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The Joe Rogan Experience

#1427 - Melissa Chen

The Joe Rogan Experience

Joe Rogan

Comedy

4.6228.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2020

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Melissa Chen is the NY editor for Spectator USA and the managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ready?

0:03.0

What's up, Melissa, how are you?

0:05.0

Hello Joe. We were just talking about caning and hanging in Singapore.

0:08.0

Hanging now, is that the new one?

0:10.0

No, it's always been...

0:11.0

That's how they always do it.

0:12.0

Caning is one of the forms of capital punishment, but they still, they actually hang for drugs.

0:17.0

What is Singapore like? I've never been. It seems like a strange place because it's relatively wealthy right and upscale and very nice

0:26.9

but also ruthless but you know what happened in like my generation I've witnessed it go from third world the first

0:33.7

well in my lifetime. Really? Yeah, yeah. So it's one of those success stories of

0:38.0

nation building. But it's it's kind of like you know snow globes, the perfect snow globes?

0:45.0

Yeah, when you like turn it over and like everything kind of sprinkles,

0:48.0

that's what it feels like living in Singapore.

0:50.0

For me at least, I had to get out.

0:52.0

It's just, it's a bit sterile. It's perfect, but it's too perfect. It's almost like there's somebody called it once Disneyland with the death penalty. Which is pretty good. And you get the death penalty for things like drugs, right? Just possession

1:04.6

passed like maybe 25 grams or 25 milligrams or something, marijuana trafficking.

1:10.3

So if you have an ounce of marijuana. How many grams is an ounce?

1:14.0

What's the conversion? I don't know.

1:15.0

I haven't converted to.

1:17.0

20?

1:18.0

28?

1:19.0

28 grams in an ounce?

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