Welcome to Students Incorporated. I'm your host, Mr. Jason. Join me weekly as my team and I produce content that's informative, positive, fun, and uplifting. This podcast is created and produced with the help of students from the International Community School of Bangkok.
Hello and welcome back to the podcast. This episode is sponsored by the ICS Finance Club, led by Student Club Presidents Joseph and Maddie. Tune in to the PSA for more information about their upcoming event. And moving on, in today's episode, we will introduce four more of our team members with a short Q&A time. Then for segment two, we welcome two very special guests. Maybe you've seen them on TV or seen them on social media. Mr. Tuck and Mrs. Elsie Boraboon. We'll be hearing a little bit about them.
Let's hear a little bit about their journey and find out about some of the projects they've been working on recently. But before we jump into segment one, let's hear our quote of the day and get some headline news.
Our quote of the day comes from Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks. He said, risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical. This quote encourages individuals to push the boundaries of their comfort zone and not be afraid to take risk in pursuing their dreams, even when others may doubt them.
By willing to take risk and dream big, individuals can achieve things that others may not have thought is possible. It emphasizes the importance of believing in oneself and not being limited by the expectations or limitations set by others.
And that's our quote of the day. Now onto some headline news with Mia.
Thank you for our quote of the day, Frank. Now here's some headline news from around the world. All right. So our first headline comes from BBC. So as you all know, Mars, that's known for brands like Twix and M&Ms, will acquire Kellenova, who is a maker of Pringles and Pop Tarts for nearly $36 billion.
Now, this major snacking buyout is expected to face minimal regulatory hurdles and is actually set to close in early 2025. Kellenova will be joining Mars snacking in Chicago. So let's all keep an eye out for that.
All right. So we can all see that we have a little food theme going on. Onto our next headline. The Canadian owner of Circle K has offered $38 billion to acquire 7-Eleven from Japan's 7 and I holdings.
If this was approved, the deal would actually expand ACT's network in the U.S. and Canada to over 20,000 locations. And it also includes a 20% premium over 7-Eleven's pre-bid stock price.
And finally, for our last headline, Twitter, or known as X, has actually shut down in its Brazilian office, which follows a clash with the Supreme Court Judge Alexandra de Mores.
Now, this dispute arose right after de Mores threatened to arrest X's Brazilian legal representative if the platform did not block accounts that are accused of spreading, say, disinformation linked to former president. X criticized de Mores for jeopardizing staff safety and actually announced the office closure.
Musk called the decision difficult, but necessary, arguing that de Mores actions undermine democratic governance.
Now that is our headline news for this episode.
Thank you for the quote and headline news.
Before we get into our interview with Mr. Tuck and Mrs. Elsie, we'd like to introduce four more new members of our Season 3 podcast team.
We welcome to the studio Elsa, Esther, Indy, and Grace, or better known as Hewie. I'm also joined by co-host Mia and Frank. Mia will start us off with our first question.
Alright, hi guys. Welcome to the show, Elsa, Esther, Indy, and Hewie. So, if you guys could just introduce yourselves and your role in the podcast team, we'll start off with Elsa.
Hi, I'm Elsa and I'm a senior and my role in the podcast team is the writer and researcher.
Hi, my name is Esther. I'm also a senior and I am a graphic designer.
Hello, my name is Indy and I'm currently a senior also and I have a role in this class as the outreach and events specialist.
Hello, my name is Grace, but you can call me Hewie. I'm a senior and my role is social media specialist in the podcast team.
Moving on to our next question, what inspired you guys to join Intro to Marketing?
One of our members in the team, Rebecca, recommended this class to me last year. She said it was really fun and I really wanted to join because I'm also very interested in marketing and so far it's been really fun.
I initially wanted to join Intro to Marketing because I thought it would be very interesting to experience and learn about the surface of how the marketing industry works.
For me, mine is probably pretty simple because I just like to design and I just like to do marketing.
For me, I was always interested in marketing and I want to major in the field of marketing in the future.
And I also heard the marketing classes doing like podcasts, so I felt it would be a great experience and also build great memories with my friends.
Alright, thank you guys. I think those are really good answers and above all, I think we all just really want to gain, you know, just a better understanding in the field of marketing, I guess.
Alright, so now that you guys are actually like in marketing class, what is one thing that you like so far in marketing?
Since my role in the podcast team is actually writing the script, so I have a lot of fun writing the scripts and coming up with guiding questions that you guys get to hear on our podcast.
For me, I like the team dynamic in this class, how every job depends on another job. It grows our teamwork skills and a further connection between our classes.
For me, since I'm the outreach and events specialist, I would always do reels with Kiwi. That's just one of like my likings of this class so far.
For me, I think creating reels is one of the things I like the most in the class. I have posted two reels currently. One is Indie, Maddie, and Joseph, Rizzing Up.
The second one is Joseph, Rizzing Up with his Chinese accent, and both of them have a lot of views, so I'm really happy with it.
I also really like the reels. I think it's really funny. And anyways, also, what are your goals about this class?
One particular goal I have is actually to enhance my writing skills because writing the guiding questions can make me be able to find out what grammatical places I need to put or what I have to write later.
And maybe coming up with the guiding questions is also a very good thing. So enhancing my creativity and imagination on presentizing the specific topics that we talk about in the episodes.
Overall, I just want to learn more about marketing and basically just grow in my experiences.
I just want to be better in marketing, and I just want to be more creative with my thoughts.
For me, I want to make one reel that goes really viral, like 1 million views and like 100k likes. And also, I want to learn more about marketing strategies for my future career.
Alright, thank you everybody for those answers. I do have one more question for everybody in the studio, and we'll start with Mia answering this one first.
So maybe you can think about, or who do you enjoy working with the most in the class so far? So Mia, why don't you go first with this question?
Alright, thank you for that question Mr. Jason. I would say this is a really hard question, but for sure, I definitely don't like working with Frank a lot. I'm just kidding. I've been bashing him so much, I'm so sorry.
Anyways, I think that one person that I have particularly enjoyed working with is definitely talking with Frank about the episodes and scripts, and also working with my team leader, Premi, and my writer, Elsa.
Yeah, that's about it. I'll pass it on to Frank next.
I enjoy working with Abe and Toto, although he's not the most productive. It's the most fun I'd say, but to be productive I'd say with Mia or Premi, but still I prefer Toto and Abe.
I really enjoy working with our co-hosts and our podcasting, Mia, Frank, and HiLiTe, because I get to hear their creative ideas and what they want to put in as the guiding questions.
As the other graphic designer, I enjoy working with Micah because we get to joke around a lot with our designs.
So first of all, I love working with everyone, but I would say the one that I'd say I love working with most is probably Maddie, Joseph, Hugh, and Siyun, and it's probably just that I work with them the most and I know them the most.
I enjoy working with Indie, Maddie, Joseph, and Siyun as well because they enjoy contributing to the rules that I have planned for them, and they also throw a lot of creative ideas for the rules.
Well, thank you guys very much for answering all those questions. Hopefully our audience will start to get to know you by your work and the stuff that you're producing for us on every episode, so thank you.
A lot of the people you're meeting right now, a lot of these team members, a lot of them are working behind the scenes, so just know that there's a lot of work that goes into the production of every episode.
All right, so thank you, and that concludes our first segment. We'll be right back after the short PSA announcement.
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Clubs, clubs, clubs. There are just so many to choose from, but ICS Finance Club is one of the best for you in various different aspects.
As we all know, the mission of ICS Finance is to inspire young investors and future entrepreneurs and also encouraging them to open their minds to the principles of investments and to also learn to share their perspectives.
Now, financial literacy is obviously a very important skill, I'll say, for any high school student, so you guys can go check them out on Instagram at ics.finance.club.
There will also be an event where they'll be visiting the Stock Exchange of Thailand actually on September 13th. There are many limited spots, so stay tuned for further updates on their Instagram, again at ics.finance.club.
And we are back with our second segment, and we have the privilege of talking with Mr. Tuck and Mrs. Elsie Boribon. Mr. Tuck is a well-known Thai actor, comedian, model, and TV host. His wife, Mrs. Elsie, also joins us, and she's a former air hostess for Malaysian Airlines.
More recently, they, along with their daughter, have been the face of Mr. DIY Thailand, a commercial which dropped earlier this year on YouTube, which now has close to 5 million views. It's quite clever and catchy, so check it out when you have a chance.
Mia will start us off with our first interview question.
Alright, hello and welcome to the show. So we're really honored to have you guys in the studio, and thank you again for taking the time to talk with us. Alright, before we talk about some of your more recent work, we'd love to hear about how you both got into your different careers. So could you both share some of your career journey with us?
Point Channel 23. And now, Ms. Elsie. Okay, right now, I'm a full-time housewife, but before this, I did work. When I was a child, I had two dreams, and I'm so happy that I succeeded in my dreams, both of them. So after I graduated, I joined a cruise liner. I worked at a seafood ferry.
For six years, then after six years, I moved to airlines and worked in airlines for five years.
Thank you for sharing and now moving on. The next question is, what were some challenges you faced early in the industry?
I started working like 10 years, my age, 10 years old. And then I started like a movie, Long Ta Lap Bap. After that, TV series, something like that. When I have a company, I have a company on 27, I started building my company until now.
Challenging, yeah, because for the TV program, the people not watching it too much now, like Channel 3, 7, something like that. I changed my mind for the online. The last time I have a show on the TV program, and then I lose my money a lot of, yeah, a lot of time ago.
A long time ago, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I'm thinking, where are the watching, something like that. Oh, on the mobile. On that time, yeah, I changed my mind for make a TV program on the online.
As for me, things that I have challenged during my first work as a seafarer was seasickness. During rough sea, I get a really bad seasickness. So my best candy was a seasickness pill. Technically, we have a clinic next door, and doctor got fed up with me, so he gave me the whole bottle.
Yeah, next to me as my best friends. Being a cabin crew, my biggest challenge was every day when we go to work, we have to well prepared that about safety and security, because that's the main reason where we go on board.
And every year we have to renew our flying license, where we have to go through all the exams, and also all the drills.
And I have a follow up question for you, Ms. S. Elsie. Just wondering, now that you've mentioned all of your challenges about seasickness and like safety security on all these things, now that you're looking back, do you think that it was all worth it?
Yeah, it's all worth it because you do what you love, so all the challenges will become your motivation.
So you just keep doing it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. Thank you for that. And another follow up question is, how did you guys meet?
And Khun Tuan can also answer. Yeah.
I think.
Nothing but truth.
Back, I think 15 years ago, I'm a passenger.
On a plane?
Yeah, I flying back from the Sulak Thani, and then I met her. She waiting for me.
Because, she waiting for me because walk late and boarding gate, and then she not smile.
Oh.
Like that.
Okay.
Alright.
And then I saw her. Oh, so beautiful. Until now, yeah, so beautiful.
And then when I on a plane, I talking to her, do you have a coke? And then she said, what? Oh, she can speak Thai.
And then on that flight, I talked to her a lot. When she walk past, hey, hey, girl, girl, girl.
Noodle, yeah, noodle, something like that. Hey, hey, hey.
All the time, yeah, on that flight. And then we change the MSN. No, no, no.
You are a superstar. And I was like, so?
Email, email it again.
Alright, that's so cute.
Back to the story, when I first joined the Air 1 and joined Air Asia.
And then 10 of us from Malaysia being sent to Thailand and based in Thailand. That's where I met him during our first flight.
Basically, during that time, Air Asia was still quite new here.
So we only have like three crew members. One of us have to go for boarding gate to do the announcement and welcome all the passengers where he was the last one to arrive.
And even though he knows that he was late, but he still walked like a superstar way, which is really slow mo.
Yeah. And then he start telling me like he's a stupid start.
So you can imagine during the flight that the flight need to go on time and then someone being late and so chill.
Yeah, yeah, for sure. Alright, thank you for that.
On that time, yeah, about the airplane, Malaysia Airlines disappear. This airplane is gone. And then on that time, I fall in love. Hey, you quit your job.
Yes. And during that time, I was with Everest Airlines. So I go places and I mean, we highly meet each other once a month, like maybe seven or three times a year.
Yeah, then he requested me to move over to Thailand. So I actually moved here one year before we got married because I'm not sure that we can live together or not because we don't really see each other.
Some people that you can meet for high by but then you can't really live together. So we try for one year before we actually get married.
Okay, this love story is like straight out of a movie or like a book, you know, like love in the air or like love in the airplane.
So like one thing, this is kind of off topic, would you recommend that if you love someone or you like someone in public, just talk to her?
Yeah, because I've had friends and they were like, she doesn't like me. So one more thing. I understand that you hosted like a ghost story TV show in Thailand.
Could you like explain what the show was about? Or like what's like the spookiest stories? But like not too spooky though, because the kids don't get scared.
Okay, long time ago, yeah. I worked on the TV program 10 years. I just quit three years ago. For me, I believe in the ghost, yeah, because I'm not sure that I made a ghost.
But I think it's good for me when I want teenage, same as you. I went to that house, Salaaburi, big house. And then I challenging, hey, if you have a ghost, come on, come inside.
Come on, show me. I'm not scary, right? Come on. Hey, show me. On that time, for the daytime, yeah, I did it. For the nighttime, I can't sleep at here.
The window, I saw with my eye, the window, no wind, bang, bang, bang, the door, bang, bang, bang. After that, walking out from that house, I made the black shadow.
And then talking time, get out. For me, if we don't trust like for the ghost, I think don't challenging. For me, yeah, yeah, yeah. For me, okay, something like that.
Okay, thank you. Now moving on from the spooky, you guys have a family TV show on YouTube, right, with over 2 million subscribers when we last checked. So could you talk to us a little bit about it and share some of the ups and downs that comes with producing a show like that?
When I start, I'm not saying it too much. I'm just keeping a memory for my daughter. I started shooting when she was 3 years old because my wife said she wants to have a clip. That's why I started making a clip.
But for me, I working in this career for a long time, right? That's why I know how to make a clip because it's my work. I know for the shooting, for the singing, for the camera.
That's why I start shooting for my daughter and my wife. But for the first time, we not making money, just keeping up memory and teaching her because I want my daughter talk good, same as you.
Same as you. But before we make a channel and then the profit coming up. When I talk a lot, like at the university, when I talk for the channel, public stage, I said you choose to know yourself what you want to do for the channel.
If you love sports, okay, go ahead. Something like that. I think if making money is not stable, it's not stable. But making money, but not sure, this month is good, next month is not good.
It's because of Billy because he was still very young in his child. Sometimes we don't really know whether she can do it or certain things that we asked her to say it because as we doing it, we have sponsors coming in and some sponsor would like her to say some certain sentences that she really have to remember them.
Where sometimes she just can't, so it takes a long time. I remember that there was a scene that she just have to look up to the sky and make some expression like wow.
And then she keep complaining like, well, it's too bright. She can't open her eye or she remember to open her eye, but she forgot the wow.
And it took us a few hours just for a few seconds of steaming where we really have to be patient when we work with her. And right now she already almost 10 years old.
Still we facing the same problems because she is not someone that we asked her to do something easily. She need a lot of reason and she have her own thinking and mindset. So she will suggest something.
So in order to solve the problem, so we always say, okay, we do it your own way and then we do it our what papa suggested to.
So take an even longer time to make like two kind of scene in one go.
But then good and bad for doing this is sometimes it brings the family closer.
But when conflict happen and we couldn't solve it and someone take it to personally, then it will bring something not so nice to our relationship.
Okay, so I have a follow up question. So you said that the money isn't like stable like some months it might be good or maybe bad.
So is the ultimate goal of making these videos just to bond as a family like get closer with your daughter or teacher?
Oh, so this video is like making a memory with your daughter?
Yes, yes.
Yeah, because the life is going fast.
Like this year, next year, next year.
Everyday take photo. If I'm not touch the camera, I can't sleep.
I want to keep a memory time.
Yeah, I definitely relate to that because last year, I did that and like the whole year like it passed on really quick.
So I started realizing that time is going by really, really fast.
I still feel like I'm like 12.
But yeah, let's get back to the question because I've been off topic.
So I saw that your family worked with Mr. DIY Thailand.
Like, can you explain like what type of project that is or like maybe a little bit about that business?
I think that Mr. DIY choose us because the family, father, mother, daughter, something like that.
They choose us because when we do our work with our channel, we always DIY stuff.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I love to make a toy, like a big toy, like a moving bed, something like that.
Weird and funny stuff for buddies to play, have fun while.
Because I did ask them and then because we are the first family that being chosen as a presenter for Mr. DIY
because before this, they don't have any presenter.
And then they say be soop in down.
I also have like a follow up question.
Is there like any future project that you can like leak or like give us like a little like snip?
Future project?
Future project that I want to do for me.
If we live here like a university, I want to travel.
Because I started working like a 10 years.
Yeah, when I was 10 years old, I worked a lot.
Until now, 45 years working for me for the project.
Oh, I want to rest.
He wanted to rest, but he refused to rest.
Yeah, so he wanted to like midnight stay here, he's working.
So like, do you like recommend gap years for university?
Like maybe take one year off and you know, live, live, travel, and then go to college?
Or do you said that we should go to college first and then rest?
Not sure.
For me, because time is short, we don't know when is our time.
So I would say we do two things at the same time.
When there's studying time, we study and there's break time.
So we use that time to go travel as well.
That's why I choose my work that I can travel while working.
So basically during that time, I don't really spend a lot on traveling because I get paid when I travel.
Okay, when I travel, I told her, change the country.
Two years ago, we just went for China.
Okay, these?
I don't know why, we change Australia.
We used to travel to places. I mean, every year we change country and go.
But since last year, I only arranged us to go China because started last year and this year, formulation to go China is visa free.
So I took the chance. So took the chance, visa free, go to travel in China first because China has so many things to see.
I told her, come on, change the country.
Yeah, next year, next year, no more visa free formulation.
Okay.
All right. Actually, fun fact, I also went to China this year.
I went to Shanghai. Which province did you guys go to?
The first one I took believe in him was to Beijing.
Oh, the Great Wall.
Oh yeah, that's nice.
All right, thank you for that.
All right, we're at our last final question and we always like to ask our guests for advice.
So what kind of advice would you give to an ambitious young person who is thinking about entering a career in entertainment or possibly the airline industry?
So if you guys could give a bit of advice.
Okay, for me, we can't push everybody.
When I was a child, 10 years, my aunt pushed me and then I don't like it.
And then I start working 10 years.
When I was 20, 24, so boring for this career and then I quit it for this career.
Where did you work when you quit?
UK, did watch UK. Yeah, little long.
No, he went for English study.
I quit it. Yeah, so boring.
Yeah. Okay.
After that, no money.
People recognize he was so shy.
Show him off to the back.
Okay. And then when I back, okay, I start working after that.
Working, working, working, working.
Oh, that's why I love it.
Okay. Back for the time.
Back for the time, right?
We can't push, hey, you like this, like this.
Come on, say that to me.
With papa. Papa have the company.
Papa have everything for you.
Come on, follow me.
We can't push her, but we can teach her.
If she like, come on, okay, like this.
I think I'm not push my daughter, but I want she to be a good girl.
Like a think positive and good mind, not like jealous everybody.
Hey, your friend have like this and then you talk like this. I don't know.
Yeah, for me, put the right person at the right job.
First, we have to have the interest and then interest is not enough.
If we only like it, we have to work hard on it and we have to know our strength.
So no harm trying when you want to be someone, you want to venture to this career,
but then you to give yourself a timeframe.
Once you know that this is not really what you want and you're good at,
I think you should go for other options because I do believe that when you're young,
it's a time that you really have to chase your dreams because time don't wait.
Yeah, for sure.
If I want to do like when I start making a company because I love it,
for me, it's a tight call.
If we falling down, follow your dream, following it.
If we falling down, but we are not quiz.
And if you fall down, you won't.
Yeah, because it's your dream.
How long you've been in the business?
Long you've been in business?
On that time, come on. I don't know.
You can go back and ask money from your parents.
I guess I'll close with this because I really like that.
What Mr. Tuck said, basically, if it's your dream and you fall down,
you can get back up and keep trying because it's your dream.
If it's not your dream and you fall down, you can just quit because it's no big deal.
Right. So that's really good advice. Thank you.
Thank you guys again for joining us in the studio.
I know you've got different schedules and you're busy on and off with that.
So thank you for coming and speaking with us.
We really appreciate it and get your perspective on those different industries,
which a lot of the students don't necessarily know that much about.
So thank you again.
Thank you for your time. Thank you.
Once again, we'd like to extend our thanks and appreciation to the ICS Finance Club for sponsoring this episode.
Check their Instagram account handle at at ICS dot finance dot club.
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