Malaysians
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Sep 11, 2026
RahmanHOST
No, but
Darren MarkHOST
honestly, the Malaysians...
Darren MarkHOST
I'm pretty sure their ministers, they don't take the bulk of their income not from their salary.
Darren MarkHOST
Okay, okay, you don't
Dan BarkerHOST
We've actually had a worker who was from Malaysia for a while, who told us it is a very religious country.
Dan BarkerHOST
Um, h- what percentage of Malaysians are non-religious, do you think?
AJ SurinGUEST
Well, uh, to answer the question, Dan, uh, there is actually an official statistic by the US State Department some years ago, which, uh, put the percentage of non-religious people in Malaysia at approximately 1.8%.
Dan BarkerHOST
Ah.
6 MINS LATER
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
But I did wanna just clarify that if somebody is not a Malay, um, where they're bound to be a Muslim by law, then is there religious freedom for the Indian and the Chinese Malay population? Or do they have to also subscribe to the, um, the, the Islamic, you know, codes? And I understand that in some states in Malaysia there is Sharia, and what happens there if you're not a Malay?
AJ SurinGUEST
Yeah.
AJ SurinGUEST
So this is, you know, a, a dichotomy that, you know, uh, that Malaysians actually face.
AJ SurinGUEST
Uh, because of the fact that, you know, in our federal consti- in, in our federal constitution of Malaysia, uh, the freedom of religion is generally protected by the constitution.
Mike JerniganGUEST
It's only, like, three miles wide, and so they can only even get their full seven miles.
Mike JerniganGUEST
And so the Singapores, the sings and the Malaysians have an agreement where you can have your economic exclusion zone, which is the important thing, uh, along, uh, an area, and that's where they can charge fees or parking fees or whatever they want, mine, harvest the clams, whatever they wanna do in that water.
Mike JerniganGUEST
Uh, but the middle remains an international waterway because of that overlapping claim.
Mike JerniganGUEST
And so what happens at the Strait of Hormuz, if you h- you have this big chunk four or seven miles wide...
Anand RajGUEST
We're absolutely getting...
Anand RajGUEST
Malaysians, whether, uh, [laughs] in law or elsewhere, amongst the most talented people in the world.
Sharaad KuttanHOST
[laughs]
Anand RajGUEST
Uh, and we do ourself a disservice sometimes when we drown that out by talking about politics.
Dan BarkerHOST
We've actually had a worker who was from Malaysia for a while who told us it is a very religious country.
Dan BarkerHOST
What percentage of Malaysians are non-religious, do you think?
A.J. SurinGUEST
Well, to answer the question then, there is actually an official statistic by the US State Department some years ago, which put the percentage of non-religious people in Malaysia at approximately 1.8%.
A.J. SurinGUEST
However, you have to take into account that Malaysia is an extremely religiously conservative society and our social politics is also extremely conservative when it actually comes to religion.
5 MINS LATER
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
But I did want to just clarify that if somebody is not a Malay, where they're bound to be a Muslim by law, then is there religious freedom for the Indian and the Chinese Malay population? Or do they have to also subscribe to the Islamic codes? And I understand that in some states in Malaysia, there is Sharia.
Annie Laurie GaylorHOST
And what happens there if you're not a Malay?
A.J. SurinGUEST
Yeah, so this is a dichotomy that Malaysians actually face.
A.J. SurinGUEST
because of the fact that in our federal constitution of Malaysia, the freedom of religion is generally protected by the constitution.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
But again, I give his background pretty extensively in this book.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
Anson was not a, people regard him as educated because he has this nice British accent, like many Malaysians.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
And so he's a Chinese Malaysian, so comes from that sort of, whatchamacallit, entrepreneurial whatever.
Jennie Erin SmithGUEST
His father was in the animals business.
Jason WeeHOST
Every minister in Putrajaya has a private secretary, a press officer, a special officer.
Jason WeeHOST
They draft the policies, they decide what reaches the minister's desk, and most Malaysians could not probably name one, which raises a question we rarely ask.
Jason WeeHOST
Where does a politician actually learn the job? My guest has spent 19 years learning it.
Jason WeeHOST
Low Ker Chien has since been a campaign manager, a private secretary in a deputy minister's office, a research officer in a state assembly, and is now National Vice Chief of Bonita Ke Adilan, the women's wing of PKR, and special functions officer to the Minister of Education.
Mark WebsterHOST
I remember a New Zealand soldier telling me the locals were horrified at how much water Kiwi soldiers were guzzling on a military exercise in the hot, humid climate of Malaysia.
Mark WebsterHOST
Clearly, it was way more than the Malaysians needed.
Mark WebsterHOST
Water absorption by the human body happens pretty fast.
Mark WebsterHOST
Within five minutes of entering your mouth, it's starting to filter into your bloodstream, with peak absorption hitting at around 20 minutes.
Haniff BaharuddinHOST
Mm.
Daniel FernandezHOST
And then later on, some other Holden came in, like the Monaro and all that, and these were cars that Malaysians looked at and said, "This is my dream car." You know, achievable dream car.
Daniel FernandezHOST
But the problem was these cars all had big engines, you know? Big three-liter, four-liter engines, V6, V8, inline six, inline eight, whatever, but they were big engines at a time when the fuel prices were still reasonable.
Daniel FernandezHOST
But as time went on, fuel prices started going up.
Haniff BaharuddinHOST
That's a good question, Daniel.
Haniff BaharuddinHOST
Why, why are they not doing that?
Daniel FernandezHOST
Okay, because you see, Malaysians are very reasonable people.
Daniel FernandezHOST
When Geely came to buy Proton, Malaysians were not stubborn.
Dan NewmanHOST
And there's not just one that wants to try to get great influence into the United States of America.
Dan NewmanHOST
And obviously, one of those, maybe a couple of those rich Malaysians found a way to shovel $120 million over for the use of former President Barack Obama when he ran for his second term.
Dan NewmanHOST
Well, that's no big deal, Dan.
Dan NewmanHOST
Well, it's not now because it's way behind us.
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