May 19, 2026 • 53 mins
This week on Thanks Dad, Ego sits down with comedian and actress Aparna Nancherla! To start, Aparna thanks the inner-children of her family. Ego and Aparna chat about being an overthinker, struggling with traveling, and the thrill of being a late person. They also dive into missing car time, not wanting kids, and growing up with immigrant parents.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
All right, Parna, Hi screaming.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's how you should start every morning.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Always screaming. Nothing gentle about my mornings. I have to
do an introduction for you, which I'm excited to do. Great.
I take this very seriously. My next guest is a
comedian and writer you know from her special Hopeful Potato
and the new Amazon Prime show Kevin. It's a Parnon Ninturla.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hello, Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh, I'm so happy you're here. Okay to start you
or what do you want to say thanks to?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh my gosh. You know, I was told I would
get this question. I already was stressed about it, but
I guess I will. It's stressful thanks to my family.
But also I was like, you know what, that feels
too generic. I'm gonna say thank you to my mother,
my father, my sibling, their inner children. Mmmmm, specifically their
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their inner children.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What do you feel gratitude for about their inner children?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I mean, I guess your inner child is kind of
the the part of you that you know is in
touch with like your joy and what keeps you uh grounded,
or like what gives you, you know, a sense of
possibility for your life. So I I my inner child
wants to thank their inner children.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's beautiful. I think Freud would really respect that.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I don't even notice. Is Freud all about inner children?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Probably? I think you know? No, Freud is Freud is yeah?
Actually Freud probably Yeah, Freud is like your child. He
doesn't use the term I don't think.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He well the term ID about like your primal urges.
Maybe I should think their id's as well your ego.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But who coined inner child? Do you? You seem to know?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know if I do know? You know I
brought it up and I can't tell you anything.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, I got dismissed for Freud, so I'm like, wait,
wasn't I just thought a psychologist would appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, now I'm really outing myself as as I had.
I have a psychology BA but undergrad. But I don't
have an answer to your question.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, I listen, if you had let me run with Freud,
we'd actually be off this topic.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm kind of point you back on Freud. I'm gonna
say you were right with Freud.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, I don't need to be right. It'll just throw away. Okay.
A psychologist of sorts would be proud of you. So
you studied psychology I did. Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I did. I like to say that I will never
not take a personality quiz online, so I think that
was more. My interest in psychology was that I just
love learning more about what what makes me tick, what
makes other people tick. It's one of those fields where
you can immediately apply it to your life, So I
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think that made it attractive.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Who, well, what's your myers breaks?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I n f J.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I n f J introvert, neurotic. I don't know what
the ND stands for.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's right, No, wait, intuition.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I shouldn't have begun this either. No, I n f J.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Though feeling is yes and J is judging.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, yeah, yeah. What does it mean about you to
be an I n f J.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I think we are a very rare type, and I
think we are very overthinking. We're like deep thinkers, okay,
like we're too almost to our detriment.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, have you overthought something recently?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh my gosh, everything is outfit?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Like, what what was your thought process with the outfit?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I was like, I want to be casual but uncomfortable,
but I need to add something, so I just did
Papa color.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It looks great.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I am proud of myself in that. I feel like
I'm glad I didn't go like yellow or orange because
this feels like it. Compliment.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
No, you look like you belong there because the mustard
color on the collar of your T shirt matches the couch.
You've done great. I know, I am thinking about you've
done great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I mean I was overthinking before I got here, and
when I got here, I actually was a little bit eddies.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Okay, good, yeah, good, that's what we hope to do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Are you an overthinker?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I can be? Yeah, yeah, I guess what I say.
I can be. I am full stop. Yeah, let me
for ten for a second.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I know, but that was that's an overthinking answer to be, like,
am I yeah, I guess, yeah, exactly? Nothing is yeah, straightforward?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, okay, I have asked, so do you know Enneagram? Also?
Do you know that personality test? Hard? You remember someone asked.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Me that I believe seven?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Helper to his helper. It's like, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's a peacemaker.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It might be helpmaker, Okay, peacemaker.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Where do you fall in the sibling lineup.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I am youngest, you are I love just to just too? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And do you have an older brother?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Older non binary sibils?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, yeah, amazing, Yes, yes, are you guys close?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We are? Yeah. I would say we've gone through periods
where we're not as like in touch, but I would
say the you know, past phase of our lives, we've
been back connected.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Okay, good way. Yeah. Are they in New York here?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They're in New York?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, all right, Bo's amazing. Yea, everybody's in Brooklyn,
I know. So do you want to tell me about
working on Kevin?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sure? Kevin was really fun. It's an animated show coming
out on Amazon and it's about animals. It's about a
cat who his couple that he lives with breaks up,
and instead of going with one or the other, he
decides to make it on his own in the world.
And this is about his journey.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
This is beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And he ends up at sort of you know, a
sheltered situation and you know, a lot of kind of
misfit animals there, and I am one of them. I
play a sickly kitten.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Do you like cats in real life?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I do? I have two.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You have two cats. What are their names?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Nanny and Zazi and Zazi very sweet? Yeah, their sisters.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh you got them together?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Mm hmmm, they're bonded.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, for life. Yeah, you can't separate the siblings.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You can't sit.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I have a friend with four cats, and I'm always
like that or but it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It is beautiful. That's a full family.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's like, wow, those are really your children
at that point?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They are? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do you travel a lot right for for.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like stand up during Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, how are they when you do that? Obviously you
have a cat sitting you're okay.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I live with the roommates, so we sort of share
cat duty so that yeah, yeah, that's really nice.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
If you were to move out, cats are your cats? Yes, okay,
so you would be taking the case.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh no, no, I think actually they are kind of
more of my roommates cats because he's a cat dad
and he takes it really seriously. Okay, like to the
point where I'm like, I think if our house like
was you know, on fire or something, and he had
to pick me or them, it would be them. Yeah
oh great, yeah, yeah, yeah great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Did you grow up with pets?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I grew up with the dog. Well, first to guinea pig,
not a.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Dog, Oh my goodness, a graduation.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah yeah, from pumping up the Yeah, well I think, yeah, fish,
guinea pig, dog, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
The proper way to do pets. Start with the evolution.
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, that's I didn't grow up. Well, no,
I said I didn't grow up with pets because I
feel like I had the kind of mom that wouldn't
be four pets. But then I think about it. She
used to rescue cats off the streets. She did, yes,
and so then I'm like, no, I did, and I
had a childhood cat. And then we moved okay really
(08:14):
far away, and she let her friend keep our cat.
Oh yeah, which is okay, it's okay. Yeah, I have
other trauma, not that one's that's that cat's.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Are creatures of place. So yeah, you could argue that
it was like kinder to let the cats.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I think it was. I think it was a
good thing. I don't think the cat going from Louisbourg,
West Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland would have been transition.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah yeah, the cat. Yeah, the cat watched the wire.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't think that's the not my scene. Did
you watch the Wire?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I did, and I think it's still in my mind
because I watched over the Pandemic, which I don't know
if I would recommend. It was already a hard time
and I don't know if I knew to add the
the gravitas of the Wire on top of that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, I also did an insane thing during COVID and
I watched the first thing I watched. Yeah, and I'm
actually not one to sit down and watch anything, but
we had all this time, right, Yes, Blue Valentine, which
is one of my favorite movies. But it's such a painful.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Story, is it? Is it like wrenching, gut.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Wrenching Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling or in a relationship. Derek
san France is the director. And I was like, why
did you choose like the most gut wrenching film. I
refused to watch again any other time, but I thought, oh,
we're on lockdown and the world is ending, I'm gonna
watch the most painful film I've.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Seen, deep into this emptiness I'm feeling. And yeah, and
now it's one of your favorite movie, but.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It was one of my favorite movest came but I've
only ever seen it once and I was like, I'll
never watch that again because that was too intense and
the COVID hit and somehow I was like, I know
exactly what watch the Wire?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I know?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, did you do all seasons?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yes? And I think it was that thing of like, well,
what else I'm gonna do? I'm finally gonna watch the
shows everyone told me I have to watch?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What else did you watch?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That was the only one that was it? I think
that one put me out of the game.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Did you So? Do you have a favorite character from
The Wire? Because my friend and I talk about it
all the time. I mean Wallace, yeah, Michael B. Jordan, Yeah,
we can we spoil it for people and say what.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Happy let's see what? How how many years later are
we spoiling?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like twenty years later? I think we're allowed. Sad what
happened to him?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Do you feel like they should have killed him?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I mean I think it, I know, But at the
same time, it was like one of the most Yeah,
it's like the part that sticks with me the most.
So I don't know. I guess secret argue then they
shouldn't have kept it, But I don't know. I'm like,
I guess if they kept it, then would Michael B.
Jordan the same career.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
If they kept him alive? I Wallace, that's a good
one because I feel like I don't hear Wallace a lot,
but I've heard minus Omar.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I know Omar was gonna be my next choice.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Omar.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I also think webae really fun.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And if it popped up in something else recently, I
was like, web he was playing a therapist though, really,
and I like couldn't get I was like, but you're
we bab.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Though, and you're locked up? Why? Yeah, he's doing therapy.
Now that's not supposed to do. You have a hard
time when you're watching things sort of like separating like
an actor from there.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah. It depends on the actor. And sometimes it's not
fair because I'm like, why am I pigeonholing you into
that one role? Like you're an actor, you can be anything.
That's me, I'm the problem. But other times I'm like,
but you're just this person in this role, like you're
always basically you.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah. I think about the like Verizon are we are?
We can wait? Can you hear me? Now? You remember? Yeah,
that's an actor who's in a commercial and then it's
like apparently like he and Flow couldn't do other jobs
because it was like when people see you now, they
just see the Verizon man. And when people see Flow,
(12:16):
they're like progressive, They're.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, They're okay, they're fine, They're they're fine.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I'm so worried about that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm like, they're rich, It's fine.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I was so worried about that guy. I don't even
know his name, and maybe that's why, because she has
a name Flow. Yeah, he's just Verizon.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
God. That's the thing. Yes, you become your character and
you're your character. Do you think you'd be saddened by
that if that happened to you?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I mean, I think at this point in this industry,
I'm just like, you know what the stability give.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Me, you'll take. You'll take the stability to me. How
are you with travel? Generally? Not?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, as I've gotten older, worse and worse. Yeah,
it's almost like every stage of the process now stresses
me out, Like starting with packing. I used to be
okay with packing, and now I dread it, Like sometimes
I'll do it the morning of my flight, which is
not good.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What is your But I can relate morning of the flight.
I feel like my brain's too I'm too discompeted.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
No, it's not don't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Don't do that unless you are that person who has
like a suitcase ready to go. You just need to
add three things.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
When I get stressed about packing too, and people are like, oh, well,
it's not like you're going somewhere where you can't buy
something if you forgot it, I'm like, so I'm supposed
to be on trips just buying stuff I forgot at home,
and I'm supposed to that's the that's the way we're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I want to spend it is like buying contact.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
How are you with airport arrival? Then what's your deal?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Then I'm cutting it close.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Okay, yeah, yeah, you say more, Well.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I always I'm always running in general, but with airports,
I'm I'm at least trying to give like an hour
and a half, like to check in and get to
my gate. An hour feels dicey to me. I know
there are people who like are like, I don't have
a bag to check, I can get there an hour before.
But that starts to make me too anxious.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh are you? We could never travel together an hour before. Oh,
I'm trying to get Are you checking something I'm not checking? Okay,
well that's why I'm not checking a bag. I like
to get to the airport in this I basically want
to get to airport in a way where I wait
in line for security, very short line, I walk through
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security and my flight is boarding.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, that is a dream.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's happened for me.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When you can do that, you feel like you want
you want pride.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's so nice. Now are you tsa pre checked down?
Global entry? Down?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Cleared down, pre checked down, glow entry? No Clear? No Clear?
I'm scared of.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What are you scared about? With clear?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That they have your eyeballs?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What do you think they're gonna do with the eye?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I mean, I don't even know why that's my fear,
because my phone has my eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now, yeah, because they face, I probably have.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
More information than CLEAR does.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Something about the clear setup really creeps me out. Okay, yeah,
are you cleared down?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I am not cleared down, but I had someone I
can because I should side. I said, it's because I'm
I'm in real time being like, oh, because I'm Diamond Medallion,
which I've shared on the podcast a few times I
can get a free Clear membership, but I don't think
I have an interest in that as one of my perks.
But it's not because I'm weird it out, because I
have been a Clear member.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
My sister and I joined Clear probably in two thousand
and five, trying to catch a flight like early days.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Wait, there was Clear into that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It was either two thousand and five or a fast
forward to like twenty ten, but it was like somewhere
in that I'm like two thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And five, I feel like clear clear was being kickstarted.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, no, well that's exactly it though. That's that's the thing.
We joined it in two thousand and five, I believe
it was two thousand and five, maybe two thousand and six,
but we were running late to catch a flight back
to California and they were offering it up like.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
We can skip the line right now.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So this is like baby Clear.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah. And it was like when they're handing out lotion, you.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Want to and we're like, yes, actually we need to
sign up. We need to skip the line. Like I
spelled my name wrong, like trying to catch our flight
because again, like to arrive to the airport, like, so
then had Clear for had a free trial, but immediately
landed and canceled it because we're going to charge me
seven days. Yeah, so canceled it and then got rid
of it. Didn't have it forever, And coworkers of mine
(16:49):
a few years ago, we're talking about how important it
is to have CLEAR plus TSA and how helpful it is. Oh,
I've been TSA pre check, yeah, which is brag.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, you should be pred I have it, and I'm like,
I feel very proud of this.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's good, it's good, it's worth it. But I I
had TSA and TSA pre check and Clear for a
beat there because people suggested this is just a couple
of years ago, and I was like, this is never
a shorter line. Every airport I was going to it
was not. I was not finding Clear useful, and I
was like, but I'm TSA pre check. This is fine.
(17:26):
It's to say, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Why am I paying extra for this? And if I'm
not mistaken, TSA pre check one time fee right yeah yeah,
so paying monthly for this thing or no, no year
a year speed. So I couldn't wait to cancel Clear
because I was like, why am I? And it renews,
so I canceled it. But right before I went to
cancel it, I was in Miami and the line was insane,
(17:50):
and I was leaving to come back to New York
and clear was the shorter. So of course that happens,
right like the Yeah, I'm like, I'm planning to cancel this,
but I still canceled. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
How often are you in Miami?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Not often?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, not.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Often enough to keep subscription people should have. It'll work
for home every time. It's gonna be good. But I yeah,
I'm like airport stuff I tried. I'm like, let's the
rush of being a little late.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It is a rush, It's not I think. I mean,
I think there. I mean, obviously the world is people
who are on time and people are late. And I'm like,
I don't know, I feel like we have a little
more excitement in our lives.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Just a little bit cutting it close.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Because have you ever been as a late, chronically late person?
When I'm early, I'm like, this feels not.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, I do feel that way too. Like you the
people who are of the mind that early is on
time and on time is late, I'm like, no, early,
I'm losing my fucking mind because I could have been
doing something else with this time.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Exactly what am I doing?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'm I'm pacing around here, I'm checking my banks? What
am I doing?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You were checking?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I was checking my bank.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But it's like, what else are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah? I can't imagine being still. Imagine just being still
in that peace with yourself and up running.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I am. I do get stressed out about keeping
people waiting like that does bum me out to think
about someone waiting for me, But then to be the
person waiting, I'm just like, no, I rather not.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Are your parents on time? People?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No, we're all late people.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, we're all late.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We're different degrees of late. Like I think my dad
is probably the least late. And then yeah, it's a
little you know, gender stereotypes, but us getting ready or whatever, dragging.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Where do you fall in the between the four of you?
Where do you fall? Who's the latest?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I think my mom might be the late. It is clean,
I think yeah, yeah, maybe me second, okay, and sibling
they're dead's okay.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, it's it's genetic and maybe.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
The cats are the worst.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The cats.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Cats will never be on your schedule.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
What's the deal with the cat because I don't because
I had one as a kid and I was so
not responsible.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, just that they do their own thing and it's
like they're not even going to show up. Maybe yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, to be a cat.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, cats live by their own coat.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What divas and divos? I have an intrusive question about
kitty litter? How do you make it not stink in
your home?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I Oh, there's actually a spray that's a deodorizer, so
you just spray that on the litter and it kind
of neutralizes the scentse okay, even more so than like
whatever the litter claims is neutralized.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, Yeah, where is your kitty litter? This is the
other thing I think.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
About two ours is in our laundry room. Funnily enough,
because there's a door to like outside and a window
so we can just like air it out easily. So
that makes the most sense. Oh great, Yeah, so it's
tucked away. It's not like in prime real.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Estate because the friend with four cats is a lovely
smelling home. Yeah, I've thought about the top of just
no problem, smells great.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I wouldn't they have litter boxes? Everything.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
They must not. I've never even seen the litter box.
It's gone over, so I'm like, where is it? Maybe
next time I go over?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Are they using the human?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh? Yeah, because you can train your cat to live.
Have you ever tried with your cat? Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I remember when one of them was a kitten. She
tried to jump in the toilet and we were like, maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Keep the kitten away from the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I do remember growing up my kitty when there's just
pure kittens, because my friend's cat had babies when they're
this big and cling to your shirt. If we could only.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Keep that big la boo boo sound, oh ala boo.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Boo kitty, I would if there are labuo boo kitties.
If that existed, I might get just New York apartment.
And my dog is he's not big, but he just
he takes up. He needs to be everywhere. Oh it's
a busy body. Sure, it's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I need to be in that. If he hears now
he's your dog like clingy or he kind of can
have his own thing.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He's a little clinging. Namely like if I'm in the
other room on a phone call and it sounds like
that phone calls too fun. He's like, what the fuck
is going on here? At Yeah he has big time phone. Okay,
oh my gosh. Yeah. But then it's like not as
clingy as some dogs. So sometimes I'm like, let's cudd
and he's like children.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Oh okay, okayeah, yeah he has some boundary.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
He has boundaries, because that always.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Feels like the distinction to me between cats and dogs
that everyone's like dogs are codependent, and yes, they're like
avoidant avoidant, yeah yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, my kids, how would you call your cats? Avoidant?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Ours are a balance because they will come and be
like I demand to be pet or like I demand
to sit in your lap. But it's just everything is
on their terms.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yes, and when they want to again, no convincing that yes, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But it sounds like your dog has some boundary, he said, does,
but I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I do think it's crazy that he's like, oh, you're
having fun or I'm hearing you on the phone, or
something's happening and I need to know what it is
and you're part of it. Yes, it's crazy, Like imagine
a person like that. I love my dog, but I'm
like this wouldn't be a chill person.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
There are people like that though, kind Do you like them?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah? Me either.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Don't you feel like that's like a type in an
office where it's like the person who like sees that
those cubicles are having a nice time.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, just mosey over, Like, hey, you're talking about what
a way to insert yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm always impressed, though, like begrudgingly impressed by people who
can just insert themselves and conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's I've seen it in action, and I think that
is a fascinating.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Really, I feel like I've been in a party where
I'm in conversation with someone and I still don't feel like.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I am supposed to be there. You don't want to
be talking to me. I've inserted myself in your life, right, Yeah,
I know you. I hate to I was last night
at an event and a girl I was talking to
I think I like glanced away because I was like, oh,
my periphery, I see a friend and I didn't think
i'd see any friends at this event. Yeah, And she's like,
(24:33):
I'll get out of your hair, and I was like, no,
I'm enjoying talking to you. I was like, oh no,
I just in my periphery, and I might be ADHD.
I diagnose myself a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But yeah, I think that's actually an LA complaint that
people have of like, oh, at LA parties, whenever you
know you're talking to someone, they're like scanning the room
to see who else is in there.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
A nightmare.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I think what you're saying also happens where you
do just like catch sight of someone and yes, yeah,
and then your eyes naturally are like, oh, is that
that person? But then but yeah, that's the fear that
you're then like making someone think you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was like, no, I like, you don't go and
then I looked needy and then it was like, this
is about this interaction has gone down.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, you're like, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right, it isn't it isn't. Have you spent time in LA?
Have you lived there?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I lived there?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Now, you live there? Now? I thought you were in
New York Base.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I was for a really long time. I've been there
for the past three years, but I was in New
York for almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, thoughts, Yeah, on both you've lived in LA, You've
lived in New York thoughts.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I mean, I'm gonna I don't even think this is controversial,
but I love both for different reasons.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, you love La nature, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I just love the trees and I love the fresh air,
and I love the sunshine. And you know, I do
think everyone is a little more laid back.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, I have to say I'm even more laid back.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There you are.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh yeah, I'm like, yeah, nothing mad rushing. I wouldn't
dare time.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
If you're in your car, You're like, this is like
my other my second home. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I moved into an apartment closer to like UCB, where
I was spending a lot of time, like my last
few months in La Yes, and I and I had
a crazy commute before that because I lived in Santa Monica.
It's like East to westing in traffic. It was crazy.
But I did that for like four or five I'm
doing bad math, probably five years. But so right before
I moved, I was like to New York. I was like, oh,
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I'll live closer to UCB. My friends are here, and
I missed my car time I was I was like
catching up on phone call hands free of course, meaning
my hands were off the wheel, drinking my two phones.
Hell hold on, but no, like I missed it and
(26:56):
I was like, my music, my oh, it doesn't hit
the same In the house.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I think of it as like my little office or something.
I use so much stuff. I have meals in the oh. Yeah,
I used to in my face. Have a have an
emotional moment.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I know in New York, and you have to have
an emotional moment in New York in public weeping. I
know I have wept in public in New York. But
everyone everyone, everyone has. But you know. A woman came
up to me while I was weeping. It was like,
can I get a picture?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And I was like there and my friend said yes,
my friend because she was like, can I get a
picture both of you and I? And my friend said
yes before I could be like, I'm crying, I just
put on your sunglasses. Have you ever taken a picture
(27:53):
of yourself crying? No? Don't. Isn't it strange when when
people do? But you've never seen this someone like like
an influencer, like weeping on on on reels.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I guess I've just seen yeah video video. No. No,
I thought you meant like a still.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I've seen still you have, I've seen stills. I've seen video.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think it's all weird, but but yeah, I guess
still's kind of blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Have you ever done video?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Then? No, no, but I've seen like the whatever the
apology video or whatever it is where they're tearing up.
But yeah, I think that's weird because I also just
think about them editing it or being like oh this
one I look sad or you know, like just that
like the thought process, how feels wild?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
How you would a self taped Yes, yes, I could
see a still like documenting this is when I was
down so bad and.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Just like the weight comparison, yes, before yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And then I went and got my mind right, Yes,
you know I healed after my breakup and now look
new smiles. Yeah, I've seen I've seen the the crying,
the reels, and I'm always like I wouldn't want to
do that, but kudos to the brave souls.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I guess. So yeah, it almost feels like now it's
like the whatever the pis or didn't happen where it's like,
if you have remorse, we need.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Video, prough we need to see Yeah, we need to
see you weeping. Do you watch ye any reality TV?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I was just talking about someone uh, just talking with
someone about a Oh yeah, I just watched a New
York real estate reality show. It was like a Ryan Surhand. Okay,
have you watched okay, okay, okay, I guess there was
a show Million Dollar Listing that he was a real
(29:52):
turn and then he like broke out and now has
his own business and it's about him launching his own Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Is it sort of aspirational watching that stuff? Like what's
the what do you find yourself enjoying about a real
estate reality show?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I think this one was interesting because I usually do
it to like oggle the houses or the places, but
most of I've noticed on most of these real estate shows,
I don't want to live in any of the places.
They either have no personality or they're just like two
over the top where it's like I wouldn't want to
(30:29):
live in this, like maybe go to a party yeah
and around yeah. Yeah. But I'm also fascinated by who
is looking at them, because it always be like he
he's a billionaire because he sold a shoe or something,
and you're like, okay, sure, fine, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Do you spend any time on like Zillow or Redfin?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I do you? But I'll look at like really like
kind of wild places that I wouldn't live, just to
see what's there, like where I don't know, like New
Zealand or something.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh yeah, have you seen incredible spots?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I just get to look up, like what what's the
real estate market there?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah? Yeah, I should start doing that. I basically I
bought a house a couple of years ago, and I
thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I still look on Zillow as recently as Last Nights
to be like, did I get the best house?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh? Sure?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
What is that personality being like to? And my friend
was like, you bought the house, It's done this. You
just want to.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
See what's out there. You want to see. It's like
the person who's in a couple, but you just want
to see what the dating pool is doing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Just a little something. Have you ever been in an
open relationship? No? Would you ever?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I don't think I will. I guess. Actually my last
uh my last serious relationship, we sort of were moving
in that direction, okay, but then we broke up.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Did you feel like you were moving in that direction
because you probably needed to break up or was it.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I think it was just feeling like we weren't meeting
all of each other's needs, and it was like, maybe
that would help. But but yeah, maybe it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Was a sign that I'm just so curious.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I think sometimes yeah, maybe it does the writing on
the wall and you're just like, well, why did we
try this? I mean, I do think, you know, people
get flack for opening relationships up when they're maybe not
facing the relationship is over. But I'm like, that's a
better option than being like, let's have kids and see
if that face.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Oh I've seen that. Yeah, I wasn't a bad one.
And I had someone say to me, like, you know,
sometimes just you have a kid and it kind of
distracts you from each other. And I was like, wow,
I should have a kid with this troll to distract
from the It's like sometimes it just lets you just
like have other things to focus on. It's like, poor
(33:02):
child other things. How many kids exist in the world
because their parents were just trying to like.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Start in it business they have a kid. I think
you're right. I think that is like a lot of
people have that mindset. Yeah, and I think there are
a lot of kids who are the result of is.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
We do not get along, Let's have a kid. Someone
in the.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Middle and I also was thinking about that idea of
people not getting divorced because they're like, well, for the kids,
But I'm like, I don't think your kids are like, yeah,
we would rather live in a house where it feels
tense all the time for a reason we can't fully name. Yeah,
understand that's bad as also.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Bad, maybe worse than divorce, maybe worse potentially. You know,
I've never been a parent, never been married, but I'm
like that, just yeah, that feels bad. When I've heard that,
I've been like, no, they don't want I don't think
the kids want that either.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
It almost feels like they're using the kids as a
scapegoat to be like we want to seem okay for
other people, you know, other parents who might be judging us.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah. Yeah, The problem with keeping up with the Jones
is that you just been wondering that even as I
said it, I'm like, who the fuck are the Joneses
that you're trying to keep up with? Legitimally? Where did
that even begin?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I know you can are they the standard?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, because when I hear the name Jones, with all
due respect, I'm like, fine, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Fine, fine, but not great.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, right there in the middle.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
No problem is that the idea that you just want
to stay like somewhere in the middle, because I always
think of it as like you want to be up there, yeah,
like top crop.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, And in some sense, I'm like, sometimes I hear
the Joneses and I feel like people are trying to
be like, that's that's the top.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm like, why we pick the name Jones? I do
need to know who this fameous Jones with the rocket Yeah, yeah, yeah, guys,
raise the bar, raise the bar. Do you want kids?
I don't, you don't. Yeah, how did when did you
make that decision?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I think I felt that way for a long time.
Like I'm in my forties and I feel like early
on or like mid thirties, I was already kind of
headed in that direction. And yeah, I don't know. I
think it's one thing that I've never felt strongly about,
and it feels like a decision you should be at
least somewhat on board.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Just a little bit, just something like yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Even if it's just occasionally you're like.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Maybe yeah, that's something that is something. Yeah, I think
I live there sometimes where I'm like, I know, I
wanted kids, and I still you just get also really
used to like living your life.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Intact, you get so accustomed to yes, yes, Like.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
The dog has grounded me in some ways where I'm like,
I need to think about the logistics of what I'm
going to do with you when I travel? Are you
coming with me? Sitter? And that's like a fraction of
having a child. But I think that I still go
back to, like, you know, at one point you did
really want kids, and I've just got But I think
you just got used to like moving and shaking independently.
(36:20):
So for me, that's I go back to, like, no,
I think that'll be fun. And I used to babysit
and and I do love you.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You like no kid energy?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I do.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, I like kids and old people. Oh everyone in
the middle. I'm like, fine, fine, care, Yeah, let me
get either side of the spectrum. Yeah, fun.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I love that though, it's like the full the intergenerational range.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, maybe I could have like an old kid or something,
but I have a bun Benjamin Button. That would be
so cool.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Oh my god, I would watch that movie.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I mean, will be the one of me as a
pane to us that would be fun. Yeah, let's figure
that out too.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, they're trying to bring back what an old franchise is.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, they don't like new ideas anyway. Yeah, so I
can actually let me pitch it. But it's me bb too. Yeah,
and that's what you've got, the whole thing. So it's
going to be great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, I'll call you. I'll call you once I have
the pieces in.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Okay, good, we'll have our people talking all of that. Yes.
Did you get any flak from anyone in your life
though once you decided like I don't want kids, or
any pressure leading up to that moment being like are
you yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I mean I have immigrant parents, so it's like I
don't know what the what else is comparable to be like,
I don't want to give you grandchildren. I mean my
sibling has two kids. So I think that really took
the pressure off of It's like, now there are grandchildren
in the picture. But I think they always were like
are you sure just one? Yeah, Like what's better than
(38:01):
a kid? I'm like, I don't know. The people I
know have them are very stressed out, And yeah, I
think it's just such a big decision and you have
to you have to be all in.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah. Yeah, How did you handle those conversations though? Oh
when the pressure was coming.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I think I sort of said that where I'm like, well,
do you want to raise the.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Cute and how would they respond to that, because that
is a valid question.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I think they were like, once they come, you'll you'll
you'll see what it's like. And I'm like, that's not it.
That's not the logic you can use when you because
what if they come and that's not what you feel,
and then they're here, and then they're here and they're
not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, it's not fair.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Where did your parents immigrate from India? From India?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Do you think growing up how? I mean, how was
it navigating for them the fact that their kids were
growing up here but they're from somewhere else and they
have a culture that is of a different Yeah. What
was I feel like it's it varies from family to family,
the balance of like assimilation versus holding onto culture. What
was your experience with that?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I think it was pretty typical, like assimilationists like we
want to be American, but at the same time, you know,
we would go to like the Hindu temple, regularly. We
did a lot of like community events. We would go
to like for a while we went to like Hinduism
Sunday School. So I think my parents were like definitely
(39:31):
trying to like stay tied to roots and and we
were sheltered in a lot of ways growing up. Like
we weren't allowed to go to sleepovers, we weren't allowed
to date, Like there were certain shows we weren't allowed
to watch, Like the library was free reign, like the
library was was you know, go have a ball at
the library. You can do whatever you want there. But yeah,
(39:55):
it's funny because I also associate my dad with so
many like immigrant dads where it's like he loved a
nature show, he loves Costco a good deal, you know,
like just like things where you're like, yeah, that's an
immigrant dead. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Aside from Hinduism, were there any parts of the culture
that they were like you have, Yes you're in America,
and yes we're assimilating in ways, but these are parts
of the culture that we really want to make part
of your life.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I think just like yeah, just like regularly going to
events with others, how the Asian folks, and like you know,
wearing like traditional clothes and we would mainly eat Indian
food at home and those things I'm like grateful for
because I'm like, yeah, I'm I'm on board with those things,
Bollywood movies, but yeah, nothing nothing like that felt like constricting, right, Yeah,
(40:51):
well that's nice.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, because there's the version of.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
That because even like, my parents are both doctors, and
I think they they you know, gently not just in
the direction of med school, but neither my sibling and
I are doctors, and you know, they weren't like this
is unacceptable or like why are you, you know, doing
careers that are less stable, or like I feel like
on the immigrant parents scale, they're definitely on the more
(41:16):
chill end of Okay, Yeah, is there a.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Job you've had that was the one that made them
go oh has made it?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
I think maybe my first writing job where they were like, oh,
this is an actual job. You like, show up the powhere, yeah,
daytak hours, you get a regular paycheck. I think that
made them realize, oh, okay, this is a career where
you actually can have a job that looks like a
normal job.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah. What was the writing job that was.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
The that was actually the reason I moved to New York.
It was writing for this late night show on FX
called Totally Biased with w co mal Bell.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, So you moved from New York from
from LA from LS.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
You were in LA originally I had moved from d C,
which is where I started comedy.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Okay, yes, okay, and then did a Stinton La, came
to New York and then went back to LA. Yes.
Was there any part of you that was considering staying
in New York after that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I mean I love New York. I think the grind.
Just as I've gotten older, I'm just like, I just
want a little more ease.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, and that's what people.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Do, I know, a little more ease, a little more trees.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
So a little more ease, a little more trees. That's
the motto past a certain age. Yeah, fair enough, because
a lot of people will leave New York to go
upstate or somewhere else where there are trees, or they'll headways.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah yeah, but you know what else is upstate? Ticks?
Speaker 1 (42:41):
I was gonna say. I mean, it's so many things
I could have said, ticks. Are you scared of ticks?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Like, I don't know. I have a friend who has
lime disease, and so I think it's like I'm always like, oh.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Ticks, ticks.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Does your friend who has lime disease know when they
got by the ticks? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:59):
You know, and and I think it was in on
the West coast, So I don't know what. So you're
an l safe.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, you're not safe there either. I've always been like
one tick bite and it's a rap. I used to
play in the woods as a kid, but it didn't
occur to me. Yeah, like we used to play in
the woods all the time. Yeah, and it was just
like ticks were like a min like they existed for sure,
but it was like, don't get bit by Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, but did you remember checking each other for tis?
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Sometimes we would check for ticks.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
But I'm like, probably not every time, but no, sometimes
we were checking for ticks. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, but that is a scary thing to think that
one little buck bite could change your life. I know,
look at Spider Man get bit by a buck. I
guess that's good by a spider and yeah, helped us better,
better situation. So many franchises, do you spend time at
the beach at all?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I'm more mountains than okay.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Because I heard when you said nature, and you were.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Like, I do like the beach, but like less.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
So yeah, what do you not like about the beach?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I think it's the sand.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah. I have a friend who has more trees than beach, Like, yeah,
my preference is blue water beach. Okay, okay, and my
friend is little miss trees, and she's like the sand
and she goes and then you go to the beach
and do what And I go lay there and you
read and you drink.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
It is nice to lay there.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah. I also do just enjoy being horizontal as.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
A rule, so sure, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
That explains that. So are you into hiking then.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
I do like a hike. Yeah, yeah, I will. I
will say though backpacking is maybe I think I wanted
to get into that when I was younger, and now
I'm just like, why why do I need to carry
it all on my back?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
You already are in real life. Why am I putting
a backpack? Right? Have you ever backpacked like through Europe
or something?
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No? Yeah, but when I was a teenager, I did like,
I think two outward bound trips. Okay, so that's like
sort of like an adventure program where you go to
the wilderness for I think both of them were like
three weeks long, and you just kind of rough it
where you're like backpacking from place to place and you
learn like how to survive in the wild. And I
(45:17):
think I was just like really obsessed with like being
like really independent and like knowing how to take care
of myself. But I think what I mainly learned from
those trips was like, oh, I'm not built for rough
in it.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
That's good to know yourself. I know that about myself
without having done outward Bound. Yeah, I'm like I'm not
made for that. Yeah, well that's okay. Yeah, but you
know because you actually went and tried and saw and
you're like, yeah, thank you. So you would never do
a survivor.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
I don't think I could. Yeah, to do that and
be filmed.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
On top of it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Have you ever seen naked in a phrase?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
I haven't seen naked in a I've seen clips. Okay, okay,
but yeah, that's brave. People are brave.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Out here are brave. They're brave to be like I
want to survive and have no supplies and no way
to figure out what's happening, and I need it all documented.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
That's a different kind of person, but from a different claw.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, yeah, are you super close to your Do you
have niece's nephews?
Speaker 2 (46:28):
I have a nibblings siblings?
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, your siblings kids. So it's two right two?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
One is eight and one is five. I'm trying to
figure out their birthdays. Yeah, I think maybe.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, it's hard to keep track. It's hard to keep
my mom. I don't think even knows my birthday. I
think my siblings remind her.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
I know, I think since the grandkids showed up, I'm like,
I think my parents put in their birthdays and took mind.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Yeah, you're like, you can only have two birthdays in
the calendar and siblings and yours. Yes, so you guys
are close? Yeah, I feel ye are? And where are they?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
They're a here new They're here in New York.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Okay, yeah, So do you get to see them often?
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Every so often? Like yeah, like I would say a
handful of times whenever I'm here.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, how long did it take for you to get close?
To feel close, like connected to them? Because when they're babies,
in my experience, it's like, I mean, I was obsessed
with my niece as a baby, but it's like, okay,
you know a personality.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is the tool to see
as they get older, just like seeing them turn into
little people more and more where it's like they have
their quirks and yeah, you're right as a baby, it's
a little bit more like okay, I'll take I'll you
around and put you in cute things. Yeah, yeah, I think,
I mean, I think it's hard now that I live
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on an opposite coast to kind of spend as much
time with them, but it is neat to just see
like what they're into now and like where they're where
they're headed as kind of people because they're Also it's
funny with siblings how like different they are from each
other where it's like one of them will be like,
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you know, really into trains and then the other one's like, no,
I'm a you know, I'm a teddy bear kind of
guy or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, yeah, I it's fascinating to me because my niece,
the oldest one, very reserved, and then her younger sister
is like a little wild card adventurer that she's too,
And I'm like the personalities, it's so early. Both came
from the same lady and Mary, and I'm like, wow,
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it's crazy how quickly they can form personalities. Did you
have any indication when you were younger that you would
do what you do now, Like when you look back
retrospectively and are like, oh, I guess I did really
enjoy this thing growing up. It makes sense now that
I am a or.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Always enjoyed creative writing, Like I kept journals very early on,
and like diaries, and then I remember like hanging out
with my cousins and like making like these mini movies
and and like joking around and being silly. So I
do think it was like there early on. But I think,
especially with performing, I was also a really shy kid.
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I think I was often like I don't think I'm
quite bold enough to really be a performer, but I
think the seed was there. It was yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Did you do like any other sort of extracurricular activities.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, like we took piano lessons, We did like classical
Indian dance, so the like kind of a smattering of
different things. But yeah, No, I think I took theater
in college and like did some musicals in middle school.
But but I think I was like, oh, I'm not
I'm not quite a like out there as some of
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these theater kids, so I didn't. I kind of took
myself out of the running. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, and it was DC where you grew up? Right, Yeah,
from Baltimore so close but far clo same but so
not say yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
And I'm technically I grew up in the suburbs you did.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Yeah, Like what part of Maryland was.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Well in northern Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Look at me biased and assume I'm like, so you're
from Maryland. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, what part of Virginia
was it?
Speaker 2 (50:29):
It was Fairbacks County. And I grew up in McClean.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Okah, yeah, I mean I see them on the signs
on I'm sure, yeah, drive by waved at the family.
Would you ever move back? When you think about cities, like,
would you ever move back to where you're from?
Speaker 2 (50:45):
I don't know. I mean I honestly like didn't have
issues growing up there, Like I liked it. I I
enjoyed my time there. But for some reason, I'm like,
I don't know if I would want to live there again.
I like visiting, I like seeing my parents and said
like I and obviously the area has gotten really like
there's like cool stuff that wasn't there when I when
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I lived there, But yeah, I don't know if I
could live there again.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Why why what do you think feel.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
I think it would still feel like too regressive or
something even now where I'm just like, I feel like
I would be going backwards. Yeah, yeah, do you feel
like that.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
I am curious about going to I don't think I
would live in Baltimore, yeah, full time, But I do
like going back. Yeah, Like what's happening in the city
that I'm from. I'm like, what's where's.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
The good food?
Speaker 1 (51:41):
It's got such good food and people just show stand
ups to shows. There's something. Yeah, And so I'm like, oh,
I shouldn't I should be acquainted. It's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
But yeah, I mean I guess if money was no object,
I'm like, yeah, sure, I wouldn't mind a little house house.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah it's a great place.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yeah I could just pop through. Yeah, but I don't
know if I could like just be there full time.
Fair enough, fair enough?
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Well, thank you so much more.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Course, I really appreciate you guys. Watch Kevin. Yeah, that
was my discussion with the part on Ninturla. Thank you
guys for listening. I love you so much, And if
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we're basically experts offering free advice. Call us at five
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All right, Parna, Hi screaming.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
That's how you should start every morning.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Always screaming. Nothing gentle about my mornings. I have to
do an introduction for you, which I'm excited to do. Great.
I take this very seriously. My next guest is a
comedian and writer you know from her special Hopeful Potato
and the new Amazon Prime show Kevin. It's a Parnon Ninturla.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Hello, Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Oh, I'm so happy you're here. Okay to start you
or what do you want to say thanks to?
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oh my gosh. You know, I was told I would
get this question. I already was stressed about it, but
I guess I will. It's stressful thanks to my family.
But also I was like, you know what, that feels
too generic. I'm gonna say thank you to my mother,
my father, my sibling, their inner children. Mmmmm, specifically their
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their inner children.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
What do you feel gratitude for about their inner children?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I mean, I guess your inner child is kind of
the the part of you that you know is in
touch with like your joy and what keeps you uh grounded,
or like what gives you, you know, a sense of
possibility for your life. So I I my inner child
wants to thank their inner children.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That's beautiful. I think Freud would really respect that.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I don't even notice. Is Freud all about inner children?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Probably? I think you know? No, Freud is Freud is yeah?
Actually Freud probably Yeah, Freud is like your child. He
doesn't use the term I don't think.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
He well the term ID about like your primal urges.
Maybe I should think their id's as well your ego.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But who coined inner child? Do you? You seem to know?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I don't know if I do know? You know I
brought it up and I can't tell you anything.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, I got dismissed for Freud, so I'm like, wait,
wasn't I just thought a psychologist would appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, now I'm really outing myself as as I had.
I have a psychology BA but undergrad. But I don't
have an answer to your question.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, I listen, if you had let me run with Freud,
we'd actually be off this topic.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I'm kind of point you back on Freud. I'm gonna
say you were right with Freud.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, I don't need to be right. It'll just throw away. Okay.
A psychologist of sorts would be proud of you. So
you studied psychology I did. Did you enjoy it?
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I did. I like to say that I will never
not take a personality quiz online, so I think that
was more. My interest in psychology was that I just
love learning more about what what makes me tick, what
makes other people tick. It's one of those fields where
you can immediately apply it to your life, So I
(03:04):
think that made it attractive.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Who, well, what's your myers breaks?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
I n f J.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I n f J introvert, neurotic. I don't know what
the ND stands for.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's right, No, wait, intuition.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I shouldn't have begun this either. No, I n f J.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Though feeling is yes and J is judging.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Okay, yeah, yeah. What does it mean about you to
be an I n f J.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I think we are a very rare type, and I
think we are very overthinking. We're like deep thinkers, okay,
like we're too almost to our detriment.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, have you overthought something recently?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh my gosh, everything is outfit?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Like, what what was your thought process with the outfit?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I was like, I want to be casual but uncomfortable,
but I need to add something, so I just did
Papa color.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
It looks great.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I am proud of myself in that. I feel like
I'm glad I didn't go like yellow or orange because
this feels like it. Compliment.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
No, you look like you belong there because the mustard
color on the collar of your T shirt matches the couch.
You've done great. I know, I am thinking about you've
done great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I mean I was overthinking before I got here, and
when I got here, I actually was a little bit eddies.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Okay, good, yeah, good, that's what we hope to do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Are you an overthinker?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
I can be? Yeah, yeah, I guess what I say.
I can be. I am full stop. Yeah, let me
for ten for a second.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
I know, but that was that's an overthinking answer to be, like,
am I yeah, I guess, yeah, exactly? Nothing is yeah, straightforward?
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Yeah, okay, I have asked, so do you know Enneagram? Also?
Do you know that personality test? Hard? You remember someone asked.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Me that I believe seven?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Helper to his helper. It's like, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's a peacemaker.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It might be helpmaker, Okay, peacemaker.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Where do you fall in the sibling lineup.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I am youngest, you are I love just to just too? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
And do you have an older brother?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Older non binary sibils?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, yeah, amazing, Yes, yes, are you guys close?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
We are? Yeah. I would say we've gone through periods
where we're not as like in touch, but I would
say the you know, past phase of our lives, we've
been back connected.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Okay, good way. Yeah. Are they in New York here?
Speaker 2 (05:45):
They're in New York?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, all right, Bo's amazing. Yea, everybody's in Brooklyn,
I know. So do you want to tell me about
working on Kevin?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sure? Kevin was really fun. It's an animated show coming
out on Amazon and it's about animals. It's about a
cat who his couple that he lives with breaks up,
and instead of going with one or the other, he
decides to make it on his own in the world.
And this is about his journey.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
This is beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
And he ends up at sort of you know, a
sheltered situation and you know, a lot of kind of
misfit animals there, and I am one of them. I
play a sickly kitten.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Do you like cats in real life?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I do? I have two.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You have two cats. What are their names?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Nanny and Zazi and Zazi very sweet? Yeah, their sisters.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh you got them together?
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Mm hmmm, they're bonded.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Yeah, for life. Yeah, you can't separate the siblings.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
You can't sit.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I have a friend with four cats, and I'm always
like that or but it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
It is beautiful. That's a full family.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, it's like, wow, those are really your children
at that point?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
They are? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do you travel a lot right for for.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Like stand up during Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, how are they when you do that? Obviously you
have a cat sitting you're okay.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I live with the roommates, so we sort of share
cat duty so that yeah, yeah, that's really nice.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
If you were to move out, cats are your cats? Yes, okay,
so you would be taking the case.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Oh no, no, I think actually they are kind of
more of my roommates cats because he's a cat dad
and he takes it really seriously. Okay, like to the
point where I'm like, I think if our house like
was you know, on fire or something, and he had
to pick me or them, it would be them. Yeah
oh great, yeah, yeah, yeah great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Did you grow up with pets?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I grew up with the dog. Well, first to guinea pig,
not a.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Dog, Oh my goodness, a graduation.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah yeah, from pumping up the Yeah, well I think, yeah, fish,
guinea pig, dog, it's.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
The proper way to do pets. Start with the evolution.
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, that's I didn't grow up. Well, no,
I said I didn't grow up with pets because I
feel like I had the kind of mom that wouldn't
be four pets. But then I think about it. She
used to rescue cats off the streets. She did, yes,
and so then I'm like, no, I did, and I
had a childhood cat. And then we moved okay really
(08:14):
far away, and she let her friend keep our cat.
Oh yeah, which is okay, it's okay. Yeah, I have
other trauma, not that one's that's that cat's.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Are creatures of place. So yeah, you could argue that
it was like kinder to let the cats.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Yeah, I think it was. I think it was a
good thing. I don't think the cat going from Louisbourg,
West Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland would have been transition.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah yeah, the cat. Yeah, the cat watched the wire.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't think that's the not my scene. Did
you watch the Wire?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
I did, and I think it's still in my mind
because I watched over the Pandemic, which I don't know
if I would recommend. It was already a hard time
and I don't know if I knew to add the
the gravitas of the Wire on top of that.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Well, I also did an insane thing during COVID and
I watched the first thing I watched. Yeah, and I'm
actually not one to sit down and watch anything, but
we had all this time, right, Yes, Blue Valentine, which
is one of my favorite movies. But it's such a painful.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Story, is it? Is it like wrenching, gut.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Wrenching Michelle Williams, Ryan Gosling or in a relationship. Derek
san France is the director. And I was like, why
did you choose like the most gut wrenching film. I
refused to watch again any other time, but I thought, oh,
we're on lockdown and the world is ending, I'm gonna
watch the most painful film I've.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Seen, deep into this emptiness I'm feeling. And yeah, and
now it's one of your favorite movie, but.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
It was one of my favorite movest came but I've
only ever seen it once and I was like, I'll
never watch that again because that was too intense and
the COVID hit and somehow I was like, I know
exactly what watch the Wire?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I know?
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Well, did you do all seasons?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Yes? And I think it was that thing of like, well,
what else I'm gonna do? I'm finally gonna watch the
shows everyone told me I have to watch?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What else did you watch?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
That was the only one that was it? I think
that one put me out of the game.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Did you So? Do you have a favorite character from
The Wire? Because my friend and I talk about it
all the time. I mean Wallace, yeah, Michael B. Jordan, Yeah,
we can we spoil it for people and say what.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Happy let's see what? How how many years later are
we spoiling?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Like twenty years later? I think we're allowed. Sad what
happened to him?
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Do you feel like they should have killed him?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I mean I think it, I know, But at the
same time, it was like one of the most Yeah,
it's like the part that sticks with me the most.
So I don't know. I guess secret argue then they
shouldn't have kept it, But I don't know. I'm like,
I guess if they kept it, then would Michael B.
Jordan the same career.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
If they kept him alive? I Wallace, that's a good
one because I feel like I don't hear Wallace a lot,
but I've heard minus Omar.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I know Omar was gonna be my next choice.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Omar.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I also think webae really fun.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And if it popped up in something else recently, I
was like, web he was playing a therapist though, really,
and I like couldn't get I was like, but you're
we bab.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Though, and you're locked up? Why? Yeah, he's doing therapy.
Now that's not supposed to do. You have a hard
time when you're watching things sort of like separating like
an actor from there.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yeah. It depends on the actor. And sometimes it's not
fair because I'm like, why am I pigeonholing you into
that one role? Like you're an actor, you can be anything.
That's me, I'm the problem. But other times I'm like,
but you're just this person in this role, like you're
always basically you.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Yeah. I think about the like Verizon are we are?
We can wait? Can you hear me? Now? You remember? Yeah,
that's an actor who's in a commercial and then it's
like apparently like he and Flow couldn't do other jobs
because it was like when people see you now, they
just see the Verizon man. And when people see Flow,
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they're like progressive, They're.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Okay, They're okay, they're fine, They're they're fine.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Fine.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I'm so worried about that.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I'm like, they're rich, It's fine.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I was so worried about that guy. I don't even
know his name, and maybe that's why, because she has
a name Flow. Yeah, he's just Verizon.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
God. That's the thing. Yes, you become your character and
you're your character. Do you think you'd be saddened by
that if that happened to you?
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I mean, I think at this point in this industry,
I'm just like, you know what the stability give.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Me, you'll take. You'll take the stability to me. How
are you with travel? Generally? Not?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I mean, as I've gotten older, worse and worse. Yeah,
it's almost like every stage of the process now stresses
me out, Like starting with packing. I used to be
okay with packing, and now I dread it, Like sometimes
I'll do it the morning of my flight, which is
not good.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
What is your But I can relate morning of the flight.
I feel like my brain's too I'm too discompeted.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
No, it's not don't do that.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Don't do it.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Don't do that unless you are that person who has
like a suitcase ready to go. You just need to
add three things.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
When I get stressed about packing too, and people are like, oh, well,
it's not like you're going somewhere where you can't buy
something if you forgot it, I'm like, so I'm supposed
to be on trips just buying stuff I forgot at home,
and I'm supposed to that's the that's the way we're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I want to spend it is like buying contact.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
How are you with airport arrival? Then what's your deal?
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Then I'm cutting it close.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Okay, yeah, yeah, you say more, Well.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I always I'm always running in general, but with airports,
I'm I'm at least trying to give like an hour
and a half, like to check in and get to
my gate. An hour feels dicey to me. I know
there are people who like are like, I don't have
a bag to check, I can get there an hour before.
But that starts to make me too anxious.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh are you? We could never travel together an hour before. Oh,
I'm trying to get Are you checking something I'm not checking? Okay,
well that's why I'm not checking a bag. I like
to get to the airport in this I basically want
to get to airport in a way where I wait
in line for security, very short line, I walk through
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security and my flight is boarding.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yes, that is a dream.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's happened for me.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When you can do that, you feel like you want
you want pride.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
It's so nice. Now are you tsa pre checked down?
Global entry? Down?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Cleared down, pre checked down, glow entry? No Clear? No Clear?
I'm scared of.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
What are you scared about? With clear?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
That they have your eyeballs?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
What do you think they're gonna do with the eye?
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I mean, I don't even know why that's my fear,
because my phone has my eyeballs.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Now, yeah, because they face, I probably have.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
More information than CLEAR does.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Something about the clear setup really creeps me out. Okay, yeah,
are you cleared down?
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I am not cleared down, but I had someone I
can because I should side. I said, it's because I'm
I'm in real time being like, oh, because I'm Diamond Medallion,
which I've shared on the podcast a few times I
can get a free Clear membership, but I don't think
I have an interest in that as one of my perks.
But it's not because I'm weird it out, because I
have been a Clear member.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
My sister and I joined Clear probably in two thousand
and five, trying to catch a flight like early days.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Wait, there was Clear into that.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It was either two thousand and five or a fast
forward to like twenty ten, but it was like somewhere
in that I'm like two thousand.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And five, I feel like clear clear was being kickstarted.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
No, no, well that's exactly it though. That's that's the thing.
We joined it in two thousand and five, I believe
it was two thousand and five, maybe two thousand and six,
but we were running late to catch a flight back
to California and they were offering it up like.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
We can skip the line right now.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So this is like baby Clear.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah. And it was like when they're handing out lotion, you.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
Want to and we're like, yes, actually we need to
sign up. We need to skip the line. Like I
spelled my name wrong, like trying to catch our flight
because again, like to arrive to the airport, like, so
then had Clear for had a free trial, but immediately
landed and canceled it because we're going to charge me
seven days. Yeah, so canceled it and then got rid
of it. Didn't have it forever, And coworkers of mine
(16:49):
a few years ago, we're talking about how important it
is to have CLEAR plus TSA and how helpful it is. Oh,
I've been TSA pre check, yeah, which is brag.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
No, you should be pred I have it, and I'm like,
I feel very proud of this.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's good, it's good, it's worth it. But I I
had TSA and TSA pre check and Clear for a
beat there because people suggested this is just a couple
of years ago, and I was like, this is never
a shorter line. Every airport I was going to it
was not. I was not finding Clear useful, and I
was like, but I'm TSA pre check. This is fine.
(17:26):
It's to say, what are we doing?
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Why am I paying extra for this? And if I'm
not mistaken, TSA pre check one time fee right yeah yeah,
so paying monthly for this thing or no, no year
a year speed. So I couldn't wait to cancel Clear
because I was like, why am I? And it renews,
so I canceled it. But right before I went to
cancel it, I was in Miami and the line was insane,
(17:50):
and I was leaving to come back to New York
and clear was the shorter. So of course that happens,
right like the Yeah, I'm like, I'm planning to cancel this,
but I still canceled. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
How often are you in Miami?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Not often?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah, not.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Often enough to keep subscription people should have. It'll work
for home every time. It's gonna be good. But I yeah,
I'm like airport stuff I tried. I'm like, let's the
rush of being a little late.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It is a rush, It's not I think. I mean,
I think there. I mean, obviously the world is people
who are on time and people are late. And I'm like,
I don't know, I feel like we have a little
more excitement in our lives.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Just a little bit cutting it close.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Because have you ever been as a late, chronically late person?
When I'm early, I'm like, this feels not.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Yes, I do feel that way too. Like you the
people who are of the mind that early is on
time and on time is late, I'm like, no, early,
I'm losing my fucking mind because I could have been
doing something else with this time.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Exactly what am I doing?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'm I'm pacing around here, I'm checking my banks? What
am I doing?
Speaker 2 (19:05):
You were checking?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
I was checking my bank.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
But it's like, what else are you supposed to do?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yeah? I can't imagine being still. Imagine just being still
in that peace with yourself and up running.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
And I am. I do get stressed out about keeping
people waiting like that does bum me out to think
about someone waiting for me, But then to be the
person waiting, I'm just like, no, I rather not.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Is that crazy?
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Are your parents on time? People?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
No, we're all late people.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Yeah, we're all late.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
We're different degrees of late. Like I think my dad
is probably the least late. And then yeah, it's a
little you know, gender stereotypes, but us getting ready or whatever, dragging.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Where do you fall in the between the four of you?
Where do you fall? Who's the latest?
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I think my mom might be the late. It is clean,
I think yeah, yeah, maybe me second, okay, and sibling
they're dead's okay.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, it's it's genetic and maybe.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
The cats are the worst.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The cats.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Cats will never be on your schedule.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
What's the deal with the cat because I don't because
I had one as a kid and I was so
not responsible.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, just that they do their own thing and it's
like they're not even going to show up. Maybe yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, to be a cat.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, cats live by their own coat.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
What divas and divos? I have an intrusive question about
kitty litter? How do you make it not stink in
your home?
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I Oh, there's actually a spray that's a deodorizer, so
you just spray that on the litter and it kind
of neutralizes the scentse okay, even more so than like
whatever the litter claims is neutralized.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, Yeah, where is your kitty litter? This is the
other thing I think.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
About two ours is in our laundry room. Funnily enough,
because there's a door to like outside and a window
so we can just like air it out easily. So
that makes the most sense. Oh great, Yeah, so it's
tucked away. It's not like in prime real.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Estate because the friend with four cats is a lovely
smelling home. Yeah, I've thought about the top of just
no problem, smells great.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I wouldn't they have litter boxes? Everything.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
They must not. I've never even seen the litter box.
It's gone over, so I'm like, where is it? Maybe
next time I go over?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Are they using the human?
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Oh? Yeah, because you can train your cat to live.
Have you ever tried with your cat? Okay?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
I remember when one of them was a kitten. She
tried to jump in the toilet and we were like, maybe.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Keep the kitten away from the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I do remember growing up my kitty when there's just
pure kittens, because my friend's cat had babies when they're
this big and cling to your shirt. If we could only.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Keep that big la boo boo sound, oh ala boo.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Boo kitty, I would if there are labuo boo kitties.
If that existed, I might get just New York apartment.
And my dog is he's not big, but he just
he takes up. He needs to be everywhere. Oh it's
a busy body. Sure, it's like, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (22:19):
I need to be in that. If he hears now
he's your dog like clingy or he kind of can
have his own thing.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
He's a little clinging. Namely like if I'm in the
other room on a phone call and it sounds like
that phone calls too fun. He's like, what the fuck
is going on here? At Yeah he has big time phone. Okay,
oh my gosh. Yeah. But then it's like not as
clingy as some dogs. So sometimes I'm like, let's cudd
and he's like children.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Oh okay, okayeah, yeah he has some boundary.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
He has boundaries, because that always.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Feels like the distinction to me between cats and dogs
that everyone's like dogs are codependent, and yes, they're like
avoidant avoidant, yeah yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yeah, my kids, how would you call your cats? Avoidant?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Ours are a balance because they will come and be
like I demand to be pet or like I demand
to sit in your lap. But it's just everything is
on their terms.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Yes, and when they want to again, no convincing that yes, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
But it sounds like your dog has some boundary, he said, does,
but I don't.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
I do think it's crazy that he's like, oh, you're
having fun or I'm hearing you on the phone, or
something's happening and I need to know what it is
and you're part of it. Yes, it's crazy, Like imagine
a person like that. I love my dog, but I'm
like this wouldn't be a chill person.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
There are people like that though, kind Do you like them?
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah? Me either.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Don't you feel like that's like a type in an
office where it's like the person who like sees that
those cubicles are having a nice time.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, just mosey over, Like, hey, you're talking about what
a way to insert yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I'm always impressed, though, like begrudgingly impressed by people who
can just insert themselves and conversation.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's I've seen it in action, and I think that
is a fascinating.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Really, I feel like I've been in a party where
I'm in conversation with someone and I still don't feel like.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
I am supposed to be there. You don't want to
be talking to me. I've inserted myself in your life, right, Yeah,
I know you. I hate to I was last night
at an event and a girl I was talking to
I think I like glanced away because I was like, oh,
my periphery, I see a friend and I didn't think
i'd see any friends at this event. Yeah, And she's like,
(24:33):
I'll get out of your hair, and I was like, no,
I'm enjoying talking to you. I was like, oh no,
I just in my periphery, and I might be ADHD.
I diagnose myself a lot.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But yeah, I think that's actually an LA complaint that
people have of like, oh, at LA parties, whenever you
know you're talking to someone, they're like scanning the room
to see who else is in there.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
A nightmare.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
But I think what you're saying also happens where you
do just like catch sight of someone and yes, yeah,
and then your eyes naturally are like, oh, is that
that person? But then but yeah, that's the fear that
you're then like making someone think you don't want to.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was like, no, I like, you don't go and
then I looked needy and then it was like, this
is about this interaction has gone down.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, you're like, okay, all.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Right, it isn't it isn't. Have you spent time in LA?
Have you lived there?
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I lived there?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Now, you live there? Now? I thought you were in
New York Base.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I was for a really long time. I've been there
for the past three years, but I was in New
York for almost ten years.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, thoughts, Yeah, on both you've lived in LA, You've
lived in New York thoughts.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I mean, I'm gonna I don't even think this is controversial,
but I love both for different reasons.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Well, you love La nature, Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I just love the trees and I love the fresh air,
and I love the sunshine. And you know, I do
think everyone is a little more laid back.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah, I have to say I'm even more laid back.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
There you are.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Oh yeah, I'm like, yeah, nothing mad rushing. I wouldn't
dare time.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
If you're in your car, You're like, this is like
my other my second home. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I moved into an apartment closer to like UCB, where
I was spending a lot of time, like my last
few months in La Yes, and I and I had
a crazy commute before that because I lived in Santa Monica.
It's like East to westing in traffic. It was crazy.
But I did that for like four or five I'm
doing bad math, probably five years. But so right before
I moved, I was like to New York. I was like, oh,
(26:33):
I'll live closer to UCB. My friends are here, and
I missed my car time I was I was like
catching up on phone call hands free of course, meaning
my hands were off the wheel, drinking my two phones.
Hell hold on, but no, like I missed it and
(26:56):
I was like, my music, my oh, it doesn't hit
the same In the house.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I think of it as like my little office or something.
I use so much stuff. I have meals in the oh. Yeah,
I used to in my face. Have a have an
emotional moment.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I know in New York, and you have to have
an emotional moment in New York in public weeping. I
know I have wept in public in New York. But
everyone everyone, everyone has. But you know. A woman came
up to me while I was weeping. It was like,
can I get a picture?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And I was like there and my friend said yes,
my friend because she was like, can I get a
picture both of you and I? And my friend said
yes before I could be like, I'm crying, I just
put on your sunglasses. Have you ever taken a picture
(27:53):
of yourself crying? No? Don't. Isn't it strange when when
people do? But you've never seen this someone like like
an influencer, like weeping on on on reels.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I guess I've just seen yeah video video. No. No,
I thought you meant like a still.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I've seen still you have, I've seen stills. I've seen video.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
I think it's all weird, but but yeah, I guess
still's kind of blew my mind.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Have you ever done video?
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Then? No, no, but I've seen like the whatever the
apology video or whatever it is where they're tearing up.
But yeah, I think that's weird because I also just
think about them editing it or being like oh this
one I look sad or you know, like just that
like the thought process, how feels wild?
Speaker 1 (28:43):
How you would a self taped Yes, yes, I could
see a still like documenting this is when I was
down so bad and.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Just like the weight comparison, yes, before yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
And then I went and got my mind right, Yes,
you know I healed after my breakup and now look
new smiles. Yeah, I've seen I've seen the the crying,
the reels, and I'm always like I wouldn't want to
do that, but kudos to the brave souls.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
I guess. So yeah, it almost feels like now it's
like the whatever the pis or didn't happen where it's like,
if you have remorse, we need.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Video, prough we need to see Yeah, we need to
see you weeping. Do you watch ye any reality TV?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I was just talking about someone uh, just talking with
someone about a Oh yeah, I just watched a New
York real estate reality show. It was like a Ryan Surhand. Okay,
have you watched okay, okay, okay, I guess there was
a show Million Dollar Listing that he was a real
(29:52):
turn and then he like broke out and now has
his own business and it's about him launching his own Okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Is it sort of aspirational watching that stuff? Like what's
the what do you find yourself enjoying about a real
estate reality show?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
I think this one was interesting because I usually do
it to like oggle the houses or the places, but
most of I've noticed on most of these real estate shows,
I don't want to live in any of the places.
They either have no personality or they're just like two
over the top where it's like I wouldn't want to
(30:29):
live in this, like maybe go to a party yeah
and around yeah. Yeah. But I'm also fascinated by who
is looking at them, because it always be like he
he's a billionaire because he sold a shoe or something,
and you're like, okay, sure, fine, no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Do you spend any time on like Zillow or Redfin?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I do you? But I'll look at like really like
kind of wild places that I wouldn't live, just to
see what's there, like where I don't know, like New
Zealand or something.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Oh yeah, have you seen incredible spots?
Speaker 2 (31:07):
I just get to look up, like what what's the
real estate market there?
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yeah? Yeah, I should start doing that. I basically I
bought a house a couple of years ago, and I
thank you.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
I still look on Zillow as recently as Last Nights
to be like, did I get the best house?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Oh? Sure?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
What is that personality being like to? And my friend
was like, you bought the house, It's done this. You
just want to.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
See what's out there. You want to see. It's like
the person who's in a couple, but you just want
to see what the dating pool is doing.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Just a little something. Have you ever been in an
open relationship? No? Would you ever?
Speaker 2 (31:48):
I don't think I will. I guess. Actually my last
uh my last serious relationship, we sort of were moving
in that direction, okay, but then we broke up.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Did you feel like you were moving in that direction
because you probably needed to break up or was it.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I think it was just feeling like we weren't meeting
all of each other's needs, and it was like, maybe
that would help. But but yeah, maybe it.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Was a sign that I'm just so curious.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
I think sometimes yeah, maybe it does the writing on
the wall and you're just like, well, why did we
try this? I mean, I do think, you know, people
get flack for opening relationships up when they're maybe not
facing the relationship is over. But I'm like, that's a
better option than being like, let's have kids and see
if that face.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Oh I've seen that. Yeah, I wasn't a bad one.
And I had someone say to me, like, you know,
sometimes just you have a kid and it kind of
distracts you from each other. And I was like, wow,
I should have a kid with this troll to distract
from the It's like sometimes it just lets you just
like have other things to focus on. It's like, poor
(33:02):
child other things. How many kids exist in the world
because their parents were just trying to like.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Start in it business they have a kid. I think
you're right. I think that is like a lot of
people have that mindset. Yeah, and I think there are
a lot of kids who are the result of is.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
We do not get along, Let's have a kid. Someone
in the.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Middle and I also was thinking about that idea of
people not getting divorced because they're like, well, for the kids,
But I'm like, I don't think your kids are like, yeah,
we would rather live in a house where it feels
tense all the time for a reason we can't fully name. Yeah,
understand that's bad as also.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Bad, maybe worse than divorce, maybe worse potentially. You know,
I've never been a parent, never been married, but I'm
like that, just yeah, that feels bad. When I've heard that,
I've been like, no, they don't want I don't think
the kids want that either.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
It almost feels like they're using the kids as a
scapegoat to be like we want to seem okay for
other people, you know, other parents who might be judging us.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Yeah. Yeah, The problem with keeping up with the Jones
is that you just been wondering that even as I
said it, I'm like, who the fuck are the Joneses
that you're trying to keep up with? Legitimally? Where did
that even begin?
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I know you can are they the standard?
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, because when I hear the name Jones, with all
due respect, I'm like, fine, yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Fine, fine, but not great.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yeah, right there in the middle.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
No problem is that the idea that you just want
to stay like somewhere in the middle, because I always
think of it as like you want to be up there, yeah,
like top crop.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Yeah, And in some sense, I'm like, sometimes I hear
the Joneses and I feel like people are trying to
be like, that's that's the top.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
Yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
I'm like, why we pick the name Jones? I do
need to know who this fameous Jones with the rocket Yeah, yeah, yeah, guys,
raise the bar, raise the bar. Do you want kids?
I don't, you don't. Yeah, how did when did you
make that decision?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
I think I felt that way for a long time.
Like I'm in my forties and I feel like early
on or like mid thirties, I was already kind of
headed in that direction. And yeah, I don't know. I
think it's one thing that I've never felt strongly about,
and it feels like a decision you should be at
least somewhat on board.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Just a little bit, just something like yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Even if it's just occasionally you're like.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
Maybe yeah, that's something that is something. Yeah, I think
I live there sometimes where I'm like, I know, I
wanted kids, and I still you just get also really
used to like living your life.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Intact, you get so accustomed to yes, yes, Like.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
The dog has grounded me in some ways where I'm like,
I need to think about the logistics of what I'm
going to do with you when I travel? Are you
coming with me? Sitter? And that's like a fraction of
having a child. But I think that I still go
back to, like, you know, at one point you did
really want kids, and I've just got But I think
you just got used to like moving and shaking independently.
(36:20):
So for me, that's I go back to, like, no,
I think that'll be fun. And I used to babysit
and and I do love you.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You like no kid energy?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
I do.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Yeah, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, I like kids and old people. Oh everyone in
the middle. I'm like, fine, fine, care, Yeah, let me
get either side of the spectrum. Yeah, fun.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I love that though, it's like the full the intergenerational range.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Yeah, maybe I could have like an old kid or something,
but I have a bun Benjamin Button. That would be
so cool.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Oh my god, I would watch that movie.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
I mean, will be the one of me as a
pane to us that would be fun. Yeah, let's figure
that out too.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, they're trying to bring back what an old franchise is.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
Yeah, they don't like new ideas anyway. Yeah, so I
can actually let me pitch it. But it's me bb too. Yeah,
and that's what you've got, the whole thing. So it's
going to be great. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, I'll call you. I'll call you once I have
the pieces in.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Okay, good, we'll have our people talking all of that. Yes.
Did you get any flak from anyone in your life
though once you decided like I don't want kids, or
any pressure leading up to that moment being like are
you yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I mean I have immigrant parents, so it's like I
don't know what the what else is comparable to be like,
I don't want to give you grandchildren. I mean my
sibling has two kids. So I think that really took
the pressure off of It's like, now there are grandchildren
in the picture. But I think they always were like
are you sure just one? Yeah, Like what's better than
(38:01):
a kid? I'm like, I don't know. The people I
know have them are very stressed out, And yeah, I
think it's just such a big decision and you have
to you have to be all in.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Yeah. Yeah, How did you handle those conversations though? Oh
when the pressure was coming.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
I think I sort of said that where I'm like, well,
do you want to raise the.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Cute and how would they respond to that, because that
is a valid question.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
I think they were like, once they come, you'll you'll
you'll see what it's like. And I'm like, that's not it.
That's not the logic you can use when you because
what if they come and that's not what you feel,
and then they're here, and then they're here and they're
not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Yeah, it's not fair.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
That's fair.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Where did your parents immigrate from India? From India?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Do you think growing up how? I mean, how was
it navigating for them the fact that their kids were
growing up here but they're from somewhere else and they
have a culture that is of a different Yeah. What
was I feel like it's it varies from family to family,
the balance of like assimilation versus holding onto culture. What
was your experience with that?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I think it was pretty typical, like assimilationists like we
want to be American, but at the same time, you know,
we would go to like the Hindu temple, regularly. We
did a lot of like community events. We would go
to like for a while we went to like Hinduism
Sunday School. So I think my parents were like definitely
(39:31):
trying to like stay tied to roots and and we
were sheltered in a lot of ways growing up. Like
we weren't allowed to go to sleepovers, we weren't allowed
to date, Like there were certain shows we weren't allowed
to watch, Like the library was free reign, like the
library was was you know, go have a ball at
the library. You can do whatever you want there. But yeah,
(39:55):
it's funny because I also associate my dad with so
many like immigrant dads where it's like he loved a
nature show, he loves Costco a good deal, you know,
like just like things where you're like, yeah, that's an
immigrant dead. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Aside from Hinduism, were there any parts of the culture
that they were like you have, Yes you're in America,
and yes we're assimilating in ways, but these are parts
of the culture that we really want to make part
of your life.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I think just like yeah, just like regularly going to
events with others, how the Asian folks, and like you know,
wearing like traditional clothes and we would mainly eat Indian
food at home and those things I'm like grateful for
because I'm like, yeah, I'm I'm on board with those things,
Bollywood movies, but yeah, nothing nothing like that felt like constricting, right, Yeah,
(40:51):
well that's nice.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Yeah, because there's the version of.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
That because even like, my parents are both doctors, and
I think they they you know, gently not just in
the direction of med school, but neither my sibling and
I are doctors, and you know, they weren't like this
is unacceptable or like why are you, you know, doing
careers that are less stable, or like I feel like
on the immigrant parents scale, they're definitely on the more
(41:16):
chill end of Okay, Yeah, is there a.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Job you've had that was the one that made them
go oh has made it?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
I think maybe my first writing job where they were like, oh,
this is an actual job. You like, show up the powhere, yeah,
daytak hours, you get a regular paycheck. I think that
made them realize, oh, okay, this is a career where
you actually can have a job that looks like a
normal job.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah. What was the writing job that was.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
The that was actually the reason I moved to New York.
It was writing for this late night show on FX
called Totally Biased with w co mal Bell.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, So you moved from New York from
from LA from LS.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
You were in LA originally I had moved from d C,
which is where I started comedy.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Okay, yes, okay, and then did a Stinton La, came
to New York and then went back to LA. Yes.
Was there any part of you that was considering staying
in New York after that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:11):
I mean I love New York. I think the grind.
Just as I've gotten older, I'm just like, I just
want a little more ease.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Yeah, and that's what people.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
Do, I know, a little more ease, a little more trees.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
So a little more ease, a little more trees. That's
the motto past a certain age. Yeah, fair enough, because
a lot of people will leave New York to go
upstate or somewhere else where there are trees, or they'll headways.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah yeah, but you know what else is upstate? Ticks?
Speaker 1 (42:41):
I was gonna say. I mean, it's so many things
I could have said, ticks. Are you scared of ticks?
Speaker 2 (42:48):
Like, I don't know. I have a friend who has
lime disease, and so I think it's like I'm always like, oh.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Ticks, ticks.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Does your friend who has lime disease know when they
got by the ticks? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:59):
You know, and and I think it was in on
the West coast, So I don't know what. So you're
an l safe.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Yeah, you're not safe there either. I've always been like
one tick bite and it's a rap. I used to
play in the woods as a kid, but it didn't
occur to me. Yeah, like we used to play in
the woods all the time. Yeah, and it was just
like ticks were like a min like they existed for sure,
but it was like, don't get bit by Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
Yeah, but did you remember checking each other for tis?
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Sometimes we would check for ticks.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
But I'm like, probably not every time, but no, sometimes
we were checking for ticks. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, but that is a scary thing to think that
one little buck bite could change your life. I know,
look at Spider Man get bit by a buck. I
guess that's good by a spider and yeah, helped us better,
better situation. So many franchises, do you spend time at
the beach at all?
Speaker 2 (43:56):
I'm more mountains than okay.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Because I heard when you said nature, and you were.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Like, I do like the beach, but like less.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
So yeah, what do you not like about the beach?
Speaker 2 (44:07):
I think it's the sand.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Yeah. I have a friend who has more trees than beach, Like, yeah,
my preference is blue water beach. Okay, okay, and my
friend is little miss trees, and she's like the sand
and she goes and then you go to the beach
and do what And I go lay there and you
read and you drink.
Speaker 2 (44:25):
It is nice to lay there.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
Yeah. I also do just enjoy being horizontal as.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
A rule, so sure, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
That explains that. So are you into hiking then.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
I do like a hike. Yeah, yeah, I will. I
will say though backpacking is maybe I think I wanted
to get into that when I was younger, and now
I'm just like, why why do I need to carry
it all on my back?
Speaker 1 (44:50):
You already are in real life. Why am I putting
a backpack? Right? Have you ever backpacked like through Europe
or something?
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No? Yeah, but when I was a teenager, I did like,
I think two outward bound trips. Okay, so that's like
sort of like an adventure program where you go to
the wilderness for I think both of them were like
three weeks long, and you just kind of rough it
where you're like backpacking from place to place and you
learn like how to survive in the wild. And I
(45:17):
think I was just like really obsessed with like being
like really independent and like knowing how to take care
of myself. But I think what I mainly learned from
those trips was like, oh, I'm not built for rough
in it.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
That's good to know yourself. I know that about myself
without having done outward Bound. Yeah, I'm like I'm not
made for that. Yeah, well that's okay. Yeah, but you
know because you actually went and tried and saw and
you're like, yeah, thank you. So you would never do
a survivor.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
I don't think I could. Yeah, to do that and
be filmed.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
On top of it is crazy.
Speaker 2 (45:56):
Have you ever seen naked in a phrase?
Speaker 1 (45:57):
I haven't seen naked in a I've seen clips. Okay, okay,
but yeah, that's brave. People are brave.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
Out here are brave. They're brave to be like I
want to survive and have no supplies and no way
to figure out what's happening, and I need it all documented.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
That's a different kind of person, but from a different claw.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Yeah, yeah, are you super close to your Do you
have niece's nephews?
Speaker 2 (46:28):
I have a nibblings siblings?
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Yeah, your siblings kids. So it's two right two?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
One is eight and one is five. I'm trying to
figure out their birthdays. Yeah, I think maybe.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Yeah, it's hard to keep track. It's hard to keep
my mom. I don't think even knows my birthday. I
think my siblings remind her.
Speaker 2 (46:49):
I know, I think since the grandkids showed up, I'm like,
I think my parents put in their birthdays and took mind.
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Yeah, you're like, you can only have two birthdays in
the calendar and siblings and yours. Yes, so you guys
are close? Yeah, I feel ye are? And where are they?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
They're a here new They're here in New York.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Okay, yeah, So do you get to see them often?
Speaker 2 (47:08):
Every so often? Like yeah, like I would say a
handful of times whenever I'm here.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Yeah, how long did it take for you to get close?
To feel close, like connected to them? Because when they're babies,
in my experience, it's like, I mean, I was obsessed
with my niece as a baby, but it's like, okay,
you know a personality.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is the tool to see
as they get older, just like seeing them turn into
little people more and more where it's like they have
their quirks and yeah, you're right as a baby, it's
a little bit more like okay, I'll take I'll you
around and put you in cute things. Yeah, yeah, I think,
I mean, I think it's hard now that I live
(47:48):
on an opposite coast to kind of spend as much
time with them, but it is neat to just see
like what they're into now and like where they're where
they're headed as kind of people because they're Also it's
funny with siblings how like different they are from each
other where it's like one of them will be like,
(48:09):
you know, really into trains and then the other one's like, no,
I'm a you know, I'm a teddy bear kind of
guy or whatever it is.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Yeah, yeah, I it's fascinating to me because my niece,
the oldest one, very reserved, and then her younger sister
is like a little wild card adventurer that she's too,
And I'm like the personalities, it's so early. Both came
from the same lady and Mary, and I'm like, wow,
(48:41):
it's crazy how quickly they can form personalities. Did you
have any indication when you were younger that you would
do what you do now, Like when you look back
retrospectively and are like, oh, I guess I did really
enjoy this thing growing up. It makes sense now that
I am a or.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Always enjoyed creative writing, Like I kept journals very early on,
and like diaries, and then I remember like hanging out
with my cousins and like making like these mini movies
and and like joking around and being silly. So I
do think it was like there early on. But I think,
especially with performing, I was also a really shy kid.
(49:23):
I think I was often like I don't think I'm
quite bold enough to really be a performer, but I
think the seed was there. It was yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
Did you do like any other sort of extracurricular activities.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, like we took piano lessons, We did like classical
Indian dance, so the like kind of a smattering of
different things. But yeah, No, I think I took theater
in college and like did some musicals in middle school.
But but I think I was like, oh, I'm not
I'm not quite a like out there as some of
(50:01):
these theater kids, so I didn't. I kind of took
myself out of the running. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (50:05):
Yeah, and it was DC where you grew up? Right, Yeah,
from Baltimore so close but far clo same but so
not say yeah.
Speaker 2 (50:16):
And I'm technically I grew up in the suburbs you did.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
Yeah, Like what part of Maryland was.
Speaker 2 (50:20):
Well in northern Virginia, Virginia.
Speaker 1 (50:22):
Look at me biased and assume I'm like, so you're
from Maryland. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, what part of Virginia
was it?
Speaker 2 (50:29):
It was Fairbacks County. And I grew up in McClean.
Speaker 1 (50:31):
Okah, yeah, I mean I see them on the signs
on I'm sure, yeah, drive by waved at the family.
Would you ever move back? When you think about cities, like,
would you ever move back to where you're from?
Speaker 2 (50:45):
I don't know. I mean I honestly like didn't have
issues growing up there, Like I liked it. I I
enjoyed my time there. But for some reason, I'm like,
I don't know if I would want to live there again.
I like visiting, I like seeing my parents and said
like I and obviously the area has gotten really like
there's like cool stuff that wasn't there when I when
(51:07):
I lived there, But yeah, I don't know if I
could live there again.
Speaker 1 (51:11):
Why why what do you think feel.
Speaker 2 (51:14):
I think it would still feel like too regressive or
something even now where I'm just like, I feel like
I would be going backwards. Yeah, yeah, do you feel
like that.
Speaker 1 (51:25):
I am curious about going to I don't think I
would live in Baltimore, yeah, full time, But I do
like going back. Yeah, Like what's happening in the city
that I'm from. I'm like, what's where's.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
The good food?
Speaker 1 (51:41):
It's got such good food and people just show stand
ups to shows. There's something. Yeah, And so I'm like, oh,
I shouldn't I should be acquainted. It's been a long time.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
But yeah, I mean I guess if money was no object,
I'm like, yeah, sure, I wouldn't mind a little house house.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah it's a great place.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yeah I could just pop through. Yeah, but I don't
know if I could like just be there full time.
Fair enough, fair enough?
Speaker 1 (52:06):
Well, thank you so much more.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (52:09):
Course, I really appreciate you guys. Watch Kevin. Yeah, that
was my discussion with the part on Ninturla. Thank you
guys for listening. I love you so much, And if
you want advice for me and my next guest guys,
we're basically experts offering free advice. Call us at five
(52:33):
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