Welcome to Students Incorporated, a podcast exploring the topics of business, education,
technology and design.
I'm your host, Mr. Jason.
Join me weekly as my team and I produce content that's informative, positive, fun and uplifting.
Episodes include student conversations, interviews with thought leaders and inspirational stories
with an international flavor.
This podcast is created and produced with the help of students from the International
Community School of Bangkok.
We are back for a new season with a new podcast crew.
I'm joined by my new co-hosts Rebecca and Premi and the rest of the team.
Welcome to season two of Students Incorporated.
In today's episode, you'll meet our season two team and get to learn a little something
about each of them.
But before we get into our little meet and greet, I'll turn it over to Rebecca for the
quote of the day and Premi for some headline news.
Our quote of the day comes from Russell Eric Dabda.
He is quoted to have said, taking a break can lead to breakthroughs.
Breaks and pauses can be helpful in many different ways.
Things can happen in school, work and even in your personal lives.
So don't be afraid sometimes.
Just take a break from it.
When you do, don't be surprised if you discover a breakthrough.
That's truly inspiring and thank you for the quote, Rebecca.
Now onto some technology news.
A study of New York has announced that they're blocking access to TikTok on the devices of
government workers.
This stems from data privacy concerns over whether TikTok will be able to inject malicious
content into the devices of government officials or steal important data.
New York currently follows 34 other states in having planned TikTok on government devices.
Now onto some business news.
Right here in Thailand, Thailand's tourism industry has suffered from a decline in tourism
due to an economic recession following the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, Thailand is seeing a growth in tourists once again, based on the number of hotel bookings.
Hotels in Thailand are now hiring more staff in order to prepare for the arrival of more
tourists, providing more jobs and helping the local economy.
For our last news headlines, following months of political deadlock after voters turned
in at the ballot on the 14th of May to cast their votes, the Thai parliament has finally
elected a new prime minister.
Mr. Seythad Hevesin, former CEO of real estate giant Santili, has been nominated as the sole
candidate for the prime minister position of the Plutai party and garnered 482 votes,
far exceeding the required 375 votes needed for him to be elected
into power.
Hi people, I'm Rebecca, a junior here at ICS, and I'm joining Students Incorporated
as a co-host, as well as an assistant writer and editor for our podcast.
Some of my weekly responsibilities include hosting the podcast as one of the main speakers
and helping Premi to write and edit the script for each episode.
Super excited to start this new journey.
Hey everyone, I'm Premi, a junior here at ICS.
I'm joining Students Incorporated as a co-host, as well as a writer and editor for our podcast.
I helped with the podcast by hosting the podcast as one of the speakers, in addition to writing
and editing the script for each episode.
Super excited to join the team.
Hello, my name is Patience, I'm a senior and I'm joining Students Incorporated as
the producer and booking agent.
Some of my weekly responsibilities include being in charge of the production of the podcast.
I oversee the production process and make sure the show is produced exceedingly in public
and published with the utmost quality.
As the booking agent, I am in charge of scheduling and communicating who, when, how, and why
our guests will be invited onto our podcast.
Hi everyone, my name is Chanyo.
I'm currently in 12th grade, a senior.
I'm joining Students Incorporated as a designer, as well as an administrator.
Some of my weekly responsibilities include leading progress meetings and creating new
designs based upon each topic for the Students Incorporated podcast.
Wishing the best for this new season.
Hello, my name is Yanhao.
I'm a senior at ICS this year and I'm joining Students Incorporated as a tech engineer and
a journalist.
Some of my weekly responsibilities involve editing the recordings, helping set up equipment,
and also finding news headlines for the podcast.
I'm looking forward to season two of Students Incorporated.
Thank you Yanhao.
We're really excited to work and contribute to the podcast this season.
I'm excited to see how far Students Incorporated will go this season.
In our second segment, we will be having a game of two truth and one lie, so stay tuned.
As of now, we are all back at school, fresh from the summer.
And speaking of break, what's one fun thing you all did over break this past summer?
I'll go first.
During the break, I went to my family's new house in Beihai, China, and spent almost
four hours every day in the ocean.
Over summer break, I went to Taiwan and spent two days hiking with a bunch of elderly people.
It was an amazing experience seeing the view from above the clouds.
Something fun I did over the summer was attending a riding camp in Ohio.
Politics aside, I think Ohio gets too much hate.
Ohioans are actually really nice.
Coming back to Thailand was also really fun as well, especially after being away for a
year, catching up with the Thai friends and family.
Aww, that seems so fun, I've never been to Ohio before.
One thing I did during the break that was fun was I went to America and got to see my
baby niece, she's so cute.
And I also got to go to Universal Studios with my best friends and to Disneyland with
my whole entire family.
Wow, you went to two theme parks.
I hope you had fun there.
Something I did that was fun during the summer was being able to stay all mad, have fun watching
videos until very late into the night, since I stayed in Thailand the whole time.
Alright, something fun I did this summer, my family and I traveled back to the US for
three weeks and we were able to reconnect with friends and family, which is always good.
We got to celebrate the 4th of July holiday with a full fireworks show.
This happens to be our family's favorite holiday, probably because it's summertime in the USA
and we get to hang out outside and eat a lot of good food and hang out with friends and
family.
Okay, thank you everyone for sharing and with that we'll be right back after a short PSA.
Today is August 31, 2023, as we all know that our ICS students are so hardworking and diligent.
Somehow school has been putting so much pressure on our precious students.
So students, do something nice for yourself today, find some quiet, sit in stillness,
breathe, put your headphones and AirPods on, open Students Incorporated on Spotify or Apple
Podcast or Amazon Music or Google Podcast, grab some Coca Cola and chicken nuggets, you
deserve a break.
We're the podcast family.
If you want to know more about us, please follow our Students Incorporated IG account
because your voice matters.
By the way, Spirit Week and Carnival are coming up, stay tuned for more info on the ICS IG
account or check the posters in the school.
We are back with part two.
For this part of the show, we'll be playing a game called Two Truths and One Lie.
Rebecca, could you share the rules of the game and then introduce our two candidates?
Patience and Chanyi will be our candidates.
The rules of the game are easy to follow.
Each person will give us three statements of which one is a lie.
We will try our best to guess which is which.
Patience, are you ready to start us off with your two truths and one lie?
Yes.
Okay, so here are my two truths and a lie.
So number one, I'm actually left-handed and right-handed, so I'm ambidextrous.
Number two, I love traveling alone.
And number three, I'm introverted.
Can you guys guess a lie?
I think number two is a lie because I feel like you're an extrovert person and you like
to stay with people.
What do you think, Premi?
In general, you're like more outgoing and more confident, but many people interpret
the meaning of being introverted as like not as being shy and not talking to people.
But introverted really means that you recharge by being alone or being with close friends
and family.
So honestly, I'm not so sure.
What do you think, Chanyi?
I honestly think that number two, I love traveling alone is maybe not true because I do know
that Patience likes to go with her friends to like travel around and stuff.
So based off what other people are saying, like I think Patience is really interested
with her friends a lot.
So I don't think she's that much of an introvert.
So that's what I'm going with.
Okay, so have we finalized everybody's choices?
So my first two truths are I actually love traveling alone and I am introverted.
My lie is that I'm left-handed and right-handed.
I'm not ambidextrous, sadly.
Thank you, Patience.
Chanyi, it's your turn.
Okay, here are my two truths and one lie.
Number one, I've never been to Australia.
Number two, I've been on the Taekwondo team and won an award.
And number three, I visited an Olympic stadium.
I feel like the lie is number two as well.
You've been on the Taekwondo team because I feel like you're the kind of person who
do like ours, who like work more instead of sports.
What do you think for me?
You know, I think you would be great at Taekwondo.
I think you've won an award.
You've been on the team.
That is true.
I don't think you've been to Australia.
So I think that Chanyi is a bit too peaceful to her Taekwondo, no offense.
So that's why I think that's why that's her lie.
I think, yeah, number two, I've never like knowing Chanyi like, like we're friends.
I'm not sure.
I've never, I don't even know that she's been on a Taekwondo team and I'm not really
sure.
So I think that one is a lie.
My two truths are that I've never been to Australia and that I've been on the Taekwondo
team.
The lie is actually that I've been to Olympic stadium.
I've never been there before and I would have said I'd never would have guessed that, but
I did.
I was right.
You, you, you're amazing at Taekwondo.
We all know it.
Well, we hope you enjoyed the true truths in one lie game with Patience and Chanya and
maybe you learned something new about them.
I know we all did.
And with that, I'd like to thank my new season two team and I look forward to working with
all of you this year.
As we end this episode, we'd like to thank everyone for joining us.
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