There is more football than ever before, yet many fans are watching less of it.

In this episode, Alastair and Guo Feng reflect on how packed calendars, expanding tournaments, and modern life have reshaped the way fans engage with football. Rather than blaming fatigue or apathy, they explore why being selective has become a reasonable, even necessary, response.

This conversation is about attention, meaning, trade-offs, and why loving football does not always mean watching every match.

Chapters

Chapters00:00 – Intro: More football in 202601:10 – Expanded World Cup explained03:00 – Is there too much football?05:30 – Club vs international overload12:45 – Time zones and watching from Asia14:00 – Being selective as a fan22:30 – More matches, same stakes23:48 – Money talks in football27:14 – TIL: Why it’s called “Kapchai”30:03 – TIL: How to pronounce “Budapest”

Food articles are supposed to add clarity. Instead, many now prioritise outrage, punchy headlines, and simplified narratives that spark anger but explain very little.

In this episode of Also Consider This, we examine recent food and hawker-related coverage and ask what we lose when articles are written to provoke reaction rather than provide depth. We discuss how shallow framing fuels public anger, why hawkers and F&B operators often bear the cost of these narratives, and how conversations about food prices and closures become distorted along the way.

This is not a defence of bad food, nor an attack on criticism. It is a critique of how food stories are framed, and why anger-driven coverage ultimately prevents more honest discussions about sustainability, costs, quality, and choice in the food ecosystem.

If you care about food culture, media responsibility, and having better conversations beyond headlines, this episode is for you.

🎙️ Hosted by Alastair & Guo Feng
🎧 Also Consider This — the podcast where we value nuance, perspective, and knowledge… so we can all be Also Clever Thinkers.

⏱ Chapters00:02:13 — ST Life Article on “Disappearing Singaporean Diner”00:04:11 — STOMP Yong Tau Foo Article Summary00:07:55 — Consider This: What Drives Media Profitability?00:10:28 — Our Beef With the STOMP YTF Article (Too Headline-Heavy)00:12:46 — Doxxing the STOMP Writer Is Not Right00:13:56 — We Understand the Anger00:14:53 — The “Secret War” in Hawker Culture: Cheap vs Quality00:21:04 — There Is Space for Different Hawker Price Points00:23:26 — If It’s Too Expensive for You, Just Move On00:24:26 — The Market Is the Market: Consumers Vote With Their Wallets00:29:18 — Parting Shot 1: Journalists Need to Dive Deeper00:30:35 — Parting Shot 2: SPH Has Not Done Proper Investigative Journalism for Years00:32:02 — Are Newspapers Crap Because of Short Attention Spans?00:33:18 — Today I Learnt: Was Nike Fined by the NBA for Air Jordans?00:35:47 — Today I Learnt: Creatine Is Also a Brain Supplement

What in 2025 really changed about how we think?

In the final episode of Also Consider This for 2025, we step away from external topics and spend time reflecting inward. Using six structured reflection questions adapted from a Mel Robbins podcast, we look back on the year and use it as a grounding point to think about how we want to approach 2026.

We talk candidly about burnout, mental health, career uncertainty, creativity, experimentation, and what it meant to finally start this podcast after years of talking about it. We also unpack what we learnt about process, failure, iteration, and why reflection matters more than setting surface-level resolutions.

This episode is designed to be experienced alongside us. As you listen, you’re invited to pause, reflect, and answer the same six questions for yourself, using our conversation as a reference point rather than a template.

We got these questions from this episode of the Mel Robbins podcast:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeD8tpOCyIY

🎙️ Hosted by Alastair & Guo Feng
🎧 Also Consider This — the podcast where we value nuance, perspective, and knowledge… so we can all be Also Clever Thinkers.