Sultan of Brunei

Yeah.

And the first two actually went to the Sultan of Brunei.

So he bought the first two cars off Paul.

But they were an expensive conversion that took a long time.

You've got this coastal belt that is de facto Brunei control, you've got other parts that are under control of Sulu, the Sultan of Sulu, and the rest are all independent chiefs, and they're probably gonna be the more inland, inaccessible areas.

From the mid 19th century, a declining Sultan of Brunei wants more money [laughs] and needs to try and grab some kind of, uh, financial power, so they begin leasing parts of Sabah for development.

Some of these regions are under Brunei's control, others are not.

Okay.

I have 10.93 years to play this game.

Maybe the Sultan of Brunei will say, I like a tunnel.

Will you name it after me and pay four times? As I said, it's built on a hope and a prayer that somebody will come along and something is going to change fundamentally.

What's the likelihood of default here? 92.5%.

Brunei wanted revenue from this growing industry, but the locals were not having any of that, so they rebelled.

And in an effort to quash the rebellion, the sultan of Brunei sought help, which eventually came in the form of an English man named James Brooke.

James Brooke is described I guess as like an ordinary private citizen.

Okay.

Okay.

Yep, yep.

So at this time, Kuching was administered by the uncle of the Sultan of Brunei, a man known as Pengiran Muda Hashim.

Hashim strikes up a deal with Brooke, saying that, "If you help us with this rebellion, I will grant you administrative rights over Kuching and you will become a raja."

And they said, because this is a job, it's a very undisclosed private job and you can't talk about it.

So it turned out to be, As part of the entourage for the Sultan of Brunei.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

From Snoop

Dogg to the Sultan of Brunei.

So my life has just been up.

Yeah.

Oh my God, what are

you, the Sultan of Brunei? It's just brilliant.

And their whole sort of sparring, and she was flirty with me, you just got caught in the crossfire.

It's it's it's ripe for comedy and therefore is clearly a good decision for the writers.

Perfect partner for Martin.

And then the final comment is, of course, from the desk of Maris Craday.

The image of Frasier delivering the immortal line, since when do I bring you women? What are you, the Sultan of Brunei? So good.

Thank you all so much for rising in.

blue, yeah.

I just knew that the Sultan of Brunei was somewhere to the west.

um, to the East.

Cause that's the only thing we knew about Brunei was that there was a Sultan.

there? There is.

It's Faiq Bolkiah, right, who is a winger for Thai club Ratchaburi and is the nephew of the Sultan of Brunei.

Yeah, he's regularly billed on social media or on YouTube videos or whatever as the richest footballer in the world.

But really, people are quoting the fortune of the Sultan.