We Are All One Big Cousin - Mumbai Indians, Bhajans, Virat Kohli - (A·B·C·D) Sn2 Ep3

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Episode Description:
Join us on ABCD (American Born Chatty Desi's), where we traipse through the vibrant fields of our cultural identity, picking apart current events with a dash of cheeky family rivalry in our 'Auntie vs Auntie Watch 2024.' And wouldn't you know it, Sandeep's extended clan drops in to sprinkle some personal charm into our musings.

Navigating the intricate web of family dynamics isn't for the faint of heart, but that's exactly what we do, laughing our way through familiar and eccentric practices alike. From debating the need for that ubiquitous 'junk drawer' to evaluating the politics of potential presidential candidates, we're tying together the threads of our heritage. And let's not forget the pride that swells within us as we spotlight the feats of our Desi of the Week—who else but cricket superstar Virat Kohli, whose cricket bat speaks louder than words.

So, why not let your curiosity lead the way and tune in to our little shindig, where insights and absurdity mingle like old friends at a family reunion? We've got the latest on the rumored Joe Biden WhatsApp whisper and the legal escapades of Donald Trump. Whether you're here for the sports icon admiration or the familial satire, we've got a bit of it all. Cap it off with our heartfelt thanks, served up country-style, and you've got yourself an episode that's as rich and diverse as the culture we hail from.

Show Notes for the 35th Episode of ABCD:
Sandeep Parikh X: https://twitter.com/sandeepparikh
Sandeep Parikh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sandeepparikh/
Omar Najam X: https://twitter.com/OmarNajam
Omar Najam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omarnajamfilm/ 
DesiQuest: https://www.desiquest.com/
The Mumbai Indians: https://www.mumbaiindians.com/
Foi & Fua/Gujurati Family Relations: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Gujarati/Family_relations

What's Got Us Confused #1: Ambani's throw extravagant pre-Wedding ceremony
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/28/anant-ambani-wedding-son-indias-richest-person-mukesh-celebrity-guest-list

What's Got Us Confused #2: Frog found in India with Mushroom growing on it
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/29/world/mushroom-frog-growth-chytrid-disease-scn/index.html

What's Got Us Confused #3: Cousins are disappearing throughout the world
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cousins-decline-canada-1.7103338

Desi of the Week: https://www.timesnownews.com/sports/cricket/5-records-virat-kohli-broke-during-his-113-for-rcb-against-rajasthan-royals-in-ipl-2024-article-109098307

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Technical Director & Sound Designer: Delvan Neville 
Executive Producers: Sandeep Parikh & Anand Shah
Editors: Kaylin Mahoney & Anand Shah 
Music by Harshal Sisodia, Jasvir Singh & Maulik Zaveri

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Omar Najam (00:05):
Okay, hello everyone , hello.

Sandeep Parikh (00:09):
Welcome to ABCD.
I am the host, but I'm going tostart out by introducing my
cousin from another bump andfuzzling Omar Najam, ladies and
gentlemen, Omar Najam.

Omar Najam (00:21):
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
It's very kind, it's very kind,and I would like to introduce
rihanna's opening act SandeepParikh.
I I do a 40 minute ted talk foropening act.

Sandeep Parikh (00:38):
Yeah where, I just I just talk about other ted
talks oh, that's great, so it's.

Omar Najam (00:41):
Oh, I see it's a ted talk like you've never done it
at the actual official.

Sandeep Parikh (00:45):
It's just review , I know I just sum up other ted
talks that I love so this showyou guys, this is not that this
is not that opening act.
Our show is ABCD.
It's the American Born ChattyDesi's.
It's the podcast within a livestream, because we are
technically live right nowwithin our two lives as two
american born desi's.
It's a pod-ducken.
Ladies and gentlemen, we'regoing to make t-shirts for that.
This is for anyone out therewho, like us, are just

(01:07):
navigating our culturalidentities and just want to chat
it out.

Omar Najam (01:10):
Yes, yes, yes.
What have we got on tap fortoday?
You might be asking.
Well, we've got some newstories where we're going to be
asking ourselves what's got usconfused.
Then we've got an update ofAuntie vs Auntie Watch: 2024.
We've got an interview with aspecial guest from Sandeep's
family coming up.
And then we've got, of course,our ABCD weekly game.
This one is called We're AllOne Big Cousin.

Sandeep Parikh (01:34):
The inbreeding edition.

Sanjiv Parikh (01:37):
That's the title of our episode.

Omar Najam (01:38):
I did not know that was the name of the game until
literally just now.
And finally we get to celebrateour Day C of the week and then
we close it out.
But first we've got to thanksomeone.
Do you know who that is?
Sandeep.

Sandeep Parikh (01:47):
I do because I am seeing the script right now.

Omar Najam (01:50):
Oh, great, great, great, great.
Well, in that case, you knowthat we've got to thank our
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(02:11):
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I'm not going to say thatanything's definite, but you

(02:37):
know, if you're going to Gen Con, let's just say Stay tuned on
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I won't say necessarily anynames or locations, but I was
grabbing a beer the otherevening and a wonderful beer
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It was very, very rad.
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Sandeep Parikh (03:29):
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Omar Najam (03:46):
It's so unbelievably rad.

Sandeep Parikh (03:47):
Yes, yes yes, and on that note our second
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It's the listening audience.
Yeah, it sure is.
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(04:07):
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watching those reels, before Idecide to hire a cinematographer
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We're going to be doing allthat on our Discord through this

(04:28):
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Omar Najam (04:43):
So with all that in mind mind, should we start the
episode.
I think we should all right,let's hop on over to what's got
us confused.
Oh there it is.
There it is.
Do you mind if I hit you with aquestion real quick?

Sandeep Parikh (04:57):
oh my god I was hoping you'd ask a question okay
great.

Omar Najam (05:00):
What do what Rihanna , a glass palace adorned with
flowers, custom Versace and anighttime show starring 5,500
drones have in common?

Sandeep Parikh (05:13):
Me as the opening act.

Omar Najam (05:14):
That's right.
That's right According to youropening joke.
Yeah, that's right.
According to my opening joke,that is a reality that we set
and I cannot negate that.
they also.
The thing they also have incommon is they were all part of
the most expensive pre-weddingin indian history.
How are you feeling about that?

Sandeep Parikh (05:32):
that's just the pre-wedding like yeah, it's not
the wedding also took all thelike, the like you know this the
sangeet and the like the youknow the sort of official names
of those events the mehndi, thesangeet, or at least who knows.
India is a widely diverseculture, but they took all those
, whatever they were called, andwere like let's just call it
pre-wedding, pre-wedding is goodenough.

Omar Najam (05:55):
So let me give you a number and then ask you a
question.
Rihanna was paid $6.3 millionto be at the pre-wedding.
How expensive do you think theoverall?

Sandeep Parikh (06:08):
pre-wedding was oh, I'm gonna say 10x, I want to
say it was 630 million dollars.
Okay, my realistic guess I'mgonna say the entire three-day
pre-wedding.
Okay, that's probably thecenterpiece, I'm just going to
$55 million.

Omar Najam (06:29):
$55 is very expensive.
Okay, you want to stick withthat.

Sandeep Parikh (06:31):
Yeah, I'm going to stick with that Okay.

Omar Najam (06:34):
You're saying $55 million, which is a lot.

Sandeep Parikh (06:36):
No, you're off.
By I mean, this guy is like abazillionaire.
Am I way crazy off?

Omar Najam (06:39):
Yeah, but there a limit to everything.
This one costs 120 milliondollars, oh my I like nice good
setup good good misdirect goodmisdirect.

Sandeep Parikh (06:50):
I was like, oh no, I ruined the whole show yes,
this is 120 million dollars yes, yes, yes.

Omar Najam (07:00):
This is because anant ambani, who is the son of
mukesh ambani who is the richestperson in asia I believe, with
$110 billion fortune behind thatname held a three-day-long
pre-wedding with fiancée RadhikaMerchant.
The Ambani family actually ownsa cricket team.
This is my favorite sports nameI've ever heard in my entire

(07:21):
life.
It's the Mumbai Indians.

Sandeep Parikh (07:29):
Okay, yeah, so they just took cleveland's it's
yeah, it's an expat club.

Shyam (07:36):
It's like a mr baseball but listen, this actually does
make sense, right because wehave the washington nationals.

Sandeep Parikh (07:43):
Yeah, uh, we have.
You know, there are, there are.
I mean, I guess there's noamericans, but there are kind of
like the patriots the patriots,sure.
So you know it.
I think it sounds sillier to usbecause of the cleveland
indians, right, right yeah it,it does it like.

Omar Najam (08:03):
When I hear that it's's so funny for us as
Americans, because I hear like ateam is called the Indians, I'm
like that's problematic.
Oh wait, oh sorry, you're inIndia, now I understand.

Sanjiv Parikh (08:14):
I mean I yeah, it's.

Sandeep Parikh (08:15):
It's interesting .
My dad was very upset when theCleveland Indians changed their
name.
He really was like that.
He's like you shouldn't changethe name, Change the mascot.
That was just yeah.
Yes, yes, like, do a picture ofme and I'm like okay, you know
he was upset that.

Omar Najam (08:35):
You know, people were just talking about us less
yeah he just never really madethe connection, I guess I don't
know anyway that's amazing, it'sjust the football team is just
Ravi Shankar's face, just on,like a billboard, amazing,
absolutely amazing.
And, speaking of cricket, justwant to give a shout out to

(08:56):
women's cricket.
The WPL, the Women's PremierLeague, is blowing up right now.
Crowds are sold out and theyare just having an incredible,
incredible season.
And I personally haven't beensomeone who follows a lot of
cricket, but now I'm kind oflike I think this might be the
year I jump in.

Sandeep Parikh (09:13):
I think we gotta do it, man, we gotta do it.
They're playing more games inAmerica now, and so we gotta you
know, I think they haven't cometo LA specifically yet, but
when they do, you and I we'regoing to take ABCD to a cricket
game.

Omar Najam (09:25):
I'm just saying that right now.
Yes, yes, yes.
But on the subject of thewedding, though, I got to ask
you are you feeling moreinformed, confused or baffled?

Sandeep Parikh (09:35):
I mean, I'm not exactly sure that I was ever
that confused.
Like I've been to some prettyostentatious Indian weddings and
so it doesn't surprise me thatthe richest person in the world
would be like, well, let's makethe most absurdly ostentatious
wedding on the planet.
Like that does not reallysurprise me, so I'm going to
stick with, I'm informed.
Hey, I guess you know why.

(09:57):
Yuck their yum.
Yeah, what about you?
How are you?

Omar Najam (10:01):
feeling Informed.
Very straightforward, if you'regoing gonna have rihanna yeah,
I have.

Sandeep Parikh (10:07):
No, I have no further questions your honor
exactly before we move on.
What's the one crazy?
If money was no object, what's?
The crazy extravagant thingyou'd want at your wedding a
pegasus okay, just like one thatyou construct yourself, or like
an actual has to be geneticallyaltered like Island Dr Moreau

(10:28):
Pegasus.

Omar Najam (10:29):
Well, I don't like that.
You've called it a Dr MoreauPegasus Well, what else would?
It be Wait.
Doesn't that mean it would belike a person before it was a
Pegasus?
Oh were they all people.

Sandeep Parikh (10:41):
I thought that was just like movie poor things.
You know how they're like.
Okay, anyway.

Omar Najam (10:46):
Yeah, sure, okay, I want to be clear.
I don't want a Dr MoreauPegasus.
I want, like, a real Pegasusthat like Hercules hung out with
from childhood.
I want that one.

Sandeep Parikh (10:56):
Okay, so that's impossible, but fine, okay, I'll
let it slide.
How about you?
Mine is like just a millionpassed apps.
I think passed apps are thebest part of weddings and I
think we should skip the dinnerand just have constant passed
apps of all varieties.

Chetan (11:12):
What are?

Sandeep Parikh (11:12):
you saying?
Passed apps.

Omar Najam (11:15):
Pasta.
You don't know what a passedapp is.
You mean pasta.
The appetizers that they walkaround in.

Sandeep Parikh (11:19):
they walk around during the cocktail hour.
You know, you get like fourappetizers and it's always the
best part of the wedding food,and then they get.
You get to the meal and you'relike oh, it's like just like
cafeteria style food.
Sometimes it's good.
Did you go to a recess themedwedding?
What is this?

Parin (11:36):
No, they just it's never as good as the passed app.
sss.
Okay.
Okay, okay so.

Omar Najam (11:43):
I think this is a really achievable goal.

Sandeep Parikh (11:45):
I've got great news no, no, they're the most
expensive thing and I just wantlike an obscene amount of them
oh, I see, okay, yeah yeah, apegasus like a pegasusian amount
a dr moreau level yeah, allMoving on to story number two,
all right, okay.

Omar Najam (12:06):
What are we?

Sandeep Parikh (12:07):
looking at.
What's the?
Yeah, what we're looking at isnot something out of Island of
Dr Moreau, unlike what you mightthink.
This is a frog with a mushroomgrowing out of it.
It's not a mushroom that'sfallen on top of it.
It's not a mushroom that'sstuck onto it because it rolled
onto a mushroom.
It is a mushroom growing fromwithin its being okay.

(12:29):
So a frog with a tiny mushroomsprouting out of its flank was
observed by a group ofnationalists at a roadside pond
in karnataka, india, in in thefirst of its kind discovery.
All right.
So a rivers and wetlandsspecialist says and this is like
this must be this guy's heyday,right, like his phone's ringing
off the hook today he goes.

(12:50):
When I first observed the frogwith the mushroom, I was amazed
and intrigued.
My thought was to document it,as this phenomenon is something
we've never heard of.
We just wanted to be this to bea rare incident and not a
dangerous phenomenon for thefrog.
Not a dangerous phenomenon forthe frog.
The species right here is knownas Rao's intermediate
golden-backed frog and is foundin abundance in southwestern

(13:10):
India.
They're small, growing up toonly 2.9 inches long.
Insert jokes about sizes ordon't, please don't.
Naturalists watching the frog,as it moved around, changed.
So the frog moved around andchanged positions, but the
mushroom remained perfectly inplace and the group did not
touch the frog as it movedaround, changed like.
So the frog moved around andchanged positions, but the
mushroom remained perfectly inplace and the group did not
touch the frog.
This sort of means that it'sdefinitively was growing from

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within it.
Mycologists later identifiedthe mushroom growing out of the
frog's flank as a type of fungithat mostly grows on rotting
wood from dead trees.

Omar Najam (13:43):
Okay.

Sandeep Parikh (13:44):
Okay.
So, and though the fungustypically gets its nutrients
from dead or decaying matter, a2023 study found that the
mushroom could evolve to thriveon living plants as well, but
never this Okay so here we are.
What are we saying here?
This is the last of us, right?
That was the first thing Ithought of too.
Yeah, is this proof the last ofus, right?

(14:04):
That's the first thing Ithought of too.
Yeah, this is proof the last ofus is real that's wild.
So a mushroom is growing out ofa frog yeah, yeah, so it's a
symbiotic relationship betweenthis frog and mushroom, because
it doesn't look like, because Iknow that there's like some
funguses that control ants orsomething they like right, which

(14:25):
is what I think was, at thebeginning, the reason why?
I realize I know it is becauseit's the beginning of the Last
of Us.
So, yeah, this is that, maybethe beginning of that for frogs.
So what do you think, man, areyou like?
Would you want this frog as apet?
Yeah, are you?
Would you eat this mushroom?
No, on a pizza.

Omar Najam (14:47):
No, well, it's part of the.
So is this a thing that wecould extract or is it like part
of the frog?
The frog is just like hey, mandon't.
That's me I don't know.

Sandeep Parikh (14:59):
I think they just didn't mess with it.
I guess we'll have to have amushroom watch.

Omar Najam (15:03):
What I do love about this story is that it turns out
herpetologists are just like us, because they're just like
what's that.
They take a picture of it.
They just ask their friend andthey go what's that?
Looks like a mushroom.

Sandeep Parikh (15:16):
If they didn't take it off or they didn't mess
with it, then how do they knowthat's not just like a funky
wart, you know?

Omar Najam (15:25):
Yeah, well.
Well, I guess a mushroom expertwould be able to identify.
You mean a mycologist boom yeah, yeah, a mycologist, that's
right, uh, this is so.
And then mycologist was likelook, they probably could start
to take over us living creatures, including the Rouse

(15:47):
Intermediate Goldenback Frog.

Sandeep Parikh (15:50):
Totally.
I think this is yeah.
Are you concerned?

Omar Najam (15:53):
No hold on.
Are you concerned?
Like is this going to like?
Should we be?

Sandeep Parikh (15:58):
worried Like comedically.
Yes, I'm concerned.
Okay.
For the sake of this.
Yeah'm like concerned but liketruly I think, like I don't know
, doesn't fungal infections likehappen all the time?
Like athlete's foot is fungaland like that's a thing.
Like we have a lot ofinteraction with funguses, so

(16:18):
I'm not that freaked out.
If it was like, if it was doingthe whole ant mind control
thing, I'd be totally freakedout.

Omar Najam (16:24):
Let me do a quick search, really quickly.
Nostradamus mushroom frogNostradamus mushroom frog.
There's some stuff thatNostradamus predicted, but I
don't see a mushroom frog inhere.
Interesting, he missed this one.
Where are you at?
We know where Nostradamuspredicted, but it's yeah, I
don't see a mushroom frog inhere.
Okay interesting.

Sandeep Parikh (16:44):
He missed this one.
Where are you at?
We know where Nostradamus is at.
Are you informed, baffled orconfused?
I'm baffled, you're baffled.

Omar Najam (16:53):
So far, this is all just observed.
So far, experts have gone.
Yeah, we're looking at whatyou're looking at too, pal,
we're in the same spot as you?

Sandeep Parikh (17:00):
we don't know that was the.
That was the officialdissertation on it it was.

Omar Najam (17:05):
I guess we'll also.
Yeah, like you said, we'regonna have to introduce mushroom
frog watch 2024 to ouron-campus rotation I'll think.
I think I'll stick with confusedoh my god, yeah confused well,
I've got one last news story foryou, if you're ready for this.
Do you remember the lineanything can happen when two
people share a cell?

(17:25):
Cuz from rest of development.
I do now.
Well, that joke is going to bea dated reference at this point
because it turns out the cousinsare disappearing.
According to sociologists anddemographers, extended families
are narrowing over time due tothe decrease in fertility rates.
International demographic datafrom every country in the world

(17:46):
showed a get ready for this 38%global decline in living
relatives for individuals age 65by the year 2095, which I
believe is us.

Rajiv Parikh (17:58):
Yeah, at least one of us.
I'm not that long.

Omar Najam (17:59):
You're pretty young.
The sort of composition of thisis a couple of things, but what
they found is that, for example, canadian data projects that
the average Canadian 15-year-oldgirl will have just 3.6 living
cousins in 2095, compared to15.3 in 1950.
This is a 76% decrease.

Sandeep Parikh (18:22):
That's sad, that saddens me, okay.

Omar Najam (18:24):
So in general, that's a big thing to think
about and a lot of this comesdown to, like we mentioned
earlier, fertility rates, butalso people moving around the
world, family branches, sort ofspreading out people having
fewer kids within the familyunit itself.
But for us, as daisies, cousinsare a big thing.

Sandeep Parikh (18:47):
Big thing, self um.
But for us as daisies, right,cousins are a big thing.
Big thing like is this gonnamean that, like when people are
like, hey, what's up cuz?
Like they'll be like oh, cuz isthis archaic term that meant
when your brother's or yourfather or mother's sibling had
kids, what that's great you knowkind of like the origin of the
word goodbye is, you know, god,be with ye people yes husband,
cousin yeah, yeah, it's the newpenny, farthing yeah yeah, this

(19:11):
scares me because, well, I Iguess, just because of what I
know, which is like I have 14.
We have 14 cousins on my mom'sside together so we're right in
that, in that, in that number,and we're such a close crew.
I mean, that is the oneWhatsApp group that I like,
always try to respond to.
It's the one that I actuallycare about.
These are people that I wouldtrust.

(19:34):
I just trust likewholeheartedly with you, know,
with my kid or with anythingimportant in my life, like they
are part of the reason why Iknow I will never go hungry.
You know I will never could bedestitute.
I have way too much of a network, of a safety net of like

(19:56):
cousins that we all just loveeach other so much I, just I.
So that bums me, it scares mefor my son, you know, to be
honest, like well, he's okaybecause he's got a bevy of
cousins, but just that nextgeneration, that kind of
whittling down, that's kind of abummer.
He's got a lot of cousins, butthey're not in the same age

(20:17):
range as him because mybrother's way older.
Blah, blah, blah.
I don't know what about you.
Are you tight with your cousins?

Omar Najam (20:23):
Yeah, I am especially on my mom's side of
the family.
My dad's side of the family alittle bit less so, and that's
something that I'm going to lookto amend, but on my mom's side
of the family, absolutely mycousins are like my best friends
, and so when it's like aholiday, like we always call
each other, my cousin was intown a couple weeks ago and I
drove down to Anaheim at likethe drop of a dime because it's
like let's get dinner and wejust like hung out and talked.

(20:45):
It's like you have thisconnection.
But also, since it's not like adaily friend thing, you also
get to like I don't know checkin with each other, get like a
different perspective on theworld.

Sandeep Parikh (20:56):
You can be like hey, I really need to have a
talk with you about like shitthat's going on my in my world
because, like, they can besomewhat impartial, but also
they know all the players youdon't have to like spend all
this time being like okay, sothis is who foy is, this is who,
like you don't have to like gointo the thing.
You're just like, yeah, yo, I'mhaving this experience and they
, they can be right with you.
That's.
It's so huge.

(21:18):
I just don't know what I woulddo without that yeah, this is so
.

Omar Najam (21:22):
We'll have to figure out a solution.
Can you think off the top ofyour head what is a like?
Should we maybe have a programwhere you can just like people
need to breed dude?

Sandeep Parikh (21:31):
like, but?
But also we need to create asustainable society, you know, a
functional, a system wherepeople can support themselves
and like actually support afamily, I mean I think that's
you know chats going off rightnow about like who can, who can
afford to have more than one ortwo kid, like yeah there's some

(21:53):
jokes going on about it, but Ithink it's true, like it's a big
deal for us, like we only haveone, and I know that a huge
reason why we have we don't havemore is is that we're like this
is I.

Parin (22:03):
You know I'd have to change my career at this point
to have more kids I'd have tostop doing abcd, unless you get
on patreon right now, if we hitthis goal, I will have another
kid talk about bringing a babyto a pitch meeting.

Omar Najam (22:16):
That really listen netflix.

Sandeep Parikh (22:19):
If you buy this idea, I will.
I will spawn another child,yeah, well I have a possible
solution.

Omar Najam (22:26):
You know, if, if society can't change to allow
for families to be supported bysociety in the same way, which
is, I think that I'm going tocreate an ai that can replace
cousins.
So, for example, give me just,you know, any complaint, you any
ambiguous complaint you wouldkind of give to a cousin, and
I've got.

Sandeep Parikh (22:44):
I'll tell you what the ai response would be
yeah, like, oh my god, can youbelieve that we hired
photographers for this wedding?
But you know, sorry, subashmama, I'm calling you out, but
subash mama, was like standingup and taking pictures the whole
time, anyway, and like gettingthe photographer's way okay like
oh gosh, I was setting this upfor a joke like I love them.

Omar Najam (23:04):
I love them, but come on my canned response was
the ai was gonna spit.
Well, you know how uncle can be.

Sandeep Parikh (23:10):
So actually I think this, I think this might
have some legs wow, nailed it,nailed it yeah okay, this might
work, this might work what areyou gonna call it cuz, cuz, cuz
in gpt chot, gbt chot, oh, chotlike yeah I like it yeah, that's

(23:32):
brilliant you did, thank youI'm sure it's a joke that's
never been made, ever before Ithink it hasn't, and I think you
should make it, and I thinkmicrosoft will give you four
billion dollars for it.

Omar Najam (23:43):
Oh, I don't want it.
No thanks, all right where arewe at?
Confused, informed, baffled.
I'm personally, I feel a little, I'm concerned, but I feel
informed.
I wasn't aware that the cousinswere going away.

Sandeep Parikh (23:58):
Yeah, I'm informed by this.
I wasn't aware either, andlet's do.
We got to do something about it, Guys start shdupping by this.
I wasn't aware either, andlet's do.

Omar Najam (24:06):
We gotta do something about it guys start
stopping, okay, and then tellyour family members to do the
same.
I guess it's a pretty specificissue we're dealing with right,
that's the thing is, you don'thave to.

Sandeep Parikh (24:14):
You don't have to have pressure to have kids
yourself, just pressure yoursiblings to have kids yeah,
that's what it is, yeah allright.
Well, that is what's got usconfused.
Next up we've got a prettyinteresting interview, but
actually a montage of interviews.
Oh, all right, so here's whatwe're doing.
Instead of an interview Idecided to.

(24:37):
On the topic of cousins, Idecided to send a prompt out to
all of my cousins asking themhey, what's one thing you're
doing to pass the culture downor to celebrate the culture,
some part of the culture thatyou're taking on and continuing
to do, and then what's one thingthat you're ditching?
Um, and so here are theirresponses.

Nayan (25:00):
Hi, I'm Nayan Sandeep's cousin, and the one thing I'm
going to take forward of ourculture is Indian classical
music Listening to it, playingit, celebrating it and that's
Ken, my partner, playing mysitar in the background.
Whoever's playing it, we bothenjoy it so much.

(25:21):
One thing I'm going to leavebehind is incense.
I don't ever need to have anyof that in my house, ever.

Rajiv Parikh (25:32):
Hi, I'm Rajiv.
I'm Sunneep's older brother.
One thing that I'm carryingforward is I go to India every
quarter and whenever I go thereI try to reconnect to some
Indian heritage place.
We went to Sri Lanka and wewent to Ravana's palace just a
little while ago.
So I try to capture some partof that history because it helps

(25:54):
connect me back to this amazingculture.
When it comes to something Ileave behind, I'd say it's a lot
of the ceremonies.
They're fun, they'reinteresting, they're good to do
every now and then, but everyday, even every week or every
month, maybe not much so, butanyways, I love what we have.
It's an incredible culture andI love introducing other people

(26:14):
to it and I'm really happy thatI am born the way I am.

Sanjiv Parikh (26:17):
Hey everyone, I'm Sanjeev, I am Salim's elder
brother.
The one thing I would removefrom the culture, not the things
themselves, but, I think, theguilt associated with it.
So things like notvegetarianism but vegetarian
guilt and yoga guilt, meditationguilt, gupta Pajama guilt.

(26:38):
I think that color clothing istoo loose for me, but the one
I'm going to pick is a subset ofthe yoga guilt, and that's
breathing.
Because I don't know, I thoughtthat was the one thing I could,
with all the stresses in life Icould just leave for granted is
breathing, but apparently not.
No, I have to breathe a certainway and get my thumb here and

(26:59):
exhale a certain way and inhaleall this stuff.
The one thing I keep are thestories.
My favorite is the Mahabharata.
It's, ironically about twofamilies fighting each other,
but there's there's so manygreat themes that that come out
of it.
It's one where I'm justconstantly thrilled and I'm
hoping that story really gets,gets told, come out, actually

(27:20):
have a screenplay that I've beenworking on and it's going to be
great.

Aditi (27:25):
Hi, I'm Aditi Sandeep's cousin and the things I'd like
to carry forward about Indianculture are Garba and Ross, for
sure, and also singing bhajansto my kids to sleep.
That has been a surprise to mebecause I didn't think I even

(27:50):
remembered the songs that weresung to me at bedtime many, many
years ago.
And here I am singing some ofthe same songs and filling in
the gaps where I don't rememberthe words to my own children at
bedtime and, lo and behold, theyactually have memorized them.
And then when they ask me whatit means, I really don't have a

(28:12):
good answer.
But at least the kids know thepigeons and shloka.
And one thing I'd be happyleaving behind is shaming Indian
girls about their body hair,because you all know we've got
it and we go through great painsto get rid of it, to make it
seem like we are hairless beings, and it's not true, except for

(28:35):
maybe a lucky few.
So I hope that this nextgeneration and generations
forward can just embrace whattheir mama gave them and their
daddies gave them and just beconfident in themselves and not
feel like the world is judgingthem for having body hair.

Parin (28:53):
Hi, sonipa, this is Parin , your cousin.
One thing that I want to makesure that the kids have
instilled in them is a realappreciation for my mom, their
ba, and so we go to visit herevery couple of weeks, and one
of the things she loves to do iscook for them.
Her love language is definitelyfood, and so it's been really

(29:16):
special to see how the kids overthe years have really embraced
my mom's cooking, and theyrarely eat vegetables outside of
going to my mom's house fordinner, but they will eat all
the shaksh.
One thing we've left behind Iwould say not necessarily
intentionally is overallHinduism and not imparting so

(29:40):
much the stories that we grew upwith with Krishna and Ram and
Sita and Radha, the stories thatwere important to us.
That's something that's kind ofbeing left behind, I think,
with me, and not necessarily soovertly, and is something that's
faded away over time.

Chetan (29:59):
Hi, this is Chetan.
I'm Sandeep's youngest cousin,faded away over time.
Hi, this is Chetan.
I'm Sandeep's youngest cousin.
One thing that my partner,yuvram, and I hope to carry
forward is the beautifultradition of festivals.
Yuvram comes from southernIndia, I'm from Gujarat,
northern India, and so we have alot of festivals that are part

(30:20):
of our heritage, includingDiwali, the Festival of Lights,
pongal, which is New Year in theSouth, Navratri, which is a
nine-day festival of dancing,and Hori, which is the festival
of throwing colors at each other.
One thing that we hope to leavebehind is gendered traditions,

(30:44):
so things like women can't go tothe temple when they're
menstruating, or things likewhen a father passes, the woman
has to wear patterns for acertain period of time.
So, yeah, I mean I think it'sjust there's a lot of gender
things.
Even for us, in our weddingceremony that we're planning,

(31:04):
we've tried to be prettyintentional, working with the
priestess on choosing thosethings that feel more
egalitarian and don't carryforward things that are sexist.

Shailan (31:19):
Hi, I'm Shailen Suneep's favorite cousin, or so
he tells me.
Hi, I'm Shailen Suneep'sfavorite cousin, or so he tells
me.
Our family loves Raksha Bandhan, an annual celebration between
brothers and sisters.
Sisters wish a long, healthylife and give their blessings to
their brothers.
The brothers vow to protecttheir sisters.
Nowadays that protection is inthe form of a gift.

(31:40):
We're really not carryingforward many of the religious
rituals of Hinduism, mostlybecause we don't understand them
.
They're in Sanskrit or Hindiand a lot of times they seem not
as relevant to our way of life.
But we do appreciate the Hinduphilosophies, so we do follow

(32:01):
that.

Shyam (32:03):
Hey, this is Shyam.
I am Sandeep's cousin, and oneof the things about Indian
religions that I like to keep isactually bhajans, or Indian
prayers.
One of the things that we likeabout them is kind of the
soothing nature of them, therepetitiveness, the rhythm.
They're really just fun for ourkids.

(32:23):
One of the things that Iprobably want to stop doing too
much is actually visitingrelatives' households just for
the sake of saying I did it, andit's a really interesting
Indian tradition of saying, hey,you got to come over my house,
so you got to stop by and sayhello.
It's like, hey, if I have theopportunity, I will, but just
for the sake of stopping by.

(32:44):
For just traveling and visitingfor no apparent reason really
isn't needed as much anymore.
I think we have really gooddigital technologies and Zoom,
and if you go to India and youtravel all the way out there and
you just spend the entire timevisiting a bunch of houses and
not really enjoying theenvironment around, it's kind of
not as thrilling.
Yeah, thanks sing it you singit.

Aditi (33:08):
Okay, how about we sing it together?
Can you sing it together?
Yes, yes, sati.

Sandeep Parikh (33:42):
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my god I actually dozed
off because they sung me tosleep, so it was so sweet and
peaceful I was.

Omar Najam (33:53):
I was wide awake.
What a, what a talented familyyou come from.

Sandeep Parikh (33:56):
That's crazy yeah, they're not bad, they're,
they're, they're.
Yeah, I I quite enjoy them.
We just had a big cousin'sreunion, so it was lovely to
also get this together and thento hear my little niece singing
was the best.

Shyam (34:11):
That's so great Sleepy.

Sandeep Parikh (34:12):
Bhagavan, the sleepy one.
So, omar, I wanted to ask youwhat of those, maybe what was
your favorite of the likekeeping things going forward and
and ditching, or the ones thatmost resonated with?

Omar Najam (34:27):
you, it would probably be the festivals, and
it's just been on my mind latelyof just how important the
festivals are and festivals thatare not like also like steeped
in just consuming things, likegoing to Walmart and like coming
together and doing stufftogether.

(34:48):
I think that's really important, and specifically Rocky.
I grew up going to Chicago oncea year because, or every other
year, because my cousins livedout in the, the suburbs and we
would do Rocky together.
So we would go to them everylike even year, and they would
come to us every odd year and nomatter what, every year we made
sure that the cousins did Rockytogether.

(35:08):
And it's such a huge part of mylife.
I can't imagine being who I amwithout it, so that is I love
that.

Sandeep Parikh (35:15):
So then I guess, shailen, you share the win with
Chetan, because he pickedRaksabandhan specifically Chetan
said.
This is going to be a big deal.
I'm clarifying because thiswill be a big deal to my way.
Hyperly overcompetitive family,all right, so who wins for the
thing that you ditch?

Omar Najam (35:36):
Okay, I really resonated with the sort of
thought of like let's not go tofamily's house just to go to
family's house yes, I knowthat's such a big.
Thing it's a lot of and itfeels really fake and there's
just like a lot of.
I don't want to put anyone onblast, but there's like like
when you go into things likethat, there's a lot of trash
talk on the drive over and a lotof trash talk on the way back

(35:59):
and do you know what I mean?
objecting yourself to gossip,and yeah, it's, it's a hundred
percent, just like I wonder howit's gonna be this time.
And on the way back I'm justlike I can't believe that person
showed up or whatever.
I like the idea of ourgeneration, kind of I don't know
pushing that a little bit,evolving a little bit, where we
are?

Sandeep Parikh (36:16):
I think we're, aren't we the like?
We'll meet you at the.
We'll all get together at arestaurant or a bar.
Yes, and that's fine.
You don't have to come over toevery single cousin's house.

Omar Najam (36:25):
We don't want to clean.
We don't want to force someoneelse to clean.
We also know we're all brown.
We know that we've also stuffedeverything in drawers Like.
We know this, so it's, we knowit's not Our.

Sandeep Parikh (36:35):
sleeping under the rug is the random silverware
drawer.
The random silverware drawer,like the one drawer, we will not
let anybody open in the kitchen.

Omar Najam (36:43):
Yes, yeah, when families talk about the junk
drawer, I'm always like you meanyou won yeah.

Sandeep Parikh (36:51):
I mean, mine is like probably 80% Taco Bell
packets, sauce packets, at leastin my parents' house.
Okay, that is amazing.
So Shyam, who is technically mycousin-in-law, I guess,
depending on how it goes, youget that point there.
So congratulations to you guys.
You guys have bragging rightsat the next reunion.

Omar Najam (37:10):
But amazing, amazing competitors, amazing
contestants.

Sandeep Parikh (37:13):
Y'all did great.
Okay, through and through,y'all win a participation award.

Omar Najam (37:19):
Well, that wraps up our discussion about cousins.

Sandeep Parikh (37:26):
Just in time for Auntie vs Auntie Watch 2024.
Yeah, that's right, it's oursegment where we track the 2024
US presidential election to seejust how close we are to
achieving a presidential racebetween Democratic Auntie Kamala
Harris and Republican auntieNikki Haley.
And I know the primaries areover.
But reminder, well, first ofall, they are both technically

(37:48):
aunties, they're at least partIndian.
And reminder Donald, old Donniethere facing I don't know, I
think approximately 7 billionindictments, and so he could be
off the ticket.
And then, joe, he's amalarkeyed heartbeat away from
being reincarnated.
So no, it's unlikely, and Idon't wish it upon him.
Okay, I'm not saying that it'sunlikely, it's possible that

(38:10):
Auntie versus Auntie couldhappen.

Omar Najam (38:12):
What's our current status, omar?
The last we checked in was withAnjali Bhimani, a friend of the
show, anjali Bhimani, and indiscussing with her, it's
brought us up to 11 o'clock,with midnight being the farthest
from auntie versus auntie watch2024.
It's a very confusing scale.
Do we want to change?

Sandeep Parikh (38:29):
it.
Yeah, we're gonna switch it up.
We're gonna make it percentagesokay, okay, great so that's,
she put it 30 minutes back of a24.
Let's say yeah 24 sections30minutes.

Omar Najam (38:40):
That's approximately math percent oh so this is
supposed to make it easier.
Okay, great.

Sandeep Parikh (38:48):
It's 5% roughly.
Yeah, roughly, 5%.

Omar Najam (38:52):
Oh, so we're building up to Auntie vs Auntie,
watch 2024.
Yeah, Okay.

Sandeep Parikh (38:56):
So right now we're at 5% Right 5% chance that
it'll be an Auntie-off yeah.

Omar Najam (39:03):
Now, do we have any updates that might push this up?

Sandeep Parikh (39:06):
Here's the latest that's going on for Mr
Trump.

Chetan (39:08):
All right.

Sandeep Parikh (39:08):
Storms are coming right now.
His first criminal trial for hishush money that he paid to
Pornstar, or allegedly paid toPornstar, stormy Daniels, has
begun begun, so he has, ofcourse, pleaded not guilty to
all 34 counts of falsifyingbusiness records related to this
130 000 payment he made toadult films actor stormy daniels

(39:30):
at the end of 2016 electioncycle to keep her quiet about
the fact that they were stupid.
The former president, of course, has denied the allegation, but
this trial is happening.
Jurors are being selected, likethey.
They did the whole thing wherethey tried to, you know delay
and you know throw the case outand all that stuff.
It's happening.
And trump this is the kickerfor me trump is required to be

(39:54):
present at the trial, which cango for up to six to eight weeks,
right, so that's he.
He's kind of off the campaigntrail.

Parin (40:01):
Yeah.

Sandeep Parikh (40:02):
Using the trial as a campaign, but Listen, I'm
an optimist.

Omar Najam (40:08):
I'm pushing this up to 10%.

Sandeep Parikh (40:12):
Okay, that's before.
You've heard the Joe side.
Do you want to hear the Joeside?

Omar Najam (40:16):
Yeah, I do want to hear the Joe side.

Sandeep Parikh (40:17):
This is all I've got about, joe.
Okay, because there wasn'treally any like health scare
news or anything like that,thankfully but, literally today.
I dropped my parents off at theairport and my parents were
like did you hear?
Joe biden is dropping out ofthe race.

Delvan (40:31):
And I was like what are you talking about?

Sandeep Parikh (40:33):
you know, immediately, my wife is like she
goes on like checks the newsand it's like what's happening.
And then they were like see,look on whatsapp.
They like it was just like atotal, like infographic for fake
, like you know yes informationfilled infographic on whatsapp
that's being passed around butI'm like I don't know see like

(40:54):
they're doing that thing againwhere they they attack seniors
with this like garbage to likemake it confusing, make it, you
know, disillusion them a littlebit.
I'm not exactly sure what thistactic is, but it worked on my
parents for at least six toeight hours until they told us
about it.
So that's what I have on theJoe side.

Omar Najam (41:14):
Okay, so I was at 10 .
You updated me about thisWhatsApp situation and because
it's your parents, in honor ofthem, I'm actually pushing it up
to 11 situation.
And because it's your parent,in honor of them, I'm actually
pushing it up to 11, becauseeven numbers are unlucky.
In our culture, you don't give.
When you give money, it has tobe.
It's not 20, it's 21, so I'mgonna pop it up to an 11 I love
that.

Sandeep Parikh (41:34):
11 is my dad's favorite number.
Actually it's technically asecond favorite number.
22 is his first, I don't't knowwhy.

Omar Najam (41:39):
Okay, we're moving on from that we multiplied it by
two, obviously 11.

Sandeep Parikh (41:44):
11.
I love it.
I'm sticking with that.
I'm with you.
11% you guys, let's see howthis trial plays out and see
what happens with WhatsApp spam.

Omar Najam (41:54):
And again, not 11 o'clock.
We want to be clear.
I know we said 11 o'clockearlier.
Please don't be confused thatwe went back to 11.
It is 11%.
It was confusing before, so wedecided to continue to change it
.

Sandeep Parikh (42:07):
There we go.
11%, there we are.

Omar Najam (42:09):
Amazing.
Well, that clears us out.
Now for us to play a littlegame.

Sandeep Parikh (42:21):
Since we've been talking a lot about family in
this episode, we're going tomove into our game this week
that we collectively agreed tocall we Are All One Big Cousin.

Omar Najam (42:30):
For each question.
Both of us will have to choosewho we think is the actual
cousin of a celebrity.
Each correct answer will grantus a point.
Whoever has the most pointsafter the three rounds will win,
and if there's a tiebreaker,we'll use that as well.
We'll do that.

Sandeep Parikh (42:45):
The loser has to make an apology speech in one
minute to one of the celebritycousins that they failed to
identify correctly, to describewhy they're obviously related,
and the winner becomes the host.
Right, we're still doing that.
Yeah.
All right, Take it away Delvin.

Delvan (43:01):
All right, I'm giving both of you one point each for
those explanations.
That was a great job all around, amazing, amazing, I love it
Amazing.
All right first up Jeff Bezosis first cousins with which
beloved musician, Country starGeorge Strait, singer and
actress Gloria Estefan, oh, loveher.

(43:22):
Rapper, singer and businessmanpitbull, or all of the above are
you joking?

Sandeep Parikh (43:33):
oh my god oh this is disgusting, I love so
badly go for it that feels likeit's obvious, because they just
look alike.
I feel like it's a misnomer.

Omar Najam (43:44):
You know what I mean .
Oh, I can see that.
But I think that MrInternational, mr Worldwide,
george Strait, I think that hisfamily, I don't know, I get a
vibe from his family and I don'tget a Bezos vibe okay, yeah
alright, well, where are yougoing?

Delvan (44:05):
I'm going, gloria and stefan all right, almost on
gloria sundeep, where you yeah Idon't know if all the above is
in every single selection.

Sandeep Parikh (44:15):
That's.
My concern is that it's in allof them.
So I'm gonna sit up for I'mgonna say, I'm gonna say pitbull
.

Delvan (44:22):
Okay, we're both wrong.
I am so sorry.

Omar Najam (44:27):
Is it all of the above?
Don't tell me it's all of theabove.

Delvan (44:30):
No, it is country singer George Strait.
I should have known that.
Wait how.
It was just like the mostvanilla, straightforward.
So when your parents, one ofyour parents, if their siblings
have a child, then that becomesa first cousin.
So that happened to yourquestion of how I didn't know.

Sandeep Parikh (44:52):
We don't need this explanation.
People in 2095 need thatexplanation.

Omar Najam (44:56):
I didn't know.
I thought cousins grow on theside of a frog.

Chetan (45:00):
I had no idea.

Sandeep Parikh (45:03):
Omar's learning so much Amazing Okay.

Delvan (45:07):
All right, next up we still both got a point Okay, All
right.
Snoop Dogg is first cousinswith which celeb?
Rb Singer Brandi Norwood, yeah.
Wwe star Sasha Banks, Hell yeah.
Rapper Daz Dillinger, or all ofthe above.

Sandeep Parikh (45:26):
Okay.
So all of the above, is it allof them?
Okay, all right, all right,okay Okay.

Omar Najam (45:33):
It's hard.
It's hard because yeah.

Sandeep Parikh (45:37):
Because we don't know the answer.

Delvan (45:40):
Or how cousins work apparently.

Omar Najam (45:52):
It's because Correct me if I'm wrong, but we don't
know.
We don't actually know wherebrandy's family came from.
Right like that's the wholething.
I don't know about any of thesefamilies, dude, because I know
that.
I know that.
I know that brandy has I knowthat brandy has half sisters and
then when she went to the ballshe found love because she left
her glass slipper and then theprince tracked her down and
she's the only one who can fitinto that glass slipper.

(46:13):
She's got the most unique shoe,size and shape.
Stop, oh my God.
So I got to go, brandy.
I got to go, brandy.

Sandeep Parikh (46:23):
The best episode ever.
I'm gonna go with all of theabove.

Omar Najam (46:29):
I swear to god.

Sandeep Parikh (46:31):
Who is it?
One of us got something right.

Delvan (46:34):
That's right.
There's only one slide, becausethis is the slide.
It's all the above.

Omar Najam (46:39):
You're joking.

Delvan (46:42):
That is a point for Sandeep.
Very nicely done.

Omar Najam (46:44):
Wait, that's insane.

Delvan (46:46):
All the above, brandy, sasha, taz, all first cousins
with Snoop, how.

Sandeep Parikh (46:53):
Snoop's obstacles really create progeny
man, Famous progeny.
I mean hell of a family.
There's just too much talent.
Family, there's just too muchtalent.

Sanjiv Parikh (47:04):
Okay.

Omar Najam (47:08):
Oh my god.

Delvan (47:10):
Alright.

Omar Najam (47:11):
President.

Delvan (47:12):
Obama Is tenth cousins?
No.
Tenth cousins With whichprevious US president?
Is it Bill Clinton, george WBush, donald Trump?
Cousins with which previous uspresident?
Is it bill clinton, george wbush, donald trump or all of the
above?

Sandeep Parikh (47:29):
a lot of white guys.
Oh god, I'm like.
This is like.
I'm like flashbacking to like,uh, red lion tavern bar trivia
nights from like 15 years ago.
Oh God, amazing Tenth cousins,aren't we all tenth?

Shyam (47:51):
cousins.

Sandeep Parikh (47:52):
Like I mean that's like we're all one big
cousin.
Well, I mean, in the end weknow we're all one big cousin.

Parin (48:00):
I'm going W.

Sandeep Parikh (48:01):
I'm going to guess.
I'm guessing because I want todo it before you do.
George W Bush, you can stillpick the same one, but I'm gonna
go.

Omar Najam (48:10):
No, I won't, because that would be no.

Sandeep Parikh (48:13):
I'm because also you're wrong, because also
you're wrong.

Omar Najam (48:17):
I'm gonna go, bill Clinton it's definitely not
Trump, oh one of us got it.
One of us.

Delvan (48:26):
It is indeed.

Omar Najam (48:28):
I hate this game Very nicely done.
What Wow, is that where theyexchange candy?

Delvan (48:39):
Sandeep, you have mathematically claimed victory
in this game.
Tenth cousins, not ninth.
In this game, tenth cousins,not ninth or eleventh Tenth,
yeah.

Omar Najam (48:52):
So if they kiss, the world ends right.
That's how it is.

Sandeep Parikh (48:58):
That was at Season of Heroes, oh goodness,
all right, well, loser.

Omar Najam (49:06):
I have to give an apology.
Well, I feel like the only onethat in the context of this it's
going to be George Strait.

Sanjiv Parikh (49:16):
Is that right?
I think that's right.

Delvan (49:19):
Okay, let me get him back up on screen for you.

Sandeep Parikh (49:23):
Yeah, do George Strait.
Sure, but I think you could doany of the ones you got wrong,
which?

Omar Najam (49:27):
was all of them.
Just to remind you.
I'm gonna do to George Strait.
Okay, for one minute.

Sandeep Parikh (49:32):
I apologize yeah but, it has to be like really
heartfelt and like a big thingyou can't just say half-ass it,
it has to be real we're gonna athim in the clip, okay.

Delvan (49:44):
Here we go.
Here we go and Jeff Bezos.

Omar Najam (49:48):
I can't apologize to Jeff Bezos.
I can't, all right, start thattimer.
Someone start that timer.

Delvan (49:57):
Okay, omar you ready.

Omar Najam (49:58):
Yeah, I'm ready.
Your timer, your one minutestarts now.
Dear George Strait, write thisdown.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know that you werecousins.
I was trying to win a game butinstead I well give it away.
I gotta ask when do you stoploving me?
Because I don't know where youare in the world.

(50:19):
But I know all my exes live inTexas.
But I want to make things rightwith you because you look so
good in love now don't?

Delvan (50:26):
rush off.

Omar Najam (50:27):
I know the cowboy rides away, but you are carrying
your love with me 30 secondsand I promise you, if we make it
good by tonight, we'll have I'ma real bum.
Warning now, insults are easycome, easy go, but I just want
to dance with you and baby'sgotten good at well.
Well, that one's cut off.
I'm sorry, I can't see whatthat is, but please sit in the

(50:49):
chair.

Sanjiv Parikh (50:51):
Ten seconds.

Omar Najam (50:52):
Because if we can just make this one night at a
time, I swear to you, ouroceanfront property will be
seashores of old men, and everylittle honky-tonk bar will tell
us I got a car, now run.

Chetan (51:05):
And that's time.
Wow, thank you, george.

Omar Najam (51:12):
Classic after classic.

Sandeep Parikh (51:15):
How did people do podcasts before they had
internet access at all timesduring?

Omar Najam (51:21):
the show.
I want to be clear.
I did not look any of those upoh, you memorized the whole I
didn't know he was related tobezos, but I know everything
else about george straight.
You mean george straight, thecountry singer who was born in
one second, the country singerwho was born on may 18 1952

(51:48):
anyway, okay, back when peoplehad cousins.

Sandeep Parikh (51:51):
Man, my favorite part of that was you at the
start of it, telling him towrite this down.
An apology starts with hey, Iwant you to do some work, write
this down.
You're going to take dictation.

Omar Najam (52:05):
Okay, oh, my gosh.

Sandeep Parikh (52:13):
Well, that will take us into our last segment,
desi of the Week.
Our Desi of the Week is ViratKohli.
The 35-year-old cricket star,virat Kohli slams his highest
IPL score on the way to amassive world record.
So he came off a two monthpaternity break.
So congratulations on creatingmore cousins and Kohli.

(52:33):
He's the face of T20 cricketand he returned to the game, you
know, with the bang, provingthat hey, even at the age of 35,
I can still knock it out of thepark.
I'm not sure if that's whatthey out of the it out of the
park.
I'm not sure if that's whatthey—out of the pitch.

Omar Najam (52:45):
Out of the pitch.
Okay, in an April match, ourDesi of the Week hit 113.
That's his joint highest scorein the IPL, on the way to
becoming the first batter toever have 7,500-plus runs in the
IPL, which is absolutelybonkers.

Sandeep Parikh (53:06):
Yeah, okay, so he's got 7,579 runs.
He scored 424 runs for thefranchise and for the team he
scored 8,000 runs, making himthe first player to score
8,000-plus runs for a singleteam in the T20 format.
And for people like us,honestly, who don't quite
understand the breadth ofcricket and what a big deal this

(53:28):
is, it's kind of like watchingsomeone break the Roger Maris'
single season home run record,except that it's cricket, so it
happens in one at bat, Becausethey just keep going until they
get out.

Omar Najam (53:40):
If I may make a Bay Area comparison.
He is a game changer.
Like Steph Curry, hisaggressive batting style changed
the way that bowlers throw athim.
Instead of relying solely online and length, bowlers have
started incorporating morevariations, pace changes and
deceptive deliveries to keepbatsmen like Coley on their toes
.
The shift in approach has ledto a more dynamic and exciting

(54:02):
type of bowling, with bowlersconstantly innovating one way to
step ahead of him.

Sandeep Parikh (54:06):
See, I love when someone changes the game right.
It's like you know what we'regoing to start quadruple teaming
now that's a thing because ofSteph.

Parin (54:14):
Curry.

Sandeep Parikh (54:17):
You know what?
We can't strike this guy out.
Let's try to see if theknuckleball baller can throw it
from second base.
See if that yeah, just changehow the game works, because this
guy is impossible.
Maybe let the umpire throw frombehind who knows?

Omar Najam (54:30):
you know, like that's kind of how about this.

Sandeep Parikh (54:32):
Oh, I gotta have an idea.
Pay the umpire, that's it, justpay that's an interesting
strategy there, but truly Ithink this is the episode that
gets us officially followingcricket for abcd yeah, we gotta
do it, we're gonna do it you'retaking us there, your patreon
contributions are getting us toa cricket game and we will do a

(54:54):
live abcd from I don't know whatpart of the like from the
bathroom, no, yeah, from the onewith, like, the single trough
bathroom.

Omar Najam (55:04):
Excuse us.

Sandeep Parikh (55:06):
Those are the worst.
Those are the worst.
I generally just this is offtopic a little bit but I have no
problem with urinals, like interms of like I have.
You know, if someone wants to,I'm not worried about the
spacing, but the trough is alittle too.
It's a little too much.
Yeah, it's too much, too muchon the television.
All right, and that's the show.

(55:31):
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(55:52):
If you do have feedback, wewould love to hear ideas for
games, ideas for this Is of theWeek, nominations.
They don't have to be famouspeople.
They can be someone in yourfamily, whatever people.
They can be someone in yourfamily, whatever.
We're super interested.
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Omar Najam (56:05):
Yes, and I'm going to jump on top of that.
If you want to send us any thisversus that ideas we have a lot
of fun with that segment Sendthem over to abcdpodcastshow at
gmailcom and let us know anAmerican thing versus a Desi
thing and we will compare them,fight over them, debate them and
one of us will lose and I hopeit's not me again.

Sandeep Parikh (56:27):
I hope it is.
And oh, so we did forget to dothis, didn't we?

Omar Najam (56:31):
At the top.

Sandeep Parikh (56:31):
That's okay, we can do it right now.
We're gonna do it as GeorgeStrait.
We're gonna I like that, yep.
Okay, so this is our ballad oflove to our Patreons who are at
the shout-out level, in thestyle of George Strait.

Omar Najam (56:48):
George Strait, are you ready for this Take?

Sandeep Parikh (56:50):
it away, Cindy.
Should we find a song quick.

Delvan (56:55):
How about I just hit this and you tell me if it works
?
Okay, I won't be able to hearit, but you tell me if it works.

Omar Najam (57:00):
Yeah, absolutely, we got it.

Sandeep Parikh (57:11):
Okay be able to hear it, but you tell me if it
works.
Yeah, absolutely, we got it.
Okay, let me, let's okay.
Okay, all right, the song isready, then go ahead.
Hey, hello, all right.
Hey, this one goes out to mycousin, cousin george straight.
Jeff bezos love you, cuz, sendme some money.

Omar Najam (57:26):
Joshua orion, toby m , carlo benjamin, lowe rand,
hollander, michael long, raylanfox, selena b nervous rex sarah
h dodeca.
Good tablet for room moldy moreabilities for ability zone
Kathleen Schlegel to Coddy.

Sandeep Parikh (57:46):
Reverend Coutinho, brandon Pace Monroe,
maxwell.

Omar Najam (57:50):
Jeremy Schwartz, hans Oslo 8-Bit Dee.

Sandeep Parikh (57:57):
Chris Sims, don't forget my boy, danny Wally
.
Christina Romero, zack Danny's.

Omar Najam (58:04):
Corner and Fish Legion 247, jeremy O'Brien,
Astra and Brandon Bradley.

Sandeep Parikh (58:10):
And there are the gods, the top tier of all.
Yeah, sing it.
James Gaffney, scribbles andFlapjacks Bait in Depth, queen
Bear If you're alive, stickaround with us.

Omar Najam (58:20):
We're gonna critique the show Afterward.
The show is produced by AnandShah and Caitlin Mahoney.
The show's executive directoris sound designer is Delvin
Neville.
The show's executive producersare Sandeep Barik and Anand Shah
.
This is edited by Sean Mack,Music by Harshal Sasodia, Joss
Fiercing and Malik Zaveri.

(58:40):
This has been an F'n FunnyProduction, Ha ha.

Sandeep Parikh (58:47):
On behalf of our co-host Omar.
I've been your host, sandeep.
May your chukras be aligned andsmothered In that good old
fashioned.
Western Southern Chutney.