Not Again Podcast Episode 181- PJ Thum

Not Again Podcast

If there is a word to describe PJ Thum, I think “Brave” is a good word to use. He has done feats that a lot of people have never considered possible. The first Singaporean to swim past the English Channel and being an Olympian in 1996.

Tapping into his life as a historian, he had a podcast titled The History of Singapore . Giving insights to the story of history and politics of Singapore which makes me wonder the beauty and the drama behind Singapore history.

Fighting the good fight and doing the right thing is in the bones of PJ Thum which inevitably pushes him to be public enemy number one. He has gotten academically blacklisted for doing his job and too getting escorted to the police station for interrogation for political allegations. He explains the process of how a research takes place. The perspective of a historian looking at a source and where the funding comes from. He tells his experience of his arrest and interrogation. What step he took to prepare for the arrest.

He is made to be who he is, he claims. He supported his claims and looked back to his life and of course we delved quite a bit with education, sports, his childhood. After discussing the idea of Freedom of Speech with the limitations and why we need the Freedom of Speech and our boundaries with it.