So I reiterate here, the bill is dead. The story of this great city is about the years before this night. We are free. Hey everyone it's Ho Ho Hong Kong with me, Vivek Mahbubani and my Co house. Who is? Ahmed. McGee that's where we're back here again with another episode. This time if you are die hard fans, you might be thinking like, hold on a second, something feels a bit different. First of all I have a muffled voice because my nose is semi blocked, my throat is very
tired. We were partying last night. Exactly. Yeah, we were hosting the Aftermath 6th birthday party last night at the Aftermath. Coincidentally partying in your own place. They literally party where they shit and eat. Yes, it's a basement, so you have no idea what's happening after a while. Is it like, is this a party? Is this is everyone hanging out? It was a lot of fun. It was actually, I guess you, you used to have a band for a long time. So what are you?
What are you? Are you still sensitive to like loud noise or? Not so much now. I think I've really outgrown it to the point where I'm not like, I want to be there and just like boogies and everything. I'm like, I'm good because I really feel that my line of work, I have to listen to so much stuff in general that actually like for me to enjoy. I need like a little quiet. Yes, yeah. That's what I felt as well.
Yeah. And we had to go in and out a lot, not only because we're hosting, but also you can't say through like 45 minutes of four bands. And it's loud. Yes, loud. It's all I can say. And the respect to there is a lot of like, Gray haired people in the audience. I'm like, how are you doing it? Are we just this old? What is happening? I did see an older couple and I was like, well, they're really, they're staying till the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty impressive.
Hey, I don't know man, maybe nowadays there's a certain formula where the Benjamin buttoning in it where they're actually like trying to use this type of serum that they look old when they're young and they get. Going back to Brian Johnson, the guy who doesn't die, yeah, maybe he is actually onto something. This might be. Yeah, he's like, is you, if you do the things young people do, your body will get tricked. And The thing is so young. Yes, you know, and it won't do
the aging. Oh, it's time to creak those, those, you know, joints. It's like, well, they're still young, let's do this. I I think ironically what people are doing, they like if you're old enough and you are going to a gig like this, you are definitely messing up something in your ear. I don't think it's helping your health to be that like, to stay in a place that noisy. Maybe. Maybe it's also like one of those things that they are hard of hearing already.
Yes, this is the only thing they can hear. True that you need the music to be really loud. Yeah, So you can be like, oh, so that's what a guitar sounds like. I completely forgot until they played this. Yeah. They couldn't get, like, super speakers in their home. Yeah. Neighbors would knock on the door, of course. Yeah. They kind of actually put an amplified in the middle of the street, you know that stuff. Now they're like, like, this is the one place I can find here's something.
So they had the reverse thing where like, my kind of pieces, my my break is when I get peace. Yeah. They've had a whole week of just silence. Yes. And then like finally some sound. Something is happening. Yeah, here's some light jazz. Wait, you live with Gloria? Do you have the whole like how long into the relationship when you just started like not hearing each other? Who are you talking about? Because, you know, like, it's a
thing. What I think with, like, couples of people living together in general, yeah, that after a while it feels like someone is hard of hearing, but it's actually just like, like the whole time is like, you know what? Yeah. Yeah, you have. A lot of that what what did you?
Say, I think not so much, mostly because the house is number one small yes #2 is that I think maybe from just growing up, I've always been the more alert by default guy right and hence why whenever she says anything I'm I'm actually like always semi paying attention to it. Yes, he's actually not good because I'm always distracted. Whatever. However, I think no, no, it would be missing out the full sentence. Like my my I would now just.
Tune out in the middle of this. Yeah, yeah, You're like, all right, this is boring. It's not. It's basically skipping the words like the of zombies, I think, right. I'm like just OK, that's what you want. Yeah, you know, like you. Just want to get to the point quickly. Yeah, I think it'll be a good idea if maybe today for coffee, we can do this at 4:00 PM, so we have a bit more time to clear out the house. Yeah, I just heard coffee, 4:00 PM clear house. OK, that's.
Fine. And of course you respond to ways. I get it. Yeah, yeah, I have. Like sure. OK, I get. It Yeah, I got, I got bills to pay. So let's get on with this. Yeah, yeah. What about you, Carl? What about you? I think the few times that I stayed with someone for long enough, it does feel like at some point, like you almost know what they're going to say. Yeah, at the beginning of the sentence. And they're still getting to it. You're like you're. Still getting to it. Yeah.
So. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's like, for example, here's something from the kitchen and you already know it's about the dishes. I'm like, OK, it's. I can safely assume if you're just saying the dishes are piling up again. So I'm like, OK, yeah. But then unfortunately I still wanna hear everything because it almost feels like you're missing out or maybe like you're gonna get the wrong message. So as opposed to you like, no, I know exactly. The message is clear from me. I'm like, what?
So you end up throwing with a what? And then you're like. Say it again. Yeah, yeah, say it again. Yeah, that happens. I don't know, like maybe that's just the defaulting. People get to a point in your life. The older you get, the less you want to notice because there's so many things coming towards you. Exactly. Yeah. And I have actually the other thing that is funny, like my dog has been not scientific, medically diagnosed with panic
disorder, which is hilarious. My dog has a mental condition. So you are basically the therapy animal for your dog. Yes, exactly. She completely reversed roles. She's supposed to be my therapy dog now. I'm the therapy human. So what happens is that for the last like 10 days or so, she would just wouldn't be settled at night. Every night, she's like, from 4:00 AM to, like, 8:00 or 9:00 AM, just like, she doesn't bark, but she's, like, clawing at everything.
She's basically just wants me to wake up. Yeah. And just wants me to comfort her. But I can't even do that because if I take her on the couch and she's not allowed in bed, but when I take her to the couch and, like, try to comfort her, she's still, like, not settled. Yeah. But even though I'm close to physically holding her, she's just, like, wants to, like, freak out. And apparently it's because of the noise outside. And it's not even that noisy, but there is still like some
noise. I said like the lady, the trolley lady or whatever. So anyway, I took her to the vet, yeah. And the vet basically gave her like equivalent of dog Xanax. Oh wow. Yeah. So she's like, oh chill now. Yeah, that's the funny part. She's jogged up a lot at home. Like she still like walks around and stuff, and obviously it wears out. It wears off towards like the evening and then you have to drug it up again. Yeah, but now I'm like, OK, now the dog is on drugs.
Yeah, like what the fuck? What have you got yourself into, man? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah. It's it's wild. She's 7. Like, you're not. But like, apparently as they grow older, their sleeping patterns change anyway. Yeah, but because she's specifically sensitive to noise. Then OK, I'm curious how how much would it take for you to be willing to literally pick up and move somewhere for her sake? Well, that's the thing, someone else said the. Same thing, you know, Hey, she's
a, she's a greenery dog. She needs to be, you know, amongst the bushes and stuff. I, I don't think it's possible now anyway because of work and everything, but I think knowing her well, it's going to be, she's still going to find something to freak out about because it's just her nature. She's a very anxious dog. Yes, too many trees. But actually the main thing is pigeons and pigeons, it can't really escape, especially in nature. It's actually going to get worse.
Yeah. So you know, like the like, you know, land on the AC unit outside or whatever. And she's like. And so, so actually in nature, it could be worse. The only thing is that the nature can help her, like exert her energy more. So you can just like chase whatever around. Yeah. Yeah. So that could be better. And obviously I exercise her and take her for long walks and stuff, but it's, it's just like, crazy to think like, oh, now the dog is on drugs. Yeah. And.
You never imagined. Yeah, you don't imagine. Counseling sessions. Yep so every like week pretty much you have to go to the vet to like renew the prescription yeah yeah, yeah and it's like it's it's a crazy but like I I told the vet as well, like I need to sleep. Whatever you think should happen just put them all in her face yeah I don't care anymore. I. Need to sleep? Damn, so it's it's pigeons. Now what is mostly pigeons? Yes. All right, here's a different type of therapy you can
consider. All right, You take your dog to, like, the roast meat shop, specifically Young Key. Yes. Or wherever that they sell roast pigeons. Yes. All right. Yeah. And you literally, like, buy a pigeon. Actual live pigeon. Yeah. You show your dog the pigeon, Right. She took an addict. That's what they call exposure therapy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then real quick, like a magic trick, you put a cloth over the pigeon. Yeah. And you whip out the cloth and there's a roasted pigeon.
And then the dog eats it. Yes. The dog's like I have conquered it. Yes, dude, that's not a bad idea, I know. Man, I mean, like if she does that and for all you know, she might be like, that's all I needed to know that I still can have power of these. Yes. The next time the pigeons go, whoa, whatever they do, yeah, it'd all be a fast asleep yes. I don't know, man. I think I think that could work. We back the Dog Whisperer exactly, having never owned the dog.
The number of times I've gone up to a bitch and getting like bitch. I think it's not about it. I have to run it past the vet. But also the roasted pigeon. They can't eat like stuff that has like a lot of spices with salt or whatever grease. Just go straight up just. Have to like just get her like a boiled one. Basically I'm sure you can buy like just. The Yeah, the raw one. And then you boil it. Yeah. And there's a cleaver to her. And like, let her watch it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like maybe put it in the in the microwave or something or the oven. She's watching all the time, watching go from like raw and the cookies, like, OK, I see what's happening here. Yes. Like what you do. I. Fly around the oven of it, yeah. Go on YouTube, look for let's say pigeon video collage. Yes, right. Pigeon for dogs, yeah. Something like that, right. And you play that video, there's a whole bunch of different random pigeons flying around. Yes yeah. The dogs losing her shit. Yeah.
So. Oh my God. I can't give her like 5 minutes of that. She's just like traumatized as shit. Yeah. And then quickly while she's like not dazed and going like, I don't know what's going on. I can't handle them overdose. You move her to a little oven or anything? Yeah. Do you have an oven? Yeah, yeah. It's like that. The, the, the, the desk one. Yeah. Immediately put her in front, there's already pitched inside and you switch it on. Yeah so she's still thinking okay, rectangle shape.
That was the screen I was. Also not that smart, so yes you can easily. Check her, hey don't, she can have feelings, okay? She has feelings. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So now she's looking at this thing like I see some resemblance of this rectangle shape. Previously we were watching all these pigeons traumatize me in this rectangle shape. This thing is also within the rectangle shape. I see the connection here. But the difference is this one
is not moving. This one, if anything, is starting to smell really fragrant. And the girl like wait a second and then all of a sudden she has thing her brain has the idea of like wait a second, something seems good. You open up the. Oven she's like, hold on a second that pigeon is not moving anymore. There's no whatever they do and the next thing you know there's a bowl pigeon in it. Dog goes munch and dogs like. This is it. This is it. I conquered it.
That's right, this is. And that is how we have the dog equivalent of the Batman. Yes, first. Taste of your victory. Over. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, this is, this is all a very long winded way to go back to the aftermath where the noise. Yeah, it was so that. Yeah, exactly. Also one thing that happened in the aftermath, we were introducing the bands and we were given a line up, the rundown of the night and we we brought out a band, We were announcing a band.
It was on the lineup that was the next band on. The lineup. So we were saying the next band is the. Lockouts. Lockouts. And turns out the next band was not the lockout it was. House plans House. Plans, Yeah. So those are two different bands in Hong Kong. Everyone. Maybe someone is listening, It's familiar with them. So the lockouts are standing in front of us and their local band, I think, like they're all Asian guys and people.
And the house plans are just white people in green charts. Yeah, Yes. And the house plans were quite mad that the lockouts were announced. Yeah. And the lockouts are just having no expression. They. Understand that we as well, we're getting ready for the lockouts. Lockouts are off stage and they're having drinks going like, yeah, we don't care. We just said you're banning. They probably think that's why it's another band called Lockouts.
That's how things go, right? And Hong Kong is such a big place. Yes, we have two bands of the same, of course. Yes. So yeah, the house plans are behind us off stage going. No, it's us, and we're both comparing the. Notes and we both have the same thing saying house plans so saying lockouts is next. No, actually, I have lockouts. They have house plans. Yeah, so someone messed up. Someone messed up, someone needed to go to the vet, yes, and get some sort of drugs. Yes, exactly.
But house plans are I don't. So we asked them why did you why are you a houseplant? Yeah, and I don't think we got a real answer. We did not. It was just got like they all have like green shirts with like monstera leaves on everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just something green, like over green for Plant to see what I've seen. I I think what must have happened. I see. You must understand artists work in a very special way. They can spend the 24 hours trying to think of a band name
already. They spend the 24 hours creating great music. Yes. And this band was like, I will not spend more than one minute. Creating good. Music. Yeah. Oh, that is all. That is all. We're assuming that if they if they spend only one minute on the band name, yes, the other minutes would be on good music. OK, alright. However, the one minute on the band name does not equal that they spend the next 59 minutes on the good music either.
Yeah, yes. But we do know that that's gonna be like, you know, the house plants thing, probably from what I could tell us, that they were sitting one day, guys, what do you want to call us? Call our names. And they probably were like, Oh my God, the Discovery ferries about leave in 10 minutes. Yeah, we better come with something quick. And they realize it takes 9 minutes to walk to the ferry period. And then we have one minute figure something out.
So the first thing that our eyes like we sat on eyes on. Yeah, yeah. And it was their house plants. Exactly. Basically, however, ironically, they did not have actual any actual house plans. What they did see, they looked like this is the house. Yeah. And we are planted on our chairs. And they were like, dude, dude, dude, check this out. Do you see what I'm what connection we just made? Yeah. It's the double innuendo. Yes. It could be a house plant or people that are planted in the
house. Ohh. God, dude, dude, bro, ohh, dude. You know what else we could do? Dude, dude. Just imagine we're on stage, right? OK, OK, OK OK. We're we're living around people know the house plans. Yeah, and we all wear green color. Ohh. Shit. Oh, man, we're gonna go up there and we're gonna do it. My God, this idea is so good. We better lock it out of any other ideas. Oh, yeah. And they're like, no, never. We never. We go Lockout. Yes. Don't you dare say the word lockout.
Yes. That traumatized me when I was seven years old. I was locked out of the house. Like that's it. Yeah. Yeah, maybe. The three of them came together. They were in the same neighborhood. They coincidentally got locked out at the same time 'cause their parents were in a swinger club, right? Right. They were in a swingers club. The parents were like, kids, you gotta be out of the house. Yeah, like, no, mom, I live here too, and they locked them out.
They these three kids are on the streets kicking pebbles. And what happened to you? They're like, I don't know, man. Your, your, your dad went to my mom and they locked the door. But your mom here to my dad's house, locked the door. What the hell? Right. And then they all came together. The third kid shows up, and he's holding this, like, cactus in his hand. Yeah, right. And he's like, what happened to you? I don't know. You know, I went in there and all of a sudden, just like this
cactus has four arms. 4 guys went into my mom's bedroom, Right? And then they were like, I don't know, man. Those guys were planted at my mom. Yeah, they were literally planting my mom in her house, and they all just sitting there kicking pebbles or whatever, looking at the cactus. And they were like, oh man, if one day, you know, one day I wish we could stay in our home just like the house plants never
get kicked out. Like, you know, one day I'm going to that's going to be our life life model. We will be house plants. You would never kick us out of the house. We'll always be welcome in this home, just like all that. Stuff. Yeah, cut to. Last night at the Aftermath. They're like, today's the day, guys. Today's the day. Remember when we were seven years old? Now we're 37 years old. If the time has come. Yeah, The Aftermath, 6th anniversary party, whatever. This is the moment.
Remember it because what happened, what happened then was when they were six year old. Yeah. So they like, we have to show up. It is. The the story makes sense exactly so that's why they were stand on stage side. They were nervous like man of the day is come. We've been practicing every single day. The house plants will make our make a name for themselves and there are two embassies on say like we look at the lockouts and all single like. The trauma.
Trauma losing their shit, which is why like I believe they did their set yeah and when we. Came back, we were all shirtless. They were all shirtless. I think what was have happened, It was like they were like, you know, just just peeling away, shedding away the old. The old trauma. The old trauma just getting the lockouts exactly, but they. Also, I think maybe they were taking off their shirts to get to to get ready to fight the lockouts. Could be, yeah.
Yeah, I think so as well. It was they what, they didn't realize that the USC fight was on the next day. Yes. Yeah. It wasn't that this was just live music. Yeah. So you have. But yeah, it was, it was cool. It was good to see the different bands play different types of music. We had some cover bands. We had some. Bands. I really enjoyed the covers of covers. The first one, yeah, yeah, yeah, you were really good. They play like cover song, but
in their own style. Yes, yeah, that was very good as well. So everybody you you just go like check them out, check out little local bands in Hong Kong and also the aftermath. You definitely want to go check out their shows. They always have some great. Coolest. Coolest. Like underground venue in town? Yeah. And if you missed out last night's birthday party number one, don't worry, they are probably going to turn 7 in the
years time. Yes, from my calculations, looking at the stars and asking every functioning master and looking at the year of the snake and this net, I believe, I believe the aftermath Hong Kong, the fact that they managed to turn 6 this year, in the year 2026, coincidentally, the stars will align and they will turn 7. I'm really, really worried that I would this prediction, this prediction. I feel this is the one prediction I'm going to say
today will happen. OK, yeah, let's let's all meet here next year and then see, Speaking of the predictions, what's your your Zodiac sign? So I am born in the year of the dog. I'm a Libra. I'm also Libra. I think we talked about this. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So Libra. But I didn't know you're a dog. Yeah, I'm a dog. Speaking of of dogs being. Right. It is a dog eat dog. Yeah, I were like a dog. Everything about me is a dog except for people coming out to be say, hey dog.
I'm like, no, I'm not that one. So I have a chart for you for the 2025. Year of the snake. So we have a week to go before a few days ago, I should say for before the year of snake. So if I were to, if you were to tell me I have bad news, yes, right. I technically still have a couple of days to enjoy it, unless I deny Lunineer completely. I put snake traps around my house, right? If I put snake traps around your house, I would be caught in it first because I have a snake, Yes.
I don't know. Do I want good luck? I don't want to continue this podcast. Oh, that's a tough one. Yes, it is a tough one. So this is going to be here on the on the visual the 2025 year of the snake. I don't know what you call this chart. Prediction thing. This would be basically the scheduler of the year I don't know I have. No personal personal lucky
charm. Yeah, I there's, I think there's a Chinese phrase, I forget what the phrase is, but there's a phrase that people go to like these functional masters, whatever and ask what is the coming up destiny and. So I took a photo of it. It's next to Man MO Temple, the famous Man MO temple that is totally for me and on Cat St. below Man MO temple. It's now become very popular with tourists, so there's a few people who are doing the traditional. Yeah, yeah, the fighters.
Yeah, the whole street now. There used to be a guy who literally looked. Like yoga, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, crazy looking yeah, like super cool, like Chinese master, like grey beard and. Hair typical sitting over there you just like take the calligraphy brush out and every stroke of it. Yeah, super cool. I think his name is Derek. Like his name? So not cool, dude. Yeah. Like I will give you the
fortune. Yes. Wait for me. Now I will write 4 Chinese words and these 4 words will give you the best life you have in the year of the snake. He writes a lot. This is I'm like, well, that's so cool, master. This is what does it say? It says fortune for you now. And I'm like whoa, master, that's awesome. I would now sign it to verify I wrote this, Derek. Why? Why we do like, like, at least like, you know, like. Are dumb. They need. They need, yeah.
At least like give yourself a Chinese sounding there like that. I like, you know, and I like, you know, like. There's a sign there, it says an English Derek Chan or whatever. But anyway, he hasn't been around for a little bit, like maybe for the last like month or so. Yeah, hopefully he's fine. But I, we actually caught him when I was walking the dog.
We caught someone the other day going literally just walking down the stairs and goes, goes to the desk where he's supposed to be. And there's like a much younger man with no beard. And clearly. She heard about she heard about Derek and she kind of knows what he looks like. I'm sure she knows like, oh, look for the guy who looks like, you know, like Confucius basically. And then she goes and I see the entire interaction because she's a foreign woman, clearly a
tourist. And she goes, hi, where is Derek? And the guy goes, I have Derek. And you're sitting like so. It's the good old bait and switch. Yeah, go look for Derek. And he might have sent his like, like, what is it called? Nephew or something? Nephew. Exactly. The problem is this, that this is where she gets where she's like, I don't know if I can say you don't look like. Yes, because it doesn't really look racist. Yeah, yeah. What do you mean I don't look like him?
Are you trying to say like whoa? Yeah, and she's just like looking at him. And she went, no, I'm just really. Wow, this. Guy, which is pretty cool, genius, because I'm like, clearly she knows that that's not the guy with her description. Yeah, look. Wow. Well, Derek, wherever you are, well done. Your brand is safe. Yeah, your brand is. Safe screwed by that.
I'm not getting screwed. I mean, yeah, he looks like the most I will hopefully he's back and I will go take a photo of him, a super nice man because he's in his own like little element. So when people are taking photos, he's not bothered by it. So if when he's back, I will take a photo and post it somewhere. So yeah, going back to sorry, it's a long winded way to say this was the lucky chart charm thing was posted on Memo Temple slash Cat Street where Derek is. Go find them.
And yeah, so we have 4 columns. We have Chinese Zodiac trend of the for the year. I feel like trend is not really. Trendy. I mean like, come on. I really it's not Confucius like. Trend. I'm not saying it is a thing, but that's what it seems to be, the thing people want to do. Yeah. And the best thing, that trend of the year, you have bad luck. That's not a trend. I don't want that to be my trend.
Yeah, well, we'll get to the trend part because mine is the risky personal lucky charm is the third column. Item you have to hold or something? That's a good luck for you, right? And funny enough, it's obviously right in front of, like, a souvenir shop, so you can, like, look at your thing. Yeah. And then the last one is additional like a charm so you can buy more things. Additional. Because Confucius says buy stuff. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Get more, get more fortune.
Yes, get more fortune. Doesn't matter. So for you, let's start with you. You're the. Dog. OK, you're the dog. Under trend for the year you have Goodyear. Oh yes and can you? But it has 1 character. What's the character? Oh, gut. Yeah. Gut is good. Yeah, yeah, Just good. Yeah, Gut. Like, see, that's the thing. That's like the word for good is actually gut. And actually that sounds like good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What do you got? Yeah. What do you got? You got gut. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then you have personal lucky charm and you have 3 as items. Items. All right, all right, all right, can. You guess who is? Yes. Wait, first of all, what's Gloria's Zodiac? Oh. Listen, I think she says rabbit, but hey, it is what it is, man. Wait. What's her birthday? Oh my God. No 555 years for me, Five years before the dog, five years before the dog. Five years before the dog, 12345 years before the dog is snake. No, she's not snake. What's her birthday like that in
the regular the year? Yes. No, the month and year. The month is. Oh my God, you. Believe it should be July. Oh man, you're getting me, man. How long are you together again? 8 plus years man. So wait, OK, what's the age difference? It's it's 5 five years slash because like she's in July. Oh my God, I'm in September. So funny we're going to clip this whole thing. Oh, no, keep it, man, Keep it, dude. Like this is the kind of stuff like I feel like this is is
real. All right, so let me just see the year difference over here. Oh my God. Oh my God, man. I am like, OK, yes, four years difference, man. Four years. Yeah, four year 1. So what's the four year above dog 1234? It's horse. She's horse. No, no, it should be before, like after dog dude. What is after No 4? After after dog dude. Four after 1234. That's Tiger. Ah, yeah, she's Tiger. Yeah, she's Tiger. OK. OK, Yeah, sure. Yeah, yeah, she's.
Tiger that I remember OK. Well, the good thing is that Tiger is indeed in the personal lucky charm of the dog. Oh, yes. All right. OK. Well then that that that's a good sign, I guess. I mean, I guess so I'm like, oh, OK, yeah, I guess I have no misuses. Now, yes, exactly. Between we don't I don't like using No, you have I'm like, God damn you. Can take a break for a year. Hey, you're not on my personal lucky. Charm. Yeah, like you are my God damn God damn man.
I have no excuse now. And unfortunately for you, yeah, Tiger has also personal lucky charm as dog. So you guys are just locked together? Battle. Yeah, yeah, super. So I like your arguments, man. Like, you know, it's nice. I can tell her off a little bit. Like, what is what are you doing? What are you doing? She's like, I know you like this. I'm like, no, this is not. No, I don't like this. She's like, no, according to the Zodiac size. Yeah. You like what I do?
Yeah. I'm like, Oh my God. We are personal luggage charm, so for you rabbit, horse and tiger, do you know any rabbits and horses? Still horses, my mom. Nice. Yeah. OK, So this is really. Yeah. Rabbit. I have no idea. Yeah. OK. Yeah, Rabbit, I have no idea. And then the last one is additional luggage charm and it says brings in good fortune. And then a Chinese sentence. I mean this one. Wait, hold on, which one? This is brings in. Good.
Oh, so these people do it for me, right folk Toy 19 So, so fortune is is right in front of you. OK, so this is just like a a little like fortune cookie. Yeah, yeah, it's what? Yeah, it's. Like fortune is ahead. Like. It's right, right in front of your eyes. OK, Yeah. So right now it's this camera, yeah. This camera, the Lumix GH5S that I've had for many years or. You were looking at me when you were reading it, maybe? Mohammed Mandi.
Yeah, maybe it's that one now it's the zoom link mixer now it's a tile on the floor. Wow, guess this everything is good for me now. OK. And go. We'll do Gloria and then me. Gloria is Tiger, Yes. So she has unstable, fluctuating year. Absolutely correct. That is every single fucking moment of my life, right? Any moment, dude, like you could be here sitting in this room. I tell her something. I come back here, I'm like, oh, I got to tell her something else, but I'm like, hold on, let
me tune this and go there. She's like, oh, baby, you know, we have for dinner. I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah. But I think, I think that's what everything right? When you when you with someone long enough now yeah, you forget fluctuate like. And you forget the year. Yeah, you forget the year, you forget the Zodiac, you forget all that shit. Because to me she never ages. Yeah, yeah, actually.
That is incredible. Yeah, that she does look like I've known her for for a long time yeah, she genuinely like you know, jokes aside, the Chinese women blah blah blah, but she does look exactly the same for same yeah many years. Pathetic dude That is. That is crazy as you are aging double. Speed. Hey, dogs age. Faster than fucking Tiger, that is. True. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She looks. Yeah. It's like, you know. Amen. When did we work on the Jason Young show? Because I have a very weird
memory of her. 3-4, three years I think. BMQ, yeah, must be at least. Three years, she's. Helping out and stuff. And actually even before that at the Ocean Park show. Yeah, yeah, that is. What? And again, like I have like very like, you know, photographic memories of some things. And then I see her like today or last week or whatever, I'm like, that's the same exact, same exact person. No one wrinkle. It's like. Hey man, when you have a cushy life like she does.
I think that's what it is. Yeah, that's what it is, right When you get to sit in the house and be like, what mortgage. Yeah, yeah. You would have no wrinkles either, man. No, no, no, But no, no, she she's like really big on the whole skin care thing. Yeah, I can tell. Yeah, yeah. And The funny thing is actually tell her off a lot of that shit you do. Oh yeah, dude.
You're like, are you just going like you don't need it, you already look good, kind of. Thing I've done that before, but she doesn't care what I think about that. She's like, it's not about you looking at me anymore. It So what I've told her off is very like you're the whole the whole thing like you should do this all. But yeah, but I had a lot of stuff to do. I'm like, you wash your face every fucking day. Yes, yes. And I I use that to poke at her.
I'm like, well, you do no matter what time is it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but no, I get it's one of those personal priorities, but she like that's a important thing to her. Yes, I get it. And I keep telling her I'm like, you know, you can't keep taking up all these shelves in the bathroom with all your fucking products. So yes, it doesn't work that way. Just. As a classic, like a man, woman, art. Yeah, right. I do. There's so much. Why? I was telling like I have skin too.
You may do all this shit, no. Yeah, actually, you have more skin on your face. Exactly. And every year you get more skin on your. Face absolutely exactly. And I still don't add more product, if any. I'm using less product to learn. And so she her personal Lucky Charms are horse, yes, dog, you, Yeah, and pig. Oh yeah, I don't even know any pigs. I don't know any. I refuse to know any. Pigs. You can. Oh yeah, exactly. If you are a pig, unfriend me or stop following.
Or maybe you might convince him to change his mind if you go to patreon.com/hoho. Absolutely. I can convince you to not be a pig. Also we say like, oh stop being a pig. Yeah, it's a phrase, you know. Yeah, We'll, we'll, we'll like you. At least he'll like you if you're a Patreon subscriber. Absolutely. Yeah. I, I am. I totally respond. People know me now enough to know that I respond to bribery very well. Absolutely. And I like corruption. Egyptian. Yes, yes.
Love corruption. Bribery. I think it's the best. So yes, bribe me into bribe me into liking you if you're a pig if I go on patreon.com/O pod and signing up for $5.00 a month. Hilarious a few years later when you're about to get your PR in Hong Kong. Yeah, like let's listen to this. Clip Oh no, you're. Like, no, you listen to the whole episode. Like no, no, no, that's the most heard segment of the old podcast. So we're like, God damn.
It I love corruption and. Then I Add all the true Egyptian like see, no party wants me in Hong Kong. Exactly, man. And then her additional like a charm is protection Bhagwa. Hold on, who? Is protection bhagwa? Oh, I don't know, Usain Bhagwa. Oh, no. So basically she is all about protecting herself and she's very curious and a little bit of gossipy thing. Wanted to know what's going on over there. So Usain, I guess would mean like, take care of your body. Yeah.
Either protects herself or maybe like skin protect whatever. Yes. And Bhagwa would be like just curious and gossipy, okay, like a little bit like, you know, the what's that word? Is that something auntie like being like a typical auntie like so, So who? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, just like a auntie, like. Whisper, yeah. Yeah, yeah, nice. Okay. How accurate is this? Is she gossipy? I wouldn't say too much. Okay, so I'll give you funny
things. So in Hong Kong on TVB, on the Chinese channel, they have a thing called Tong Jiang Sai Mong, which is like one of those gossip shows like imagine like Hello magazine, right where they tell you like this person could Prince Harry be. This or whatever. Yeah okay, so this one night it was like 11 something 12:00 I
was I was waiting bed. I'm like you know what I'm so tired I'm gonna watch some stupid shit yes and I literally watched a full episode of this yeah and the whole time I was just commenting on how stupid this is. I was like, who is watching this stupid shit? Right? And I was like, oh, so this is all the things people talk about. Like for example, in this housing estate, someone's throwing garbage from the window. Who? Let's ask the neighbors. What do they think? Yeah, you know, or.
It's not even celebrities, it's just like random shit. It's basically you could actually send in, let's say your video that you you filmed. Yes, yes. And they'll be oh, by the way, on the Fandling Hwy. someone tripped on their motorcycle. Luckily the driver's fine. All right next to you is like. That why would buddy Ryan Heinich, I don't know if you've caught his status like a couple of months ago, he has a someone who is so Ryan has a really big balcony in his house in Shanghuang.
It's like one of these houses that's like smaller inside and huge balcony, but it's also like 4th floor or something and the rest of the building is up there. And for months there is someone who's exclusively throwing dry ramen. Uncooked dry ramen. Uncooked dry ramen on his balcony. It's driving him nuts. Wow, yeah. And then he would like set up cameras and then the cameras would like get rained on and it's a whole saga. It's really funny for us. He's very pissed.
He does not find it funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But there is. Yeah. And still ongoing because he has plans. So now the rats come because they're expecting ramen. Yeah. And it's the whole thing. I think he would be really good for the show. That'll be so funny that I say one day the ramen doesn't get thrown. The rats show up and they're like, what the fuck is my ramen? Yeah, they start knocking on the window, the door, like, right? And Ryan, what the fuck?
I have a rat problem now. They're pissed off I don't have ramen for them. Like he's like, I'm in Hong Kong and I'm getting knocked on the door by fucking rats. Ask me, where's my fucking ramen? And because they're Hong Kong rats, they're knocking the door lying. Yeah, they're queuing up. You give it to 1, they're like, what about my uncle? What about my uncle? Where's my uncle's on? Wow, that is. Oh, my God, these rats really wanted. They climbed the four floors to get this. Oh, yeah.
Oh yeah. I mean free ramen man, I would line up. Yeah, maybe what he should do, right, He should actually himself get shitty cheap ramen. Yes. Like, maybe the whole time it's been like, let's say the the, you know, the Korean ramen, the chili ramen brand. Yeah, yeah, switch it up. Don't make a ramen. Make like doll noodles. Oh yeah, the rats eat the. Fuck, what the fuck is this shit? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then they like go to the next 7-11 and enjoy it there.
All right, shout out, Ryan. I hope your ramen problem is fixed. Not really, because I'm enjoying your your updates. OK, so you have me. I am actually. Hold on a second. Can I? Can I, can I just, can I just tell you one stupid thing I just thought of? Yes. Tell me. So someone's throwing ramen into his balcony, right? That action could be titled Ramen Rains. This is this is for maybe the four people. WWE. What's WWE? Ramen Rain. Why? Ramen rains. Ramen Rains is pretty good.
You can just imagine the ramen noodles. Yeah, exactly. And the best thing is the one day Ryan walks out of the balcony, the Ramen's thrown out the window upstairs. You see the slow motion ramen comes down and it and it comes right in the right angle of where Ryan is. He turns around and sees it coming towards and he gets speared like Roman. Reigns got finished. He. Got the. Ramen Reigns finished. And the best thing is the guy who says through the ramen goes.
Yeah, maybe that's what he was trying to do the whole time. Maybe that is. Yeah, he was. Just had this like sick joke, yeah that he's just trying to aim right for months. Maybe he got pissed off because he doesn't have Netflix. Can't watch WWE anymore. True. Yeah. Is it exclusive now to? Netflix. I think so, yeah. I just took to home. Yeah. My name was only on Netflix now. Yeah. OK, I am. This is my year, everyone. Year of the Snake that's. Right to happen. What's your best snake
impression? Yeah, I thought it would be like rattling snakes and stuff like that. OK, we'll take that back. I. Don't know what's What's your best snake impression? I would do like a long way, you know, that the tongue wiggly, you know, cartoon, you know, Yeah. What are the all right anyway? Year of the snake. Yeah, I have, unfortunately, just like Gloria, unstable, fluctuating year. Oh man, which? Is kind of disappointing. Are you in menopause this year
or something? No. Idea you can see like tiger, snake, monkey and pig. Yeah, lucky pig. I don't care for the pigs. So if you're a pig, you deserve an unstable, fluctuating year all the time, everywhere. OK, OK, OK. Sorry. Pigs. See, even that's bad. They call them pigs. I know. Right. Yeah. Yeah, so tiger, snake, monkey and pig on same thing, Unstable, fluctuating. Yeah. How?
How do you say that in? Fan tie soy, which means so basically fan would be like to commit like a committing crime commit and tie. So I get would be I guess would be like the your Kasoya's age and tie would be very age, I guess you know, so like the committing a very ageful issue. What does that mean? Like. I'm not really sure like I I know I've heard this phrase font heiser but I've never I thought exactly. Meaning a very ageful issue is apparently my Zodiac.
Yeah. Or basically if you work for words that committing very age. Committing very age. Yeah, you're, I'm about to commit very age. Yeah, watch. Out if you are. Thou shall not commit very age. Thou shall not commit bad grammar. How? About that, yeah, that as well. So I get along with my personal luggage. Charm is Ox. Don't know who Ox is. I don't know any Oxes. Rooster, however, is Annie. And he's OK. OK, and he's a rooster and monkey who I also don't.
Really you can. Get in touch if you are an ox or a monkey and maybe if I have been ignoring you for the last few. Years you may stop. I will actually stop ignoring them because apparently they're my lucky charm. And selfish. You need that. Yes, I need that. I need oxes and monkeys in my life this year. Wow. And last thing is, there's no lucky charm. I have Buddha's hand with luck.
Passo something folk OK, so I get all right, so maybe I'm guessing they want the whole like, you know, just yeah, yeah, that as well. And like you get luck with just being in the middle like B's full OK I'm guessing that I I don't know what exactly that third word is yeah, but like Faso would be like, I'm guessing his Buddha's hand would be like a very like, you know, middle ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know yeah. It's being the middle of the whole thing.
Yeah. So don't be a don't be B, right. Be right in the center all. Right. Take care. Yeah, just be so this this thing I posted on my stories the other Muhammad the day this comes out on on Monday and you can find your own little lucky charm and a Chinese Zodiac and let us know what you are. One more thing that I've actually decided, it's like, you always joke about how, you know, you drop your resolutions for the new year and then you're like, there's always a Chinese
New Year too. Yeah, this is it. Yeah, this is it. I actually started something that I so I watched a documentary on Netflix about minimalism. Minimal. OK, OK. So about these two guys, it's kind of a typical story of like, you know, guy who had a corporate job and had everything, yeah, realize he's not happy, blah, blah, blah. So it's kind of a typical story. But they did have one thing that I think resonated with me a lot.
Yeah, which is like, look around everything in your house, and if it doesn't make you happy, just get it. Oh. It's Marie Condo man, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm like, they didn't just give it as a concept, they give it as a practice. Oh yeah, every. So the practice, every day you're getting rid of one thing and then it goes up. So I'm actually today has five things.
Oh wow. Yeah. So I just want to keep continuing that through the beginning of Chinese New Year until I run out of things to get. Have you gotten rid of your every previous set list? If it doesn't make me happy, I can get rid of yeah, yeah, I will get rid of some some stuff that does not make me or the audience happy, Yeah. Wow, so every day is like one extra that's. Good. It's actually it's a lot because it's obviously compounds. I'm already at 5:00.
But some of the fun things I've done so far. So Annie pointed out that I have like a little. Of course you have a lot of stupid shit. Once you are really paying attention you're like what the fuck is this doing? Why do I have this? Yeah. So two things. One if you're from the Shang One crowd, but actually between you and me, between Shang Juan and and Central there is a few steps up from Staunton Rd. into a little platform area with cafes and stuff. It's called a common ground.
Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And in front of it, there's a pet shop called BYOP, Bring Your Own Pet and another, a little community hippie kind of area. And there, there is actually an old fridge, like an empty fridge that people leave their books in. Yeah. And next to it now there is an old wine fridge that people leave their whatever in. Not like shit like you are really good at it. Like you can just leave. Like. So we found out that there are a bunch of tote bags, for example.
Yeah. And then there is a pile next to it. It's really cool. And hopefully no one abuses this. There's a pile next to it of about 30 umbrellas. Like good umbrellas, like the small ones, Someone just piled them up in case you're walking down. Need an umbrella and you need an umbrella, just grab it. It's super cool. Hopefully no, like, you know, someone take it and sell it in front of the MTR or whatever. Yeah. So I have been taking stuff there. So books, that's easy.
And of course, because it's like every day you have more things. It's you have to count everything as one thing, right, Because that's how you like play the game. Yeah, So and you found this little thing that I have in my kitchen that I guess one time it's one of those like it's an owl little figurine that you can have a little tea candle in and on top there is a hole where you can put like either.
Essential oil. Or aromatherapy thing, but it's old, I don't really use it, just sitting there doing absolutely nothing, collecting dust. So I took it, but I, I don't want to throw it away. That's the other thing. You're like trying to like make use of it. I'm not going to give it to one of my friends because it's like old, but it's functional. It's good. So we're like looking for the most creative way to get rid of
it and we found there's a big plant on Hollywood Rd. in front of a shop and the plant has like a figurine of a dog, the Dalmatian. Dog. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So at night we just put the owl next to it and see what happens if the shop owner comes the next day and removes it and he didn't. So now the dog has a companion and they're still there. Yeah. Still there after like a few days. Yeah. Yeah. So that's cool.
I there's a few other things, but one of the main places we go to now is the yeah, the wine fridge and the book. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And also I have like literally, I have like 20 toed bags. That's again, if you look at it, you're like, what am I doing? Yeah. Because of course, when you're not in that mentality, you're like, oh, they're tote bag, They're good. Like they have to be here. You can use them. You never, ever, ever in your life go to use more than three
tote bags at a time. Yeah, that's insane. You. Keep getting new ones anyway you. Just gonna keep getting new ones. Exactly. I just got one from big house the other day. Shout out for free. So now I have like another one, but I also got one from like the Hong Kong government for the drug thing, like months ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had like a pop up at the Central Market and I played a little game. Just got another tote bag. It's like, all right, what are we doing here?
So now you have to get rid of some of it. So this is actually my resolution for the new real Chinese New Year is to continue doing this or keep updating here about the things, the highlights of the things I got rid of and I was threatening my dog the other day that she might be next if she doesn't behave. Yeah, calm down. Calm down. Obviously not going to do that. Don't fucking call the cops. Not going to do that. But it's fun to, you know, be like, hey, yes, exactly.
Settle down. Would you do it? Some of that I actually, my rule of thumb is that if I haven't remembered or used this thing for a whole year, it doesn't need to be here anymore. Yes, right. However, if it were something I'm like, oh, this really could be useful. I have to use it within a month's time. Otherwise I'm like, yeah, that's not. OK, that's a really good thing, yeah. That's a good thing.
So when I clear my covers and stuff, like for example, I see something, I'm like, oh man, I thought I'd use it. I haven't used it for a whole year. That means I'm not going to use it. I've survived a year without it. I didn't need it. Yeah. However, as I said, like it may be for example certain gadgets and stuff where I'm like, oh actually. We're looking behind the cameras, obviously, studio, so there's some things laying
around. Yeah. From what you're looking at behind, what would you get rid of? So I'm seeing for example a few like are these older backpacks? Yeah, yeah. These are backpacks. So basically with backpacks, the problem is this. I have every bag necessary for certainly the case. So I'll tell you, I have, I would say 4 Osprey bags. Yeah. All right. Bag #1 the dark green 1 is my old travel bag that I would use because it can be zipped up into
like a hand carry thing, right. That bag now becomes the when I get a big gig that I have to carry a lot of equipment. Let's do the PMQ whatever. Yeah that's a bag to stuff stuff in because it's very strong. Yes. All right. And it's very foldable. It's very compact. So that stays. I've got my other one, the blue one, which is actually a backpack that can also be holding into a, into a carry bag. That would when I, for example, if I, I don't wanna have to carry 2 bags on my back, I have
one on the side. So that's my travel bag. Yeah. When I do gigs outside, that's, that's the bag to go. OK, so it has certain things in it that I know I travel with. They'll have a certain cars and everything. I'm like it's always there. Then I've got my one bigger bag that I use for when I have to carry two gigs, which is like it's is designed in a way where it's tilted in it to certain extent that the weight doesn't go on your shoulders, but on your whole back.
So that's one. And the last one is my daily one that I'm like for every single day I use that. So I thought about it. I was like, do I need 4 different bags? However, they're all four highly differently functional. OK, you get it and. It's all justified. I don't I. See that? Yeah, exactly. People can fall into this trap so easily. Like once you point something, I was like, no, no, I would use this for this. Yeah. Yeah. But then you never do. You never do. Yeah, you.
Claim I need this for that after that and that the one thing if you you're going to ask Gloria is that I spent so much time in Christmas time organizing things not to just this goes here, this goes there but like functionally this needs to work yes like even this room we're in right now everything has been functionally thought out about it. The battery station is over here. I've got to have this many wires. Very organized for such a small
room. Yeah, you know, maximizing everything I can think of like the shelf up here, you can't see it right now, but it's like stacked of stuff where I can see through the boxes on it, you know. And like for example, I have spotlights. I have like 3 small spotlights. Now I generally only need use one at a time, but every now then you get that gig way like I need 2. You have to have the spot that ready to go for work. So those kind of stupid things
are like oh crap. Like the storage of certain equipment. I'm like the bag I could just wrap it up in let's say bubble wrap. I'm like, yeah, but the day is going to come and have to carry both these things. Yeah, I need storage bags to that are designed for it, you know. So yes, however, my route definitely is when I'm clearing, I get very aggressive where I'm like, don't need this, don't care, I don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And like, even the holiday, but you know, maybe one day on Monday, I'm like, if that day comes, I'll get it. I'll get it. Exactly. Just get a new. One I have a good day and I have to, I'll figure it out. I don't need it. One last thing I want to challenge people to do is to, I did say Hollywood Rd. I didn't say where. I did say in front of a shop too.
So it's not hard, not easy. Yeah, if you go find the owl next to the dog and send a photo to either of us, you will get 2 free tickets to a backstage comedy show. Nice. That's worth at least 460 Hong Kong dollars. Just go find the owl next to the Dalmatian dog. Very easy and take a photo of it and send it to either of us on at OR. As the other Muhammad. And the other Muhammad, it's somewhere on Hollywood Road, and you can find the owl and take a photo. Send it to us.
Yeah, try to get rid of something for this year. Hopefully it's not a human. Yeah, or. A dog? Yeah, that. Matter. But you can take my dog for a little bit. You can see I'm probably falling asleep as I'm talking. It's been 10 days. But no, actually one last thing is one, one thing you can get into, and I think that applies to a lot of people, is the medicine drawer. Yeah, everyone has a medicine drawer. Yeah, for sure. And it's crazy how much like expired medicine is there.
And then like old creams and stuff like that. That's actually like if you have time downtime over Chinese New Year, yeah, I would start there because it's so comforting. To use it if it's expired, you're. Like, of course you're not going to use it, you know? And there is so much, like, there is no house that I've been to that I had access to a medicine jar without looking at. Like, that's crazy. Yeah, Yeah. And then mine is equally insane. Yeah.
And yeah, once you start looking at the dates of the medicine jar, and I have a dog, so I have her own medicine cabinet. And like, once you're looking at all these things and you clear out like half of them, you're like. Yeah, I can live with myself. It feels so good. So yeah, declutter everyone. You don't have to. You don't live with a mess. Mentally. Physically. Dog. Yeah, really. Absolutely. Whatever you want. Yeah, digital, yeah, Yeah,
that's another thing. Digital declutter, that's huge. I can't even do that. I can't do really hard yeah now with like hard drive so overwhelming yeah yeah, I'm just I'm keep it there yes yeah, you take a more physical place. It's fine, doesn't matter that's. True. Yeah. Happy Chinese New Year, everyone. This is, yeah, we obviously have done this for a while.
I don't know how many Chinese New Year's probably at the same as the regular year, but it's so cool to see people from all kinds of Chinese zodiacs following us. And one last thing, patreonpatreon.com/yoho Pad, we're about to record on the Patreon some spicy stuff that we can do in the free episode, but you can join us $5.00 a month. And they were about to go into Chinese New Year. A little break, not break from the podcast, just break from being hectic. And we'll see you on Patreon
hopefully. If not, we'll see you here next week. Bye, bye, bye.