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Emily Tan is a health & fitness professional, co-founder of aerial arts & pole dance academy Viva Vertical, host of Body Blaze TV series, presenter of fitness education and performer of aerial dance - these were all proud titles before the title of “cancer fighter”, which led to “mental health advocate” and founder of the podcast Tackling Minds (www.tacklingminds.com) Emily shares her story with o...

Like many others, Simon Wilson lost his job due to Covid, and unlike many others, he didn't "wait it out", he went on to create Hong Kong's biggest and most successful event in HK since Covid started, The Grounds then The Lawn. He sits down with Vivek and Mohammed to tell them all about his insane journey, from launching food festivals and taking TV shows like MasterChef  and  Top Gear Live  on th...

Andy's on the pod for one last time, he hands over the podcast to Vivek and Mohammed as he talks about his reasons for leaving the pod, why he left HK and what his new gig is, his plans for the future and some of his favorite moments on the podcast. 

Lindsay Varty, author of Sunset Survivors and former professional rugby player sits down with Vivek and Mohammed to talk about why she embarked on a journey to document Hong Kong's last tradesmen and women. From the story of a face threader to a Shanghai-style barber, Lindsay had a great journey talking to people empowered by their love of their crafts. Lindsay also has had an amazing career as a...

If you've ever partied in Hong Kong, you've definitely walked by Beyrouth Bistro or ordered food at 3 in the morning there. Listen to one of Beyrouth Bistro's partners Charbel Assaf talk about his life growing up during war times, his move to Hong Kong and the nitty gritty of what's going on in his home of Lebanon. We also discuss how he and Vivek became certified fitness trainers at one point in...

Anson Chen's a world-class illusionist and mentalist, reading minds all over the planet. He explained his journey from Taiwan to HK to Shanghai. How he learnt from the world's top magicians. And the challenges of performing magic vs comedy.

Mo and Vivek spilled the beans on what it takes to run a comedy show. What exactly happens back stage? What's all that noise at the back of the room? How do they handle all the egos? And most importantly, what happens when the heckler gets booted?

Jen Balisi is a proud Filipina-American based in HK, and a legit trail-blazing food influencer. We talked about her journey from blogging in New York, to pursuing her passion of dining, travel and recipes. And what she does when she has to review food that stinks.

Mo joins the pod to announce he is taking over hosting duties with Vivek for the next little while. The standup scene is pumping along at the moment, and the guys talked about some massive shows coming up.

Hong Kong's got an unreasonable amount of people living in unreasonably small spaces. And Dr Merrin Pearse's on a mission to make the metropolis continue. Pearse was described as an urban vigilante for HK sustainability. He's an advisor at Purpose Business, and chair at the Living Islands Movement (a local group dedicated to the sustainable environment of the outlying islands). He also founded a c...

Antony's ( @antd ) become the resident podcast voice on all things political. Since he last visited, the crackdowns on Hong Kong have been unrelenting and severe. Including vast arrests, mass bail denial, the gov claiming Jimmy Lai's assets, and 7,000 officers deployed to Victoria Park to crush any whisper of a vigil for the Tiananmen Square massacre. Dapiran is a Hong Kong-based writer and lawyer...

Vicky Chan 陳偉琪 is a well-known face around Hong Kong, having played Jenny on the hit TVB series Come Home Love : Lo and Behold (愛·回家之開心速遞). She was also previously crowned Miss HK, and separately Miss Chinese Vancouver. She talked about her journey to the big leagues, the pressures of fame in Hong Kong, and the strategies that kept her above the fray and on top of the pile.

Dear Hong Kong is a well-known photo book featuring inspiring people from different countries, all living in Hong Kong, and their contribution to the city. You can check it out here . The stories are outstanding and it also looks super slick. Oskar Valles has interviewed more than 90 people from different countries including teacher and ex-prisoner Dawit Debasai from Eritrea, and former Pakistani...

Professor Cowling is the Division Head of Epidemiology at HKU and a co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Infections Disease Epidemiology and Control. And we're super excited to have him back on the pod. We talked about vaccine hesitancy, addressed the major fears being expressed by the hesitant, immunisation against variants, the need for boosters, and the incentives being used to get p...

Cissy Radford runs a sensational podcast called In The Changing Room , all about women in sport. She also works with WISE HK (Women In Sport Empowered HK) and is a passionate advocate for getting people active. We talked about the situation for females in the city, what sports are taking off, and the work that's being done to move the needle.

Guy Shirra moved to Hong Kong from England and served as an officer for the Royal Hong Kong Police force from 1967 until the Handover in 1997. His stories are surreal and there were far too many for us to fully cover. He talked about terrorism from across the border in the '60s, corruption, opium raids in the Kowloon walled city, and the catastrophic Po Shan Road landslide at which he was an early...

Fion Leung is the founder of Time Auction, a tech-enabled charity connecting volunteers with their idols. The group enlists famous and important voices in the region, who give up their time to reward those who give their time to charities. It's a far out idea that's taken off. Get more details at https://timeauction.org/ She's also a co-founder of the Mindfulness Movement, and shared a ton of insi...

The vaccine rollout in Hong Kong has been both sensational and a total circus. There's been ineffective vaccines, halts on BioNTech, people getting the wrong vaccine, vaccinated people getting sick, and somehow Andy and Mo managed to get jabbed. We diced up all the gory details.

John Buckman's a London-born, French-raised, kind-of American who cut his teeth founding companies in Silicon Valley that aimed to make the world fair. His most recent project is Decent Espresso, aimed at reinventing serious coffee machines, launching them into the digital age, and building a community of obsessed fans who actively participate in making kickass machines.

This is the original interview Andy did with Mohammed Magdi in Shanghai 2015. Mo's story of leaving the political strife in Egypt to live in northern China is genuinely insane.

河國榮 Gregory Charles Rivers has a face every Hong Konger knows well. Over his prolific 30-year acting career he's been THE white guy, appearing in more than 200 soap operas. He's been in big films and performs the real deal Cantopop. He also famously blew the city away when he unleashed Cantonese rap of 'Forever ATV' which won him the title of "Hong Kong's most popular male singer 2015".

David Yeung is the founder of OmniPork, Green Common and Green Mondays. And won the Social Entrepreneur of the Year award at the World Economic Forum. He was recognised in Fortune's 2020 'Change The World' list. And is the author of several best-selling books on Zen wisdom and mindfulness.

We finally try to solve the mystery, are Mohammed and Vivek different people?? Shows are back on in HK, or actually we're not even sure anymore. We've had two weeks of shows and with cases popping up everywhere, who knows.

Alyson Hau has dominated the airwaves since joining Metro Radio as a 16 year old. Since then she's covered the Olympics, the World Expo, world premieres for major films including Transformers and Twilight, and interviewed massive music acts such as Maroon 5, Backstreet Boys and Lady Gaga. She told us about the good, the bad and the ugly of meeting superstars, and what it takes to nail a great inte...

Mike Rowse carries a formidable expat CV.  He negotiated the deal that brought Disneyland to Hong Kong, acting on behalf of the government. And was the first expat in HK's history to naturalise as a Chinese national. He was the city's first commissioner for tourism, and the first director of the Financial Secretary's office. He was also on the Independent Commission Against Corruption that changed...