To Terry, Kormmandos, Annibrow, James and everyone else who’ve noticed and emailed me lately asking why I haven’t been heard on the mrbrown show. Thanks for asking.
Well, I haven’t been on the mrbrown show for a few weeks now because it’s time to move on to other things.
But it’s been a great year and a half writing and performing the silly skits that have made the show popular, and I’ve really enjoyed my time collaborating with mr brown and some of our guests (as well as being the hapless customer in the Zhng My Car series, and the hapless ‘customer’ in the Bak Chor Mee skit).
I have to thank Kin Mun for coming up with the crazy idea of having a podcast in the first place, and remember, we started out with an iPod and one of those plug-in mics you buy from the iShop or Apple Centre. Nothing stopped the occasional recording, and I remember a serious bout of flu keeping Kin Mun at home, necessitating the complex set-up of Skype and other software which allowed us to remotely ‘host’ a thirty minute show talking about such important national issues as ‘what is toilet paper called in Mandarin’?
The answer I offered (that we used to call toilet paper ‘shit paper’ in Mandarin) made Kin Mun laugh so hard he coughed himself off the chair, knocking out cables and having to set up the setup again. At least that was what he told me. I couldn’t see for sure, and had to take his word for it.
As for the very popular character ‘Johnny’, played inimitably by Kin Mun, credit is due to our friend Daryl Sng, who, on a pub outing with us, said, ‘eh, you know it would be very funny to have a Singaporean version of MTV’s Pimp My Ride, called ‘Zhng My Car”, or something. I paraphrase, but you know what I mean lah.
Working on the podcast also made me realise that people take nonsense seriously, and it was both stressful and humbling to have guests ask to appear on the show. To date, we’ve had radio djs, film-makers, actors, singers, bands, writers, fellow bloggers, and according to Kin Mun, we’ve also stashed away recordings of taxi drivers, colleagues and the laksa auntie downstairs of the mrbrown show studio in Katong.
I’ve had friends who’ve made jokes, laughed at their own jokes, and then paused to ask me, ‘eh, is that going to be on the podcast?’ Nothing was sacrosanct, except things deemed sacrosanct at common law and acts of parliament.
I’m now looking forward to doing my own stuff again, and that includes writing (hint: if you’ve got writing gigs, let me know), and I’d like to thank every listener who has been supporting the show all this while. Youse rocks!
Mr Miyagi’s last mrbrown show podcast: the mrbrown show 25 Oct 2006: robo-beng
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It’s time for you to move on, as mrbrownshow is abit too commercial nowadays, no more the the pure funny podcast, but abit too artificial.
Moreover, it should be called mrbrown_and_mrmiyagi_show instead.
mr miyagi,
thanks for the jokes and fun from the MB show.
for the past few(quite many actually) podcasts, i found that they have been very lame and i found myself not even laughing once after the podcasts have ended.
Well, after reading about your absence, I can put 2 and 2 together.
sigh… the stress of having a podcast everyday due to sponsors and the absence of mr miyagi has resulted in the worst podcasts since its creation.
good luck miyagi
i thought the point of sponsors is to help pay for the podcasts instead of the other way around? I dont think my fellow listeners know what they are talking about.
Next thing you know Straits Times will feature the “breakup” of mr brown and miyagi on their front page.
yeah i’m sure ST would LOVE it and i’m sure they would also report that the fans are complaining all kinds of things liao. so much for fan loyalty haha.
I think for the good of all. We should all stop speculating and commenting. Please let the two be. If they are friends, they are friends and look and the new site, if they’ve really fallen out do they still reference each others? If there were any arguments, help them to patch and not to drift further. They are all grown up, not children and I can sense in them a certain kind of bonding. The last podcast, I believe Robo-Beng is very much Mr Brown’s way of showing appreciations. Do you know that Mr Brown used name Mr Miyagi as Robot and the Silencer? “http://www.mrbrown.com/blog/2005/06/skypecast_inter.html“
And they should cherish it and I believe in good time, they will be fine. And you are giving ST lines to quote. That’s not very nice. Be a peacemaker lah!
Hear ye, hear ye! U’ll be greatly missed!!!!
but fear not, write more! love your literature, esp, on ur twice-poisoned dog blog
cheers to greater days ahead!
john sung:
do u think sponsors are charity? no free lunch in the world.. i pay for your equipment, you better produce podcast for me and mention my name everyday ok…
manfgowithice dun talk cock. you not in the biz dun think you know so much. hear a few podcast suddenly become expert ah?
Podcast update: Mr Brown Show…
Its quite sad to see Mr Miyagi leave the podcasting team on Mr Brown show. After a few days I am beginning to miss his voice on Mr Brown show already… I would like to wish Mr Miyagi all the best in the future. We have to move on in life… All the be…
As regards the mrbrown show…
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Loola.net…
like the ones who commented on his post about him leaving the brown show, i have been stopping halfway during podcasts. like the latest one, it’s too boring. school banding? i dont know if Imran Johari and Ruby Pan are the new members of the mr brown …
I look forward to the reunited of Miyagi and MrBrown on the show!
…and I feel a song coming on.
Wow! On again? Yeah! I’ll start checking brown’s the podcast everyday from now! Yeah!
Um… no. Sorry, Barnie. The previous comment just reminded me of the Peaches & Herb song, that’s all.
Mmmmmmmmm.… Okay!
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