We are back after a quick one-week break as Vivek heads to Australia and NZ for a tour, but we catch up right before he leaves. Big news: Vivek is technically single, and he is taking the opportunity to do the most useless "optimization" tasks. Bakehouse long lines are kind of disappearing? And Christian Action opens Hong Kong's first ethnic minorities museum, Diversity Hub.

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Malaysian comedian Rizal Van Geyzel's show "Arrested" tells an incredible story of what happens when a perfect mix of self-absorbed "influencer" foolishness, government inefficiency, and social media frenzy ultimately leads to his arrest and him losing his comedy club. Rizal tells us the full story.

Catch Rizal's show "Arrested" at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival:

https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/browse-shows/rizal-van-geyzel-2/

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Some people just don't learn from their mistakes/are hopelessly optimistic that maybe some things may change. Maybe it's being given false hope after a fluke; maybe it's our strong desire to see someone succeed? Either way, we tried Vission Bakery's $50 egg tart in a cookie, and we have notes. 

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If you think we can't go on for an entire episode about how fun the Wednesday Horse Racing is at Happy Valley, you are probably right. We also complained about how "miserable" our lives are because of major offenses like Starbucks not knowing how to roast their coffee beans, then we go on about how fun the Happy Wednesday Racing is. Mohammed makes the case that it's probably the most fun activity you can do in Hong Kong ever and Vivek shares a story about how he got the Jockey Club to have "Touch it!" as the slogan for their "Racing Touch" app

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Vivek Mahbubani is by the far the busiest standup comedian in Hong Kong. This week he shares stories of the two most recent gigs he had: Speaking at the Women Of Our Time event by the SCMP and coaching for Literacy Week at a school in Sai Kung at 7 am! 

Mohammed shares his "pro tip" on how to hail a cab anywhere in the world and we bring back our TV show recommendations segment.

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After 3 years of compulsory mask mandate in Hong Kong, on March 1, 2023 the mask mandate was finally lifted and we were able to walk around the city mask-free without fear of a hefty fine. Now a week later, the vast majority of people in Hong Kong still voluntarily choose to continue wearing it!

In other news, Clockenflap festival took place at the Central Harbourfront and it was a roaring success and Mohammed tried to move some furniture to his new place and it was a complete disaster. 

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"Hello Hong Kong" Campaign launched to promote Hong Kong around the world. 

Ok great. What about that slogan though? We come up with alternative slogans while we chat about gratitude, people in Hong Kong always comparing themselves to each other, moving houses from one walkup to another walkup, Syrian refugees and comedians blaming the audience for their own failures. 

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On February 15 2023, Russell Peters performed at Star Hall in Kai Tak in front of a sold out crowd of over 3000 people (Vivek thought it was 8000 pax, Mohammed thought it was 1000 pax). We were there for it and we give a full review. It's the first big standup touring act to come through Hong Kong since late 2019 and Russell Peters is as big as they come. Vivek also reminisces about flying into Kai Tak airport (yes he's 80 years old) and we go on a tangent about our favorite airports and Singapore gets a few honorable mentions. 

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It's valentine's day week and we are coming at you with a bunch of stories. Vivek does a couple pro bono gigs and regrets it but good news! he turned into a superhero and there's plenty of free merch to go around! 

Mohammed on the other hand shares that one overdue story he has been sitting on, and of course it's another visa adventure. Strap in! 

Cover graphic copyright ZONTA CLUB OF THE NEW TERRITORIES II

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In 1999, Nick Willsher founded HKClubbing.com as he couldn't find reliable info on where the good parties were. Today almost 24 years later, HKclubbing grew to be the ultimate Hong Kong nightlife guide and Nick went into the music promotion business, as well as starting Entertaining Asia, an integrated event and hospitality consultancy based in HK.

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We survived CNY shenanigans but not completely unscathed. Mohammed has taken his entire family all over HK for almost 3 weeks and he is "never gonna financially recover from this". Luckily for us, he gives us a full report on the main tourist attractions in HK. 

Is Disneyland HK still worth a visit? What's the state of Ocean Park? What's a Water World? and why you should probably never get in a Lantau blue taxi.

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If it's travel, passport or visa related, we can rely on Mohammed (and evidently the rest of his family) to make some highly entertaining bad decisions. This is probably the riskiest one so far. Mohammed's mom flew into Hong Kong just a few hours before her only passport expired.

Happy year of the rabbit folks!

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Hong Kong has its borders wide open and the CNY holiday is upon us. Mohammed's family decided to visit from Egypt for the first time and he has a lot to rant about. Where do people actually go for "touristy stuff" and why is visiting the Big Buddha isn't the best idea? Vivek gives a lot of solid advice.

Mohammed also got locked out of his friend's house at midnight with the dog inside the house and he tries to make it back in and the story ends unsurprisingly with the cops showing up.

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On this episode we try to find fun things to do in HK when it's "cold", the pros and cons of hiking up to the Peak. Mohammed reviews Tai Ping Shan's newest "Kool" hangout spot review, and we welcome our new patrons!

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We are back to our regular scheduled programming and this week we have a retuning fan-favorite, Mr. John Buckman. John has a long history of starting, running and selling successful startups and he was the head of the EFF

John is not shy about his love for Hong Kong, and one of the things he has in common with many Hong Kongers (and Mohammed!) is his displeasure with banks and bankers in general. While most of us are happy with laughing at memes about banker wankers, John decided to do something about it, way before memes were the main median of showing discontent and boy did he go all out, then things turned scary. It's a fascinating tale. 

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Happy 2023 everyone! We are back. We made it through, well .. kind of. This is more of a #yolo episode but hey we are back with a stacked episode, catching you up on everything that happened in Hong Kong over the last few months, as well as catching you up on our updates as well. So many news stories, fun moments and ridiculous HK shenanigans to get through. It's good to be back!

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The city seems to be opening back up for real! Quarantine for inbound travelers continues to be only one week (3 days if you're flight crew!), restaurants are allowed to run up to 10 pm (yay!?), some stand up shows are back. We have a classic episode discussing it all, we catch up on the standup gigs we did recently did, from Sai Kung to Soho House, the upcoming CE "elections" and the new Batman movie (no spoilers!) 

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Shanghai is still under arguably the world's most strict Covid lockdown since the pandemic began. Some residents have been locked inside their apartments for over 50 days. Amid news of food shortages, internet censors taking down posts of frustrated citizens, Shanghai residents are keen to have their voices heard. 

We talk to Jorge Castellanos, standup comedian based in Shanghai. Jorge owns two businesses, he's married to a Chinese citizen and has been in lockdown in over a month now.

Sounds of April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bguwCndTUOA

Photo by Nico De Rouge, check out his work here:  https://nicoderouge.com/

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Family drama alert! Vivek's sister made it to Hong Kong literally a few minutes before her PR expired, we take the opportunity to catch up with her with one simple goal in mind: Understand what she does for a living.

Dr. Krishnaa Mahbubani tries her best to dumb it down to us, and before you judge us, here's one of her bios:

Krishnaa completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at Cambridge University, and after a period there as a Post-doctoral scientist, moved to the Department of Surgery as a research associate and is applying her engineering expertise to develop methods to extract tissue resident lymphocytes, and design a single semi-automated tool to extract the lymphocytes efficiently. Her other interests are in the fundamentals of cryopreservation, with a focus on understanding the relationship between ice nucleation and post-thaw cell viability.

CBTM: https://www.cbtm.group.cam.ac.uk/contact-us

Cambridge Enterprise: https://www.enterprise.cam.ac.uk

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We made it to episode 100! Yup, we can't believe it either. For the 100th episode, we pack our equipment and head to Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park in Sai Ying Pun. We riff on everything happening around us at the park, chat to a couple of people, Vivek gives an update on his sister's dramatic journey to come back to HK from the UK before her PR expires, and we launch our YouTube channel!

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You get a ban, you get a ban, and you get a ban!

This week on HK shenanigans: The government lifted the flight ban on 9 countries then immediately banned Emirates Airlines far a week. Everyone in HK is getting a "goodie bag" from the government, Vivek's sister might be able to come back to HK after all. We try and fail to not about the Oscars and we have an announcement about next week's 100th episode! 

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Comedian Andrew Shultz roast of Will Smith: https://bit.ly/3K5IrcQ

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As of April 1, Quarantine for travelers coming into Hong Kong will be cut to 1 week, which means we can probably start making plans for some summer travels! We chat about our favorite travel destinations, share some fun traveling stories and what would our first trip ideally look like.

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HK CE "feels" like Hong Kongers' tolerance for the harsh anti-epidemic measures is "fading" .. after more than 2 years. So she said they would review the policies and ease up some of the harsh measurements over the next few days. We try to jump the gun and predict what would the new "relaxed" HK be like.

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This week on HK shenanigans, the government decided to use their swanky emergency alert system (which reportedly costed 150 million HKD) to send everyone in the city an emergency alert to their mobile phones. Was a rogue Russian nuclear missile on the way to kill us all? Did someone escape their 5-star staycation at the luxurious resort of Tsing Yi isolation facility? Is there a hamster on the run?

We also get into our HK pet peeves, why Vivek hates the outdoors and why we don't fact-check anything we say.

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2025 is here, and with it come new adventures, stories, and reviews from our hosts. Mohammed Magdi sees Hong Kong's New Year's Fireworks show "properly" for the first time, and Vivek Mahbubani hosts a fancy gig at the Four Seasons.  Also on this episode, a non-spoiler review of Netflix's new documentary "Don't Die" and Backstage Comedy's "New Material" comedy show.

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It's week 3 of no-guests allowed in our studio thanks to Covid precautions and restrictions, and we go all out on this one. We discuss everything from bananas to weird fruits that no one is buying, the new "The Batman" movie (no spoilers!) and HK hitting a new high of over 50K Covid infections in a single day to the lady who decided to give the MTR door a nice wipe with her tongue*, a cool hack we discovered at the HSBC ATM machine, flossing and a lot more general HK absurdity. 

*No microphones were licked in the making of the cover photo.

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Hong Kong just saw the highest number of its residents ever leave over the course of a week, over 27,000 residents, locals and expats left with one-way tickets with no plans to return. With the government doubling down on its Covid zero policy, mass testing is about to roll out, we're still here trying to deal with whatever is coming our way. Vivek's sister is trying to come back from the UK with no luck, Mohammed can't leave as moving his dog out of HK has become extremely costly, and somehow the world just gotten a whole lot worse with Russia declaring war on Ukraine. We go through it all. 

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Under the current restrictions, it's illegal for us to have a guest in our studio (Vivek's living room), so we take this opportunity to discuss what went wrong with Hong Kong's handling of the pandemic.

There has been a lot of frustration and confusion in the community about how badly the Covid situation is being managed, we try to understand why that happened, how we got there and our insane ways to stay sane during these difficult times. 

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Photographer Justin Lim has been featured by Instagram as a "Suggested User", and his work has been highlighted by VSCO, 500px, Flickr and more. As a result, he has collaborated with numerous brands on their social media branding, Influencer/KOL content creation and visual identity. Clients in this space include Omega, Tumi, MR PORTER, DJI Global and many others. Across his various social media platforms, he recently passed 100,000 followers.

We chat with Justin about the world of photography in HK, the vicious wedding photography industry, the often problematic relationship between photographers and young models as well as why film photography is making a come back! 

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With HK gov insisting on chasing "zero Covid" policy no matter how unrealistic it is and how devastating it has been to the local businesses, we are seeing so many of our favorite businesses and venues disappear. Too many to count at this point. We decided to do everything we could to save our most favorite venue in Hong Kong, The Aftermath. 

The Aftermath is an awesome live music/performance space, a great hang out spot/super cool bar right in the heart of Central, and just like all other F&B venues right now, The Aftermath is really struggling to keep its doors open. We chat with co-founder Kyle Haynes about the story of The Aftermath, what makes it so special and what we can do to help.

Check out the many ways you could support The Aftermath here: https://theaftermath-hk.club/

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Happy Year of The Tiger everyone! We're taking a break from having guests on this week and we do the long awaited Ask Us Anything episode. We asked our listeners on social media and on the podcast WhatsApp group to submit any questions they want to us to answer and we got many interesting questions. We answered them all, ran long had a lot of fun. 

We answer questions like:

How do we get along and what it's like managing the podcast?

What would make us pack our suitcases?

How does political repression differ between Egypt, India and Hong Kong?

Assuming HK will remained closed for international travel for the foreseeable future, what are the plans to keep Backstage Comedy alive?

Our favorite comedians in HK?

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Another one bites the dust. La Rotisserie, a staple of the Hong Kong F&B scene since 2012, decided to pull the plug on all its branches on Jan 7, 2022. La Rotisserie was famous for its moderately priced roast chicken – a staple family-style dish in France. We sit down co-founder with Jerome Carlier to talk about the decision to shut La Rotisserie down, the challenges facing the F&B business in Hong Kong recently and how to make a perfect roast chicken in a small home oven!

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In December 2019, American Lawyer Samuel Bickett was leaving Causeway Bay MTR station when he saw a couple of older men in plain civilian clothes beating up a teenager with a baton. He tried to stop them and ended up getting arrested and charged with assaulting a police officer despite the men repeatedly saying that they're not police officers. He ended up spending over 2 months in a Hong Kong maximum security prison and he's now out on bail waiting for the next hearing. We sit down with Sam and get the full story.

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Comedian Drew Fralick was among the first wave of the OG China-based standup comedians. He performed standup comedy all over mainland China in both mandarin and English! Drew is still the only comedian to win both of Asia's biggest standup comedy festivals, China and Hong Kong!

Drew moved back to his home state of Detroit a few years back but his passion for comedy has never changed. He recently became a pastor at his church, so we catch up with him via Zoom to try to understand how can one make the leap from comedy to preaching Sunday sermons! 

Check out Drew's blog "A Bright DrewTopian Future" here: https://www.drewfralick.com/

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Bugs Harpley and John Buckman have a true success story. They are the power couple behind Decent Espresso , over the years, John has founded multiple companies including Magnatune online music service supporting independent musicians get their revenue share, BookMooch: An online community for exchanging used books. John is also a Member of the Advisory Council for the Open Rights Group and he is the former Chairman of the Board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

We chat about their love for Hong Kong, their choice to live in Tsuen Wan, how they wouldn't trade the Hong Kong life they have now for anything else back home and the challenges of living in a very local area of Hong Kong without speaking much Cantonese. 

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We made it to the end of 2024! We have so much to be grateful for. On this episode, we share our most memorable moments of the year, but before that,  Vivek shares his experience getting a haircut at Image Hair Salon. We chat about the new "DCC fees" applied on HK credit cardscards andVivek is not ok but, he's fine.

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It's a new year folks! Happy 2022! For the first episode of the year, we decided to make it a thing and have comedian Garron Chiu back on for the new year's episode! If you remember last year Garron was also on for the 2021 NYE special! 

This time we chat about how much has the holiday traditions changed over the years in Hong Kong, from Hong Kongers' favorite holiday destinations back in the day, to "glamping" during Covid and why comics don't exactly enjoy working on new year parties!

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For Christmas this year, we have Icelandic comedian Kári Gunnarsson on, we chat about "Icelandic Santa" , how we celebrate Christmas in our respective cultures and we make very poor attempts at pronouncing "Eyjafjallajokull"

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Harry Harrsion needs no introduction, if you have been in Hong Kong for more than a couple of months, you must have come across one of his drawings. Harry is the principal cartoonist for the South China Morning Post, his work appearing six days a week. We chat with Harry about his new book "Add Ink: Cartoon Chronicles of Life in Hong Kong", his beginnings, his influences, his "sketchy" office and if the constant political changes affect his work.

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On this very special episode, Mohammed's voice is suspiciously different, Vivek chats with "Mohammeded" on how comedians like any performers need to sometimes do shows when they're not feeling 100% but unfortunately, they cant have an "under study" or have a "substitute"... unlike other artforms, they are the art itself.

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Vivek has a big announcement to make regarding his ongoing Facebook page saga, then we delve into part 2 of the "Before Comedy" series. This time it's Mohammed's turn. What was life like in Egypt when he was growing up? Way before the 2011 revolution, the move to China and taking up a career in comedy?

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"All comedians are depressed", "Good comedy has to come from a dark place", "tragedy+time=comedy" are among some of the most common phrases you hear thrown around in the comedy world, but are any of them actually true? And why does it seem to be a pretty common narrative in the comedy world?

We ask our guest: psychotherapist and one of Hong Kong's top mental health counselors, Tim Hoffman. 

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At nearly 5am on Tuesday October 12, 2021 a taxi carrying a foreign passenger drove along Queen’s Road West and the 50-year-old taxi driver in the vehicle was suspected of arguing with the passenger for some reason. The foreign passenger then used a hard object to hit the neck of the driver which resulted in injuries. In order to escape, he got off the car and fled.

The passenger then got off the vehicle and continued to attack the taxi driver before he finally collapsed. When the taxi driver was about 20 meters away, the assailant also took the opportunity to escape. Afterwards, a passer-by called the police for help.

Police officers sped to the scene and found the 48-year-old man lying unconscious on the floor. Sustaining serious injury to his neck, he was rushed to Queen Mary Hospital and was certified dead at 6.17am.

The police released a recent photo of the suspect Wednesday the 13th of October. On Wednesday afternoon, our guest Tracy* ran into the suspect outside a small store on Lamma island, not having any idea who he was. She had a friendly chat and shared a beer with him. It's quite a baffling story. Strap in for this one. 

*Tracy's voice has been changed to protect her identity. 

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Conspiracy Chocolate makes high quality small batch craft chocolate from bean to bar. They use cacao beans from a single farm in Vietnam and process slowly and manually over 5 days to retain the natural health benefits and flavor of the cacao.

We chat with its founders Celine Herren and Amit Oz. They are a Swiss and Israeli couple who met in Hong Kong with a passion for creating food and discovering new combinations of flavors. After a few months of learning and refining the process in their kitchen in Sai Ying Pun, Conspiracy Chocolate, a small-batch bean-to-bar craft chocolate company was born. They now craft their chocolate in their own licensed chocolate lab in Wong Chuk Hang. 

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Vivek has a huge announcement to make then we get to our guest Ivan Leung.

Ivan is the co-founder and GM of Aloha Online, one of Asia's leading SEO solutions and digital marketing technology providers. Ivan gives us a crash course on what SEOs really mean and how any business could improve its Google ranking by following very simple steps. We go into the "science" of Google rankings, what you're really seeing on the first search result pages.Vivek makes a huge announcement then we get to our guest Ivan Leung. Ivan is the co-founder and GM of Aloha Group Limited, one of Asia's leading SEO solutions and digital marketing technology providers. Ivan gives us a crash course on what SEO really means and how any business could improve its Google ranking by following very simple steps. We go into the "science" of Google rankings, what you're really seeing on the first search result pages.

Ivan does a deep dive on both our hosts' websites (https://funnyvivek.com/) and (https://www.mohammedmagdi.com/) and lets them know what they're doing wrong. Spoiler alert: Everything.

We also delve into Ivan's other passion, sneakers!

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We take a break from having guests on this week and we fly solo. The original idea was for us to talk about what our lives were like B.C. (Before Comedy). We started with Vivek and boy did he have a lot to say. Vivek has had a pretty wild journey even before ever doing standup. In fact he has had so much happen that we didn't have time to share Mohammed's B.C. stories, we will definitely get into that on a later episode though!

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you: Vivek B.C.

Enjoy!

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This episode is the first episode to be recorded in our new video studio. The full video podcast will be available soon on Youtube.

There is no doubt that a lot of goods and services can be very expensive in Hong Kong, especially on HK Island. This week, Mohammed Magdi shares one of his most kept secrets, the best place to get a haircut (for men) in Hong Kong without breaking the bank. Vivek Mahbubani one-ups him by admitting that his mom has been cutting his hair for years!

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Cassi Thomas AKA Chaotic Cassi is proper "HK famous", she runs a massive Facebook group called "Chaotic Hong Kong Expats" with more than 18000 members. We catch up with her about her recent trip to Thailand, spending time in Phuket's "sandbox" and traveling to Chiang Mai, her 21 days quarantine and her fascination with the book "The Expatriates" on which Nicole Kidman's controversial show is based.

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Sai Kung Stray Friends Foundation (SKSFF) is consisted of a group of volunteers who rescue stray, abandoned, sick and injured dogs to provide them with medical care and rehabilitation. Every dog that is rescued is health checked, de-sexed, vaccinated and given flea, tick and heartworm prevention. They also try to provide any necessary treatment and emergency surgery that may be needed.

The aim is to find these beautiful dogs, a kind and responsible adopter which can give them a loving forever home and help them have a better life. If you haven’t experienced the joy of adopting a dog, now is the right time!

We chat with founder Narelle Pamuk about the challenges they're facing during Covid times, their constant need for volunteers and what we can do to help.

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Stuart Palm is an international psychic entertainer, artist, hypnotist, illustrator, seer, reader, mentalist and father. He joins us to talk about his upcoming show “World of Wonders,” his new tarot cards “Palm’s Oracle”; the amazing variety of uses for Hypnosis, and performing Mentalism in Hong Kong and around the world.

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