#89 – How did American lawyer Samuel Bickett end up in a Hong Kong prison?
In December 2019, American Lawyer Samuel Bickett was leaving Causeway Bay MTR station when he saw a couple of older men in plain civilian clothes beating up a teenager with a baton. He tried to stop them and ended up getting arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer despite the men repeatedly saying that […]
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#88 – Comedian-turned-pastor Drew Fralick
Comedian Drew Fralick was among the first wave of the OG China-based standup comedians. He performed standup comedy all over mainland China in both mandarin and English! Drew is still the only comedian to win both of Asia’s biggest standup comedy festivals, China and Hong Kong! Drew moved back to his home state of Detroit […]
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#87 – The highs and lows of living in Hong Kong with John Buckman and Bugs Harpley
Bugs Harpley and John Buckman have a true success story. They are the power couple behind Decent Espresso , over the years, John has founded multiple companies including Magnatune online music service supporting independent musicians get their revenue share, BookMooch: An online community for exchanging used books. John is also a Member of the Advisory […]
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#86 – How Hong Kongers’ holiday traditions changed over the years with comedian Garron Chiu
It’s a new year folks! Happy 2022! For the first episode of the year, we decided to make it a thing and have comedian Garron Chiu back on for the new year’s episode! If you remember last year Garron was also on for the 2021 NYE special! This time we chat about how much has […]
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#85 – Christmas special with Icelandic comedian Kári Gunnarsson
For Christmas this year, we have Icelandic comedian Kári Gunnarsson on, we chat about “Icelandic Santa” , how we celebrate Christmas in our respective cultures and we make very poor attempts at pronouncing “Eyjafjallajokull” Facebook group for Bohol Typhoon Relief: https://www.facebook.com/groups/boholtyphoonrelief To donate to Bohol Relief Operations from Supertyphoon Odette: https://donorbox.org/immediate-relief-operations-for-the-homeless-of-valladolid-loboc Follow Kári […]
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#84- A sketchy job with SCMP cartoonist Harry Harrison
Harry Harrsion needs no introduction, if you have been in Hong Kong for more than a couple of months, you must have come across one of his drawings. Harry is the principal cartoonist for the South China Morning Post, his work appearing six days a week. We chat with Harry about his new book “Add […]
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#82 – When the joker is sicker than the joke
On this very special episode, Mohammed’s voice is suspiciously different, Vivek chats with “Mohammeded” on how comedians like any performers need to sometimes do shows when they’re not feeling 100% but unfortunately, they cant have an “under study” or have a “substitute”… unlike other artforms, they are the art itself. Leave us a review: […]
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#81 – Mohammed Before Comedy!
Vivek has a big announcement to make regarding his ongoing Facebook page saga, then we delve into part 2 of the “Before Comedy” series. This time it’s Mohammed’s turn. What was life like in Egypt when he was growing up? Way before the 2011 revolution, the move to China and taking up a career in […]
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#80 – What‘s the deal with comedians and depression? With psychotherapist Tim Hoffman
“All comedians are depressed”, “Good comedy has to come from a dark place”, “tragedy+time=comedy” are among some of the most common phrases you hear thrown around in the comedy world, but are any of them actually true? And why does it seem to be a pretty common narrative in the comedy world? We ask our […]
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#79 – How a friendly chat with HK‘s most wanted man led to his arrest with ”Tracy”
At nearly 5am on Tuesday October 12, 2021 a taxi carrying a foreign passenger drove along Queen’s Road West and the 50-year-old taxi driver in the vehicle was suspected of arguing with the passenger for some reason. The foreign passenger then used a hard object to hit the neck of the driver which resulted in […]
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