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Tell You First — 88 episodes

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1

How The Noose Got Away with 10 Years of Mocking Singapore

2

How China Wine Precipitated One of Singapore’s Biggest Scandals

3

The AWARE Saga: How We Didn't Shut Up and Sit Down (w Jasmine Ng)

4

The Nicoll Highway Collapse: How Four Deaths Rewrote Singapore's Construction Rules

5

The Coffee Shop That’s Hiding Singapore’s Biggest Sex Forum

6

The Beyoncé Concert Malaysia Didn't Want You to See

7

How a 28-Year-Old In Singapore Killed Britain’s Oldest Merchant Bank

8

That Time Indonesia Bombed Singapore, And How Lee Kuan Yew Brought Peace Back

9

The OG Singapore Idol Finally Reveals Why Singapore Idol Ended (w Dick Lee)

10

Why Nobody Knows The USB ThumbDrive Was Invented in Singapore

11

Should Only Singaporeans Write National Day Songs? (w Ben Kheng)

12

The Singaporean Artist Who Had to Sue to Prove She Was Original

13

The Nude Sports Games That Shocked Malaysia and Singapore

14

Was Modern Singapore Built on Drug Money?

15

The NParks Brompton Scandal: Why Singapore Lost Its Mind Over 26 Bicycles

16

The Surprising Story of Annabel Chong: The Girl Who Rejected The Singapore Dream

17

Why the Strait of Malacca Keeps China Awake at Night

18

Sarong Party Girls: “Ang Moh Better?” A History of the Stereotype

19

The Year Singapore Football Became A Joke

20

How Bugis Street Became One of Singapore’s Biggest Tourist Attractions

21

Hawker Culture: From Illegal to UNESCO Recognition

22

Samsui Women: The Original Girlbosses Who Built Singapore

23

How Singapore Turned the Sea into Prime Real Estate

24

When the British Blew Up One of Singapore's Oldest Relics

25

The Golden Age of YouTube in Singapore and Why It Disappeared

26

That Time When A Singapore Airlines Plane Was Hijacked

27

How Orchard Towers Earned Its Shady Reputation

28

When Phua Chu Kang Got Scolded By The Prime Minister

29

How Singapore was Once the Pirate Capital of the World

30

Why Is Singapore So Serious About Bomb Shelters?

31

Why This $150 Million Kampong is Still Standing

32

How A Riot Changed Singapore’s Nightlife FOREVER

33

When Gangs Ruled Chinatown

34

Steven Lim and the Fatal Fight

35

Katong’s Lost Palace: Sex Scandals, Circus Elephants, and Magicians

36

How Singapore Lost an Island in a “Crabby” Deal

37

The Merlion: The Myth That Became Legend

38

Chope-d With Tissues: Singapore’s Most Polite Power Move

39

Singapore’s Famous Dragon Playground Has A Secret

40

Singapore’s War on Sex, Drugs, and Rock ’n’ Roll

41

One Man, One Wife, Banning Polygamy in Singapore

42

The NKF Scandal: Peanuts, Gold Taps, and a $600,000 Salary

43

From Power Plant to Party Central: The Story of St James Power Station

44

The Street Where People Went To Die

45

The Dark Story Behind the Tiger Balm Brothers and Haw Par Villa

46

Why Can’t We Stop Seeing Ghosts In Singapore?

47

Singapore’s Forgotten Cemetery of Pioneers, Bukit Brown

48

Space Without Astronauts: How Singapore Is Reaching for the Stars

49

Ghost Economies: Why the Dead Need Money Too

50

Mind Over Water: How Singapore Conquered Water Stress

51

Mosquitos: Why Singapore Wants MILLIONS Of Them

52

Boomz, Bigini: What Ris Low Taught Us About Beauty Pageants

53

One Island, Two Claims, and a Lot of History

54

Why U So Like Dat? The Song That Made Singlish Cool

55

Avatar, Anime, and Architecture: The Wild Origins of SuperTrees

56

The Story Behind a Very Banned Book

57

The Fire That Built Singapore: The Shocking Truth Behind Bukit Ho Swee!

58

Hidden Feng Shui in Singapore’s Skyline

59

POV: Surviving the Japanese Occupation

60

HUAT AH! Untangling the Messy Origins of Yusheng

61

Why Do We Still Follow Lunar Calendars?

62

The Rickshaw Puller Who Saved Singapore

63

Swiftonomics in Singapore (w Ann Nicole)

64

What Time Is It, Really?

65

The Caning of Michael Fay: SG vs USA

66

Kopi - The Art of Singapore’s Favourite Brew

67

The Secret Origins of Fish Head Curry (w Gerald Koh)

68

Close Encounters of the Genetic Kind

69

What’s Making Us So Hot and Wet

70

Zouk’s Mambo Jambo: The Party of a Generation

71

Comrade Bala: The Monster Made in Singapore

72

Deepavali: A Guide For the Rest of Us (w Rai Kannu)

73

How Singapore Got Its Internet Groove

74

Night Safari: Why Visit a Zoo at Night?

75

Disappearing Genitals: The Koro Crisis of 1967

76

Why Singapore TV Peaked in the 90s (w Vernetta Lopez)

77

Brewing a Legend: The History of Beer in Singapore

78

Why Singapore Hated Long Hair in the 1960s

79

From Vatican to Lion City: The Pope’s First Visit to Singapore

80

The Teenage Suicide Pact That Shocked Singapore

81

Power Rangers Exposed: The Unlikely Origins of a Global Phenomenon

82

The Burning Down of Singapore in 1613 That Changed Everything

83

The Untold Drama of Singapore's National Day Parade (w Hazelle Teo)

84

When a School Principal Shot a Tiger at Raffles Hotel

85

Wedding Gatecrashing - Is This “Tradition” Really Necessary?

86

Why Are Cars in Singapore So Flippin' Expensive?!

87

The Deadly Riots of Singapore’s Only Prison Island Experiment

88

Parrot Astrology: Inside the World of Feathered Fortune Tellers (w Joakim Gomez)