Not Again Podcast

This week, I discuss my life after circuit breaker and remembering to check in with friends. I talk about my feeling about streaming shows. I share my feelings about National Day and tell you a story of a depressed father I met as part of the Grab Stories. Not Again Podcast Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/notagainpodcast/ Not Again Podcast website:  https://www.notagainpodcast.com Not Aga...

This week, I went into the vault and found an #Yourjobsucks episode with my friend Jocelyn Suarez who is a nurse. In the episode, we have an honest talk about what it's like working in a prison, dealing with death and loss and the realities of being a nurse in an understaffed industry. We discuss how different patients deal with cancer, how a brush with death changes people and how challenging and...

The lockdown was a complicated time for those living in Singapore. In this episode, Stephanie Dogfoot and I have an honest conversation on how the lockdown was affecting our lives, both professionally and personally. We talk about how difficult it was to produce shows and create content and our feelings on live versus recorded shows. We talk about what we were most excited for Phase 2. We talk abo...

This week, I'm introducing The Other Show, a replacement for the Wednesday Thing. I talked about how Singapore and other parts of the world are coping with Covid-19. I talked about the current political situation here. I talk about my Grab story of a woman that so heavily pregnant that she almost gave birth in my car. Check Sam See at mrsamsee.com Not Again Podcast Facebook Page:  https://www.face...

This week, I went into the vault and found a chat with Brewmaster Gregg Speirs where we talked about, you guessed it, beer! We discussed how difficult it is to make a great brew, the psychology of cost in determining the taste and why certain water tastes better than others. Gregg shares with me how sensitive his taste buds are, how complicated the whole brewing process is and what it really takes...

This week, Sam drops by again in the podcast and we discuss hustling in the comedy scene, especially during these trying times. We talk about what he's been up to during the circuit breaker, preparing for his show and what he thinks about the meaning of the hustle. We discuss what it means to be a comedian in Singapore and how to push boundaries without getting in trouble and how hard it is to run...

This week, I went into the vault and found an episode from #YourJobSucks with my co-host Don and veterinary doctor Dawn Chong. In this episode, Donovan and I get a glimpse on what it's like to be a veterinarian in Singapore. Dawn explains what it's like to be a vet in Singapore (More work than just playing with puppies), why she became a vet and what she has to do when encountering unique and weir...

In this episode that I have went into the vault and found a chat that may have started what Not Again Podcast is.  This episode, Sam and I have gotten a glimpse of what is it like to be a sex worker. Ms M tells the story of becoming a prostitute, why she had made the decision that she had made. We have discuss the idea of sex work, the discrimination in the line of sex work and the kind of clients...

I went back to the vault and found this episode. It was initially a 2 part series but I am going to release as one episode.  I also would like to admit that I made a mistake  during the intro of the podcast episode which Sam was correct during the podcast  This is an episode which was initially intended to be titled as  a screen writer and Sam and I chatted with B. Mark Seabrooks. We talked about...

This week, I am going back into the vault and found an episode that I had with a guest that was featured very recently, Umar Rana.  This episode, I remember having a chat with Umar Rana talking about what is it like to be a banker and working in a bank environment. Coming from a banking background, Umar Rana talked about the conversation topics that bankers have. The idea of working in a bank and...

I went back into the vault and found this episode which follows the format that when I first started podcasting. Sam, Donovan and I were discussing about being a fitness instructor. I wondered why fitness instructor isn't a job that got phased out by an app and suggested how Shia LeBouf replacing the job of fitness instructor and there is when the drama between Sam and Don happened in this episode...

I went back into the vault and manage to find the episode that I talked to a firefighter a few years ago We all have thought about it, the heroic actions of a firefighter come barging in saving us from a fire that sounds like fantasy and our guest from this episode Ashwin tells us if he had been into a burning building, the types of fire and the dangers of being in a burning building. We try to un...

THIS IS A THROWBACK EPISODE In this episode of looking back, I found a chat that I have with Greg Fleet. We chatted about how we have met in Melbourne, Australia and how I was seeing Fleety as an elder in a friend's house. He reminded me how and why he stayed doing comedy ever since he had started doing comedy after peer pressure. He shares the story that he had share stage with some  of the bigge...

I have gone into the vault and managed to dig out this episode that I had with Clare Nolan. Clare Nolan had been my lecturer for a documentary scriptwriting class. We talked a lot about talking and having a structure and formulating questions that lead to a narrative. We had different opinions when it comes to having an interview on both side of the spectrum the freeform conversation and the plann...

We have always been trying to tell our own truth, Quen Wong has always told the truth as a documentarian and now she is finally telling hers with a new full feature length documentary that she is currently producing and directing, "Some Women" which documents her coming out as a trans woman. Based on our experience working for different documentary film crews, we discuss the role of a documentary...

After being in Singapore for 10 years, Rindo Ramankutty had given some thought on the rational why people start to panic buy when an emergency had happened. He explained that even though how panic buying will affect the situation but why it is understandable that how it had happened. We discuss about situational awareness just before Rindo tries to catch up with me about the experience I had in In...

Robyn Perkins is a jack of all trades at her previous lives from a landscape designer to a marine biologist to a comedian. We tried to predict what is going to happen in this unfortunate and crazy time. Robyn has a lot of jokes about science, how her previous life as a scientist influence her writing style while I ranted against "nerd" jokes in the mainstream TV show. She shared a drinking game, h...

As one of the pioneers in the comedy scene of Singapore, Umar Rana have been around the block running one of the biggest, regular live stand up comedy shows in Singapore. We reminisce on the history and the many people that had shared the stage of Comedy Masala. Umar had also share experiences in running a successful comedy show in Singapore which also had expanded to his hometown Karachi, Pakista...

Okay this is happening for the 3rd year anniversary for the podcast. I talked about what is going on in Singapore right now while the whole world is going on through the lockdown. I talked to a passenger about being 30 years old and the reason why I am not able to release an episode the last 2 weeks. I reflect the goals that I had for this year including the ones that I had with the podcast and st...

I am back again. After taking a hiatus from the last time I recorded a Wednesday Thing episode. I dropped in talked about the virus thing again. I talked about the lock down from different countries and how it had screwed up the part of my life that I looked forward to. I think about the propaganda video for this and consider the theory is it because it is the election season and thus this virus w...

Brian Aylward, hailing for Newfoundland Canada had been in Asia for some time now and started the stand up scene in Seoul, Korea. Having a viral video under his belt while fulfilling his social responsibility along the way, he looks back at the idea of having like a big break and how it had been a long and distant thing. We talk a lot about the idea of hustling and what it really means while looki...

Interesting and exciting are words that understates Dave Thompson career to say the least. Before being in the show business full-time, he had been a drama therapist then he manage to get to play Tinky Winky in the original cast of the Teletubbies, he recollects the day that he got his role in Teletubbies while trying to rationalize why he got fired from the role. He talks about the history of Tel...

Steve Hughes was a drummer for different metal bands before becoming a stand up comic legend. We try to understand the idea of regulations which Steve Hughes finally breakdown why it is not working and mocking the idea of having Macdonald as the ambassador of the sports events in Singapore. He opens up going through maniac depression and how it had caused his relationship to breakdown with his gir...

For this Wednesday Thing, I rant about the annoyance by the Coronavirus that had happened and how it had affected in Singapore. I am also got shocked about my age after doing the Chinese New Year thing that happened about a month ago.  Not Again Podcast Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/notagainpodcast/ Not Again Podcast website:  https://www.notagainpodcast.com Not Again Podcast iTunes Pag...

Phil Kay has always been a comedian that I am always amazed at. He act is very surreal and always very high energy and I wonder how he has so many energy about it. Coming from a very conservative part of Scotland, he recounted his friend from Iran and talking about still remaining contact with the friends from his childhood. He talked about the loving side of comedy and how to tell jokes that does...