to tell them that I'm sick.
Yeah, I just said I'm very sleepy and tired.
Please give us a room. Yeah.
And they did, which was nice. OK.
So go there, try to sleep for the whole day, and yeah, that
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the whole day is basically. Yeah, my recollection of that
hotel room was just complete darkness for about 24 hours.
Yes. Like, so I had to kind of work
at the desk and like, live like a bat and.
Well. That.
So was the rent you're paying inyour honking apartment exempted
on that day? It wasn't.
No, it was. Not so.
You're paying rent in Hong Kong in an apartment that no one's
using, and you're paying rent for the hotel room where you
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basically just slept what you could have done in Hong Kong,
Correct. Please continue.
So that's when he was maximum dying and I.
Parallel to that, and without going into any details that
would get us in trouble, we're also parallel to all of this.
We're having a bit of a side discussion with the production
company, with the with the with the documentary we're working
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on, on some final details. Got it.
Basic. And some people have different
opinions and stuff, but it's notan easy discussion.
Let's just leave it there. So we're having two separate
discussions about that. One is about, you know, some of
the credits and stuff and 1 is about a screening that we're
having in Hong Kong. Both of the conversations are
not going great. OK, they're very stressful.
Very stressful works. Why not?
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Basically so work is blown. And they're like, we can't put
the name first. Sure.
In the credits it's stuff like this and the other.
Yeah. OK, OK.
It's stuff like this that in, you know, in the bigger
projects, like it happens, yeah,when people, oh, no, this is my
opinion. Like I've done this, whatever.
But they were being difficult and we were not budging,
basically. Yeah.
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And we just like, OK, it's not gonna happen this way.
And, you know, it started escalating a little bit.
And it's stuff that like you cannot, it's not.
It's quite urgent because the the release data set and the
screening data set. You know what's interesting?
And there is also funding. There is also a government body.
Involved now even more so, yeah.More so there is funding
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involved that now they might pull and.
And it's like, this is all happening while she was dying,
and then she stopped dying. And then I started dying and it
was like, yeah. So I'm typing emails where the
background noise is my going. Yeah, yeah.
And it's really annoying. It makes me sound like a harsh
person, but I'm. Like caring, yeah.
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Yeah, but I'm like, that's really stressing me out.
Like unless you're really reallydying, can you keep the noises
to a minimum? Yeah, well, I don't know,
actually, I'm doing this. I think it's in my mind, I told
her as well, like as you start like getting better, I think I'm
reminding myself that I'm still alive.
So it's like you make any kind of noise, You're like, oh, I'm
still here. That's just.
The weirdest logic. That's such an Egyptian thing to
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do, man. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe I moved on to the next line, Yeah.
Yeah. It's like, you know, Yeah.
You know, you go to the pyramidsand every movie is like MO being
Egyptian. Yes, exactly.
Like, does she know I'm still? Does she know?
Yes, exactly. She's.
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Got on with her life. She's typing emails.
Don't. Forget about me.
Don't forget about me, I'm goingto ruin your life.
I actually thought about taking him to the hospital and there
was a really nice looking one across the road and we looked at
some reviews. I think this is like at like
midnight. So we're staying in BGC Manila,
which is the newest nicest part of town book.
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Ditto Group Central or whatever,BGC, whatever it stands for,
super nice, like really high end, like bunch of malls like
Tesla shops and crazy, crazy forManila.
And we're staying there. And she found the hospital right
next to the hotel, yeah, and started looking up the reviews.
Yeah, the reviews and some are bad, but the good ones said like
really efficient and for a priceof so they, they one review said
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5000 pesos to get checked in andthen another 5000 for the
medication. Yeah.
Which is 10,000 pesos is a little bit over 1000 Hong Kong
dollar. I can live with that and they're
going to fix me. However, we had a show the next
day. All of this is happening while
we have the Comedy Manila show the next day and I couldn't risk
the hustle. Yes, exactly.
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But also that's when like my cheapness also saved my life
because I'm like, or you know, like my cheapness also saved me
and stay being cheap because I'mlike, I'm just going to try to
power through the night. I have done this before, even by
myself. Usually it's like your buddy's
trying to fight something. That's me just completely using
man logic. That's not this.
Is not medical information. Here is like for medical
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information, please talk to yourdoctor.
I just try to keep myself as warm as possible.
Yeah, and it's as comfortable asit can be.
Just try to sweat it all out. That's my again, this is my self
remedy. Yeah.
And some people be like a fucking idiot.
Yes. OK so I did that and the bed was
fucking soaked. It was soaked, it was so sick
and I'm glad that they had a mattress protector because the
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hotel before this, no mattress protector.
What kind of hotel doesn't have?A yeah, that's crazy.
So the Manila Hotel, yeah. And I started, I wore like my 1
jumper that had like like long sleeves.
So you do like to Rocky Balboa? Yeah.
For the fight, Yes. Yes.
You had like the the black, likethe garbage bag around you.
Yeah, yeah. Pretty much.
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Actually I wanted to put a garbage bag over his head.
Like shut the fuck. Up.
So yeah. And it like I was like, you're
basically I was just violently shaking a bed for a while trying
to like just stay as warm as possible.
And then at like 3:00 AM it did start to pay off because my
temperature started to go down because I always had a little
fever on top of all of this. Yeah, started to go down a
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little bit and started actually being like, not delirious.
I'm like, OK, I need water. Just.
Because the problem was that you, you couldn't puke.
Yes. And you couldn't drink, Correct.
But you didn't want to drink anything because it made you
want to puke. And so I'm like, this guy's not
getting any fluids in. Yeah, I think I'll take you to
the hospital and put you in an IV drip or something.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, OK, I, I am aware
of that, that it can be like pretty scary.
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Let's just get to the morning and see what happens, you know,
hopefully nothing happens between them.
And yeah, by like 3:00 AM I'm like, oh shit, I'm just, I think
I'm, I'm starting to get throughit.
And by like maybe 4:00 AM or something, I'm like, oh, I can
actually sleep kind of normally now.
Nice. Yeah.
And then like slept from like 4 to like 7 or 8 or whatever.
We had to wake up again. And yeah, from there started
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like being good again. And yeah, we got to the show.
Show fantastic, great, great show.
Comedy, Mini lab crew. Last time I was there was 2018
and they were still like, they're not at the structure
that they have now. Now GB and the guys have a
corporation of of production, which is just nuts.
So Mikey Andreas was in charge of my show, him and this other
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guy, JP, and they had they had us.
So she was headlining and they had us at a brick wall, which is
one of their venues that they just now hold shows at.
Big Comedy Manila Logo. How was your experience?
I've been before. I really liked that there was a
mix of the languages and that nobody really complaints or
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like. Apparently, the touring acts
might find it a little annoying that they can't understand all
the jokes, but the audience members are really.
Respected. But that's typical.
Like even in in Mumbai, I remember like half the
committees would do like their punch lines in Hindi and they're
like, oh, OK. But there was like, you know,
people would ask, like, what language are you doing your set
in today? Even if the audience is like.
You know, mixed. Yeah.
So then I was on last and did 20minutes.
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They were working on standard brown time for sure.
So we started the show like, Oh yeah, 45 minutes late.
Yeah, by the time I got on TV. Music before.
Oh, no music after. Yeah, Yeah.
But they were tired by the time I'd gone on.
You know, a lot of people had checked out a bit, but did my
best and had a fun time. Yeah, that lot of I didn't
realize so many people actually knew me.
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They actually came out for me, like, oh, this is just for my
own selfish enjoyment of going to a new place.
But yeah, some really nice old ladies came up at the end.
There's also a memory of that. We skipped over that.
We were in a food court at some point.
It was exactly the the Thai restaurant.
And Alito was switched. Yeah, when she's eating pepper
lunch and having a great time and I was dying.
(37:25):
Yeah, and please let me leave. Yeah, I need exactly a sweet
relief reverse. Yeah.
So that's us in Manila. She's eating pepper lunch,
having a great time. I am like And then this random
old white guy walks up to us. This is the exact conversation
that happens. The first thing that comes out
of his mouth was pointing at me and he goes, where are you from?
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No, no, hello, no hello. Right after he is like I'm
dying. Please, let's leave.
I'm like, I'm literally like, myhead is, is on the sticky like
like court, food court. Table.
Just trying to, oh, after I tried to plug my turn on my
laptop because again, that's howurgent our documentary stuff
was. I wanted to open my laptop and
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send an e-mail or whatever and then turns out my laptop is not
charged. I'm like, fuck this.
I was just going to die. And as soon as he put my head
down, this random white guy comes.
Older white guy goes, where are you from?
And I go Egypt and he goes, I'm Australian.
I'm like, she's Australian. Yeah, she.
Just points to me and I'm like, you know, knowing full well that
if I prolong this conversation, I might be mad that we're not
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leaving. Yeah.
But also I don't want to get outof these.
Kind of chats and then he startssaying he's from Sydney and then
he looks at me and he goes do you do stuff on ABC?
He said. Do you work for the?
ABC I was like, oh, you have done some Yeah, I've done some
stuff. And he then he recognized me.
I'm getting spotted in a random food court in Manila, and he
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goes, because whatever happened to China tonight?
Like, because I haven't put out publicly.
That show got axed. So then we got chatting and
turns out he's like a preacher, like missionary.
Yeah. So he's out there.
So he had approached me. We found out that he had
approached me first because he approaches like foreigners.
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Yeah, to because he knows the Filipinos are already converted.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So but then once I said she's
Australian, he really recognizedher from ABC.
So he's, he's like the whole conversation changed.
But at no point did he try to heal you.
No. Well, exactly.
Saying that you were ill, I mean.
You should have. I looked like.
I'm ill. I mean the fact that he was you
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were like Egyptian and not saying I'm Christian.
Yeah, this guys ill. Well, it's also, I think if he
had started his pitch, we joke about this, if he had started
his pitch, and I go, my name is Muhammad.
That's like the ultimate Uno reverse car.
Yeah. And he's like, have you heard
about Jesus? Have you heard about?
Have a nice day have. A nice day, Sir.
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Now it's my turn. Exactly right.
There, man. Yes.
So yeah, that random. And then he was and exactly like
he came to preach or whatever. Yeah, we started converting him
to like converting him to come to our show.
Yeah. Yeah, he got, he got his
WhatsApp. Got his WhatsApp and then he
sent me a message going is that does the show have a rating?
I'm like, well some people swearand you know, whatever.
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And he just never responded. So he was like, the Lord doesn't
take it. Swearing, Yeah.
Yeah, thou shall not speak at the fuck yes.
Well, there was a there was a lot of sex in that show.
I'm glad he didn't come along. One of the opening acts I was.
I mean, he is. Very surprised.
A religious guy, I think if all people, the ones who are doing
the most of those, yes. I mean, have you seen the
(40:37):
newspaper? No one, no one's reporting about
like, oh, in tempo court, peopleare copulating and don't say
that like the father, Yeah. The Father, yes, yeah, the one
of the opening acts was particularly like very, yeah,
explicit. And she's also like making a lot
of references to church and priests and stuff.
I'm like. Yeah.
Thank you. I'm not particularly even like
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obviously I'm not from that religion, but also I don't, I'm
not that sensitive to stuff likethis.
And I was standing there going, that's a little much.
No, that's crazy. I don't know.
That's why he probably sensed like a comedic angle from you
and that's why he came up to you.
Like, where you from? Yeah, yeah.
Probably was trying to ask whichcomedy club are you from?
Yes, he. Gets the dirtiness in your
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thoughts? Yes, yes.
Yeah. So, yeah, we did the show and
then that was that was great. You ate a full meal after My.
It's too soon because I believe in the soda water cracker diet.
And he's just so against it. We're like, look at me now.
Yeah. But I feel good after two days
because I slowly reintroduce solids to my diet.
(41:41):
Yeah. And him, he's just yo, yoing off
eating like a whole chicken. Nothing like how to feel good.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I really, and also I wanted to hang out with with the guys
as well. So have a meal.
And Mikey Andrews is a good friend of mine.
So we wanted to have a dinner after the show.
Yeah. And the only thing that was open
or available at the time was a chicken wings joint.
(42:02):
So of course I just had like a bucket of a chicken wings and.
Quesadilla and. Quesadillas and you know, just
living it up for a night. But the night was fine.
But then again, the next day we have a flight to back to Hong
Kong at 3:00 PM. She wants to buy suitcase before
that. And Manila traffic being what it
is, we means we need to leave the hotel at like 11:00 AM doing
(42:24):
all of that, cut the suitcase, whatever, cut to all of this we.
I had the breakfast. You were now unwell again.
Unwell again. Surprise, surprise.
Yes. So I'm not eating the breakfast,
I'm just sitting there sipping tea and it's fine.
All of this goes fine. We come back to Hong Kong and we
need to go straight to base hallfor the show.
So after so also, I don't know if we did mention that very
(42:46):
clearly. We left like Hong Kong last week
when I handed you over. Yeah, Vivek.
Halfway through the show. Halfway through the show to run
that show. So I basically left Hong Kong
from base hall. So MO messages me at like 8.
No, sorry, 845 when the show starts at 8:30, 'cause I won't
laugh. I'm like, yeah, I'll show there
by 9. I'm good.
Yeah, I want to finish some workat home.
And yes, he's like, when are yougonna be here?
I'm like, I'm on my way. I'll be there like 915.
(43:08):
He's like I need you need to help me finish the show off On
what? Have you met me?
This is when you get instructions, OK?
Just stay. Stay on your phone.
Yeah, yeah. Immediate.
Yes. I'm like, I need you here now.
So. Were you always supposed to host
the show? Last night, like the one after
we arrived from Manila, there was no host.
Like I couldn't book any other host.
(43:29):
There was no one available. Because I would have definitely
not recommended that from the time of.
No, but there was no other one available and people on the
lineup were not comfortable hosting.
Like yeah, because you're rushing the check in tickets and
then like there was stuff that you were saying that I'm like
this is not normal more but he would never say anything like
this is. Not yeah.
Yeah, I was. What are you doing?
(43:50):
Actual fumes. Yeah, he was like, I almost
cancelled the because like, you know, we're running late from
the airport. Like, why are you telling people
this? Yeah, you never would have
cancelled something helped you like run.
It or whatever, you run like oneafter, not just like you.
You introduce the next person. That's it, you know.
No, no, we we actually like it started like pretty like as as
like a lot of the smaller shows are started like, oh, no one
(44:12):
knows what the energy is like towards the second-half.
It was really good. Like, yeah, like, especially
when we're doing crowd. Work stuff.
Every people were on board more,but yes, they can also tell.
And I wanted to do that in the beginning to be straightforward,
but like why? My energy was not that great.
I'm like we literally just landed but.
People also can't tell. Like that's the, yeah, that's
the magic of showbiz. And I had good advice that you
(44:33):
should only ever give them maximum 80% of your true energy,
you know, because then like, yeah, if you have to reserve
something for yourself as well, like if you always go at 100,
you just, it's not right. True.
Well, we should probably talk about the documentary at some
point. We have about 7 minutes.
To. Documentary.
(44:54):
But yeah, this is the whole trip, including the two shows in
Hong Kong, the one in Manila andthe power spews.
Yeah, the documentary is a Yeah,it's.
Been released. It's been released finally after
working on this for almost a / ayear.
More than a year. More than a year since the first
concept was pitched to ABC. So from having done some stories
(45:19):
about comedy in China, the old producer that I had got got a
pitch together and said we should make something longer.
So then we got more to choose the countries of where we should
feature in Asia to showcase someof the comedy scenes.
And Manila was on the list as well.
We considered. I was on the list originally.
Yes, and if I had seen experienced it myself, I would
(45:42):
think that it does have a strongangle still because of the
language and I. Mean to be honest, every scene
has a strong Yeah, if you go if you go to Mongolia, you'll find
that crazy interesting scene. If you go to Indonesia, I'll
find a crazy interesting scene. I've performed in Myanmar.
This is there is a scene there, you know, so like ideally you
want to actually cover all of them.
You want to cover the random show that happens in Korea every
(46:05):
six months? That's also interesting, yes.
So we had to stick to three. Countries and Hong Kong made the
cut and that's how Vivek is in the doco and we went to Malaysia
and Cambodia as well and now it became a one hour documentary.
I managed to convince the heads that it deserves more than half
an hour because of how many guests.
Actually, we started on 20 minutes, the very or maybe 30
(46:28):
minutes. Yeah, it.
Was like a 28 minute, like yes, with provos and whatever things
they wanna run, but yeah, all wewere thinking about it being
three different chapters, like 3episodes in each.
Yeah. I mean, yeah, we have to give
ourselves credit for doing something that they're saw and
they're like, oh, this deserves a full hour.
That's. Really amazing, yeah, yeah,
definitely. Especially how hard it is to
(46:49):
pitch anything and then doing yourself like if you have a film
stuff, how expensive it is to even do 5 minutes of quality
production. So yeah, it's quite a long time
and being able to go in depth with all of these characters of
the scene. So yeah, shortlisting who should
represent Asia? And I found that it's actually a
really solid group. Like the unit of comedy in Asia
(47:12):
is very united. I think that's something cool
that I also thought this tracks in Manila too, because they all
know each other. So if you know someone who's a
good person or not a good person, you all hear about it
so. So quickly, yeah, I I will say I
know what you're alluding to or maybe on purpose or not, but
there was like when we are announced the show in Manila,
(47:34):
there was someone who like got in touch and then I'm like,
that's, that's a little weird. And then I immediately asked the
guys in Manila and they just give me like the full rundown.
It was like, oh, this is like our resident.
It's. Like printing, printing out.
Like. Like asking the CIA.
Yeah, yeah, exactly. But it's true, like and Vivek
like you must have had the same experience like after so many
(47:56):
years, like you know the key players in every market
obviously, and you can so quickly get any information
about anybody. It's.
Asking me, hey, this guy contactme.
Bam. OK, Exactly.
Yeah. But yeah, you have also been
with, with me in like Asia, likeAsian markets long enough to
know like, yeah. So when I'm talking to Sam
Thomas in Cambodia, I'm talking to Mikey in, in Philippines or
all of these play or result in in Malaysia.
(48:17):
All of these places were all just like at least 10 years
known each other. And it's just as you said, it's
very united, like one unit. And also people know those are
the guys that you can get reliable information from.
Yeah, and honestly, our scene isso like we, because we're in it,
it seems like anything like if you're in the family or
whatever, you just don't appreciate and don't know how
(48:39):
cool or how special it is. And then you do something like
that documentary and you're like, look how cool this is.
Like the Cambodia part I'm so proud of.
Like when you see it on the final part, it's it looks
amazing just how the scene is and how Sam talks about it with
so much passion. And you're like, why is this
white American guy so clearly passionate about comedy in
(49:03):
Cambodia? And it's like, yeah, this it
takes a special kind of breed ofpeople to do this for this long
year with clearly no financial goals whatsoever and just the
passion of like, hey, man, this comedy in this part of the world
is very special and I want to keep doing it.
Yeah. Wow.
Well, where? Where can we watch the show?
(49:24):
It is going to be on YouTube. That's going to be an easy way
to find it anywhere. But very excitingly, it's going
to be the first time I've done abroadcast this long in Hong Kong
where you can watch it on an actual TV.
Yeah. So yeah.
With your grandma? Never.
With your grandma. So it's on Now TV on Thursday at
11:30 AM, Thursday, 20th of February, yes.
(49:46):
And you, there'll be some repeats, I'm sure.
Maybe Now TV even has like a, you know, a little streaming
file style or something that youcan go back to to watch.
And also, if you're in Australialistening to this, it's on ABC
iview as well and. YouTube is available everywhere
for everybody. I don't believe it will be Geo
blocked like. Certain countries, right?
(50:07):
No, Yeah, yeah. So you can just watch it on
YouTube obviously when it drops.So one of the one of the things
we talked about earlier is, you know, people's roles and stuff.
So I can now officially say I'm one of the main producers of the
show, which I had a little bit of a thing with the network to
try to clear. But now I can say it on public.
So I'm one of the producers. And to have that as well after
(50:31):
working for so long on it is I'mvery proud of it.
But that also means that I will be talking about it on my social
media, and you can find it on mything, and then we'll put all
the YouTube links. Yeah.
And so people can watch it everywhere.
Some of the voice over that had to be picked up, which means you
needed something changed or it was missed.
Some of that audio was recorded on this equipment that you
(50:51):
listen to right now at Vivek's house.
So you're all tied into this? Yeah.
You like it or not? You had to, yeah.
You had some pickups to do, so you came here.
Came here and just smashed them out in an hour.
I dare you to figure out which audio bits are recorded here
versus in an actual studio with the sound engineer and.
Everything. Maybe.
Yeah, maybe. Maybe they should.
Try that. That would be a very good like
(51:13):
fuck you too the sound in here. Literally.
Yeah, you're like, I have the red light on air.
You're like, we didn't need that.
Yeah, and Speaking of the equipment, equipment is bought
with Patreon money. That's right.
So that's what we're about to doright now after we finish this
free episode is go into the Patreon when we will touch on
some of the spicier stuff that Ikept jumping around.
(51:35):
I don't know how we left anything in the tank.
Like we've talked about our buttholes.
Yeah, how it's feeling. I'm gonna go into the stuff that
we cannot talk about publicly and because people have lawyers
and stuff, but on Patreon, yeah,we take the risk.
You don't have to sit through this.
Yeah, I will talk about it. I.
Don't have a lawyer so. I have one and I'll give him to
(51:56):
you. He's great.
But yes, we're going to patreonpatreon.com/O Pod is the
best way to support all of this.And yeah, sometimes when you're
like talking about the work likethis and Vivek, I respect that
about you a lot because sometimes you casually go like,
Oh yeah, I was just, you know, hosting for Carrie Lam or
whatever. And you just like never stop and
(52:17):
realize how cool some of the things you're doing are for like
almost anybody else. And this is one of the things
like when you're even retelling the story of like, oh, I did
show in Hong Kong, went through the Philippines, got sick, still
did my show in the Philippines, came back, did a show in Hong
Kong. All of that while trying to work
on like, you know, finishing thedocumentary and fighting with
this person a day, whatever. And then do getting legal advice
(52:40):
or someone else. It's like the whole thing is
just a. It's like it's not.
Normal. Yeah, yeah.
It's completely. Not normal.
What you should be doing is on an island watching a sunset.
That is what that's what. People we started like, yeah,
like what? Until like what, 1000 years ago?
They're like, oh hey, I found the rock.
I want to show this rock to everybody and talk about this
(53:03):
rock forever. We're doing all of these things
and we're not even stopping and appreciating how cool it is.
Like not even how difficult to whatever, it doesn't matter, but
how cool the things that we're doing are.
So yeah, that's that's all I want to say.
Yes, that was. Long story short, most still
shitting himself so this is. Less so.
But unresolved. Unresolved.
Like how is he doing now? Yes, it's it's still not great
(53:25):
and I'm still not eating and next week he can compare and see
if I got even skinnier. All right everyone record the
picture before I pass out. Thank you.
Thanks, Annie for joining us. Our first guest on video wanted
to have the most the best good looking person just cut this
thing out. I'm just going to ramble.
He's waving to. OK Thanks everyone.
(53:46):
Bye.
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