Rekha Shankar's Parents Just Don't Understand ~ Seinfeld, Therapy, CEO Pay (A·B·C·D) Podcast Ep 27

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Sandeep Parikh (00:08):
What, what is even happening?
Oh my gosh, wow, wow, wow, wow,wow.
Hey everybody, hi, this is avery special episode of American
Born Chatty Desis.
Um, before we get to why it'sso special, uh, I'm going to
introduce the cohost of this uhpodcast, and that is a man, if

(00:35):
you can even call him that,because I hear he's actually
part marsupial, as he is goneback to his homeland of
Australia and is that's wherehe's recording from today.
He's got a little pocket in thefront where he keeps his little
ones.
That much I know, omar Najam.
Oh, thank you, Thank you, thankyou, thank you Clean the pocket,

(00:58):
or do you have to like it justitself cleaning it's self?

Omar Najam (01:02):
cleans.
It's like an oven.
Oh yeah, yeah.

Rekha, you're not on yet.
Not on yet, Rekha, you're not.
We All right go.

Omar Najam (01:15):
And folks, I would like to introduce you to the
host of this week's episode, mybrother from another hemisphere.
It's Sandeep.

Okay, I like Australia.
Cause you're in Australia.
Yeah, this is wild.
We're, we're, you guys.
The technology today, holy cowUm.
Our show ABCD American bornchatty desis is a podcast within
a live stream within our livesas two American born desis.
That's right.
It's a pod duck in the back.
This is anyone out there who,like us, are navigating our

(01:48):
cultural identities and justwant to chat it out.
Huh, huh, that's what it is.

Omar Najam (01:54):
That's right.
But, folks, things are.
We're going to do things alittle different this week
because we have a very, veryspecial guest.
It's one of my favorite peopleon the planet and genuinely one
of the funniest human beingsthat was ever created out of
clay.
It's Rekha Shankar.

Rekha Shankar (02:11):
Oh my.

God, wow, listen to that?

Speaker 5 (02:18):
Wow, I thought it was a fever pitch.
I thought it was a mob, butit's an audience.
Yeah.

It's funny how that changes.

Omar Najam (02:27):
Can we, can we read off a couple of your credits
here, Rekha?
Would that be all right withyou?

Speaker 5 (02:31):
You absolutely can do that.

Omar Najam (02:33):
You've written for a show that I recently saw on an
airplane Grand Crew.

Speaker 5 (02:38):
That's the highest honor yeah over to run a plane
together.

Omar Najam (02:45):
Digmen on Comedy Central.
You perform at UCB, franklinand in various movies and TV and
videos, like between two ferns,the movie oh hacks you ever
heard of that one?
Maybe college humor you everheard of that?
And then I want to give thisone a special shout out, because
I'm actually in their homecountry right now and their home

(03:06):
city, auntie Dona's why am Imispronouncing it?
Aunty Donna's House of Fun.
And this fall you will seeRekha as genuinely one of the
greatest characters in fictionalentertainment ever.

You goddamn right it's.

Omar Najam (03:23):
Ladoo Auntie in Desi Quest.
Everyone welcome Rekha.

Speaker 5 (03:26):
Oh my God, I love intros.

Damn that real old you should do them all the
time.
You should do them when you gointo like restaurants.

Just have them introduce you with all your
credits.

Rekha, do you?
I really do think you're goingto be the fan favorite of Desi
Quest.
Yeah, ladoo Auntie is soamazing.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Oh my God, the hell, so nice.

I love that you're.
You're on the show, but you'realso like probably our heaviest
chatter right now in the chat.
Oh I was so near You're inthere.
Oh, I was in there.
How are you I?

Speaker 5 (04:01):
simply always popping off in the chat when Zoom came
like became so prevalent inpandemic.

Yeah.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Every job I did.
I am popping off in the chatYou're talking about something
You're like what was the name ofthat movie?
I've found it and I've linkedit.
Damn, I am going to the chat.
You need to find me in the chat.

Omar Najam (04:24):
Yeah, yeah.
Am I wrong in saying that youwere banned from Slack for
chatting too much?
Is that right?
The platform Slack said youchatted too much.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, slack said I was too efficient and I was
chatting too much.

They said that you use their app too well.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
Yeah, it was too.
I broke the system, damn.

Yeah, all right.
Well, we, we start off all ofour interviews, except for the
last one we did because weforgot.
We all are interviews with thisquestion Rika, what does your
name mean?
What does Rika mean?
And if you don't know, that'sfine.
What does it mean to you?

Speaker 5 (05:07):
So my name means line , like a line on a piece of
paper.

Omar Najam (05:13):
Oh really.

Speaker 5 (05:14):
Or it also means it can be, I believe, a little
extrapolated, to be likeartistic.
But yeah it means line yeah,that is the story I love that, I
love line.

I know that's so , like most, like I feel, like
most Indian names are, like youknow, goddess of the fountain,
or like hope springs eternal, orenlightenment line, I know.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Because I have cousins and stuff and their
names mean like strong or like.

Everest or light and what it means line line.
Amazing, but it's a common.
There's a popular name Rika.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
It's so funny because I've been asked like how
popular is that name in India?
And I am an NRI.
Like I don't live in India, soI wouldn't really be able to
speak to it.

Right.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
So, like it's like I try to compare it to like an
American, I'm like.

I do this too.
Yeah, what's your comparisonname?

Speaker 5 (06:18):
I don't have one I typically go to, but I was just
spitballing right now.

I'm like.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
Maureen, maureen, that's not common.

It's more than Maureen.
Yeah, okay, what about thetanga Maureen, the tanga Rika,
like it ain't?

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Sarah.
No, it's not.
It's not Sarah, it ain't Sarah.

Omar Najam (06:36):
Now, that's the new merch, by the way.

That's going to be our shirt for.

ABC.

Speaker 5 (06:42):
It ain't Sarah Sonthi .

Omar Najam (06:44):
Yeah, could it be like that?
Like I'm, I do, I have acomplex, I have a complex, I
have a complex, I have a complex, I have a complex.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
I have a complex, I have a complex.
I think it's more unique thanit is because I've only met
three in my life.

Omar Najam (06:57):
It's not enough.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
And that's kind of not enough for me.
I've only read it.
I read it in one book once,yeah.

Omar Najam (07:05):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
It was a girl in his classroom in the namesake and
she did Janet speak.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Hey, sorry If we could rewind a second.
What do you mean?
You came after me pretty hard.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:21):
For saying Maureen isn't very common, yeah.
And then you kind of flew usback to 1970 and said Janet, are
you okay?

I'm not okay.
I owe it for for for my name.
For Sundeep, I always say it'slike Phillip.

Oh, like it's not , john.

It's not like Steve, but it's like you know,
phillip I feel like Cindy is afairly common and maybe we're
just it's insulting each other.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
I feel like it's more common than Phillip.
I feel like it could be likeTom.

No, it's not.
How dare you.

Speaker 5 (07:54):
I know I feel so hurtful to be like your name is
common.
I mean, you're not like Samir.

You're not like Samir is like Michael Samir is
like yeah, that's a diamond.

Omar Najam (08:04):
Bill or snow offense to.

Speaker 5 (08:05):
Samir no offense to Samir we love you All.

the all the offense to Samir's.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
I'm going after Samir .
I'm problematic.
Okay yeah, this is.
I like playing this game,though I'm like Megan.

I'm kind of a Megan.

Yeah for sure.
Yeah, yeah, no, yeah, megan'sgood because, like how many
Magans do you really?

Omar Najam (08:25):
I know three Magans, I.
How did you know?
You knew three Megan.
So fast.

Yeah, that's quick I counted.

Speaker 5 (08:31):
You always keep track of your Megan's Anyone who is a
fan of the seven Hashtag?
We don't like Megan's.
You know whatever you want, youknow.
No, megan's, I'm not like.

I'm not like.
I'm not like.
I'm not like.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
I'm not, like I'm not like I'm not like I'm not, I'm
not like I'm not like I'm notlike I'm not like I'm not like
my.
My name is.

My name is Megan , you know you know no Megan's
Um Mm-hmm, Reika, reika, yourname is a beautiful flower, it's
the best.

Omar Najam (08:57):
Okay.

Yeah, I feel like that, like we run a course
on that.
You're great, hey.
So we're going to check in withyour chakras.
Okay, You're going to check inwith how you're aligned from Gen
Con and this was Rekha's first,you know sort of nerd
convention like her firstexperience.

(09:20):
Yeah yeah, I know the audienceis is cannot believe it.
I couldn't believe it.
How are you feeling?
What's?

Speaker 5 (09:28):
your takeaways.
I had a blast.
I was worried I would not knowanyone and that that was true.
But what I didn't know, wethere.
I love seeing you guys.

(09:48):
You guys are so much moreingrained in that, in that like
hobby, so I was just like, oh,I'm going to be just tagging
along and kind of not knowinganything.
But everyone was super nice.
And I love board games and Ithink I thought maybe it would
be more TTRPG focused than boardgames.

So when we were, on the convention floor yeah
that was really fun for me.

You seemed at home I feel like you like you
were in it, you took to it Well,like you were like let's play
this game.
Let's jump into this booth.
Yeah, let's start playing withthese guys.
It was just like.

Omar Najam (10:23):
I love board games, so I literally just got lunch
with mob and Brian from Chaosiumwho run stuff, and they were
talking about how wonderful itwas to meet you, Reika, and you
said to Sunday.
But we were just talking aboutmostly Reika.
Sorry, no, no, no, that's notwhat I meant.
It was just because Reika saidthat she didn't know anyone,

(10:44):
including us, and so I justwanted to let you know that you
made a very good impression.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Okay, Omar, this is actually brings up an excellent
point.
It is everyone's legalresponsibility to tell me if
someone says something niceabout you.
That's true.

Actually, that's true.

You don't have to do it, I got fined for it when
I forgot that one time yeah 350bucks.

Speaker 5 (11:07):
I don't, I don't care , I literally don't care it's
freaking speeding ticket.
Okay, good, but I had, I had ablast.
It was so fun.
The they see quest meet andgreet was really fun.
So cool meeting everyone If youcame out.
Thank you so much.

(11:28):
That was so, so inspiring,wasn't that wild talk?

Omar Najam (11:33):
about that, can we talk about?

Speaker 5 (11:34):
that yeah really quick.

Omar Najam (11:35):
Yeah, please.
It was just like such a magical.
We've been doing this Sort ofin.
I don't want to say like avacuum, but like in if, like a
physical space.
It's like people who are onproduction have been working on
it.
This was kind of our firstTaking the baby out to the world
and the folks who showed up andshow the support more excited.

(12:00):
It was incredible.
How did you both feel about youknow the event itself and being
able to show that extendedtrailer?

You know, for For me, because I have done a
bunch of these, it's been awhile since I've been to a
convention and it was reallyspecial, like because there was
something very intimate aboutthe way we did it.
Like it was not at a normal,like panel hall, like it was not
in a normal you know, weweren't behind a table, it was
just like us standing up therein front of this TV, in this

(12:34):
packed room, at this bar, andthere was this like real.
There was like an intimacy toit that I thought was really
special and cool To present theshow that way.
I felt like it was like comeinto our living room and just
like what, here we're gonna showyou this little, this project
that we've made.
And and it felt, you know, Ifelt really connected to the

(12:54):
people there and it was cool tohave so many people that like
said afterwards they're like wedrove here for you, like we
weren't planning on coming toGen Con.
This is one person from ColumbusOhio, I think it was, who drove
from Columbus Ohio as soon aswe announced and just like came
just for us.

(13:14):
Like I didn't even get a GenCon badge, I just came to like
come to this request thing.
It was cool, we were, and Ijust had a room full of backers,
you know, people who reallywere like invested in the show,
and it was special to me.
It was an unforgettable kind ofan experience, rick.
What about you?

Speaker 5 (13:33):
Everyone was so.

Omar Najam (13:42):
That's twice as much as Sondeep.

Speaker 5 (13:45):
No, it was really nice.
It was so cool to see how muchsupport the show has before it's
even aired.
Yeah right, it's crazy which isreally, really nice.
I think sometimes, when youmake content and it is kind of

(14:06):
maybe not for a specificdemographic, but it's featuring
a specific demographic, it canfeel like, oh is only, is this
only gonna appeal to like afraction of a fraction of our
possible audience?
Wow, it's so nice to be like ohno, this appeal to everyone,
like we wanted it to, and that'ssuch a relief.
Like, obviously we want tons ofSouth Asian people to watch it,

(14:28):
but it was so nice to see.
Yeah everyone that's just likeoh, we are just fans of Angeli,
or we're just fans of TTRPG, orwe're just like interested in
what the project is or loved thetrailer.

We were in Indianapolis.
There was a lot of white peopleand it was great.
Listen, listen.
Cbs does really well in theratings and if we can appeal to
the Midwest, we're gonna do,we're gonna be golden.

(14:59):
This it was, it was special, itwas cool.
I.

Omar Najam (15:03):
Totally agree, daisy quest after episodes of mom
this fall.

Let's go.

Omar Najam (15:13):
It was genuinely, genuinely, genuinely credible.
Are you, do you want, to go tosome more conventions, rika?
Are you in now Like?
Do you have?
Is there blood in the water?

Speaker 5 (15:22):
There might be blood in the water.
I mean I had a blast again.
Simply love board games, Wouldlove to go play some board games
with people so deep has kind ofbeen bearing the lead here, but
the guy at the Pictionary Air.
Okay in the convention centersaid I got the highest score
he's ever seen, and so they kindof famously took a video that

(15:43):
he like didn't send me for Iquite a while because I guess,
very embarrassed or somethingthat yeah, I got a better score.

No, I don't know what kind of sad reasons he did
that for.
But Can I just say this Like Iyeah, you did.
You did very well.
I'm just saying who guessed?
Who was your guesser?
Okay, I had a part to play inyour success.
I, I.
There's no reason I would holdback.
I didn't know.

Omar Najam (16:14):
Cindy was involved at all Okay.

Speaker 5 (16:16):
typical to all success it was only me and
nobody else but for real to all.

Omar Najam (16:25):
Going to the moon.

Yeah, listen.
And Rick, it did crush apicture.
I mean like the drawings werefast and amazing.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
I was impressed.

It was a great cast, sir, it's sure, but all
yeah, listen, I just I washoping for that retort
compliment, but yeah, no, youwere good, you can.
You beat me seven to four.
You crushed me.
You know I think you wereguessing poorly on purpose when
I was drawing, but that's fine,I just so you were fast.
You're so fast like you justgenerated the idea and drew.

(16:55):
Like incredible For me.
I was like taking forever.
Anyway, great job.
Okay, you can watch the, thevideo.
Did you already post it, rika?
Did you?

Speaker 5 (17:04):
post it.

No, it's fine the one I had my permission I
don't ruin it for people.

Omar Najam (17:11):
But the winning word was Michelle gondry and your
ability to communicate that justa couple lines.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
Thank you.

Yeah, it was incredible.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
It's like she really hard, but you can do it if you
think about it.

Okay, I was like everything she's drawing is in
paper mache.
It's uh.

I.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
There's a drawing you can do.
That's just three lines, if youreally think about it.

Omar Najam (17:42):
Did you really think about it?
Yeah, one of them well doesn'tseem, you know, or we should say
three Rekas, one of them Umtriple R.
Speaking of entertainment stuffand the arts, really quickly,
before we kind of move away fromour checker, check and you know

(18:05):
, on a on a more serious note,like we are entering, we've
passed, not entering, we'vepassed a hundred days of the
strike for the WCA and and SAGis up in the mix.
Rika, I believe you're doublyaffected by the strikes.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
Yeah, I am.

Omar Najam (18:24):
How are you feeling about it?
I think that's a question a lotof us have been asked by family
.
How are, what are your thoughts?
How are you feeling?
Are you feeling optimistic?

Speaker 5 (18:36):
I am optimistic.
No, we're.
Yeah.
I don't know what I think,because in my mind I've been
always thinking of a deadline atthe end of the year.
I can imagine negotiationstaking a long time, and that
maybe because my my goalpost isa little farther away.

(18:57):
I'm like surely, if it ends inlike two months or something,
and not a amount of time, theycan negotiate now.
Is that founded, is that sane,is that correct?
Who's to say?

Um well, they are back to.
They're back at the table rightnow right.
We got a counter from the, fromthe amp tp.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
Yes so.

I guess we'll see.
So are you predicting?
You have a predict?
You said end of the year, oryou think it's going to be
earlier than that now?

Speaker 5 (19:25):
So before these emails went out that said they
went back to the table, Ithought like december, okay, you
know, it's like the, therunning, it's almost like with
when covid happened and you hearrandom made up science from
various people and no one knowswhere you got it.
It's like did you know that ifyou pass by someone who's
jogging, you'll get double covid?
You're like yeah and like yeah,exactly, it can, it can love.

(19:50):
And I feel like it's a littlesimilar with like wga strike
stuff, where it's like I'veheard some timber and like where
do you hear it from people likeI don't know?
Oh so I heard december floatedand it's like totally unfounded
but it just like stuck in mybrain.

(20:10):
Yeah, I don't know.

I know I've right, I've heard it all.
Yeah, I'm just hoping.
I'm hoping it's this year atthis point, so Completely just
be this year please.

Speaker 5 (20:22):
Yeah, how are you guys feeling?

Oh yeah, I, you know, I guess they're back at
the table and so it feels like,you know, there's some hope
there and and uh.
But uh, I'm not, I don't know,I'm less optimistic, I'm a
little bit, you know, I, I feellike they will make a deal.
I think that they will be adeal will it be a deal?

Speaker 5 (20:45):
Gonna be everything.

I definitely don't think it'll be everything,
and I and I don't know that theglory days are coming back in
terms of like being you knowLike, oh, you know, if you wrote
on three seasons of accordingto jam, you were set.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Thanks, that's coming back probably correct, like
there's gonna be Some sort ofmiddle ground that's probably
towards the lower end, becauseit's just streaming and the
things that go into have likesort of it seems irreparably
damaged or industry for everyoneinvolved.

Yeah, yeah, yeah , exactly, and I just don't know
how.
If streaming is allsubscription based At like,
because the whole idea is youwant to participate in the
success of your show, so how doyou start to like, like before
you could run ads again, youknow the people who are running
ads against a show.
There's like, clearly you coulddo accounting on, like this
show is bringing in this muchmoney for the network, like I

(21:40):
feel like they don't.
I'm sure maybe have someversion of them.
I'm sure you can model it, butit's not quite as clean and they
certainly keep a lot of thatdata hidden anyway.
So I think that's the biggestthing is like, how do we
participate in the success of ashow that we, we write or act in
for Streamers?
That's yeah, that's the thingwe've got to solve for.
And then after that, ai I don'tknow how they do it, um, but I

(22:03):
hope they do it.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Yeah, absolutely.

Um, are you still, uh, like, are you still
working on your own stuff?
Like, how are you keeping busyduring the strike?

Speaker 5 (22:12):
I've been trying to perform live a lot more.
Um which has been very fun andlike good for my brain.
I just missed it a lot, sothat's been really nice.
And then, um, like I filmed asketch a couple of months ago,
which was really nice and I'mhopefully going to release it so
soon.

(22:33):
Um, I cut it myself, so it justit took me a while to get my
editing legs back, uh, and itwas like the last time I was an
editor was um 2017, and now,like I'm like 4k footage I mean,
I know that was around then too, but now, like, everyone has a
camera that shoots 4k.

(22:53):
So like all my footage is twobajillion terabytes and Takes 55
days to load into my computer.
So I'm like To do that, um, andthen I don't have a tiktok
presence at all, but I am, I'mPracticing.

Omar Najam (23:10):
Okay but for me.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
That's really nice.
I like don't really make videos.
I'm trying.
I there's something in my brainthat's like I can't do
characters and I was like, hey,that's what stupid.

That's a limiting belief.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
It's a limiting belief.
I was just like just practice,um, keep them in your graphs.
So I've been trying to do that,uh, several times a week as
well.

So these you?
You haven't published any ofthem, or are you?
Okay, I have like 20 of themshould we publish one live right
now, any CD as an exclusive alive release.
I can't even see the exclusive.

Speaker 5 (23:47):
Can I pressure you?

to do a live release.

Speaker 5 (23:49):
I can give you a live release.

What?

Speaker 5 (23:51):
because I was gonna release one of them tomorrow.

Omar Najam (23:54):
Let's go, don't wait for tomorrow, when today is the
?

day, don't wait for tomorrow, you're gonna say.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
Yeah don't wait for tomorrow when today is dead.
What did you say?

Omar Najam (24:02):
That's not what I said, but that's better.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, today is dead, don't wait for tomorrow.

Yeah, don't wait for tomorrow.
Today's fucking murdered itreally takes?

Omar Najam (24:11):
does the phrase take a nosedive at the end?

Speaker 5 (24:17):
Um that actually kind of ties to the video I'll post
right now.

What?
Oh, I'm so excited Look at this.
Yeah, let's do this.
Wow, I did not think that peerpressure was gonna work.
I sure did, and it's not coming.
Where can we follow you?
On, the, on, the on.
Let's just do the.
You know the?
Uh, what do you call?
My brain is fried.
Uh, let's have you.
Yeah, yeah, you have me do yourshout out right in the middle

(24:41):
of this podcast.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
Oh, my god, what see this is?

how much?

Speaker 5 (24:44):
I'm not on tiktok I.
I think it's rake at el shunker.

Omar Najam (24:48):
Let's find out.
I'll tell you because I followyou.

Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay.

I think I love that sounds.
Yeah, there you are.
Oh oh baby, here we go, oh mygod Hold on.

Speaker 5 (25:00):
Give me two seconds.
I have to adjust this is no, no, we can't.

This is we can't give you any time.
This is so goofy, yeah, and Ihave a feeling so you have, you
have published stuff, you're gotsome.

Omar Najam (25:11):
Yeah, I've got some stuff, but nothing Okay oh my
gosh, when you search, when yousearch ricka, you actually get
like fan cams.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Oh, that's funny.

Omar Najam (25:20):
Oh, okay.

Speaker 5 (25:22):
Okay, this is incredible that I've posted this
.
It's extremely vulnerablebecause I don't think it's that
good, but it's topical becauseI'm a huge, huge, huge sex in
the city buff.

And.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
I've been watching and just like that, because I
have to, and, um, I have a lotof thoughts about it and that's
okay and so.
You get, that's okay and youget an exclusive and if you
don't understand it, it's okay.
It's very vulnerable to postand I'm not great at characters,
so thank you all for joining mein this journey ricka d, can, I

(25:52):
, can, I, can I give you somenumbers real quick.
I literally thought you weregonna say notes on the thing I
just posted and I was like, okay, like you can.
But oh my god, omar, it's likean eight second.

Omar Najam (26:05):
Okay, so let's start with number one, here we go so
an hour of notes.
Okay, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna hit you with somenumbers, is that all right?

Yeah, yeah 12.7k.

Omar Najam (26:18):
35.8k.
51.7k.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Whoa, you found my bank account.

Cool, Fuck yeah.

Omar Najam (26:31):
I can't believe you have, I can't believe you have
three separate numbers in onebank account.

Speaker 5 (26:36):
I'm not sure what I'm looking at.
That's weird.
I'm celebrities child.

Those are just all blackmail payoffs.

Omar Najam (26:43):
Those are the numbers of someone who
apparently isn't big on ticktock.

Yeah, those are good numbers.
Those numbers are man.
It's crazy how you forged them.
I don't know how you did that,but yeah, you can photoshop them
very easily.
So, delvin, I'm gonna just dropit.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
I'm just gonna drop this up on stream, right?

Oh, yeah, yeah, for I was just gonna send you
the thing, okay, great.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
That's the one you just posted to your tick-tock,
right.

Yeah, yeah, let's listen to it.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
All right, let's see if this works.

Speaker 5 (27:11):
Oh, one hour wait.
What is this springtime?
I did, you did.
I missed you saying you're oh,I am swaying, it is like.
It is like it is like seeingsomeone show your full oh on a

(27:37):
live stream.

Now.
We wanted to support you.
By stealing your content andputting it on a podcast so funny
, oh my god.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
Yeah, in case that joke didn't make sense to anyone
, I just think the jokes on thenews sex in the city, on
interest, like that don't makeany sense and are profoundly
non-specific.
There will be jokes like oh, Iknow Brady from that one winter
trip we took and I was like what, what's the?

(28:13):
What am I supposed to take fromthat?
Was he annoying?
Was?
It annoying that it was winter.
Everything is like kind of AIgenerated to be honest.
For sure.

Listen, I got a couple notes.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Now it's great, it's perfect.

It's going to get into the bazillion views.
It's already got about ahundred from my account alone,
because I'm just letting it loopright here.

Speaker 5 (28:39):
That is springtime.
I think it's great.
Are you guys older brothers?
It's giving older brother.

Omar Najam (28:51):
Hey everybody, everybody come in.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Come look, look, look , look look.

I don't know if people are going to see it now.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
They got like the context, I got the notes and all
that.

Let me wake up my son.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Hold on it's good to to feel it's good.

Omar Najam (29:09):
Yeah, it's good to feel.

Listen, I'm just telling you right now, Rika, I
know you're having the feels,but people in chat are like new
subscription right here.
I personally love that a lot.
So, listen, you've got at leastoh, just dozens of Maybe, maybe
, tens or eights of people.
Maybe sixes of people that aresliding up right now.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
Oh my God, so sick.
This is huge Maybe the jokeregisters If you watch him just
like that, and if it doesn't,I'm sorry.
You can give me that to thechat.

Omar Najam (29:42):
I watched one episode and at the end of the
episode, um, these Australianguys showed up and like, can we
buy you a drink?
And then she was like you knowwhat?
Yes, and then my friends turnedto me and went that's supposed
to be character development.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Sandeep.

Yeah, what yes?

Speaker 5 (29:58):
My trouble Sorry.
Omar said that I'm so sorry.

Omar Najam (30:00):
No, because I was using my Sandeep impersonation.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
I know that is literally exactly correct.
That is supposed to becharacter development or a joke.
One of the two things and thatis a very common issue with the
show, where you can't tell whatanything is trying to be or what
genre it is, or what it'strying to accomplish, or, with
the point of view of any ofthese Already established
characters, is it'll be like,like, like, correct.

(30:27):
We can't talk about the plot.
And then I, I, just I, I feellike, um, I don't know how I'll
get my hands on the show now.
And then I was like Carriebeing like huh, you know what,
miranda, I've been thinkingabout it.
Maybe I created the A bomb.

And then Miranda's like Huh, and then the
scene abruptly cut and it's thenext thing, and they're totally
never, going to talk we like.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
Yeah, it's been a while since they made the show.

Maybe they're also relearning how to edit.

Oh, this you know, before this becomes a,
just like that after showpodcast, I'm gonna, which would
be fine.
Honestly, it would be huge forus, It'd be huge for us Not to
judge hint.
Let's take a little bit intothe uh, into the past, the rake
of past.
Um the rake of past, yeah, likeyou know.

(31:14):
When did you know you wanted to?
Let's, yeah, let's.
Let's go backward back in time.
When did you know you wanted tobe a performer, like as a
career, like how?
How did you talk to yourparents about this?

Speaker 5 (31:25):
Yeah Well, I wanted to be a comedy writer but wasn't
like super aware that waspossible starting in high school
.
I uh only started watching signfiles when I was in high school
and I became like reallyobsessed that it four different
episodes would air a day to you.

Sorry, what is this?
What is this signed?
Signed, I mean, where does that?
Yeah, are you okay?

Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:47):
It's exactly what you think it is.
Um, just just check your desk.
Um, and I got so obsessed- Iwould watch four episodes a day.
Um, and then the DVDs came outand I requested them for my
birthday and that was the onlything I was like.
If all of my friends come intomy birthday band together at
each donate $2, I can get theseDVDs.

And I was, I was did you start?
You started Kickstarter,basically, Basically.

Speaker 5 (32:11):
I like on the invitation.
I was like you don't have toget me a gift, but if you would
like to, if you all contributelike $2, I could get these DVDs
which is so sick so sick, um,but I was so obsessed I would
watch all the DVD commentariesand stuff, and searching your
favorite shows on the internetwasn't as much of a thing Like I
would go to um.

(32:31):
Uh right, what, what the hellwas the website called?
Um?
No, it's like a TV like kind of.
Tv tropes kind of website.
Tropes Um, I would go thereSomething like it was like that.
It wasn't that one exactly.
Television without pity,television without pity.

Oh.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
I would read that obsessively for like fun facts.
And I read how Seinfeld startedwith just Larry David and Jerry
Seinfeld, like walking around aKorean grocery store, and I was
like that's the job I want.
I want to be able to just likewrite funny stuff from like
observation.
But I didn't know it's possible, uh.
So I kept that in the back ofmy head and one of my friends
was even like, why don't you goto N Way for film school?

(33:12):
And he's like, well, I don'twant to do film.
So that's not going to happen.
Um and I was fully likeplanning to become a doctor.
My parents luckily they're notPush G or strict at all.
They are just sort of, theyknow the things they know and
that's what they will suggest.
And so what?

are your parents ?
What are your parents do?

Speaker 5 (33:34):
Uh, my mom, um, when she lived in India she was a
doctor and then she became asame.
Stay at home, I'm here and thenmy dad is an aeronautical
engineer.

Okay, Okay, all right, so very, very good, very
standard, yeah, and all of mycousins who are girls are
doctors.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
I'm the only granddaughter who is not a
doctor.

Um and out of how many.

Speaker 5 (33:58):
Out of eight or something.

Wow, so you are the black sheep of the.

Speaker 5 (34:04):
Yes, and I was going to be a doctor, I went to like a
biomedical research camp andstuff like that, cause I was
interested in that sort of stuff.
Oh my God, it was TV Tom.
It wasn't television, withoutpity, it was TV Tom, yeah.

TV Tom, okay yeah.
Um thank you, Thank you chat.

Speaker 5 (34:20):
Yes, um, yeah.
So I was planning to do allthat and then I just got to
college and was taking John adsand immediately was like very
unhappy and I.
I did go to NYU and I just I uhworked really hard Right over
there, I worked really hard on avideo submission and I had no
background in that stuff at all.

(34:41):
Um, and wrote like a funnyessay and got into the film
school, which was very lifechanging for me that's amazing.

And your parents , do you have siblings?
I can't.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
Yes, I have one sibling, and and, and, like
everyone in my family likethey're finance like whatever,
so this is totally out of thenorm.
Yeah and um, my dad.
I remember the day I got myacceptance to Tish.
I called him and my dad is justvery like, even killed about
everything.
Nothing gets him excited,nothing gets him upset.

(35:13):
So, I called him and I wascrying, I was so happy.
I was like, dad, I got intofilm school and he went all
right and I was like, and I wasrunning down Fifth Avenue to go
like, sign the paper, to like,except the thing.
And um, I was like, yeah, and Ican double major, I could do
something like math.
He wasn't even upset, like hedidn't care.
He was like, as long as youknow, if he went, yeah, do

(35:39):
biology or something you know.

Yeah, do fuck it yeah right, math is right.
I think math to Indian parentsis pretty, like, pretty useless,
like that's a soft science.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
Or it's like math is the thing you do to do physics.

So that you do engineering?
Yeah, exactly, it's a step,it's not the destiny.

Speaker 5 (35:57):
So he was like half.
I was like I have to go, Ican't talk about it.

It's like, it's like majoring in algebra.
Yeah, like you know, major inalgebra.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
So they didn't totally care, but it did make it
so annoying at family functions.

Yeah, oh sure.

Speaker 5 (36:12):
Yes, and I think what's nice is I have always
been very academic.

I have always done like straight student kind
of person.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
Yes, I was hyper responsible.

You crushed them , sats, I did fine.

Speaker 5 (36:25):
I was always a better like student than like aptitude
Achievement takes test paperthan aptitude, but I was always
just a very responsible kid so Ithink there was maybe part of
my parents.
It was like I guess she knowswhat she's doing, maybe OK, nice
OK.
But not, you know, like don'tget too excited, nothing in like
that.
We trust our daughter.
I think they're just like wedon't know what you're talking

(36:47):
about.
So we can't say anything, but asa result I'm like I am not
wasting one dollar of thiseducation because I was
privileged enough that they paidfor my education.
Right, like I am attendingevery fucking class, like that
was always my MO.
Anyway, I never skippedanything, I barely had sick days
.
I'm doing all the homework andthen some.
I've never interacted with thiscareer.

(37:08):
What's go ever yeah.

You're a good teacher, you like study hard,
yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (37:14):
So, they didn't totally care, but they do ask
tons of annoying questions.
And when I like used to be inpost production and I quit my
job to pursue comedy more fulltime, my mom was like are you
spiraling into a depression?
Comedy more so than the filmindustry was like huh.
To my mom.

Really OK, Like because they just thought that's
so interesting, why would theyview?
Because they just thought, likewho's making comedies that make
money?
Or like what's the Well?

Speaker 5 (37:41):
my, my dad doesn't know either way and does it
totally care.
So my mom is like deeply likedisturbed that I'm a comedian.
She constantly leaves mevoicemails, being like you
should change your job.

Wow.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Like, yeah, like, or shall find clips of mine, and
this is what Indian Like can yoube a horror filmmaker please?

Yeah, I prefer you to pick a different genre.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
This is very typical Indian.

Slasher pics.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
At least mine.
But she will call and be like Isaw some clip of yours.
Why do you keep making trashystuff, reika and I'm like what
do you mean?
She's like I don't know?
I saw one of your shows and itwas trashy.
She heard Zach Alfinakis in theBetween Two Ferns movie.
My family gathered to watchthat and no exaggeration did not

(38:30):
stop talking from the moment wehit play.
Yeah, until the end and then, ofcourse, had no idea they would
not stop talking.
It was like 10 people in a roomand I was like All right.

I feel that in my core right now.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
I don't know what to do, do you guys?
Know, how to watch a movie.
I don't know what is happening.
And then, out of all of the dinof hearing a million people
talk, zach Alfinakis says theword sex at one point and my mom
got up and left the room.

She's like I can't.
She was so upset that he wastalking about sex.
Yeah, yeah, no, I know it's sotough.
Like sex is the is like reallythat that's the threshold.
I feel like my parents havesort of like gotten accustomed
to swearing a bit.
They don't, they don't love itstill.
Action and gore like totallyfine at this point.
My dad loves like he lovesMission Impossible movies and

(39:15):
anything Tom Cruise totally finewith that.
But like anything remotelysexual and it's like no, this is
like you know, this is my, myas well.
It's to their brain, I imagine.
It just all looks like tortureporn or something like a kiss,
just all looks like the mostextreme version of it.
It's just so uncomfortable.
So, omar, are you hearing us orare you having chat?

Omar Najam (39:37):
It appears to be bad .
So often it boots me out, but Ican put together from context
clues.
Except for this last one, Ihave no idea what could have
possibly led to that tortureporn, just the uncomfortability
around our parents Like.

I don't know if you feel the same way with your
parents, but you know, anytimeany sexual content comes up in a
movie or romance that gets too.
You know risque that that's nogood.

Speaker 5 (40:04):
I watch the show where two people were kissing
and my mom was there and I knewthe kiss was going to happen and
I was.
Sometimes I will cough if Ithink someone's going to say a
swear word in a TV show so thatshe can't hear.
But she was so upset that theywere kissing and she got so
angry.
I was like I don't know how tolive, like so exhausting and

(40:34):
like so we, just I just she doesnot watch anything I make, not
that anything I'm making is sorude.
She just thinks it's all liketrashy or incomprehensible.
So I'm like whatever.

So kind of like yeah, no, it's interesting,
we're like on this island alittle bit from our parents,
right, like we can kind of getaway with a lot and do whatever
we want in a way, but also youdon't get to have connection
over the stuff that you make.

Omar Najam (40:57):
Yeah, yeah, it's like every stop in.
I hang out with friends whoseparents are like deep in what
they do and they're like I'vewatched all your videos, I've
done all this and I'm just likewhat is this foreign concept?

Speaker 5 (41:09):
Yeah, I, I, my.
My dad is more like supportivethan my mom, so he'll like he
might have seen my episode ofhacks.
I don't think he knows whatAuntie Donna is, and I told him
what it was.

Oh he tried to watch it.

Speaker 5 (41:21):
He said it was too weird.
I think he doesn't remember, hecan't say Zach Alfinakis, his
name, properly and he doesn'tever remember the name of the
movie.
He doesn't.

To be fair, that's a tough one.

Speaker 5 (41:34):
I think he vaguely remembers college humor.
He doesn't know what dropout is.
I told him I did stuff withDungeons and Dragons and he goes
Rika.
I hear that stuff is reallyevil.
And I was like no, oh boy.
Oh, boy, and so okay like whenwe're talking about, like why
representation is important.
It's like, okay, you're allcome from, if you're, if you're

(41:55):
someone with parents thatunderstand it, like role plays,
where they're like reciprocatinginformation with you about
media.

I'm coming from my dad thinks Dungeons and
Dragons is like devil's stuffyeah, right, right, right, right
, so, like, okay, so, and thenZach Alfinakis is a porn actor.
Yeah, whatever it may be, Idon't think they've seen.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
I don't think my mom's ever seen a college humor
video.
I don't think they know likeGod's of Food or any of this
other stuff I did.
I don't think they've readmaybe, anything I've written.
They're just so disconnectedfrom it.

Yeah, and it's.
I think it's tough.
I mean I, you know, I I try to.
My dad literally calls thelegend in Neil like your X-rated
show.
He means it playfully honestly.
He's not like that upset aboutit, but he's like, he's like, he
.
Definitely he knows that hecannot show it to anybody.
Yeah, there's like a lot ofmasturbation jokes in it.
There's like no way he's doingthat I remember.
I just want to share this onespecific memory because it's so

(42:47):
visceral to me now that my dad,like my dad, is obsessed with
Tom Cruise, right, and he lovesTop Gun.
We watched Top Gun a milliontimes and every time it got to
the sex scene in Top Gun hewould he see.
The thing is he loved the, thetrack.
So he loves Take my Breath Away, like it's like one of his
favorite songs of all time.
So he would find a way tobasically mute the video, like

(43:11):
he'd.
Like he'd like turn up thevolume but then like either look
away or like you know, he'slike don't or like don't watch
this part, but just listen yeah.
What he like loved the thing, soit's just so funny.
Anyway, that's funny.
Yeah, our parents are.
It's interesting, it'sinteresting.
It's interesting being the arts, being, you know.

Omar Najam (43:31):
I my my mom texted me when I was on my way to, or
my mom called me when I wascoming back from Indianapolis.
She was keeping me awakeBecause I got to.

Even your mom's cool, Omar, Don't try to make
your mom.
Your mom is cool.

Omar Najam (43:44):
Okay, Everyone does know my mom, but a story about
my mom really quick is that Iworked on Ms Marble and Ms
Marble is now an ABC TV.
Not I'm where I'm from rightnow in Australia.
That's a different thing, butthe American broadcasting yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:00):
In case you were wondering.

Omar Najam (44:04):
And so they're showing Ms Marble.
And then so my mom was like, oh, and I'm watching Ms Marble,
it's so good, there's a weddingand stuff and it's just so
beautiful and the show's soimportant.
And I was like you remember Iworked on that right.
And my mom's like yeah, ofcourse.
And I was like so did you seeepisode two?
Did you see the?
The scene that I wrote?
My mom was like no, I must havelooked away for that part.
Look away.
She's like I don't sleep.

(44:25):
What do you mean?

Speaker 5 (44:27):
Absolutely.

Omar Najam (44:28):
I told you about this, so it is the zanginess of
just like it's so exciting it's.
Who are the people who makesthis show?
I've worked on it, yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 (44:38):
Yeah, yeah, exactly Like truly.

I mean it's, it is a big cultural barrier.
I'm just trying to think oflike what's the stuff that, like
what's something my son couldpossibly be into or do that I
would not, that I would be thesame way.

Speaker 5 (44:50):
That you would like to have a trouble engaging with
it.
Yeah, what if he became like Um, like a?

Omar Najam (44:56):
pop patrol like an actual pop patrol character,
like a cop.

Speaker 5 (45:02):
Yeah.
Yeah that's what you get, likedad.

I want to be military police.
I want to be an MP.
Okay, this is tough for me.
Yeah, I guess, I guess, I don'tknow what it could be.

Speaker 3 (45:20):
Um, I've requested to be stationed at Guantanamo Bay.

Speaker 5 (45:23):
Yeah, you're not gonna support me.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
I really feel like I could bring order to that place,
All right right.
Oh.

Man, that would be tough.
That would be tough, yeah, okay, so let me ask you this,
because I feel like we'vecovered that sort of a lot of
this path of being a South Asianartist, like how is your
relationship to being likeregarding being an Indian
American, like how do younavigate the two cultures for

(45:52):
yourself?

Speaker 5 (45:53):
Yeah.

Uh, and do you ever feel uncomfortable with,
like, certain roles that youhave to take or anything like
that, or stereotypes or like,how do you?
Yeah that's it.

Speaker 5 (46:03):
It's always very interesting because it is so
different on every day, everyhour and with every person where
um, I find that I'm sure thisis a common tune people have
sung on this show.
Where I was born, in the UnitedStates.

(46:23):
Yeah, and my parents areimmigrants and Were very much
like well, you know English,that's great.
So they didn't teach me Tamil,which is my family's mother
tongue, and that is a hugebummer for me in my adulthood.
Yeah, because my whole entirefamily speaks Tamil, except

(46:46):
basically me, because everyoneelse was born in India.
Um, and that is a bummerbecause yeah it's, it's funny.
What if someone was like oh, butthey're speaking it all the
time.
How do you not pick up on themLike, do you hear anybody
translating anything?
Are you like you can understandConversational stuff, but not a

(47:09):
lot I can understand, so like Igrew up half raised by my
grandparents and.
I can understand stuff like aGrandparent would just say to
you, because they're the onlyones that have like really
consistently spoken Tamil to me,so I can say stuff around like
eat this or like go to bed ordid you finish a lot of eating
things, yeah.

Close the door.
I can say close the door, oh mygod.

Speaker 5 (47:30):
I know how well.
Here's what's time, I know howto.
Be quiet.

Yeah you're.

Speaker 5 (47:37):
I know many ways to say your hair looks bad, because
they were said to me so thankyou just said who said we all
have really nice hair, becausethat's not the narrative I've
been told.

I don't say, I don't say I'll, I'll, I'll hit
you, I'm gonna hit you one?

Speaker 5 (47:59):
Hey, it's just a look Like you're about to fucking
slap them.

Yeah, I know to say that.
It's funny, my dad recentlyjust said the same thing, where
he was like my one big regret isnot like Not making sure that
you could speak a drathe, andI'm like, yeah, me too.
Yeah, I'm like like that's alsomy regret for you.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
It's so frustrating and, like you know, my dad
doesn't totally see the value init, probably because one he
looked.
We live in America and Englishis such a valuable language to a
lot of immigrants which Itotally get to.
He knows Tom all, so he'sprobably it's like if I'm like a
curly hair is not so great orwhatever, I'm sure someone like
no, I really want that.
It's just like when you have it, you know, think about it as

(48:39):
much and my family is all likebasically Trilingual,
quadrilateral or quintal angle.
Yeah, I know don't know whatit's like when you're like
trying to keep up with that andyou just can't.
So, to answer your question,the way I've tried to reconcile
with that kind of gap I feel,because it's almost like grief,

(49:01):
it's just like grief forsomething I can't really ever
have is Cooking.
I do a lot of Indian cookingBecause I'm like well, I did
grow up eating a lot of Indianfood and I do know what stuff is
supposed to taste like.
So, even if I can't speak, I'mlike if I can make something
that my grandmother made megrowing up, it almost feels like
yeah and I'm right.

Omar Najam (49:22):
Did you?
Did you pull that in for yourcharacter in Desi quest like?
Did that inform?

Speaker 5 (49:27):
all.
So you know that is interesting.
The choice I guess to be her isjust the part of Indian culture
I think I'm the most steeped inis like Probably around food
and family, like I don't knowpop culture in.
Indian India very well,especially also because, you

(49:49):
know, for those who aren't asfamiliar, there's like Bollywood
, but there's colliewood,there's Hollywood, there's
movies that are probably notmusicals like there's.
So it's so Spread out andfractured and different than
what we just think about it,maybe in America.
So it's hard to catch up Withall that and I don't know
anything about the pop culturethere, so like food and I've

(50:10):
been.
I've been around a lot ofaunties and uncles in my life.
My family is around 800,000people big and.
Would stay in my house, reallyhalf of India in my house.
Growing up I'm very steeped inlike dynamics of like.

(50:31):
Here's how brahman uncles talkto brahman aunties and.

It's not good.

Speaker 5 (50:47):
Here's how aunties talk to girls versus boy.
Like that stuff.
I'm very, very Verstead,especially as, like one of the
younger cousins and a girl, it'slike huh, I wonder why I'm
cleaning up and wonder why Ihave to babysit the cut, the
kids that are 100 years youngerthan me and can't go hang out

(51:07):
with the adults.
Interesting Food has been foodand that kind of like food and
gossip, like family, justdynamics.

Yep, that makes a ton of sense.
Yeah, a buddy Mine does a jokeabout his.
He's like fourth generationItalian and His joke is like my.
He's like I don't have muchties to my culture, but I'm
gonna totally butcher this.
But it's like I don't much thatdoes my culture, but I do make
a the sauce.
I.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
Make a the sauce, like I can't speak a mama, but I
don't know, but I make it asauce.

Omar, while we have a good connection with you
right now, do you want to askthe next question?

Omar Najam (51:48):
Yes, I do, I absolutely do.
And then we'll hop over to somefun stuff.
Um yeah that's reset my things.

Or or I, it's fine.
Yeah, yeah, whatever you feelin your heart.

Omar Najam (52:06):
You know, with what we do, it can be very tough and
I think that, like, we Are veryhappy in public, because that's
like an aspect, an element.
I think that someonecomplaining about things that
comedians complain about, but itnot being happy, can be very
draining.
I'm very difficult and we dosee a lot of joy in oftentimes

(52:29):
unjoyful things.
But it's also really importantto kind of check in, like with
the show.
You check for check-in, so likewhat would you say is kind of
your relationship to like mentalhealth, like mental hygiene, in
terms of the keeping that incheck.
Because I think that one thingthat I really noticed at like at

(52:50):
the day sequence event AtGenCon was, you know, it was
such a great chance to connectto people in person and to kind
of communicate that like.

What did he notice?
Many elements.

Omar Najam (53:03):
Can you?

Speaker 5 (53:03):
guys know, I can hear him, cindy, I can hear Omar.

Okay, good.

Omar Najam (53:07):
I missed it.
Okay, let's go that.
We can explore so many elementsof what is funny about our
culture and what's funny aboutour disconnect, but also there's
some elements of that that aretough and that are real.
So how do you tackle that?
Do you have any best practicesthat you do to keep yourself
feeling good?

Speaker 5 (53:29):
Yeah, I'll give some backstory where I think part of
my gravitation towards comedy inaddition to the fact that I
just really liked it and I likedwatching comedy was to sort of
ingest harder stories andprocess them in a way that
allowed me to continue tofunction.

(53:50):
And I used to very proudly sayand it's so mortifying to me, if
I could talk to this14-year-old, I'd be like you're
wrong.
I'd be like, oh, I don't havefeelings, I'm a robot.
I'm a robot Because that wasextremely valued in my family,
for sure.
Now, they would not say I hadno feelings, they would say I

(54:10):
cried a lot, which is probablytrue, which is true, it's not
probably it is true.
But I mean, and that's whathappens, when you go around to
all your friends in high schoolbeing like, oh no, no worries, I
don't have feelings.
That's what happens too.
So when I graduated college, Istarted therapy and I thought I
was pretty aware of, like, whatmy limitations and things were,

(54:31):
but you always find so, so, somuch more, and really finding
the language which, with I couldjust think to myself, has been
really helpful.
Even we're not even talkingabout changing yourself yet,
just like thinking andidentifying and like the things

(54:53):
I was afraid to do and like like.
Individuation is a word mytherapist has used a lot,
especially when I was in myearly 20s where I think it can
be hard coming from a communalculture where it's like.
How do you make yourself?
The individual adult that islike for me, picks up and moves
to Los Angeles where, like noneof my family lives.

(55:15):
That's really hard to not feelvery bad about.

Look at you learning a new language.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Look at ha ha.
I'm feeling well in thefeelings.

That's right.
Maybe the most importantlanguage you learn.

Speaker 5 (55:29):
Therapy has really helped and I think also having
to see what things that myfamily has given me that really
serve me, like my work ethic Ireally am grateful for, and
maybe some of the things thathaven't served me, Like if I
make a mistake I don't need togo every single time I make a

(55:49):
mistake.

Yes yes.

Speaker 5 (55:52):
Or I don't need to.
I need that one, yeah, or Idon't need to like my dad.
If I have good work ethic, mydad is 800 times more tenacious
because he will be like let'stake a seven layover flight and
then take a 45 hour bus ridebecause it costs 50 cents and

(56:12):
then we'll stay in this freehotel where you have to suspend
yourself from the ceiling.

And you can't touch anything.

Speaker 5 (56:19):
Yeah, and you can't touch anything and you'll yawn
and he'll be like you need tohave a little more stamina and
you're like I've learned whathas helped me about that and
what is like, ooh, maybe I'mallowed to take a break.

Omar Najam (56:32):
Yeah, can I A little bit, because this is something
I'm kind of exploring right nowand something I'm focused on
while I'm in Australia with sometime to myself, is how do you
know when you're getting closeor have crossed that threshold
for yourself?

Speaker 5 (56:49):
Like where I'm doing things more for my mental health
, or threshold of like where I'mgoing too far, like working too
much.

Omar Najam (56:57):
Because I feel like a lot of people say like this is
good, this is bad.
It's so dependent upon theperson.
How do you know when you'restarting to run low on your fuel
and you're like I need torecharge, like?
This adventure is actuallyfeeling taxing now, or this job
is actually taking up too muchof my energy.

Speaker 5 (57:15):
Yeah, I think that's a what is it?

draining and what is it energizing?

Speaker 5 (57:18):
That's a really good question, I think one of my like
signs is usually a lot ofnegative self-talk.

We all start feeling really bad about myself.
Self-adhesive.

Speaker 5 (57:29):
Yeah, like I worked a job that creatively was
satisfying.
This was like many years ago,but just like-.

Omar Najam (57:37):
This is Toys R Us right.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
Yeah, this is Toys R Us with Jeffrey and so-.

Omar Najam (57:40):
Toys.

Speaker 5 (57:41):
R Us.
I love it.

With Jeffrey the DREF.

Speaker 5 (57:45):
Exactly the DREF.
Now my co-worker stands,Jeffrey.
We're just a little bitexhausting and draining for me
and it was like kind of taking alittle dose of social anxiety
every day over the course oflike a year or two, and each day
I would come home being likewas I fucking weird when I said
this?
When I did and I would be likewhy don't I have the energy to

(58:07):
like do my shows after work andjust like, oh, you're tapped the
fuck out from that because youfeel like shit about yourself.
I was in like such a rut, likedoing like improv at that time a
little bit too, and I was like,oh, because I'm feeling like
I'm a shitty person, because Ican't like function in this work
environment very well or to theability that I know I can.

Yes.

Speaker 5 (58:30):
So that's one little sign for me.

I love that.

Speaker 5 (58:33):
I think too, like yeah, knowing just like bodily
stuff like my body is so fuckinglike, nah, if I don't eat
enough vegetables in a day.
I get like and so like.
Sometimes that is almost anindicator to me.
Like you didn't have time tocook for yourself this week,
Uh-oh, Take a goddamn breather.

Wow, that makes a lot of sense, good stuff.
So I think it's like the key islike being able to identify
those things.
I mean, I think it's why it'stherapy so important I'm so I
just started therapy this year,like one-on-one therapy, and
it's like been life changing, solike if anybody's on that plate
, anybody in that place, arelike I don't know, should I do?

(59:12):
I really need it?
Blah, blah, blah.
So worth it, it's worth doingthe exploration.
I think you're totally rightabout you learn the language,
you learn how to be, you knowjust like, and you learn these
things where you can pick outthese.
You know these things aboutyourself, or like, oh shit.
And give you a little bit moreof the observer about you and
your habits in a way that can be, just so much more beneficial

Omar Najam (59:34):
and productive, completely agree.
I took therapy from the airportflying back from GenCon because
I didn't want to miss out on myweekly session and it was
really interesting.
I don't recommend it, but Ijust want to say if anyone is on
the fence about therapy or it'sjust like I don't know, like it
hasn't done anything in thepast.
First of all, I'm sorry, like100% find the best therapist for

(59:56):
you, but also therapy is likethe opposite of dentistry
Therapy.
It takes a while for you torealize what's kicking in and
you start to feel it more thanyou consciously know it.
Dentistry instantly you're likesomething's being shoved into
my tooth.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
Uh-huh, that's okay.
Very apt, omar.
They love that.

Sandeep Parikh (01:00:19):
That comparison or that anti-comparison, that
antonym to it.
All right?
Well, sage words from everybodyhere.
We're going to jump into alittle game before we close this
thing out, cause, you know,rika likes games so much.

Rekha Shankar (01:00:35):
I do.

Omar Najam (01:00:36):
It's called.

Pictionary.
So, kind of going off.
It's called yeah, exactly, getout your Pictionary pen that you
bought from GenCon.
Okay, so here's what we'regoing to do.
We're going to play a gamecalled Top 10.
This is the way this works.
I have a list of a top 10 listin front of me and these are
statistical, like.

(01:00:57):
So they're like, you know,they're numbers based to top 10.
This is an opinions based andyou guys are going to go back
and forth, cause I'm hostingthis game.
Rika is going to go againstOmar.
Rika, the stakes for this gameare huge.
Okay, because the winner ofthis game be basically becomes
host next week.
Like right now, I'm the host.

(01:01:17):
Omar was was introduced as aco-host.
You know, you saw howembarrassing that was for him,
right?
Like the way I introducedmyself as a host.
So, rika, you're subbing in asmy champion.
If you win, I get to retain thehost level for next week or our
next next show, and Omar getsto remain co-host.
But if he beats you, then hegets to.
You know, you serve me and it'svery.

(01:01:38):
It's really rough on myrelationship with my parents.

Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
You're really good at doing this.
Okay, this is so typical I haveto kind of hold it together for
you.
You're my champion.

So I'm running for you and luckily I'm also
running the game, so I willdefinitely cheat in your favor.
But what so?
The way this works is I havethis top 10 list.
The way you score is in reverseof the, or sorry, you score
based upon the rank that youguessed.
So if you guess number 10, youget 10 points.
If you guess number one, youget one point.

(01:02:10):
So it's actually behooves you totry to guess.
The ones that are a little bitmore difficult to get to the top
10.
The ones that are a little bitmore difficult to get, the low
boys that are lower on the list.
Yeah, does that make sense?

Speaker 5 (01:02:22):
And if you guess anything?

that's below the top 10 list.
You don't, you don't get it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
It's a little like family family feud kind of, but
there's more points for thestuff that scored lower.

Yeah, exactly, that's a great way of explaining
.

Speaker 5 (01:02:34):
It's like a real family.

You're obviously a board game master.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Oh, my God, and there's a chess box here.
So when it's your turn, theclock's ticking.

That's right, we're playing.
It's like speed, speed, chess,kind of thing.

We got a five minute clock with you and so while
you're thinking, excuse me.

Yeah.

Yeah, good luck.
Okay, so listen to the categoryshows.
Based upon all these fun littlelabor strikes that are going on
and affecting our lives and,you know, may even continue
further into what's happeningwith the automotive industry, I
picked the 10 companies with thebiggest wage gaps between CEOs
and employees.

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
Okay, okay, okay.

So these are companies, most of them you'll
have heard of.
I will give you hints for theones that are a little bit like
wait, what's the fuck, that's acompany.
But most of these you shouldhave heard of.
But these are the biggest CEOwage gaps, because fuck these
guys in there.

Yeah.

And these are crazy wage gaps.
So I think this will be yeah inhonor of labor, we're playing
this game, all right.

Rika you can start.

You are the guest.
Go ahead.
You are now on the clock.

Speaker 5 (01:03:46):
Okay, amazon.

Okay, great, you get one point, so that is the
number one, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
Yeah, I thought it might be number one, but it was
like maybe there's somebodyworse, maybe.

Yeah, you never know.
That's the number one, andrewJassy, the CEO.
He makes $212 million a year.
Sorry, $0.7 million.
I shouldn't just throw awaythat.
Yeah, I think it's prettyimportant to me, it's important
to the workers.
The annual salary of the of amedian worker on Amazon makes
$32,855, which is actuallyrather high for most of these

(01:04:21):
companies.
I'll say that, and so the waythat, so the way they put it on
this list is the years that itwould take for you to, if you
had the median salary, to reachthe CEO.
Pay is 6,474 years, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:04:39):
You have to work to get the CEO and do I get stock
options for all 6,000 years orlike yeah, yeah.

Totally.
Oh yeah, all the stock optionsyou want as a corpse for sure,
I'm sure they'll best only postyour death.
So yes, congratulations, yougot the number one answer.
But that only gives you onepoint.

One measly.

Omar, you're on the clock.

Speaker 5 (01:04:59):
Okay, hey, first of all, I won't.

I'll get a Cupertino , cause I'm guessing Apple,
apple yeah.

Surprisingly high-scoring.
For you, that's going to benumber eight on the list.
That's eight points for you.
Timothy Apple, as I believethis is actual NASA last name
Timothy Apple.
Mr Cook here makes $98.7million.
The median worker makes $68,254.
It would take you 1,447 yearsto reach the CEO.

(01:05:27):
That was me.
I used to work at the Applestore.

Okay, you're up.
Oh Tiktok on Rikia.

Speaker 5 (01:05:37):
Oh, my God.

I hate this.

Speaker 5 (01:05:39):
Are they all?
Studios, cindy and by?

the way, rika.
No cheating by looking at chatbecause they're going to chat.

Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
You guys can throw some answers in there.
Now I'm not cheating.

I'm not.
This is not explicit to studios.
This is Okay.
This is yeah, yeah.
Big companies yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:06:00):
Okay, I'll just do Um McDonald's.

Oh cute, so Like , like, like just, you're such a
good doobie, you like to go inorder.
That is the number two company,so two more points for Rika.
That's fine.
Sometimes it's worth poachingthese ones, okay, okay, this is
Mr Chris K Christopher.

Speaker 5 (01:06:17):
Kent.

So, Mr Chris K Christopher Kemp Sinske makes
$20 million and the averageannual salary of a median worker
is 8,897.
So it'll take you 2,251 yearsto reach his salary.

Speaker 3 (01:06:34):
But it would take him 10 years to reach the salary of
Amazon CEO, the number one slot.

It would.
I was going to say he doesn'tmake much for a CEO If he was
working for Amazon.

Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
it'd be like God, this is a little unfair.
This guy only makes $20 million.
That's not that much comparedto the CK, yeah.

In some ways it it, yeah, it is like, you know,
mcdonald's cashier Pay, you knowwhat I mean.
Yeah, he's really slumming itwith those 20 million a year.
He's the lowest paid CEO onthis list actually, so Okay, so
maybe I should get 10 points forthat.

(01:07:11):
Oh my God, You're on the clock.

All right, I'm going to cash in with a little bit of
Walmart.

You sure are.
With nine points, walmart isvery root or a guest.
Very root or a guest.

Speaker 5 (01:07:30):
Are you trying to make me feel bad?
Yep, that's what you're doing.

He's doing the opposite of a greeter's job and
just making you feel unwelcome.
$25.7 million for Mr McMillanand that is their average salary
is 25,000.
It would take you a thousand 13years to reach his salary If
you were going to be a Walmartgreater.
Oh my God.

Speaker 5 (01:07:56):
Basically.

Speaker 3 (01:08:02):
On his average day he does 1000 Walmart greeters
worth of greeting every day.
Sure, does Wow Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
Okay, bye, I bet that's not on there.
I'm so sorry, viacom is not onthe list.
Good guess, though no, I'm not.
No, it's not Okay, do you want?

to get Rekha.
Do you need to?
Be resourced here, becauseyou're starting this negative
self-talk is Maybe we can getyou a cup of coffee from a
coffee chain that I think is onhere Starbucks.

That's a good one.
That will bring you to anotherseven points.

Speaker 5 (01:08:44):
Oh my God, oh my God.

You are cleaning house right now.
You are still in the game.
Okay, rika, this is not.
Yes, you are.
You are a mathematical Math,math, math, math, math Math.
You are mathematically still inthis game.
You could, you need, you need,you need almost everything else.
What are?

you doing, you can do this.
You might go on a.
You know, yeah, all right, sothat.

So that is.
I'll just quickly do thenumbers for you.
Starbucks Kevin Johnson, theCEO, makes 20.39 million dollars
.
It would take you 15, almost1600 years to reach his CEO pay.
The average annual salary of amedian worker is a 12,935
dollars.
You're on the clock, Rika.

Speaker 5 (01:09:32):
Warner Brothers.

I'm so sorry.
I will say this for you Don'tgo forward.
There are no studios on thistop 10 list.

Oh, outside of the ones that have already been
guessed, outside of the onesthat have already been guessed.

I'm sorry, I forgot that Amazon and Apple are
technically Not objectswebsites Yep, okay, okay yeah.

So are you going to go for a non studio gas?

Speaker 5 (01:10:00):
No, oh, am I supposed to?
No, I think it's your turn,omar, your time's moving.
Oh dear, I'm going to go withgeneral.
I made a guess.

I made a guess and it fucking tagged Omar.
Do you remember?

Speaker 5 (01:10:06):
No, general motors Right.
No, general Clock.

Um no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Tesla.

Oh, I've got this.

Let's close this out, let's finish this.

Exxon Okay Mobile.
Exxon Mobile.

Speaker 5 (01:10:28):
Gas.

No, and no gas companies on this list.
Amazingly enough, I'm going tothrow you a couple.
I'm going to throw you a coupleof hints, I'm going to need
double the hints, yeah, sothere's, there's, there are, I'd
say, at least three of them aretech companies oh, no, tech
specific, and uh, one of them isa.

(01:10:54):
I will say okay, then there'ssomething in the food and drink
industry Okay, and there's onethat's in the uh, apparel
industry.

Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
Okay.

Amazingly, google not on the list.
My non list, I mean, trust me,all their gaps are terrible too,
but it's just not in the top 10.
Omar.

Okay, cisco systems.

I didn't hear that I couldn't make out that,
guess what was that Ciscosystems.

This counts.

This absolutely counts against your time.
Cisco, not on the list, butyou're like in, you're getting
in the right direction.

Speaker 5 (01:11:33):
Oh, my God.

For one of them.

Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
Oh, AT&T.

Not on the list as much as we love Milana and
the ATT girl on the show.

Speaker 5 (01:11:43):
Not on the list If Omar doesn't come back, and I
guess for him.

Yeah, absolutely that's going to be.

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
I can guess for him.

Oh, we lost, we totally lost him.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
Yeah, we lost him, you said it counts against his
time, so I'm leaving it running.
You want me to stop it?
I'll stop it.

You say I feel, like this is on him, we just sit
here.

Go ahead, omar, you got one.

Yeah.

You hear?

you kind of kind of sort of, I'm going to go.
All right, you get to gas.

Rick, he's, he's off.
So go go, go crazy.
Oh, I just, he just popped on,you say Macy's he did Macy's.
That is not on the list Is thatone of the Hold on?

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
No, it's not.
I'll say this I look to thelist.

It's not on that list.

OK, ok, great, I know what you're thinking.
Ok.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
Oh, you're thinking something.
What are you thinking?

Well, well, I'll say this the apparel.
I'll give you another hint theapparel company.
The apparel company is like aconglomerate.
It like owns a bunch of apparelcompanies.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
A couple of these that are a holding company where
there's a lot of brands thatwould count.

If you name any of the brands, I'm going to give
it to you.
Ok, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
Yeah, oh, freaking like the fucking people that own
.

That's good.
That's good for the apparelcompany A very difficult brand
to market at least in the UnitedStates.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
For the apparel company.

I will say this, by the way chat has gotten a
couple of these.
So good job, chat.
Me the bar.
You nailed it on the tech techcompany, so you're crushing.

Speaker 5 (01:13:15):
OK, I'm not looking.
Ok, is it the people that own?

Think cheap clothes.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Target.

No, it is not target.

Speaker 5 (01:13:29):
OK, I was going to guess another thing, and I
should have guessed that cheapclothes.

I wouldn't know anything about this.
Oh my.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
God Omar luxury brand .

No, no, I'm going to get hot topic is part of the
conglomerate hot.

No, no, you know the thing.
The thing about think about hottopic, it is it is the same
place twice.
But this place that I'mthinking of is never the same
place twice.
If you remember that commercialjingle from the 80s it's how's
moving castle.
It's really never the sameplace.
I'll break it around your time.

Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
Yeah, I know the same place.
Twice, you've given me a Trollsriddle the same place twice.

No, it's never the same.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
It's never is never the same place twice.

It's never that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
That is honestly a fair marketing campaign for this
place.
What?

Speaker 5 (01:14:21):
The same place.

You guys are too young.
What is this?
You put this on for a longclothing, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:14:30):
Never the same place twice.
Can you tell me if that's a punoff the name?

Or it was their tagline for probably before you
were born.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
It's not a pun, it's stupid.

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 (01:14:44):
OK, OK, OK, OK.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Can't believe Chad got it off of that clue.

Speaker 5 (01:14:48):
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Stop complaining about.
The clue is a great clue.

Speaker 5 (01:14:50):
Oh my God, Everyone, everyone has to calm down.
We are all doing fine and I cantake as much time as I want.

No, totally you absolutely.

Speaker 5 (01:14:59):
Can you get another minute?
Thirty eight, yeah, do you wantto?

do another clue.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Yes.

I'm going to give you a clue for for one of
the big scores that are you haveto, because I can't win.
Yeah, no for sure.
It's very possible that Omarused this company in order to
get to Australia.

Speaker 5 (01:15:19):
Quantas no.

You're not wrong.
You're not wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Oh, I'm going against American Airlines.

Omar.

American Airlines.

No, it's, it's not an airline.
It's not an airline, there's it.

Now I know how to get to that airline.

He used this company.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
Oh, like Uber or Lyft or no, no, you go to.
Australia.
Well, you said to get to theairline.
Oh wait.

Omar, your turn.

I did drive over, I'm going to say visa.

No, but great guess, ok.
Well, where do you have putthat visa information?

Oh, a wallet company .
Right, it's a wallet company.

Speaker 5 (01:16:09):
Oh, what, what Shut up Uh.
Visa information.

Yeah, we already have typed that information
into in order to get thatquantas ticket into Google,
which isn't on the list, notGoogle.
Now, that was already guessed.
I'm going to let you takeanother shot at it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:29):
Into to get that visa into his email, into his, into
the government to get a visa.
How are you talking about toget to get a visa, a computer?

He's a computer.
Chad is guessing all of thecompanies that HP, hp, hp.
No great guess, but no.

OK, ok, let's end this.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
Wait, I have 14 seconds left.
Omar, if you're a gentleman,you'll donate all of your
remaining time to me.

He's never said.
He's a gentleman.

It's a big if it's a big if for me, omar Rue Najam,
I will look to donate a minuteof my time to Rekha.

Speaker 3 (01:17:19):
No, you do not.

The show has to end sometime.

OK, OK.
How did I get here?
How did I?

I mean listen.
I don't know if that's howyou're going Boeing.
Boeing is a great guess, butnot not the answer.

No, OK, 14 seconds.
Rekha, you got this Name?
Tell me if you got a clue, Ithink.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
I don't have any clues.

that's better than what you've given the
commercials that I saw, for itinvolved William Shatner.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
Try to find negotiator.
There you go.

Congratulations, rekha, storming back with with
three seconds left, or whatever.
You just get the number 10company.
It's bookings holding and theyown booking dot com, price, land
dot com, kayak dot com, cheapflights dot com.
Yada, yada, yada.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
The sea of one Booking dot com and the price.
I like price shop you, justit's the same company.

It's the same company.
You're not price, that's right.
You do the same same data.
So Rekha storms back, I think10 points.
Glenn Fogle makes fifty fourmillion dollars a year.
The average salary worker makesabout fifty eight thousand.
It would take nine hundredthirty years to reach there, wow
, wow.

Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
It just dawned on me how long it's been since we've
gotten an answer correct,because we didn't.
You guys were on a.

You guys want a great run at the top, and then,
yeah, no, it always gets kind oftough towards the end.
All right, so since you'restill in the game, I'm going to
let you.
Let's just go ahead and useOmar, are you there?

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
Yeah, I think we're using the form.
The type of system we justbefore said.
He was like if you run out oftime and you're behind, you can
try to run on the list, but youhave to get none wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:19:00):
You still have a last like last ditch, we need to get
back in.
Oh, there's absolutely no.
I mean, omar Cindy, there's noway.
I won't get that wrong.

That's actually not going to happen If we say
hey, hey, rekha, if you could,if you could somehow look into
the future, you know, if you hadsome way of of, you know a
premonition, or or you know youhad the long eye you could see
into the future, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:19:25):
And then you took these premonitions that you
wanted to store them in anefficient database.
Who would you go to to provideyou with this database?

Maybe in Boston Massachusetts.

Clearly this is psychic, psychic hard drives.

Yeah, maybe you'd consult on you know, a
bunch of people who could seeinto the future.
What would you medium.

Medium, medium, like that Medium just goes.

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
OK, so sorry she's.

Like I'm so glad that none of these are company
names, because then that wouldbe your clue.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:20:04):
Yeah, Fortune 500.

Fortune but like in Greece.
You know what I mean.
Like in Greece, yeah it happensFortune Opelus.

Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
Forge Greece, fortune Fortune.

Fortune.
It was like a favorite songfrom the movie Greece.

Speaker 5 (01:20:20):
Greek money money Greece.

Like a like a like a like a council of profits
.
A prophecies, you know, apropus.

Oracle yeah.

Four points for Rick.

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
You've got this I'm so sorry and I'm so sorry we
didn't see the matrix and wecouldn't just say it was a
character in the matrix.
We had to kind of do somethingcrazy and talk about crazy shit
for a long time.

That's the actual definition of the word.

Speaker 5 (01:20:56):
Yeah, we could have just say the lady into matrix,
we'd have to depend News.

He's going to kill more people.
No one here is who tells of thebad news?

Who tells of the bad news and makes it a big.
All right, Omar, do you got toguess?

Oh God, it's back to me.

Yeah, yeah.
Ok this company makes chips,but the kind you don't eat.

I want to say Intel.

Bam.
Number six for Omar, and Ithink that that does take the
game to Omar.
That's what I thought it was.
I love.

I love that Reka Reka got.
Ok, you're seeing to the future, but there's a vote and there's
seven votes Now.
If you rebuild the vote pieceby piece now, who said, now not
that person, but they're fine,and for me you're just like
chips.

Speaker 5 (01:21:45):
Yeah.
And then on the wind shewhispers the message that nobody
yes the name of the company.

Apparently, I'm working against myself.
The last one you didn't get wasnumber five, which is Coca Cola
, which is giving me more easierclues for the Coca Cola?

OK, is Coca Cola the one that's not in the same
place twice.

No, no, tj Max, dun Dun, dun, Dun, dun, dun Dun,
tj Max OK.
Ok, never never the same placetwice I almost guessed
Marshall's.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Oh, Marshall's is in the same order.
What a camera, yeah.

Omar, it's going to Marshall's is owned by TJ X
company is also upset about that, because I do think TJ Max is
well.

Speaker 5 (01:22:32):
when I was growing up , our TK Max was very messy.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Exactly.
That's why.
That's why it makes sense everytime you go in like listen,
something happened on theshelves.

It is TK Max and I need everyone to what's
happening right now.

Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
The branding is the same place twice.
It's now.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
TK Max.
Tk Max now.

Is that what it's called in Australia?

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
Yeah, it's the same company.

For those who are listening, Omar is holding
up a bag that he apparently justbought, you know, from a place
in Australia it's called TK Maxdown there, it's where I got
these headphones that screwed upmy audio in the beginning.

Speaker 5 (01:23:07):
Oh my God, the TK Max promise.

Definitely not a sponsor.
Definitely not a sponsor.
Well, listen everyone.
This, this has been our show.
Thank you so much, rika, forplaying out with us, being weird
and also giving us all sorts ofgreat advice.
You did all the things that weneed.
You hit the trifecta.

Speaker 5 (01:23:26):
Oh, my God, thank you for having me.

As always, if you want to see our faces
instead of just listen to us onthe podcast, then you can check
out the VOD on our YouTube page,youtubecom slash F and funny
and all that stuff's in the shownotes.
To do that.
You can rate, you can comment,because I'd really help us.
We really need that.
Those are good things that makealgorithms like us and, as
always, feedback can be sent toABCD podcast show at gmailcom or

(01:23:52):
our discord.
Yeah, yeah, and then, did weever pick a genre?
Did we ever pick a genre forour names?

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
I just hear lots of yeah, the the top suggestion
that was on there was yeah,metal.
I don't have a baby metal track, but I do have like a J-pop
track or a metal track.

A baby metal, baby metal, I don't know what it
is.

Speaker 3 (01:24:20):
If you don't know what it is, the best way to
describe it would be J-pop metal.

I don't know what, but I don't have any tracks that
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
So it's up to you.
You want.

Speaker 5 (01:24:30):
You T metal, that is to say what's it?

I know TJ Metal, I know.

TJ Max commercials.
I don't know any of what you'resaying, what this is like.
Oh, so the Japanese Choice?

Speaker 3 (01:24:44):
Do you want J-pop or do you want metal?
Because we don't have a babymetal track, so you're picking,
unless you're saying you don'tknow what metal or J-pop is Well
.

I don't really, but I'll try my best.
I know what metal is.

And I know I mean , I get the idea of Japanese pop
.

OK, japanese pop metal, but I just never heard
them together.
Japanese pop metal.

I'll get great.

OK, I need.
Do you know this Omar?

Oh, of course.

Speaker 5 (01:25:09):
I do.

Oh my gosh, I absolutely know it too.
Then you start.

OK, are we?
Are we hopping right to it?
Are we thinking our sponsors?

Yes, thank you, thank the sponsors and yeah,
yeah, which are you picking?

We'll get to it real quick while I'm black.
Bye folks.
Thank you so much.
This was a wonderful show.
If you want to send us anycomments, any I did.

I know I did that part, I did that part.

And yeah, I just wanted to make sure that they
understood.

Speaker 5 (01:25:32):
We all the same outro twice Very accurate.

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We also want to thank ourpatrons, the folks who help us
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Here we go.

We're going to do this as a baby, as just a metal
cover, as just a metal.

Ok, right, right , because I feel like you get
pretty racy for the quick OK,you ready, go.

So you kick it off.

Yeah, joshua Ryan Tavi, m Carlos Woosack,
benjamin Lo, hunter B Brown, theRed Hounder, david Dugalov,
christina Romero, danny's Corner.
My love for you.
You're the lead.
I'm nervous, I'm nervous.
Sarah H Grassy said the crew'sdetective could topple a germial

(01:26:36):
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Brian Russell Rules the root ofsalt, the root.

My lord, oh my god, it looks like a pretty pretty
thing.
Oh, nothing's slain.

Don't you forgot to mention Ducati?
Reverend Cagino, brenda PierceManrover, jeremy Schwartz,
jeremy Schwartz.

Speaker 3 (01:26:53):
Jeremy Schwartz, jeremy.

Schwartz, jeremy Schwartz, jeremy Schwartz.
And we got to mention the gods,the gods of rock Laura Clark,
spivels and Cloud Shacks,dolphin, neville and Berger.
Best Buy, best Buy, oh my God.
We're sold metal Best.

Buy.
Oh the Berger, oh the Berger,oh the Berger, the Berger.
I'm sorry, I was so excitedabout that.
Sorry, I was so excited aboutthat.
Sorry.
The shows technical directorand sound designers down in
Neville.
The show's executive producersare Sandeep Parikh and Anshan.
This is edited by Sean Maher.
The music is by HarpchallSasodia, jaspers Singh and Malik
Saveri.

This has been an effing funny production and on
about half of our co-host OmarNajam, I've been the host
Sandeep Parikh and, though I'mlosing my title, Mayor Chuck
Roseby, aligned and smothered inChutney.
Thank you so much, Rege.
We love you, Thank you.

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