Inside Story

Jul 15 2024 100 ep. 53 mins 140

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We get the inside story on the major headline of the day, exploring different facets and perspectives to gain deeper insight.

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What Would You Do With $600 Million? (If Not a Wedding?)

Jul 15 2024 82 mins

The wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant has caught public attention for its staggering price tag of over 600 million USD. The entire ceremony took place over the course of five-months, with 11 pre-wedding ceremonies and a guest list including celebrities like Kim and Khloe Kardashian, John Cena, Nick Jonas, Priyanka Chopra; and politicians like Boris Johnson and Tony Blair

When Should We Cut The Apron Strings?

Jul 10 2024 59 mins

An article by The Atlantic has highlighted how parent-child relationships have transformed from old school independence-driven parenting to a more modern, bond-focused dynamic. So we asked our listeners how close they are to their parents, how this shaped their adulthood, and when the right time is to be more independent. Image Credit: imtmphoto,ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/liste

Are We Happy With Our Working Week?

Jul 08 2024 77 mins

Greece introduced a new employment law that establishes a six-day working week to boost economic growth, at a time when many other countries are increasingly seeing positive results from experiments with four-day working week. We ask our listeners to share their thoughts on Malaysia's current five-day working week and to imagine their ideal structure of the workweek.Image Credit: P

Breaking Bad (Habits)

Jul 03 2024 66 mins

We all have a tough time breaking bad habits, whether that's smoking, doomscrolling or shopping. Some people opt to go all in, and quit cold turkey, but others prefer baby steps. So we talk about these two approaches, and ask our listeners, which side of the fence they are on when it comes to this.Image Credit: sosiukin, 123RFSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Should Learning Be Easy?

Jul 01 2024 76 mins

Should we be taking the fun way, or the hard way in our path to learning something new? Co-founder of OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy thinks the latter. He argues that the "shortification of learning" made popular by short form videos on social media, packaged as a way to learn while being entertained, is a "trap." Instead, he advocates that if one were serious about learning, they should

A Late Coming-of-Age

Jun 27 2024 53 mins

Society often idolizes the concept of early success, made all the more prominent by high-profile figures like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk. However, an article by The Atlantic proposes that blossoming later in life can be equally, if not more impactful. We explore this idea, and ask our listeners about their own late-blooming experiences, and the skills that they discov

Do You Like To Move It, Move It?

Jun 26 2024 62 mins

The World Health Organisation has revealed that one third of adults are not doing enough physical activity. So we get into it with our listeners, and ask them how much exercise they do, and if not, what prevents them from exercising.Image Credit: Skydive Erick, ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Preserving A Life Offline

Jun 25 2024 35 mins

With Paramount Global pulling the plug on MTV News and it's 20-year archive, netizens are starting to worry about the internet disappearing. In fact, a study by Pew Research Centre says 38% of webpages from 2013 are have already disappeared from the web. With that, we asked listeners about how they preserve their most precious memories to withstand the test of time.Image Credit: Wi

Are You a Rememberer or a Forgetter?

Jun 24 2024 69 mins

That's exactly what an article in The Cut addressed. In short, the author asked whether they were better off forgetting things, and went on to talk about the existential differences between forgetting and remembering. This, of course, got us wondering: Which side of the fence do our listeners fall on? Is ignorance really bliss, or are there merits to having acute memory?See omnystu

Pebbling: A New Way of Loving

Jun 23 2024 41 mins

In the world of penguins, pebbling is when one penguin gives a pebble to express its desire to mate and build a nest. In the human world, pebbling is when we share social media posts with our loved ones as a form of kinship or affection. So we asked our listeners if they pebble and how they share affection online.Image Credit: champlifezy,123RFSee omnystudio.com/listener for privac