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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) are back at it again in these streeeeets talking about the idea of hermeneutic injustice and how to address it in your own lives maybe! Also, some stuff about ideology.

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) explores the pros (which are also the cons) of living by himself.

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) talk about numbers againnn but also some Ramadhan thoughts cause Muz does that every yea he can't help himself what a tit

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) are back together again to discuss gender identity and also to review digits 0-5!

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) presents The THRILLING FINALE of his review of the roman alphabet! Wow. Amazing. Spectacular. Tremendous. Showstopping.

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) reviews more LETTERSS

Also some late thoughts about the Michelle Yeoh win. Congrats on her!

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) is just gonna review everyday things now? He has a lot of opinions about letters and there's no proper rubric. But it's early days, still. Maybe this gets better as we go along. Let's listen in and find out together.

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Muzakir Xynll talks about romantic love and why it's uhhhhhhhhhhh bad actually. But also some helpful attitudes to have when dodging the harmful parts of romanticism as an ideology.

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Muzakir Xynll tries to explain to himself the brambles of texting vs phone calls vs emails vs whatsapp vs telegram vs face-to-face conversations and end up violently confusing himself.

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Muzakir Xynll talks about the secret meaning behind our behaviour around children. Also some light updates. 

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Muzakir Xynll and Anwar Hadi talk through their improvised murder mystery comedy "The Murder Before Christmas" and how they developed the show, how it went, and how they felt about it afterwards! A lot of insidey stuff so if you like that, here it isss.

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Muzakir Xynll and Anwar Hadi talk about pre-show jitters, the interview he and Prakash Daniel gave about Pinball Monkeys on Fly FM, and phrases that Muz has been frowning at. Also, ants!

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Muzakir Xynll has been writing the comedy sketches and fun jokey stuff on Fly FM's Breakfast Show with Douglas Lim and Juanita for the past year. In this episode, he runs down his favourite sketches and why! It's a quick one and he sounds very sleepy.

Get tickets to the live improvised murder mystery show "The Murder Before Christmas" by Pinball Monkeys over at instagram.com/pinballmonkeys

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Muzakir Xynll and Anwar Hadi chitchat about stupid stuff like how to drink out of an appropriate vessel, centaurs, May 13th, lactose intolerance, and as discussed exclusively on the Patreon, insurance!

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Get tickets to "The Murder Before Christmas" on December 17th via instagram.com/pinballmonkeys

Muzakir Xynll and Anwar Hadi are back at it in a chucklefull episode of silly business. Muslim ghostbusters, elections, and some other fun stuff right off the gate. Here we goooo

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Muzakir Xynll and Anwar Hadi talk about his life in Johor after the divorce, we catch up a lot, talk about the last bigly show of Pinball Monkeys that we did as well as some other stupid stuff as usual. Thanks for sitting through our long ass hiatus!

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) talk about spicy food and pickled herring and pets! Also some other things. Selamat Hari Rayaaa

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In this gigglefit episode, Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) talk about Muzakir's new limited series podcat, Dakwah Dari Iblis, the absurdity of working out at the gym, stray cyclists, the insanity of eating kuih in the car, and other silly tings!

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) talk about the current shows they're watching, a new way to understand the anger over Nur Sajat, the phrase "that's not possible", their experiences working for Fly FM, and other fun stufffff

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) answers listeners' questions that are a full-year-old almost by now! These ice-cold takes include The Timah Whisky thing, Dave Chappelle's cancellation, finding reliable friends, keropok lekor opinions, and other fun schtuff! 

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Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Qamarul Haziq (@qamshot) talk about impostor syndrome, thank yous that are too late, what is a pizza crust, and other thangs

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) tries to help you figure out how to think about the Ukraine v Russia situation, the Astro lady with the 10mil house, @malaysianpaygap on Instagram, things breaking, and the social crying!

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) talk about the Super Bowl halftime show, some local news, and the word of the episode is: Desperate.

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) talks about the state of the podcast and what to expect in the year 2022 (including an announcement for a new limited series podcast!)

Check out linktree.com/mzkrx for more of his BULLSHIT

Here is a link to a twitter thread where you can find links to donate in support for #DaruratBanjir: https://twitter.com/hannaalkaf/status/1473229879499902976

[SEASON FINALE]

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) are back at it again to close out Season 4 buy talking about 4 things and 4 things only: 

• Cars 
• Some Ignorant Politics Stuff
• How Each of Them Consume Comedy
• and Our Respective Spotify Wrapped for 2021

We'll be back for Season 5 next year! Support our work over at patreon.com/pinballmonkeys

The comedy nerd duo Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Zainal Bostaman (@zainalthebostaman) are back at it again! This episode, they discuss their material and work on them. That's like most of the episode, so be prepared for that. Premises include Egyptian Chinese food, meditation, sleeping, unicycles, bird panic, and much more. 

Go over to linktree.com/mzkrx for more Muzakir Xynll!

CW: Discussion of s*xual assault

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) addresses suggested topics by listeners over on Instagram live! Topics covered include:

• Fauzi Nawawi
• Ikan Kering
• Funny spin on some true-crime shit
• Cerita hantu
• The stupidity of SPRM

You can support this podcast directly or check out other stuff made by Muzakir Xynll over at linktree.com/mzkrx

Head over to thelineupoct21.peatix.com to catch Muzakir Xynll and friends LIVE in person this 16th October (9pm and 10pm)!

This intensely personal episode between Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) is only about 2 things:

• The worst day of a Grab driver's life
• Anwar sending Muz one (1) cookie

Check out linktree.com/mzkrx for more stuff from Muzakir Xynll~

Get tickets at comedypowerhour.peatix.com Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx), a returning Prakash Daniel (@prakashdanielcomedy) and first-timer Raqib Karim (@kibblecubes) get on the pod and recreate a much-missed mamak session with the standup comedy bois full of riffing, reminiscing, and comedy geekery! The three of them talk about: 

• Catching up with each other as comedy peers 
• Riezman Radzlan, Gajen Nad, Andre D'Cruz, and the peculiar people of standup comedy 
• Their media diet during the lockdown Vaccination stories 
• The future of standup, post-pandemic 
• Tips and tricks for working from home and more! 

Check out linktree.com/mzkrx for more stuff from Muzakir Xynll~

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) are back at it again with a fun silly riffyriff episode where they discuss: 

• Kanye's new album and their respective experiences with hip-hop and music in general 
• Anwar's eggplant tree being attacked by enterprising caterpillars 
• The ethics of a vegan restaurant's decor 
• Anwar's new kitchen adventures and activities 
• Muz's experience with his 2nd dose of the vaccine 
• The peculiar experience of kuih raya and a kuih raya tier-list 

Thank you for supporting the podcast over at patreon.com/pinballmonkeys!

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) catches up with Ashraff Mokhtar (@AshraffMokhtar) for a conversation that's literally almost entirely about media in Malaysia. Among the things talked about are: 

• Their shared history with making content on YouTube 
• Urban Malay vs mainstream Malay content consumption 
• is Muz right to stop making good Malay content? 
• The fantasy of being a working creative  
• Are movies still a thing?  
• Who are Malaysian television shows made for?  
• Where to find good local Malay content  
• The moral dilemma of advertising during the pandemic  
• The nasilemakification of Malaysian culture  
• How Astro is eating up local media 
• Good local content as recommended by Ashraff  
• The return of piracy  
• The new business model for content creators  
• The value of critics to the growth of a medium  
• Malaysian censorship laws 

Thank you for supporting this podcast by contributing to patreon.com/pinballmonkeys! 

You can also head over to linktree.com/mzkrx to support Muzakir directly!

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) are back at it again with some Thought about Thingss. This time they discuss: 

• Noticing mispronunciations of words  
• Why Meetings are Bad 
• Railing against workism 
• The loss of third places  
• Muz's mango problem  
• Network notes and overexplaining jokes  
• Astro the network-eating monster  
• Our top favourite fruits 
• How kelkatus are the crackheads of the insect world  
• Mangosteen opening techniques  
• Why Muz hates pet fish  
• The nobility of animals who fight 
• At what point did both of them stop liking the country 

Thank you for supporting this podcast by contributing to patreon.com/pinballmonkeys! 

You can also head over to linktr.ee/mzkrx to support Muzakir directly!

We go scene by scene and talk each other's heads out about Bo Burnham's Inside. Literally nothing else is discussed by Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) and Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) in this episode.

[CW: Bullying, sexual assault]

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Jacky Ng (@jackyngcomedy) hang out and riff on hella silly stuff. BUT we also talk about some pretty serious things that we did which we had to reckon with. So. It's that kind of episode. Expect tonal whiplash. Also expect them to discuss:

• How Jacky inspired Pinball Monkeys and vice versa
• Jacky's one and only Malay joke
• Our relationship with the people who support our work
• Machaspize, TikTok, and our friend Gajen Nad
• Freestyling and improvising on stage versus pre-written material
• Planning for failure on stage
• The pizza restaurant that doesn't sell pizza
• >> Jacky's difficult football bullying story <<
• The function of restaurant menus and McDonald's
• Gender reveal parties
• The mysterious world of grocery store cashiers
• Grocery store fruit shenanigans
• >> Muz's difficult dorm room bullying story <<

Thanks for your continued support over at patreon.com/pinballmonkeys that continue to fuel our work! Stay safe out there!

Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and Anwar Hadi (@nooranwarhadi) back at it again~ They get pretty angry up top but then it gets pretty mellow and funny towards the end so it's cool. They talk about: 

• The particular logistics of watching movies 
• Tajuddin. That guy who was very chill about the LRT crash? Yea that guy 
• How Malaysia doesn't get good villains Muz's new job  
• The most responsible thing to do with a fanbase 
• Why Anwar promotes theft 
• The meaning of "baring", and "kita ni timun, depa durian" 
• Managing their anger at the people in power 
• Not eating animals with a face 
• The similarities of fishing and alien abduction 
• Muz's problems with eating crabs 
• Taskmaster, and content-making stuff 
• How to maintain unfocus in meetings 
• Muz's feelings about nasyid 
• And other fun stuffff 

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For the first time ever, please welcome Henry Choo (@itshenryc)! Muz (@mzkrx) and Henry know each other from the standup scene and he is also a regular member of the stage version of Pinball Monkeys. In this catchuppy episode full of insider improv stuff, they talk about:

• How improv brought Henry and Muz together
• Their first time performing improv as a group
• How theatre improv is like team sports
• The low-level cosplay of wearing a jersey with someone else's name on it
• Perodua Service Centre's interesting motto
• Hidden keyboards at work
• Snakes eating spicy food

Follow them on the socials and check out the Dunnolah Podcast wherever you get podcasts~

It's a special Ramadhan/Raya episode with all the core members of Pinball Monkeys! Muz (@mzkrx), Anwar (@nooranwarhadi), and for the first time ever, Farid Azmeir (@faridazmeir) hang out and catch up on stuff! 

Farid is the recent winner of a local standup comedy competition (Gelak Gempak) and has been performing standup, improv, and doing a lot of commercial acting since 2016 and can be found on Instagram and on your TV screens pretty soon in an upcoming raya ad near you.

The three of them discuss:

• What they've been up to since they last caught up with each other
• The difference between Bangi and Bangsar
• An inside joke come to life

and a bunch more silliness as well~

To watch the video version of this episode, head over to patreon.com/pinballmonkeys!

~Selamat Hari Raya~

Ramadhan Mubarak! Why is this episode so late? What was Muz up to during Ramadhan? How did the recent Pinball Monkeys secret show go? Anwar (@nooranwarhadi) and Muz (@mzkrx) get together and discuss all that! They also talk about:

• Reciting the shahada in Islam and how it's kind of an incantation and kind of an expletive
• Muz's particular Ramadhan experience
• Anwar's upcoming theatre project and his process
• Recapping the Pinball Monkeys secret show (heavy on improv performance specifics)
• The one scene that keeps popping up every time we do Pinball Monkeys on stage
• Anwar's new move that he did at the secret show
• Muz's insistence on listening and saying yes to the audience
• The one obvious bad move we did on the same show
• How the show actually went
• Muz's looming pandemic anxiety and which podcast it belongs
• How Muz is good at interviews but bad at assessment tests
• Writing portfolios versus writing assessment tests
• Muz's capitalist tendencies and Anwar's people pleaser tendencies switch places for a bit
• How to be inspired by the Minister of Health
• The virtues of having a boring job
• Anwar and Muz's respective plans for leaving the country
• The difficulties of functioning in late-stage capitalism
• How to use Ramadhan as a personal values reset
• Pinball Monkeys' first Patreon payout

Thank you for listening and supporting the showw~
Stay safe and be gentle with yourselvesss

We're back after a bit of a break! In this light light but heavy episode, Anwar (@nooranwarhadi) and Muz (@mzkrx) talk about:

• Fun dates in March 
• The lyricism of T-Pain
• How Muz has been feeling and how it affects this podcast 
• How being an experienced comedian helps in job interviews
• Why we wear (or don't wear) underwear
• Anwar and Muz's worst job interview experiences
• Anwar and Muz roleplay a bad interview and see if they can turn it around
• How job interviews are like dating 
• Muz and Anwar's different outlooks on the new loosening of the SOPs
• Anwar and Muz's Worst Years Ever
• The myth of Sisyphus and accepting that we all live in hell
• The many temples of Iblis
• Littering
• How we only have the morals we can afford
• Muz's feelings about poop jokes and how much Anwar likes it
• The value of laziness in comedy and generating inside jokes

Send us questions, comments, or topic suggestions at mentolpecah@gmail.com! See you in a couple weeeeeekszszs

Riezman Radzlan (@rieznuts) is back at it again! The Malaysian but Bahraini-raised half Malay half Chinese comic returns alongside Muzakir Xynll (@mzkrx) and this time they discuss: 

• How Muz always notices when something isn't normal 
• How Riezman spent his Chinese New Year 
• How to casually deal with recurring dengue attacks 
• Their respective understandings and feelings towards tattoos 
• Riezman's Grandma and how she manages trauma from her time during WWII 
• Being single during the lockdown 
• Riezman's reputation as being the comic who writes a lot 
• How Riezman's ustazs and ustazahs used to bully him out of the religion 
• The first joke Riezman was punished for back in school 
• That whole DidikTV thing 
• Their friends' kids trying to go to school during the lockdown 
• Muz's proposal to help kids stuck in the pandemic 
• Riezmans' tertiary education experience mid-plague 
• Riezman's body temperature problems
• Waking up laughing and the dreams that got them there 
• The many, many, anxieties of going to the barber... 
• ...Indian barbers in Malaysia, specifically Riezman's bloody barbershop experience 
• How warning signs misunderstand children 
• Whether Muz would be a good dad 
• Kids who grew up in the pandemic 
• Riezman's position on local jokes and growing his social media 
• Managing their feelings towards people who like their work 
• Muz's complicated thoughts about Malay people and cheese 
• The baffling price range of various honeys 
• How Muz buys roadside produce 
• The hate crime of throwing ice-cream cones away 
• Riezman's and Muz's experience with the McDonald's apple burger thing 

Send us questions, comments, or topic suggestions at mentolpecah@gmail.com! brapbrapbap

Muzakir (@mzkrx) and Anwar (@nooranwarhadi) are back at it again! This early February episode has them discussing:

• Google &Facebook versus Patreon
  • How countries are weaker than multinational corporations
  • Why Muz always gets angry at the monarchy on How to Malay
  • Why being proud of your work is hard to do in a system that devalues merit
  • Why appealing to a person's humanity is not an effective way to change their behaviour
  • How difficult it is to do a video remix of Ismail Sabri's speeches and why
  • Being suspicious of people who display flags in their house
  • The meaning of being "too on the nose" and why it's bad
  • How Anwar just straight up doesn't consume Malaysian news
    • Muz's arrogance and ambition as an important propeller to leaving the country
    • The first time Muz heard "you can't do that in this country" and how it made him feel
    • How jail isn't as bad as tahfiz
    • The fearlessness of Indonesian comics
    • How Ramadhan teaches resilience and its relation to courage in exercising free speech
    • How Muz unpacks his reputation as being a dick
    • Teasing adults versus teasing children
    • Muz's love of bringing people joy through discomfort
    • Being kind in comedy
    • Anwar's insecurities as an improviser
    • How to be better improvisers by paying attention to Alan Rickman
    • An analysis of "Si Bodoh Kau Dengar Sini"
    • How Muz realised that Farid would be great for long-form
    • Anwar and Muz's first exposure to the Illuminati and conspiracy theories
    • How enjoying comedy helps us see absurdities
    • People's lazy interpretation of religion
    • The spirit of the law versus the letter of the law
    • George Carlin's bit about swearing on the bible
    • How rom-coms and x-rated movies are similarly pornographic
    • The value of having healthy arguments in relationships
    • Their opinions on people who look for jodoh on twitter
    • Muz's hopes and wishes for couples out there

Send us a shout out maybe at mentolpecah@gmail.com! Stay sexy, my lovelies~