The Tea Kettle - DesiQuest After Show Podcast - Ep 4 (Part 2) with Persephone Valentine *SNEAK PEAK*

When the kettle whistles and the tea is ready, it's time for the DesiQuest after-show—and what a show it is! Omar Najam and I, Sandeep Parikh, are all cozied up inside the teapot, steaming with excitement.  After every episode of DesiQuest is launched, we'll release another episode of the Tea Kettle with me and Omar and a very special guest, or guest from either behind or in front of the camera.

When spontaneity strikes, it strikes gold! Imagine our astonishment when the multi-talented Sephie, Persephone Valentine, swooped onto DesiQuest's set with less than an hour's notice, infusing our show with an unexpected twist that might just clinch us another season. We're buzzing with excitement as we unpack the chemistry between Sephie and Jasmine Bhullar the seismic shift their character brings to our story, and the laughter that ensued from a wild genie-wish discussion—six ass cheeks, anyone? Amidst our giggles, we don't forget to honor the rich cultural tapestry of the Aladdin tale that's woven into our narrative's fabric.

The stakes have never been higher, and the drama? Simply electric. We're peeling back the curtain to reveal how we crank up the tension and the trials for our beloved characters, taking cues from the riveting episodes showcasing Luis Carazo's emotional journey. As we converge our characters against a challenging adversary, we're not just crafting a story—we're crafting an experience, one that resonates deeply with you, our audience. And for those who hunger for the meatier bits of our storytelling saga—we're serving up an exclusive, in-depth continuation for our Patreon brigade. Strap in for an episode that's a heady mix of humor, heart, and a hefty dose of creative ingenuity.

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Episode Transcript

Sandeep Parikh (00:04):
I Bet you didn't expect to see us no.
This is a special episode ofthe Tea Kettle.
This is a sort of like thespecial event, you know, like
the, the, the Star WarsChristmas episodes.

Omar Najam (00:21):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, this is as we have with us
Mm-hmm.

Sandeep Parikh (00:28):
Yeah, this is it .
This is it because we have withus Sephie, Persephone,
Valentine, from so many things,but now but a guest.
A guest on DesiQ uest.
We're so happy to have you,Sephie, welcome.
Hello.

Persephone Valentine (00:44):
They let me put my ass all over the Tea
Kettle.

Sandeep Parikh (00:48):
What I didn't know, that the entire episode is
just me twerking in the TeaKettle, your ass is all over the
tea kettle and that is gonnaraise the value on auction, so
much.

Persephone Valentine (00:58):
Yeah, my ass does raise the real estate
value by at least 12 percent.

Sandeep Parikh (01:05):
I mean this is huge for us this you may have
just funded season two.

Omar Najam (01:09):
It is huge yeah your ass may have funded season two.

Persephone Valentine (01:13):
My ass is entirely responsible for the
funding of season two.
Thank you, there's somethingabout that's how this is gonna
go.

Omar Najam (01:20):
So, like about you not having your camera on Sephie
?
That makes it even moreunpredictable, because, like we
don't we, we don't we, we don'tget that, we don't understand
what's teed up until it hits usin the face.

Persephone Valentine (01:30):
Yeah, no facial cues.
I mean, things get better whenyou can't see my face lies
untrue.

Sandeep Parikh (01:41):
Yeah, well, listen, uh, we wanted to bring
Sephie on because, uh, you knowyou, I'm just gonna admit a
mistake here.
Here we go this whole, thiswhole year has been a blur.
I thought for some reason yourepisode was split over two
episodes and so I thought I wasgonna have the opportunity to
bring you on the next episode,but then I forgot.

(02:02):
Oh no, no, no, your characterdoesn't, doesn't die, but
basically, Wraps up turns oneverybody and then has this epic
yeah, it's like thing in oneepisode and I was like, oh my
gosh, I fucked up, so I wantedto bring you in so we can
actually have this conversation,because your character takes, I
mean, a Huge, incredible turn.

(02:22):
Yes, but before we get to allthat, I guess why don't we just
start by asking hey, how did youget that like, how did you get
the call to me on the show?
I know your buds with Jasmineand and why did you say yes to
us?
What were you thinking?

Persephone Valentine (02:36):
Do you want to know the real reason
that I was?

Sandeep Parikh (02:38):
yeah, yeah, are you?
Are you like indebted, like youhave like a life, a soul pact?

Persephone Valentine (02:45):
If you rub my butt, you get three wishes.

Omar Najam (02:49):
Wow.

Persephone Valentine (02:50):
Didn't do that.

Sandeep Parikh (02:50):
Jasmine, jasmine and I in the like - table has
three wishes.

Persephone Valentine (02:54):
In the TTRPG space like I Think I've
worked with Jasmine the most outof anyone oh Okay, on various
different projects for like thelast two years, like we've
worked together a lot, so muchthat when Aabria cancelled for
her episode because she was sick, I got a call at nine in the

(03:15):
morning to be at DesiQ uest forten, and I was like sure.

Omar Najam (03:19):
Wait, that's.
That's what the turnaround was.

Persephone Valentine (03:21):
That's yes , it was literally.
I got a call nine and then Iwas at set at ten.
I literally got the call andhad to leave okay, everyone
absorb.

Omar Najam (03:29):
Absorb that for second.
You saw the performance you.
You watch the twists and turns.
You watched how far ourcharacters were pushed
Emotionally in one of the bestepisodes of the season.
That was in not even prep, inan hour to For like traffic to
like get there.

Persephone Valentine (03:50):
Yeah, I got the character notes while I
was in the makeup chair.

Sandeep Parikh (03:56):
Honestly, I forgot I did know this at one
point because I am a executiveproducer on it and I did know
like oh yeah, Aabria's not gonnabe able to be on it, and but I
did not know the turnaround Idid not know was like, because I
was like, oh, amazing Sephie's.

Omar Najam (04:09):
gonna be great.

Sandeep Parikh (04:10):
This is so.
This is exciting, and I did notknow was like that fast.
That's fucking wild.

Persephone Valentine (04:15):
Yeah, bronze, and you would have time
to call me.
Ash called me and was like, canyou do this for us?
I was like sure.

Omar Najam (04:20):
What?
Okay, that's when you know youget.

Sandeep Parikh (04:23):
You got a Rolodex.
You know when you can, when youcan call in a heavy hitter.

Omar Najam (04:28):
I think, yeah, I think, I mean honestly for us
one card.
I don't even think it's aRolodex, it's just a.
You flip the card over and it'sthis Sephie's name.

Sandeep Parikh (04:36):
On both sides it's it's Sephie's and and
Sephie's genie ass.

Persephone Valentine (04:43):
Oh, I didn't even process how I said
three wishes.
Oh my god, that could be sooffensive.
So my ass is not a genie lamp,my god.

Omar Najam (04:54):
I don't think that's even ours.
I think that's.
I think it's a Disney rule.
I don't think that actuallycame.
I doubt it's real, I think it'sprobably.

Persephone Valentine (05:01):
Yes, but Aladdin's the least offensive
thing in the world to anyone.

Sandeep Parikh (05:04):
Yeah, yeah, you just can't wish for more genie
asses.

Persephone Valentine (05:11):
Three asses and I can have six cheeks.

Omar Najam (05:14):
No, I know can't do it.
It is a dream.

Persephone Valentine (05:17):
Can you imagine, can you imagine making
it clap if you had six asscheeks?

Omar Najam (05:21):
I can't actually.

Sandeep Parikh (05:24):
Thunderous.

Omar Najam (05:26):
These are the things these are the thoughts that
keep Sandeep up at night.

Persephone Valentine (05:33):
Aladdin's like supposed to be Arabic, but
isn't it a Chinese story?
It's a Chinese story.
Yeah, it's a Chinese story.

Sandeep Parikh (05:39):
Well, at least, at least the character of
Aladdin is Chinese in theoriginal story.
That's what I think it is, butI think it is that may.
It may still be an Arabic story, I don't know I read it
sometime somewhere, and I don'tremember things anymore.
So yeah.
But, okay, so you get the callthe last second.
You say yes, you show up, youget.

(06:01):
You're getting notes at themakeup chair.
This is great, and like it wassuch a huge role, like, like,
because it was this.
It was like this.
You were basically what wouldyou call escorting Anjali's
character Sitara, back from youknow, the this other realm here.

(06:24):
And then you're like connectedto oh my gosh, I'm blanking out
all the names now, but the teakettle, goddess, Nuryn, like
that's supposed to, and so I cansee it.
Now I can see how you were likeon the fly, um keeping tabs on
all this and trying to make itall work.
What is going through your headwhen you, when you're creating

(06:45):
this, like so did you come inwith the character, or did she
just say, like you're playingthis character, like so I got
handed the notes that were sentto Aabria for the character.

Persephone Valentine (06:55):
Okay, I don't know if bronze came up
with it.
I don't know if I'm Aabria wasthe one to come up with it, but
I got handed those notes andthey're basically like creepy
witch.
Okay, and so you boil the kidsyeah and even like even the heel
turn wasn't planned.

Sandeep Parikh (07:16):
Yes, I remember hearing about that after.
I remember that yeah.

Persephone Valentine (07:20):
So we took a break in like the middle of
the episode, right when thingswere starting to get heated, and
bronze was like, yeah, boostyour stats of boss fight stats.
And I was like, okay.

Omar Najam (07:28):
We really oh.

Sandeep Parikh (07:31):
Okay.

Persephone Valentine (07:32):
Like I was always supposed to put you on
edge, and that was like the likething of it, but like I wasn't
necessarily supposed to be, likeyou know, the big bad of the
section I don't know ifsomething else got cut out
because of it, but bronze on thefly was just like yeah, change
to boss stats.

Omar Najam (07:47):
That's what you know .
Jasmine loves you.
Is Jasmine's like actually?
Um, I want you to kill myplayers.

Sandeep Parikh (07:55):
Yeah and bronze.
So wait, did you?
Did you know you were like?
So wait, who?
Whose idea was it to turn?
Was it yours or Jasmine's?

Persephone Valentine (08:03):
so a little bit of column A little
bit lot of column B, if Honestlylike.

Sandeep Parikh (08:08):
I okay.

Persephone Valentine (08:09):
I knew that we're gonna do like a
creepy, like reveal type of dealwith the character, like the
whole, I'm a ghost, type ofthing.
Yeah, Um but like bronze waslike, this is where it seems to
be heading.
Let's just do this, because Iknow the players are gonna want
to throw down.
So, Bronze was basically tookwhat I put in role play before
the break and was like make it aboss.

Sandeep Parikh (08:32):
Amazing, genuinely amazing, because it
feel like, looking back on it,it's like what other way?
It feels like it was likeinevitable, like you know what I
mean, like you like that.
That.
How could this have been doneany other way?

Persephone Valentine (08:45):
Yeah, so another influence for like why I
did it was.
I got kind of like a brieflowdown of how things went with
Luis (Carazo), mm-hmm, and I waslike.
So how can we like set up someemotional stakes?
Because I know that Luis likeHis episode was very emotional
and I was like okay, let's makethis physically taxing.

(09:06):
Let's make this like an actuallike stressor for the players
right as far as like making Likesome stuff happen because it
was all the reason that iteventually got pushed so far was
that, like bronze wanted ameans for like everyone to come
together and like fight againstsomething early on, yeah, and
that's sort of what I believemade her make this decision.

(09:27):
It's like, okay, this is whereit's going, we should do this.

Sandeep Parikh (09:31):
Hey, so sorry to interrupt, but the rest of this
episode is for our patreonsubscribers only.
So if you'd like to hear therest of this juicy conversation,
let me tell you it gets juicy.
There's another 50 minutes 50 50 of this conversation over at
patreoncom.
Slash they sequest.
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