Not Again Podcast

We have a saucy one this week. Dr Martha Lee, Singapore first Sexologist approached me and we talked about the idea of sex. Talking about it seems to be as difficult and important having sex and Dr Martha Lee have prove this with us. I am curious about who looks for her and the common problem that people face when talking about sex. Here is this problem that I have raised about how is the impact of one individual self able to change the whole conversation about sex.

We talk about having the idea of consent in starting the whole conversation about sex. Dr Martha Lee has been very honest about how being vulnerable one has to be to take on the job of being a sexologist and how it entails. She shared the traumatic experience in dealing with internet trolls when she has to be open, what can of worms it had opened up. She also shared about healing from traumatic experience, how sex is a symptom of something bigger. She opened up her childhood and how it shaped her who she is today.

Finally, after long awaited months, Darryl Edmund Kho has finally appeared in Not Again Podcast. Being the elite and exclusive few to be involved in Singapore Pro Boxing, Darryl breaks down on what is it like to be in the club and what is it like to be in the chosen few to become a pro boxer in Singapore. He talks about the what goes through in his head before his fight and his journey to choosing boxing as his thing then become a pro boxer in Singapore. We talked about the different titles that one can has and talked about the decision in going into pro boxing at a late stage in his life. He weighed in on celebrity boxing and choosing the right gym.

Of course, we talked about the process of choosing the right song entrance and how entrance music marks the stage of your boxing career. Does he listen to the corner man and his view on style makes fight. He kinda explain how he had lost interest in getting into street fight or even has the fantasy. He shares what is it like to be in the street fight and how does it usually end (which blows my mind). His attitude towards seeing his friends always makes me chuckle and how he usually manage to diffuse the alpha in the bar and becomes friends at the end of the night when he goes to have a couple of drinks in his friends. We breaks down on why do men in their mid-thirties still react the way in wanting to getting into a street fight after he tells the story on how he almost get into a fight.

It had been a while since the last update. We have went over the new year mark. It is the first episode for Not Again Podcast. What had happened? Gary Tan finally breaks silence on what had happened. He looked back the last year and reflects what had he done (obviously not much) and how he had left his job that he had gotten in the same month.

Oh yeah he still thinks about the golden retrievers he met at his last work place.

Why is the description in third person? New Year New Me.

I ramble about Mariah Carey with George Michael coming out of their caves singing Christmas Song. I talked about getting a job and how exciting and weird out for me as getting a corporate job doesn't seem to be in my blood.

Andre King is a person with many talents. He is a comedian that has travelled all over Earth and been a voice over to many of advertisements and cartoon character, some that we "hate" in our childhood, because we want the good guys to win.

Cartoon is a big thing for Andre. We talked about our favourite cartoons. He shares his love and how the writing in that medium works and how a show is able to stay relevant with a changing rotation of writing staff. Of course, we talked about joke writing and he told me the difference when it comes to joke writing and being strict about word economy. He predicted streaming gigs are here to stay and giving tips and tricks to stay relevant.

We talked a bit about the news and how the whole pandemic has kind of evolve the whole New Zealand comedy scene and his reminisce travelling around the world doing comedy and his time in Singapore. He while describing how he worked also shares how everything has come full circle and how he went back to New Zealand.

Did I mentioned that Andre King is a multi-talented man. That includes the man of secrets as well. He tells the tales of the jobs that he had which includes a military man, almost got into pride fighting championship and a job that got him into a work of secrecy.

Disclaimer: Before we start, this is not a journalistic podcast and not a current podcast. Whatever we talk about when it comes to the pandemic is not accurate and on time anymore. Please do not take any information on this podcast about anything on face value

This is really late. Man. I talked about going to counselling and doing therapy to handle my mental health for the first time. I talked about boxing and sparring and my milestone to be a boxer.

Live comedy show:

https://theprojector.sg/films-and-events/the-projector-presents-comedy-night/

Laurie Kilmartin's name is synonym to the word funny and been involved in iconic standup comedy driven shows such as Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn and a monologue writer for Conan O'Brien. She has a special "45 Jokes About My Dead Dad" is the one that I get to know her from. She tells the story of she got it into recording, having the show to be released in Seeso with her own effort and what she thought about the emotional side of chasing a dream of being a comic.

Writing monologue for Conan O'Brien and be able to involved with a very iconic standup comedy driven- panel show is also considered to be a very wild dream for many. She told us how she got involved and sharing stories working in both wildly different shows when it comes to structure. She shares the work in writing for Conan and how internet has changed the work for many writers. I am wondering about the amount of late night talk shows and how politics has become a staple and the also the many reasons why late night talk show format has become stale.

Of course, we share the same distrust with motivational speaker.

Corset:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2pTjU2Q6XvGl6oeqcgSKJ5?si=iJf50GWEQy2Xqwcb0Q-bHw

In this episode, I gave a few shoutout to the shows that may happen. I talked about people leaving and prepping for the shows that are going to happen in November and about another job interview story.

"Jack of all trades" is what comes into mind if I need to describe our guest this week, Red Ollero. He was a writer in his previous life before becoming a standup comic, a movie script writer, a wrestler and now a comic book writer based in Manila, Philippines.

He tells the story of how he became who he is today, from a climbing the corporate ladder, 9 to 5 worker to now chasing the dreams that he had when he was younger. Inevitably, Plan B or exit strategy is what will be discussed. Red Ollero justified the reasons of having one and what it meant to have a Plan B, going on the safe route. So who has set the seed in Red's mind to let him chase the dream? Red's shares the comic who has went viral online become the term "Viral online" was coined to be defined by what it meant in this day and age.

Looking at the history humour in South East Asia, LGBT representation is a concept that Red tries to dissect what it meant in the Philippines media after pitching movies. I did a comparison with the representation to Singapore since we share a very similar root in the history of humour or live comedy and Red shared how hard the comics in the Philippines has worked to evolve the comedy scene to what it had been today. Comedy business is still a business and Red shares about how he deals with clients to strike a balance to have the longevity of his career, his work and having the artist's integrity of being a stand up comic while sharing stories performing on stage being called a fascist and what it meant to be a comedian for him.

Commitment is another great trait that Red has to be known for. He gleefully describing his wrestling career and how he had started. Telling the story from being the ground up and getting the plot twisting story when he tries to flyer out his first wrestling event understanding the idea of what hustling means and closing the circle of what chasing of dreams and passion.

It had been a long while since I have uploaded an episode. So I talked about the hiatus and why it took such a long time. I looked back at the time that I worked with my work partner for the last 2 years and why she left. I talked about the job interview that I had that sound really shady and the old lady who offered a job.