REPLAY: What Was I Like as a Kid

If you are easily offended - SKIP THIS EPISODE! As requested, Gandhi finally sits down with her dad to talk about... a whole lot. What was she like as a kid, does he have any regrets, is he ok with her never wanting to marry? Elvis and Diamond also pop in with questions, and we decide the fate of the podcast for the year.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
What's up Its sauce on the side. Welcome back from vacation, Diamond.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Oh, thank you?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Did you go anywhere and do anything fun?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
You going?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
No? No, not no.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
I missed you.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I missed you too.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
You know how you can tell if I miss you
because I reach out to you. And because when I
saw Scotty, because Scotti brought his daughter to Ohio to
look at Ohio, the Ohio State University, so I got
to show her around. We were standing outside a Donados
where there was karaoke.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's a pizza place.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
It's a chain pizza place, and I could not believe
there was karaoke. It was the worst thing I've ever heard,
and I thought of you, so we FaceTime you. I
was like, these are things Dombe would love. Pizza and
horrible karaoke my favorite.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
It's the best.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I wish you would have been there.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Do you know I hate when people are good at karaoke,
like they can sing, Like, what's the point go fucking
get a record deal or something like that.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Right here, we want horrible singers.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Okay, I mean you would have loved this one. It
was so bad, so bad, I can't even do an
impression of it. It was just so bad, and I was like, why.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Are they a pizza place where? Okay, cool, cool, this
is great, a good time.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
But wait, you're not a bad karaoke person, but you
love karaoke, So how do you fit into that?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
What do you mean? I rap songs or I do? Like,
are you not an a good rapper?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Sure, as long as you know the words right, But
like I'm talking about people who can actually sing.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, who get up there and they're like this is
my moment.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yeah, like fuck them. There was this girl on a boat.
I'll never forget it.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's on a cruise and I did like tutsi roll
and won an award, and then she came up right
after me. Thankfully she was after me, and she did alone.
How can I get killed it?

Speaker 4 (01:41):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Killed it? And like a part of me was like, wow,
that's really cool, but then.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
The other half of me was like, fuck you can sing?

Speaker 2 (01:48):
Go get a record deal, oh, because it's just that easy. Well, like, girl,
go join a choir.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
I always think too when there's somebody up there like
doing terribly and then their friends clap for them like yeah, girl.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
You killed it.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Oh my god, I'm like that's how American idol terrible
auditions happen. It is that right there. I'm gonna encourage
your friend, but like, holy t if you did karaoke,
I'd be like, yes, how dare you? I would be amazing.
I would not. I would not.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, you can carry a tune. You and Danielle can't
do karaoke.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
THENO there's carrying a tune, and then there's being a
good singer. Those are like wildly different things. You know,
who can't carry a tune? It makes me chuckle coasor boy.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Josh, oh god.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
He like he does all of our imaging, which, by
the way, if you don't know what that is, it's
the sound effects and the image of our show. He
puts all that together, so he's obviously musically inclined in
some way. Well, that man cannot sing to save his
damn life. He comes in like a key and a
half off every time. But damn it if he doesn't
give it us all anyway, All right, this podcast has

(02:47):
been holding on to for a minute because I recorded
it with my dad. I'm a little nervous because I
do think that there are going to be things in
this that you'll probably try to cancel him over, but
I would like everyone to know he is uncancellable. He's retired,
and he gives no fucks. He doesn't care if this
is my father. He is an immigrant. He does not
care about political correctness. So some of the things that

(03:08):
you're gonna hear, specifically, like one word in particular, might
bother you. So I'm warning you in advance. You can
yell all you want about it. This is what my
dad had to say when people ask him about me us.
Is that fair?

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I think it's fair. My dad really liked you,
by the way. Yeah him. I wanted to hug him,
but I was like, I don't know if I should
be hugging somebody's dad like this.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
You can hulnd my dad hugs. He's actually like very cudly.
Really Yeah, his cheeks are so soft. I love giving
him kisses anyway. Okay, so here comes my dad. Best
of Look, you've been warned. I don't want to hear it.
Hello Dad, Hello, how are you good?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (03:47):
So you have been probably the most requested person that
people want me to have on my podcast.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Because they want somebody to laugh at and make the day.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yes, that is it. That's what they want. So I said, okay,
I'm going to have my dad come into the podcast.
I wanted you to be part of the show this morning,
but traffic we got a little late, so you couldn't
be on the show. But you're still doing my podcast.
So people have sent questions that they want to ask
you about me, about you, about family, all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
I will do my best to answer them.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
Okay, the first question, First of all, Dad, thanks for
joining me. I would say that to anybody who was
coming in and doing the podcast with me.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I am delighted to be here. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
What made you come visit?

Speaker 4 (04:29):
I've not seen you in a long time, and I
decided I want to see New York and see if
you're really living here somewhere.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Else and what have you determined?

Speaker 4 (04:37):
At least you're not living under a bridge. That your
nice apartment, Okay, beautiful apartment.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I'm glad you like it.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
I'm very very jealous of that apartment.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Plea.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
You have a nice house in Florida. Yeah, with a
big pond, an alligators.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Beautiful lights out there at night. It looks so beautiful.

Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah, we could trade anytime.

Speaker 4 (04:55):
And like I told you, I always love to see
the clouds below the apart.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
That's nice, all right. So the questions they ranged from
all over the place. First of all, is there anything
you would like to say? Would you like to introduce yourself?
I mean, this is my dad. His name's per Deep.
He's one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.
That's how I would introduce you. How would you introduce yourself?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Well, as you already announced my name, I don't need
to announce it again. No, but I came here to
New York because I love visiting it as a tourist. Also,
uh huh, and I wanted to see how things look
from the apartment of Meda, which is a beautiful, beautiful apartment.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, we have a guest.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
It's Elvish Dad.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Oh my god, this is amazing.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
We were podcasting.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
He didn't this?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Actually this adds to it. Yeah, nothing, do you want
you want to be part of the podcast?

Speaker 3 (05:57):
No?

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Go, dear thing there you are.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
Hello, Welcome to New York Dad, Why, thank you so much?
Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (06:05):
Now what were you guys talking about? What did I
miss out on?

Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is we actually just started it?

Speaker 1 (06:09):
And this works out even better because now you can
ask questions that you want to have answered if you want.
But my dad was just introducing himself and saying why
he came to New York. He said he loved it
as a tourist when he was a kid.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Actually, Elvis gave me a very good opening. Yeah by
calling me father, Now I can say I'm the father
of New York compared to my grandfather was father of
the nation.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Exactly a lot of fathers in this film lot.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, he's the godfather of radio.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Well, let me say something about Elvis. Yes, we got
a new financial investment advisor a few weeks ago. She
and her daughter are running the business, and she was
taking all the details from us, and she said, Meyda Gandhi,
is that the lady on the Elvis Duranto. I said yes.

(06:55):
She goes, I love Elvis. I was born and brought
up in Jersey City, and I moved to Tampa a
few years ago, and I still listened to the radio
show every morning. See so I said, that is surprising.
She goes, You've been here for a long time, very long.

Speaker 6 (07:14):
I'm very I'm older than you.

Speaker 5 (07:17):
You're laughing, and I hear certainly not in look not
at all. See, it's kind of wild.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
I've been doing this at this radio station in New
York since nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, so a lot of people fly, They fly out
of the nest and go to Tampa. Yeah, and now
she's driving you into bankruptcy.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
Off my chair. Her name is Lisa Green.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Lisa Green from Jersey City. I remember Lisa Green.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
I don't know how she connected everything. That was amazing.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
Well, there's not many Gandhi's around.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
That's true. But then the other incident, and I don't
know if may I shared this with you. My brother
lives in a different part of Florida. It's called the Villages.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Oh yeah, we're the old people hook up with other
old people, leave their leave their dentures in people's beds
and things.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
Yes, yeah, yeah, that's the one.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
So they had gone to the Barnes and Noble in
the Villages and when he was at the register paying,
the lady saw the name Shanti Gandhi and she said,
are you related to the famous Gandhi? And he said, what,
Mama Gandhi? No, no, no, I'm talking to.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
Look at that.

Speaker 6 (08:26):
Finally, finally, hey, quickly they forgot how quickly they forget
what Gandhi did and now you're the famous Ghandia tensions.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
The right word made them maybe not to riotrioting, notioting.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
So I missed out in the conversation. You said you
came to New York when you were younger, Like, what
what years did that spad once?

Speaker 4 (08:48):
The first time I came here was when I came
with my parents in nineteen seventy two.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
What was New York City like in nineteen seventy two?
A whole different city.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
It doesn't seem much different, but it was already so
developed by then that I can't tell the difference. New
York has been always a haven for tourists, and we
had heard so much about New York in Mumbai, all
the pictures we had seen of New York, especially the
one where the guys are building the Empire State building
up on the right. So for us when we come here,

(09:19):
it's like, yeah, I've seen this in pictures before. Whereas
many other cities you can tell, oh, it wasn't this way.
It was a rural town and now look at it.
So New York was developed so far back that one
is very hard for me to tell the difference.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Do you remember what you ate?

Speaker 7 (09:35):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (09:36):
Here, yeah, what did you eat?

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Well? I have to say that I was exposed in
front of my dad. We were vegetarians in India. Mm hmm.
Well when I came here, I took to all the
sandwiches and everything, and my dad got suspicious and he said,
have you been eating meat in India? I just say yeah,
I did he eat whoops?

Speaker 1 (09:57):
He said he would take his pocket money and run
out to street vendors and get meat and eat meat.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
Meat, no bread, no vegetables, just meat.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
You would eat live livestock, eat a live you'd eat
a chicken as it walked by.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Hi, God, what are they doing in Mumbai? You need
to eat some meat. Well, that's that's fascinating.

Speaker 6 (10:17):
Nineteen seventy two in New York City because my mom
and dad would be here as well during those years.
I would never come. I came as a child. I
was in the nineteen seventies, but I don't remember it
that much. But they said New York City to them
was a whole different place than it is now. The
way they describe New York City in nineteen seventy two,
when you were here was just a wonderful, positive place.

(10:39):
So I went online and googled street scenes nineteen seventy
two New York City.

Speaker 5 (10:44):
There's cars on fire, there's.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
So you got.

Speaker 5 (10:48):
Twenty twenty four you got to sort of like this year.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
You got to see some obviously the better parts of
the city.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
But the things that stick out today that I can
remember is not so much of New York City. But
my brother took us all on a trip from Detroit
to San Francisco by car. Wow. He was studying to
be a cardiac cardiologist, so he had a conference there
while he was working in Detroit. So we all went

(11:15):
with him, and he did a neat thing. He attached
the movie camera to the driver's side reary mirror, so
as he drove, it took the movie.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
All along the original GoPro that's hot.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
So we went past Las Vegas and everything today, and
I see Las Vegas. I can tell, oh, yeah, look
at this.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
This is so different from it's at now. Las Vegas
has gone thro quite the transformation.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
New York looked like it was New York from eighteen nineties.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
It was a lot of New York is still here.
As a matter of fact.

Speaker 6 (11:45):
Down in the village where they have the rosen rows
of old town homes built in the eighteen hundreds. When
it snows, the snow seems to cover up everything that's
modern day. And you just see what you see left
over are these old town homes and you can imagine
those exactly. That's exactly what the streets look like back
in those days.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh, I'm glad you asked that question. So, my dad
has a pump, has a diabetic pump for his insulince.

Speaker 5 (12:11):
Oh my god, do you need to call it? Nine
one one is letting him know you look good.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
The beep is letting him know his sugar's high. And
I know why his sugar's high, because I think he
snuck off to Krispy Korean before he came here.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Oh my god, did you or did you not?

Speaker 7 (12:24):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (12:25):
For you, Thank god you didn't have that hooked up
to you back in the day and it detected meat
in your system. Can you actually at a meatometer? Your
son's been eating meat?

Speaker 5 (12:35):
Again? What do we do with this boy?

Speaker 4 (12:37):
But actually, my mom was a meat eater and my
father was a vegetarian, and so it was always a
conflict at home, and he had forbidden my mother from
making any meat or any fish. She loved fish more
than me, right, so one day she just couldn't handle it.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Get closer to that microphone if you're yes.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
So when he was out of town, she had some
shrimp brought into the house and cooked everything and she
was an excellent chef, but it leaves an odor. Unfortunately,
he decided to come home early and while she was
cooking all this, he was on.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
His way while it was in the pan, almost.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
Cooked, and she had me rushing around with all these
deodorant smells and everything like that.

Speaker 7 (13:21):
Kick.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
My dad came, what the hell is all this deodren
going on smelling something funny? I said, that's all you're smelling, right, Okay.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
No problem, And still I mean never found out.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
I think he's suspected, but he was too hesitant to ask.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Well, outside of all things podcasting, I really just wanted
you guys to say hi and meet each other because
my dad, my big.

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Brother, it's an honor to meet you and thank you
for the gift of Maya because we're having way too
much fun.

Speaker 5 (13:54):
How long have we worked together now?

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Six years?

Speaker 5 (13:56):
Six years.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
I've been here for six years, Dad, Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
I feeling like yesterday I came to see you in
Boston and.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
It was just yesterday she arrived here as well. That's
the magic of your daughter time warp. There's no concept
of time or space.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
No, I didn't realize.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Yeah, I know it's crazy.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
Right, Okay, Well I do have to run, but I
have a question. But I have a question. I have
so many questions for you.

Speaker 6 (14:17):
My favorite one is are you proud of where she's
living and what she's doing right now?

Speaker 4 (14:24):
We are very proud, especially because our contribution as parents
has been very minimal. And the reason I say that
we are not from the entertainment industry, so we know
nothing about it. For this kid to have bucked the trends,
taken on all those challenges, the only credit we would
claim is we didn't stop her from doing anything, and that,

(14:47):
to me, is entirely her credit. I knew she was
cut out for something. I don't know what, because when
I was coming home from work one day and she
was about twelve years old maybe, and when we pulled
into our development, there's a little area there with a
concrete wall, and she was sitting on that wall grove

(15:07):
and as I was going to stop and say hi.
She just waved me on. So I went home. Then
she came back. I said, what the heck were you
doing there? That's my thinking.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
Spot, your thinking spot.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
I had a thinking spot.

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Do you have a thinking spot today?

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I do now it's more like the couch in the
bathroom hid my own space. But when you're a little kid,
you just need to get out of the house and
get away from everybody and think. And that was my
thinking spot. He thinks, that's so funny.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
We don't.

Speaker 7 (15:32):
Man.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
That brings up a lot of what it's like living
with parents who have expectations for your education and your
education foundation of education, and of course the different plateaus
of excellence and success. And she always wonders if you
guys really truly are proud of where she is.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
And what she's accomplishing. Oh yes, so he told you
clear as day.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes, I think that.

Speaker 4 (15:57):
I think she doesn't realize that. It's understandable. Parents from
India and countries out there, they don't normally boast about
their kids and family because it's considered a bad taste.
So we grew up that way and to adjust to
this new culture. It's tough for people, you know, so

(16:18):
we just say, okay, she's doing fine, no big deal.
But she has done a great job. And even though
I don't like comparisons, just to give an idea when
she was when she was first born, I truly thought
she was retarded.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Reed, yes, because at that age, how can you detect.

Speaker 4 (16:46):
Our older daughter was moving along very very well. This
one came along and she was well behind in all
the developmental phases from our first daughter. I do not
remember in orders my wife remember her ever standing up
and learning to walk. She was crawling at the age

(17:07):
when our older daughter was walking. And now even when
we took her to the daycare center, I told the
lady there, I said, please keep an eye on her.
I think she's retarded.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
He thought I was joking.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Okay, how that worked out?

Speaker 4 (17:20):
He developed in quantumly. There's no incremental things. She's crawling,
the next day she's walking. There's no learning stage there
of falling and all that same thing. In school. I said, man,
this kid's going to be retarded. But then I started
testing her and she goes way ahead of the crowd.

(17:43):
There you go. I said, I'm going to leave her
to her face.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Oh my god, Yes, he tells everybody this, by the way,
in that exact same phrasing, and he says he never
remembers me saying a first word. I said nothing until
it was way late, and he thought I was ele
mentally challenged. And then I said a full sentence. It
was I would like some milk.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
Rather than I would like some milk please, So rather
rather than her first word, it was her first thesis.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Yes, Center one day and the lady said, mister Gandhi,
you kept thinking your daughter was retarded. She was discussing
Einstein's theory of relatives.

Speaker 6 (18:23):
Wow, your daughter is a theory on the marine montessory,
theory of precognitive learning.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Exactly what.

Speaker 5 (18:31):
She's the opposite of developmentally.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
Our convolution is mainly to leave them alone.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
Good good thinking, please.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
But also I would think that you know, Meida is
more in line of this creative thinking side of the
brain and content for a show. And your other, your sibil,
your your sister, maybe she's more book smart more.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
No, they are very practice. And I've got to say this,
I was going to say that earlier. I look at
both our kids and they're very different. Our older daughter,
before she takes a step, will analyze every possibility. M HM.
Rolls and cons and then she moves this one, jumps
in with both feet without thinking, and if it doesn't

(19:18):
work out, declares victory and walks away.

Speaker 6 (19:20):
So maybe there's water in that pool, maybe not dive in.
I must leave you now.

Speaker 7 (19:27):
It's the moment.

Speaker 5 (19:29):
It's a pleasure meeting you. Oh my god. I could
go on and on for hours.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
With you and your daughter.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
She tells us you are a blessing to you.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
Absolutely, she's candy coating that, sugarcoating.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
That that's one thing you won't get to her. This
is true.

Speaker 5 (19:46):
I love you. I love you even more than.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Thanks for stopping.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
There's more podcast to go, more podcast.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Thank you very much, take care bye.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Later.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
God.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
So okay, So these no, you're okay.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
These are actually some of the questions that people wanted
to ask you. You know, what was it like growing up
with or what was it like raising me as a child.
You've kind of answered that the best question. And I
want to start here, what do you think I do
for a living?

Speaker 4 (20:30):
You have exercise? First thing is you have known from
childhood what you were, who you were, what your attributes are.
With ninety percent of humanity, does not know.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
Oh, that's nice.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
That led you into the profession of your choice, and
when you use your talents into the right profession, your
contributions are magnificent. Most people, i'm sorry to say, don't
know that, myself included, and it's at a later age
that we find out, ooh, I needed to go here. Luckily,

(21:05):
in my case things worked out fine where I made
the choices and moved on. But that early recognition of
who you are has set the stage for where you
are and because of that, your contributions turn out to
be outstanding. If only all of us knew that, we'd
be fine.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Well, that's very nice of you, thanks Dad.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
And I have to say that even with Priya, she
was very decisive after graduating in journalism for her to
completely change course do it all on her own. The
first time I came to know she had changed her
career was when she almost graduated from me. Yes, and
that requires a lot of courage, and for her to

(21:47):
take up a profession in which blood is the major
factor and she hated the sight of blood tells you
how well she thinks. Two things though, so we feel
very fortunate to have two wonderful well.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
I appreciate that, but no, my question was what do
you think I do? What do you think my job is?
What do you think I do for a living?

Speaker 4 (22:08):
I would say your job is number one to entertain
the public at times of stress, okay, and number two
to educate them through that process okay, without coming across
as if you're lecturing them.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
So if somebody were to ask you what is your
daughter's job, what is your answer?

Speaker 4 (22:23):
I said, my daughter's job is to inform the people
and make them laugh okay, and they are ready to cry.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
So you wouldn't say she's a co host of a
radio show.

Speaker 4 (22:31):
I would assume they knew that.

Speaker 7 (22:33):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
That's why, because the people asking me would be very
much the ones who know you're on a show.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Well, Prayer and I were talking the other day and
we said, you know, I don't know if somebody asked
mom and dad what do both of us do? If
they would be able to say it in one sentence,
what either of us do?

Speaker 4 (22:50):
But see, if I tell everybody you're a co host
of a radio show, it is not as impressive, okay
as telling them what you actually do.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
But you know I'm a co host of a radio show. Yes, okay, yes,
And what would you say?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
I don't bring that kind of I would say inhibits.
Like I told Elvis earlier, Indian parents is they don't
like to boast about it. No, no, no, no, tend to
boast about them, so it can be easily construed by
people as if we're boasting. So careful about how we
come across.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I totally get that. And I actually don't think you know.
I told you I don't want you guys to talk
about my job. I just want you to talk about
us as people whomever we are. Lot no, no, no, no, no,
I would rather you not do it. We were just
wondering if both of you, if you and Mom actually
knew what we did.

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Oh yeah, absolutely. Mom actually thinks she is the co
host with you on Elvis Durantro.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Did she figure out how to get the iHeartRadio app
back on her phone?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I don't know if she's figured out how that phone works.
Did you?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
You don't have it on your phone either.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Do you? Uh?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
No, I don't have that app?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
No, because you just got a new iPhone right, okay, and.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
I'm still trying to master Remember this is my first smartphone.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
I know you had a flip phone until a few
weeks ago. A flip phone. That is nuts. Do you know?

Speaker 4 (24:01):
I do not like the iPhone because to me, the
purpose of a phone is communications, that's it. Okay, my
flip phone, I could do everything I wanted except text messages.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
And now you're texting like a champion.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Yeah, but that did not connect people too.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Okay, that's okay.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
It's a matter of time.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, you'll figure it out.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
And don't get me wrong. I love the technology. It
is the misuse to which it can be put so
that bothers me. Okay, so that's why the flip phone.
You could not misuse it that way. Dad.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
I was so mad when you broke the first flip
phone and you went to the store to get it fixed.
I thought you were going to come out with a
smartphone because I didn't know they had flip phones. And
when you came home with a second flip phone, correct,
I wanted to have that guy's ass. You said. He
walked back in the back, found a box and was like, oh,
we have another flip phone for you.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
I would have had a third flip phone had they
not said that we don't repay these phones anymore.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Oh my god, thank god. Because it's a relic, it
might as well be on the Titan.

Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yes, so am I kind of relic too. Okay, I'm
proud of it all right.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Other questions that were submitted by listeners of our podcast.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
So I need to know the names who these listeners are?

Speaker 7 (25:11):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
We don't have names.

Speaker 7 (25:13):
I have.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
I have Instagram handles, and I know you don't like
Instagram and all that stuff either.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
The only gramm I know is Telegram.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Wait you know telegram?

Speaker 4 (25:21):
I mean sending a telegram, Oh.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Like the instant telegram, because you know Telegram is.

Speaker 4 (25:26):
An app now too, Oh I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, it's it's.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
It's like another social platform where you can talk to
people and communicate.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
Oh yeah, okay, Why do you need so many platforms
when there are already so many there?

Speaker 1 (25:37):
Well, a lot of people don't like certain censorship on
certain platforms, so then they'll go somewhere else where they
think they have more free speech.

Speaker 4 (25:42):
Some people don't like that choice. So you get to
talk to everybody whatever you want, you.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Like calling them?

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Yeah, okay, all right, what wait?

Speaker 4 (25:51):
Wait? Wait, I got to say something about what calling
versus texting. Yeah, I have seen you and Priya sitting
in the car are as, my passengers and people from
other cars looking inside to see what these monkeys are doing.
You look like crazed, insane people banging away at the iPhone.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Now, welcome.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
You would not have had that problem with the flip phone.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Welcome to the club. Now you're going to do the
same thing.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Use it for I just use it for a couple
of things, communications, meaning contacts and text That's it. I
yet to look at any of the apps. I asked
the Apple guy, can you delete all these apps from
the phone? And he looked at me like I was insane.
He said, so, why are you buying an iPhone? Yes,
I said, only for this.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
And you also put a case on your phone that
protects it. But you can't use the camera.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
You have to take the case off.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
You have to take the case off to use the camera.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
No, I don't need to do a case off.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
No.

Speaker 4 (26:48):
What I do is it's for those who are in
the know. I have an outer box case and the
auto box case comes as a case with a holster
feathers that it protect the camera. Yeah, cover when you
want to take a picture all you do is take
the holster out.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
That's what I'm saying. You're going to take the case off.
You have to take it out of that thing to
take a picture.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, I don't take the case out of the phone.
What I don't take the case off the phone.

Speaker 1 (27:13):
Oh you're saying, just the just the whole thing that
clips on. But still you have to take it off
to take a picture.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
And I want to take pictures.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Have you even taken a picture? Who'd taken one?

Speaker 4 (27:21):
No? Okay, no, cool? But I want to remind you
of what George Carlin said.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Please For those who don't know, George Carlin was a
great comedian okay in the nineties, and in one of
his episodes, he said, what is this thing with the
one hour development of photographs? You just saw the damn thing.
Why do you have to take a picture of it?

Speaker 7 (27:39):
Now?

Speaker 4 (27:40):
That's how I operate.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
That is not true.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
You love photos.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
You love looking at a picture, a baby picture of
Prea and I or Pria's wedding pictures.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
You always want to see pictures, you say.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Send me photos. Whenever I take a trip, send me photos.
You want to see them.

Speaker 4 (27:54):
Yeah, because now I don't travel anymore. Okay, try not
to travel, so I get all my vacations for watching videos. Okay,
normally I watched those videos on the computer. So if
you send me the photographs, I watch it on my
computer so I can see. Okay, may that I went
to Mexico and this is how Mexico looks.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
When I was traveling a lot, it didn't matter to me.
I could go and see it for myself. Okay, But
now because I'm not traveling, I've had so many vacations
sitting at home. Okay, I've seen the entire Russian countryside.
I've traveled the Trans Siberian Railway. Now we all wants
to travel in person, I don't. I've seen it all. Okay,
fair enough, I can give advice to people who want

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to go.

Speaker 1 (28:32):
Next listener submitted question, I don't think we've even gotten
really any yet. What are you least proud of? When
it comes to me? Least least proud.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Of that I cut your hair and made you look
like a boy.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
That's true. That was so bad. Do you remember how
often people used to ask me if I was a
boy or a girl.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Wasn't I preparing you for today's world?

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Then oh yeah, thanks, that's why now I want to
have so much hair and all the hair all the time,
because you made me look like a little mushroom like
every Indian kid, by the way, gets these horrible haircuts.
So thanks a lot, but.

Speaker 4 (29:07):
Sorry, that's the one thing I'm not proud of everyone.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
But that's something that you're not proud of about you?
What about me? What about me?

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Are you least proud of?

Speaker 1 (29:17):
And you're not gonna hurt my.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Feelings about you that I'm least proud of about me?
I really cannot think of anything, okay nothing. I would
probably say I'm most proud of you about many things,
but I don't think anything i'm least proud of you.
The most proud of you I am is you can
associate with its comebacks, You can associate with wonderful people

(29:40):
and not lose even the slightest knowledge of who you are.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Yeah, you really didn't like some of my friends growing up.

Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, and time proved it to be true.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
Yeah, you're right, you're right, So that to.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
Me, I cannot think of a single thing that I'm
not proud of about you and Priya.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Wow, really, what a nice thing to say.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Thanks Dad, okay, and I would tell you right now.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
I know you would, I have no doubt. So I
tell stories about you a mom on the air all
the time, and people don't believe them. They think there's
no way that that happened. And some of them make
me laugh all the time. You guys make me laugh
all the time. But specifically, you know, we live in
this age where parents are just clapping for their kids
all the time. You're amazing. Everything you do is the
best thing that's ever been done. And people don't believe

(30:21):
me that you showed up to our school to tell
the teachers that they gave us too good of a grade.

Speaker 4 (30:28):
Yes, we did, absolutely we did. And you can see
today what's happening in education.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:34):
Right, to get a report card on your English language
writing which was full of spelling errors, full of grammatical errors,
and then to read that you got a bee is
an insult to us.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
So you came to the school to tell the teacher
that it is an insult that she gave a bee. Yea,
and in fact that paper deserved a lower grade. Right,
very shocking for that teacher.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Nope, she was actually actually she was afraid when she
met us. She said what's the matter. Should I have
given them an A? And that really made Mangola and
me live it.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
That's my mom.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yeah, and we said, what are you talking about? This
paper deserves an F. And she was breathing such a
sigh of relief. She said, mister Gandhi, you have no
idea how much grief I tolerate because parents come here
demanding that their kids get an A. Yeah, and today
we are seeing the result of that poor grading process everywhere, I.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
Bet, and now we are. I'm actually really glad that
you guys did that. I say all the time, I
am very happy almost everything that you and mom told
me when I was younger, you will thank me for
this when you grow up. You're right about I actually
can't think of the things that you were not right about.
So I'm just going to say, you guys were right
about a lot of it. And I'm glad that you
guys were hard on us. And I'm glad that you

(31:52):
guys didn't just clap all the time and you were
honest with us, and that you made us do our
own work. I'm very happy about that.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
I'm not proud of saying that you will thank us
for it. I'm proud that you understood and appreciated it
and took full advantage of it. That's what I'm proud about.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Yeah, you guys made us very self reliant and independent,
and we figured out how to, you know, get around
a lot of things.

Speaker 4 (32:16):
I was actually simply carrying on a tradition of my parents. Yeah,
because when I was in school in India, I remember
my father coming to school and berating the teacher for
giving me a higher grade than I deserved.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh, so you were just paying it forward.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah, okay, great.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Are you having fun doing this?

Speaker 4 (32:36):
Enjoying it?

Speaker 7 (32:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:37):
I'm also amazed by the technology.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Amazing of the studio incredibly Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's fun.
It's a fun. Oh you want to see something cool?

Speaker 4 (32:46):
Hold on.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
So we have these screens in here, and we can
change them to be Oh, there's me.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Baby, hot sauce.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
That's me sauce on the side. That's the name of
the podcast, by the way, did you know that?

Speaker 4 (33:01):
Yeah, the name of this podcast.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Do I banned you? And mom? Mom? Does do you?
Mom told me you guys listen sometimes together.

Speaker 4 (33:12):
You know what I find out is what she tells me. Yeah,
you said and not by watching.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
So the only reason I banned you guys and by
banned no. No, but this is you have to This
is my reasoning. So everybody knows. I think Indian kids,
first generation Indian kids, we all have double lives. We
have our regular life and then we have the lives
our parents think we lead. I think I've blurred those
lines a lot more than most Indian kids have, because

(33:38):
most of them just have completely double lives separate, you know.
I mean again, we have the life that we live,
and then we have the life our parents think we live.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
No, not at all.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
Okay, either way.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
The only reason I don't want you a mom to
listen is because mom just has a lot of critiques.
She likes to tell me the things I should and
shouldn't say. I said like that, I guess so. But
I always say, Mom, I got this far doing it
the way that I'm doing it. I'm not going to
change it now. She thinks I make fun of myself
off the podcast. No, No, we're recording.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
I mean we're recording here. Why what were you going
to say? Mom?

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Go ahead?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
No, I don't want to be killed, so.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Fair enough. Yeah, okay, So back to the questions from
listeners things that they want to know what was or
are some of your favorite childhood memories of me of you?

Speaker 4 (34:33):
Yeah, there are quite a few. One of my earliest,
not my earliest, but most poignant memories was when Wiley
came to the house for a party and he's a
big guy, yeah, and I told him, you know, maya
could fit into your shoe. And he started roaring with
laughter and he said, kem running to me. I didn't

(34:55):
know what their dad said.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Let me tell you, dad. If I we had a
dollar for the amount of times people said do you
know what your dad said? I would be so rich.
I have no doubt that after Elvis walked out of
this room, he went and told everybody out there about
our conversation. Old everybody.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
But the other other memory I have is when we're
staying in that.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Apartment or in South Florida.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
In North North Northtown apartments in Columbus, Ohio.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
Yeah, you came one day and you were kind of crying,
and you were you had come running home, and I
had looked out and you were running home yelling at
some kids, saying wait till I grow up, I'll kill you.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
And then you came home. He had kind of been
rough with you. He was word three times your side.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, he was like twelve, and I think I was
like five or six.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
If you looked like he was twenty one. Okay, But anyway,
you came home and you asked me a question, not
that day, but the next day. I think, so, Dad,
what happens if someone if you throw a banana peel
in front of somebody? And I said, boy, you'll slip
and fall. Well, a few days went by and I
was pulling in home from work and a whole bunch

(36:08):
of your friends came running up to my car and said,
mister Gandhi, mister Ghandhi, you know what made that is?
And I said, no, she threw a banana peel in
front of that bum, and he slipped and hit his
head on the concrete. And may that I told him,
next time, you'll be dead. Yeah, And the guy never
fooled with you again. I said, I was proud you
were not a Mahatma Gandhi descendant.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
You I'm a descendant, not a disciple.

Speaker 4 (36:32):
Exactly right, exactly, So.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
That is actually another question. First of all, I think
if I would have told that story and told people
I threw a banana peel at someone and made him
fall and crack his head, nobody would have believed it.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
So I'm glad that you relate the stories.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Yes, absolutely, because.

Speaker 1 (36:46):
I think a lot of things just seem unbelievable, but
if you hear them from another person, maybe more believable.
So one of the other questions was, what do you
think Gandhi g would think of both of us, of
you and of me. That's a tough one. I never
know what to say because I didn't know.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
What he would think. But I know one thing he
would appreciate that we are both following what we want,
not trying to be blind disciples of him like many
of his other relatives are. I don't believe in derived glory.
The glory has to be ours. We have to earn
our own way. Just because I'm born as his grandson

(37:25):
doesn't mean that or a great grandson, and doesn't mean
that I have to follow everything he says. Sure, like
you said, we are his descendants, not his disciples. We
are to think for ourselves because what was right for
him may not be right today. But one of the
things I disagree with him the most is his obsessive

(37:46):
policy of non violence. Had he been under Hitler, he
would have been killed and not even heard from again. Okay, Okay,
so that's one of the pink things. You have followed
your own rules. You followed your own principles in life
right from a young age, and I'm very proud of that.
That's why I say, if we had very little to
do with yours and Pria's advancement in their careers, but

(38:09):
we are proud that you are our kids.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
I don't agree with that at all. I think, even
though you will always say you raised us with benign
neglect and that's why we turned out the way that
we did, I think you guys played such a key
integral role in the way that we are in taking
personal accountability for things and following through with things and
not quitting. You guys didn't let us watch TV forever,

(38:34):
and I'm really happy at this point in my life.
I'm happy that you didn't.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
I'm thankful that you think that way. But you know,
to expand a little bit, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
both banned their kids from being near any screen device
until they were twelve years old. That included television. That
included iPads that included anything that had a screen. They

(39:00):
were smart enough to know what it can do to children. Yeah,
a child learns best by doing, not by sitting on
a sofa and playing with a machine that has nothing
to do with the real world very little. And you're
seeing the results there today. Sure, where kids can't write,
they can't read, it's unfortunate.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Sure, But I'm glad that you guys did those things.
I really am. And I'm glad that you made us,
even though I hated it at the time. You always
made us do extra homework, especially in summertime. You didn't
like that school just stopped for that amount of time,
so you gave us your own homework and we had
to write two to four essays every single day before

(39:40):
we could go out and do anything. And I'll tell
you what, Dad, I'm pretty good at Jeopardy now because
of that. Because of that.

Speaker 4 (39:47):
And on the homework side and all. I have to
give Mom the credit because she did a lot more
of that than I did. And when I think of
how much time she spent with you guys, taking your
gymnastics and all these things while not becoming a soccer
mom speaks well for her too. Yeah, you have to
give the devil the credit.

Speaker 1 (40:08):
Yes, you call him on the devil.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
Yes, because I'm senior deVie.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
Okay, Yes, the two of you together a pair of Satans.
One of the things I also really appreciate that you
guys did for us was instill And I've said this

(40:32):
on the show so many times, and they say it too.
Your lack of planning is not my emergency.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
That I believe in one percent.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
I know, but let me tell you, as a little kid,
that's a pain in the ass, because how many kids
are really planning. Kids don't plan their kids.

Speaker 4 (40:48):
However, you planned very well how to make our lives miserable?
Oh did I very well plot out?

Speaker 1 (40:54):
Oh you're miserable. This is you being miserable. Yes, yeah, right,
you look so tortured.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Oh my god, telling me that you're surprised that I
look like a ninety year old guy. Yeah, I'm only seventy.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Let me tell you something, Dad, you don't have one wrinkle.
I don't know how it's possible. There's not a wrinkle
on that damn head. But you've given everyone else wrinkles,
and I need to know how it happened.

Speaker 4 (41:16):
The wrinkles I gave you. Guys made you look better.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
How do you not have wrinkles? You laugh all day long,
you laugh all the time, you have a good time.
Not a wrinkle. I'm looking at you right now, not one.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Well, that's because they're not looking well.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
No, I can see.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Please, I've heard a wrinkled head.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Please.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Anyway, what is something that always makes you think of me?

Speaker 4 (41:35):
Think of you?

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:36):
I have to keep coming back to the fact that,
because it is a very very important thing that from
the youngest days of your life you thought differently from
most people. What I thought of you as being retarded
was actually you being very different, okay, And that difference
today is blossomed into who you are. And I remember

(42:01):
in school, wherever you went, you're a swarm of kids
behind you, like mosquitoes after a guy who was sweating,
And I found that amazing. You were not the epitome
of a perfect kid at school, yet to have this
huge crowd behind you was amazing to me. Prior took
a brunt of our learning experience, as every older kid

(42:24):
will tell you, Yeah, they're the brunt of their parents'
learning experiences. And in spite of that brunt, even she
turned out beautifully. Yeah, we're very proud of both of you.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
She's awesome. I will say I would like to apologize
to you, a mom, because, as you said in a
very nice way, I was not necessarily the perfect kid
when it came to school. You guys spent a lot
of times coming in and talking to principals or teachers
or whomever because I was a little naughty, which is
actually one of the other questions. What were some of

(42:55):
the mischievous or naughty things that you can remember about
me growing up?

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Mischievous things?

Speaker 2 (43:03):
You know.

Speaker 4 (43:03):
It's funny. Mom and I were talking a few weeks
ago about you guys and how kids were getting into
all this kind of trouble. We know people whose kids
got into trouble of a very terrible kind, like what drugs, alcohol?

(43:30):
Some of them are into prostitution.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
What you guys have friends who have hookers for kids?

Speaker 4 (43:35):
Not when they were young. At that age, we didn't
think they were prostitutes. But I should say lose people
and I won't name any names. Hello, you can keep talking.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
I invited Diamond and in case she had one question
for you, Oh yeah, yeah, but no, no, no, finish what
you're saying so you were talking.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Yeah, and I can remember some of the unfortunate things,
especially when we moved Florida and you told me you
wanted some money from your savings account that you had
built up very well to help out two guys who
had been unfortunately arrested, and to give them the bail money.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
And I remember telling you may that get ready to
lose your money and your friends yep. And you said no, no, no, no,
that will never happen. And it showed dead yep. But
what's more important is not that you defied me, but
that you learned from it. That's what life's all.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Yeah, I'll never build anyone out of jail again. Want
and done.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah, yeah, just kidding out. You still to bail people
out of jail. You need to revise your friends.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Happens that it happened, so that I remember.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
There were unfortunate incidents, but nothing that I could say
made us regret.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
You have no regrets, none for you guys.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Let me tell you this. I've said this to Diamond
before too. Most of the people that I know now
who have kids, including my friends, they're like all of
my kids, and they're cool. But if I could do
it again, I wouldn't no.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
No, no. If the only regret I have is the
way I was and I would do things differently today,
what would I do differently? I was tough with you guys, tyrant,
but in some ways I was brutal. Yes, now, in
India that would not have been considered out of the
way at all.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
I tell them all the time, Indian parents are crazy breed.

Speaker 4 (45:26):
I believe the love is very different. And I'm sorry
to say, I don't intend to offend any Americans, but
to just put a little placard out there saying we
love our kids drove slowly doesn't cut it. If you
really love your kids, you should be involved in them
all the time, involved with them in every aspect of
their lives, without trying to dictate. I never saw that

(45:47):
in many American parents, and that's why we today have
the problem. And I'm sorry. I don't mean to be
a lecturing person. Okay, okay, we can worry for this country.
I worry about the future of the youngsters. And you
cannot produce youngsters if you don't teach them adversity. And
the whole attempt prize right now is to avoid adversity

(46:08):
with the kids the way I grew up. The best
friend you could have was someone who told you what
you needed to know, not what you wanted to hear.
The best friend you can have is an honest critic.
And unfortunately, in our country today, we can't handle criticism
and that's why we have so many problems.

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Oh, I'm sure we'll get some criticism on this podcast.
I can't wait, Diamond, I asked you earlier. So Diamond, Dad, Diamond, Diamond, Dad,
you met her downstairs, she walked you up. I don't
know how I would do a lot of things without her,
specifically this podcast. That beeping Diamond just wondered what it was.
It's a blood monitor for sugar. Yes, someone went to
krispy Kreme.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
You went to Krispy Kreme. Yes, yes, okay.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
There are times my legs are not under my control,
just like my car is not. Oh that's true, driving
by a Krispy Kream. The steering will suddenly turn. Cannot
control it.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
That you know what, Dad, That also happens when you're
not driving by Krispy Kreme and you just hit curbs only.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
He said, Okay, so I feel like.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
You'll appreciate this time and then you can ask your
question or if you have a question. So my dad,
my sister and I tell my mom and dad all
the time, like we just want to hire you guys
a driver, Like, let's just get you guys a driver.
Because he says, he says this, I don't say this.
I've been in the car and I experienced it. He says,
he drives by sound. He doesn't wear his hearing aids
half the time because he thinks that people are going

(47:31):
to tap into them, so he doesn't want to wear them.
So he doesn't have great vision. And he says he
drives my sound, but he won't wear his hearing aids.
So that's the type of driver we're dealing with over here.

Speaker 4 (47:39):
Yeah, I just go by the sound and I hear
somebody going ah, somebody don't.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Okay, this is my father. A couple curves have met
their maker from things hit.

Speaker 4 (47:58):
The cars have kept going.

Speaker 1 (47:59):
And that is the important part. Yeah, I won't bring
up all of the things. But Diamond, did you have
any questions for my dad?

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I just want to know what she was like as
a child.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
Oh, there you go, she was like as a child.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Yeah, what was she like as a child?

Speaker 4 (48:13):
Well, if you look closely, there are two stubs of
horns on her head. Yeah, yeah, one two stubs of horns,
and I had to chop them off. Luckily they've stopped
growing again.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
And you're saying I was a Satanic child. Satanic satanic
child as.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
A child, she was truly, Seriously, I was just telling
her that earlier, and I'm afraid I'm repeating myself here.
She was a cut from a different cloth. She had
a different view. People would look at something, she would
look at it and have a completely different perspective on it.
So after a while I realized it's best to leave

(48:51):
her alone because that perspective will grow into a nice person.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
At the end of it all, you think she's a
nice Person's she's a competent person.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Wow, dad, Well an honest critic, we have one here.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
We know we love her that I will say.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
You know, I never doubt that you love me.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
I will tell you that we butt heads on many things.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, we go at.

Speaker 4 (49:20):
It, but that's what it's all about.

Speaker 7 (49:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
If two people think the same way all the time,
only one is doing the thinking. Okay, it's an old problem.
So we seldom agree on Manythings. So she was always
a different kid from the beginning. And you will notice
that people who tend to think differently are not cut

(49:45):
out for school because school school regiments you. Okay, and
I don't mean to put Mesa in the same class
because I think she does belong there. But Albert Einstein
kicked out of school. It was totally never amount to anything.
Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs in most recent times.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Okay, you can put me in that class.

Speaker 4 (50:12):
I'm go on, that's a parent who did it, But
I do. Steve Jobs. If you watch go back and
watch his commencement speech. I think it was the universit
of San Diego Somewhere he talks precisely about that originality. See,
a creative person sees possibilities where others cannot. So you

(50:37):
and I might see and see this little technology piece
and saw the buttons here, this switch is there, wonderful.
Steve Jobs would look at it and say, how can
I make it smaller? So that's why creativity is so important. Now,
where creativity has a liability is many creative people cannot

(50:57):
determine which creative idea is really workable and which is not.
That's where you need us ordinary people, us meaning me,
not you.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
No, I think we're ordinary.

Speaker 4 (51:09):
That's why we need to tell them, Hey, there's bullshit.
There's not going to work. If a creative person doesn't
have that kind of person with them, they often end
up going way off the rails.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
Oh thank god I had all of you.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
That you need.

Speaker 3 (51:26):
I have two questions. I don't know which one you did.
You did kind of the first one. Did you give
her spankings as a child?

Speaker 4 (51:35):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Absolutely, see, this is what I'm talking about. Did you
put her over the lap and spank her? Or did
you grab the hand and let her try to run
away and spank?

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Which one combinations? She seems like a kid who needed
and asked.

Speaker 3 (51:50):
I'm just saying, oh, I'm so sorry that to somebody's dad.

Speaker 1 (51:53):
I just thought about that.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
Did you even hear what she said? Did you even
hear what she said? Yeah, that's okay, you're okay.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Okay, speaking of that, what's your favorite curse word?

Speaker 4 (52:05):
My favorite? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I don't even think of Let me tell you what.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
This is a plot to us, because I will say this,
I don't ever really hear my dad cursing. He they
grew up speaking like the English that they learned is
kind of British English. So he says bloody, Like that's
the worst thing that I've heard him say, is like
this bloody idiot. You know, but I don't. I don't
really hear you curse that often publicly.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
I don't hear you curse privately.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
You curse in your head.

Speaker 4 (52:35):
No, I don't say that.

Speaker 1 (52:36):
You don't say that, Okay, use it on me. There's
some interesting stuff about you. He really doesn't curse. He'll
say he'll say things that are like it should have
been a curse word.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
But instead wat like George Carlin.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yes, he loves a good comedy show. I never really
saw him like fawning over women or even acting like,
you know, like I do. I always say he looks
at food the way I think most men look at women,
like like if a nice dosa walks by, he's like,
what was that?

Speaker 3 (53:12):
You know.

Speaker 4 (53:13):
Muslims they believe in going to heaven and they get
seventy two virgins. Yes, that's their philosophy. I formally believe
when I go to heaven, I have seventy two waitress
waitress coming.

Speaker 7 (53:27):
It's all.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
He wants it all. He cares about.

Speaker 1 (53:29):
The Only two people I ever even heard him say
were pretty were Aliyah and Whitney Houston. You would if
I showed you her picture, you recognize her. She was
a singer. She died in like the very early two thousands.
But you were walking by one day and you saw
her in a music video and you said, huh, she
might have been on a horse at some point.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
I don't know. It was a music video. It was
the Rock the Boat music video.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
No, it was the Rock the Boat. I know.

Speaker 1 (53:56):
You just never say it just so he doesn't care
about anything he's like.

Speaker 4 (53:59):
Because you know, no, No, that's not why I think
looks are fleeting. You know, so many of I have
seen so many times the most beautiful women ending up
looking the ugliest old women old at the other way
around too. I have seen in my school in Indiana

(54:21):
really good looking guys whose parents were ugliest. Sin. That's
how mother nature works. Nobody knows how it works, you know.
So to me, looks are a passing glory. You know. See,
if I am to marry somebody and I marry them

(54:42):
just for the looks and nothing else matches, imagine how
miserable they're going to be you know.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Okay, I have one last question, but you have to
speak into the microphone.

Speaker 4 (54:51):
Okay, can you hear me now?

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Yeah, I can. I can hear you the whole time,
but it's not yeah, yeah, all right. So everybody here
knows I don't want to get married. They would like
to know how you feel about that.

Speaker 4 (55:00):
Well, I've passed your word on to a lot of people,
have you, and they've adopted your philosophy that marriage is
a scam by the government to take your.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Money, but the other person.

Speaker 4 (55:10):
And them are non lunatic asylum.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
So how do you feel about it?

Speaker 4 (55:17):
By the way, Diamond.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Calls the allatic all the time.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
I think she's a lunatic.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Sure, excellent. How do you feel about that?

Speaker 4 (55:28):
The choice is yours and we have I certainly have
no problem with it.

Speaker 7 (55:32):
All right.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
I feel like that's a good note to end on.
Is there anything you wanted to say you wanted to add?

Speaker 4 (55:36):
The only thing I want to add is I hope
those who are viewing this podcast view it with the
same sense of bluntness and honesty that we've both engaged in.
And if you don't, my apologies, but I hope you
had a.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Good time that was nice. Thanks Dad for joining me.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (55:54):
Thank you for having me on any time, Diamond for
your questions.

Speaker 7 (55:59):
All right, by, goodbye.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
And there we go. That is my father, Ladies and gentlemen,
When they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree,
I beg to differ. I think I rolled down a hill.
But other people are like, oh my god, you guys
are just alike. No, I wouldn't use these words.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
No.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
I think you guys are just to like, oh my god,
we look alike.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
That's terrifying. Let me tell you rules.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Stop. I just want to cuddle the both of you.

Speaker 7 (56:34):
Oh you got them? Any tell you what.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Let's see, we are way past the limit of episodes
that I thought we were ever going to do for
like this year. I think I'm supposed to do thirty
maybe or thirty five something like that, and we're like, way, way,
way past it.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
So should I just stop?

Speaker 1 (56:51):
Should I keep going? Do I go out on a
high note or a low note with this podcast?

Speaker 2 (56:54):
I think you should keep going? Oh okay, yeah, keep rolling.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
I think I've told you use before. Our highest rated
episodes are when we just kind of shoot the shit together.
Either you and me, you, Me, and Andrew, You, me, Andre
and Josh. Those are the ones that people seem to
like the best. And I think maybe for the next
episode we'll do something like that.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Oh wow, I love that.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Yeah, buddy, Okay, if people want to find you, where
do they find you?

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Diamond at Diamond Sincere on Instagram and I am at.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Baby Hot Sauce on Instagram. And if you're trying to
find my dad, you never will because he doesn't subscribe
to any type of social media because he thinks the
government's watching him. I'm not kidding real quick. He he.

Speaker 3 (57:39):
Did.

Speaker 1 (57:39):
He stay in eisdeow. He won't use his hearing aids
even though he can't hear shit, because he thinks that
the government's going to tap into his hearing aids and
like saying, oh my god. Meanwhile, I'm like, it's better
than you hear nothing.

Speaker 7 (57:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Oh, love of God, Oh my god. I love this man.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
He's great. Love him too. He's just a bit of
a liability alright, until next time, say bye bye.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Mm hmm.