The Tea Kettle - DesiQuest After Show Podcast - Ep 8 with Jasmine Bhullar & Michael Schaubach *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.

As the curtains draw close on a season sprinkled with laughter and insightful conversations, Omar and I, Sandeep, take you through a final stroll along the vibrant path of our creative journey in the Tea Kettle Finale. The air is thick with nostalgia as we recount the tears shed and the joyous moments that have shaped our adventure.  Michael Schaubach and Jasmine Bhullar join the fray, lending their seasoned insights to the conversation and encouraging everyone to keep the love alive at DesiQuest.com.

The finale episode of our Tea Kettle Podcast wraps with a cozy chat, hoodies and all, that playfully segues into a deeper reflection on generational wealth and mental health. Sharing the poignant moment when Omar unraveled the threads of generational trauma to his mother, he celebrates her journey into retirement and the resilience that binds their family.  Our ABCD podcast also gets a nod, as we eagerly await the next season exploring the American-born Desi experience. Jasmine Bhullar, wearing her showrunner's hat, shares an enlightening perspective on the transformative power of storytelling. As the episode winds down, we revel in the shared joy and the unifying spirit of 'play' that has invigorated our creative pursuits. Our Patreon family is in for an extra treat with 50 minutes of riveting, exclusive content that's simply too good to miss.

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Episode Transcript

Omar Najam (00:05):
Hey, we're here and welcome back to The Tea Kettle.
Yeah, oh my goodness, here weare.
Oh my god, yes I'm not lookingfor my charger just give you a
look like a location in arelationship and you just
improvise the opening that wasgood.

Jasmine Bhullar (00:23):
That was amazing.
Who's on the show?

Omar Najam (00:26):
traffic is a nightmare today, everybody on
the 101 good morning, we'redrinking coffee jasmine's
drinking coffee.
Who's?
Got their coffee ray I don'traise your cups my coffee.

Sandeep Parikh (00:40):
this is why I'm a step behind I do not have my
coffee.

Omar Najam (00:42):
It's Mikey In the morning, we got jazz up in
Seattle.

Jasmine Bhullar (00:47):
Woo, bringing you news from the cold, rainy
north.
We've got a show for you today,fam, because today we're
talking about the finale of DesiQuest, mikey what do we Have in
store for the kids at home today?

Sandeep Parikh (01:03):
Oh my gosh.
We got laughs, we got tears,we've got crafts, we've got
beers raise your beers.

Jasmine Bhullar (01:13):
All of the things you've come to expect
from mikey in the morning and atthe end of the show we're going
to preview our brand new coffeetable book, mikey and jazz.
You're're gonna want it.
It's a focus on microphones andjazz for your coffee table.

Omar Najam (01:31):
That's right, folks.
That's right as FCC mandated,though we do have to go to our
newest segment.
Bad News with Sandeep.
Sandeep, take it away Bad newsof the day.
An earthquake has struck onespecific house.

Sandeep Parikh (01:50):
Yeah, yeah, the carpenters, uh, that's tough
ironic, frankly, uh all rightyou goofs.

Jasmine Bhullar (01:59):
I feel like omar's segment would be putting
up pictures of pets and tryingto guess which zodiac sign they
are oh, I love that right likeyou'd be.
Like this cat is clearly apisces that's, yeah, that's,
that's water right there.

Omar Najam (02:14):
Look at that, that's a water cat well, friends,
we're doing it, we're doing it'sclearly the punchy.

Sandeep Parikh (02:22):
Final episode of the Tea Kettle, the Desi Quest
After Show podcast, exclusive toyou, our Patreon backers.
This whole endeavor couldn't bepossible without you, dear
listeners, without you, beauties.
Thank you so much.
I'm your host, it turns out,not these faux hosts that came
in hot Mikey and Jazz.

(02:42):
Mikey and Jazz, though I will.

Omar Najam (02:45):
Such a Leo, such a Leo.

Sandeep Parikh (02:50):
Such a Leo.
I would watch or listen to apodcast that was about
microphones, and then just themusic, jazz music.
The genre, it was a coffeetable book.

Jasmine Bhullar (03:00):
It was going to be jazz artists and their
microphones and theirmicrophones and you put it on
your coffee table.

Sandeep Parikh (03:06):
It's not going to be, or that was going to be.
It is going to be.
That is happening.

Omar Najam (03:11):
Wes Montgomery and his microphone.
It's really quality content,folks.

Jasmine Bhullar (03:15):
Harper Collins call us.

Omar Najam (03:18):
You know, do it.

Sandeep Parikh (03:20):
I'm your host, sandeep, and then we also got my
co-host, omar.
Hello.

Jasmine Bhullar (03:24):
The illustrious .

Sandeep Parikh (03:25):
Omar, the sparkly Omar, who plays Murkha.
I play Ash.
Every episode of this, welaunch with the show and then we
get some very special guests,who you know as Mike and Jazz I
mean, they need no introduction,let's be honest Our director,
Michael Schaubach, and our heartand soul showrunner and DM

(03:48):
Jasmine Bhullar, that bronzegirl, yes, yes, thank you guys
for coming in for this finalepisode.
Before we dive into ourdissection of this finale, this
emotional finale, do that thingwhere you go and support us even
more.
Go to DesiQuest.
com, hop on our mailing list,get a special discount on our

(04:09):
merch that really helps us outand tell someone about us, brag
about us.
You guys have helped us getthis far and we'll get even
further with the largercommunity, so thank you so much
for doing that.
We've had a bunch of sponsorsthat took a big chance on us,
you guys, uh, to make the showpossible, and for each of these
we're going to want to shout oneof them out, and so today the

(04:30):
honor goes to Candela Obscuraand our friends at Darrington
Press, um, cause they stepped inbig time as we were trying to
finish the show, and get itacross that finish line and so
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knowledge to fight back amysterious source of corruption

(04:52):
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stuff.

Jasmine Bhullar (05:10):
I like how we all decided to wear hoodies
today and not tell Omar.

Omar Najam (05:15):
Oh, I see, I see.

Jasmine Bhullar (05:18):
Now you look like the bourgeoisie, like the
rest of us, are workingproduction people and you're the
talent.

Omar Najam (05:27):
Please please accumulate capital for me as I
sit back in my plaid.
Please, please, contribute tomy generational wealth, my
children are going to live soeasy.

Jasmine Bhullar (05:42):
Listen, Desi People don't have generational
wealth.
We have generational mentalhealth problems.

Omar Najam (05:52):
We inherit and pass on explaining generational
trauma to my mom uh has been ohmy gosh.

Sandeep Parikh (06:00):
And speaking of talking to my mom, speaking of
talking to my mom.

Omar Najam (06:04):
If you like our banter, check out the ABCD
podcast that Sandeep, and I hoston EffinFunny, which on two
occasions has hosted, uh, mymother, uh, who is actually
retiring today from her job atthe day of recording.
So congratulations to her.
I'm very, very proud of her.
Interesting, we chat about allthings, uh, being american-born,
chatty, creative and conclusive.
Desis on it stuff like the newsthat we're confused about

(06:27):
cultural identity stuff thatwe're working through.
We always play a ridiculousgame and then we pick a Desi of
the week.
Season 2 of ABCD starts onMarch 10th that's right, 10th.
You can find over 30 episodesof the show on the EffinFunny
YouTube and wherever podcastscan be found, folks.

Sandeep Parikh (06:44):
Yes.
But that show is on pause.
To get this show, uh, uh, toits completion.
Um, we're gonna be back inaction right on March 10th, but
without further ado.
The tea kettle is a callin, sowe're gonna spill some chai
about the finale episode 108,and then we got some.
We also got some viewerquestions, um, for, for, for

(07:04):
michael and bronze.
as well, which I've collected,I can't wait, and we'll be
hitting those up as well, butobviously this was a huge, huge
episode.
I mean, let's just start withhow we're feeling about this
finale, about the show coming toa close.
We'll start with you, Jasmine.

(07:25):
Just take us through where,where, where you're at after
watching this, uh, the, uh, theshow come to, or the season, the
season, this first season cometo an end it's weird.

Jasmine Bhullar (07:35):
I I think this is the first time, uh, for me,
that I've been involved in aproduction like on this level,
like from the pitching processall the way to like a delivery
and and you know, um it's.
It's weird because when Istarted I definitely didn't

(07:56):
think that I was gonna occupythese types of roles.
I was kind of just like awriter that wanted to like tell
stories and and wanted aplatform to do it.
And now it's like I like you,like even here, even hearing you
, and even on set, whenSchaubach told me like oh,
you're a showrunner, I was likewhat?

(08:17):
I'm a dork.
Hell, yeah, um, you know, like,how is this gonna?
work mutually exclusive but itwas like uh, it was like a very
thanos moment, like you knowfine, I'll do it myself, type of
thing, you know like I wantedto see this show made and I I

(08:37):
self I started out selfishlywanting to do it for me.
Right, like if even if you goback and look at all of the our
initial kickstarter pitches,it's all like I want to play at
a table of other desi people.
I got to play with anjali(bhimani) one time and we both
talked about how.
And I got to play with janina(Gavankar) one time and we just
always talked about how.
That was a unique experienceand I want to do that more and I

(09:00):
want it was always I and Ithink, like, seeing the finale,
I was like it wasn't just aboutme, you know, and that's weird
to sort of come to terms withlike oh, this was like, this is
a big project.
It first hit me on set when Isaw how many people we had in
that building.

(09:23):
And then, when I saw thefinalized version of our intro,
our sort of intro video, which Ithink is the coolest I've ever
seen on any TTRPG show gettingto see those people as the
credits roll and as you'recoming into a show and being
like all of these people cametogether in this room to make

(09:44):
this thing because I selfishlywanted to play at a table with a
bunch of Indian people andthat's like now changed people's
lives in a lot of ways, causeseeing people's reaction to it
and I think that's why I had anemotional breakdown at the end
of it Cause I was like God, thisis so weird, you know, like a
stray idea, you know, cutthrough my brain like a soft

(10:05):
cheese and now it's becomesomething that you can watch and
enjoy and connect with.
It's crazy.
I don't know if it's a poeticanswer, but it's just.
It's weird.
No, it's a great answer.
Being at the end of it is weird.

Sandeep Parikh (10:18):
I love that it just all starts with I want to
play.

Jasmine Bhullar (10:21):
Like it just starts with this simple.

Sandeep Parikh (10:24):
And it turns out you know, because I got this
little kiddo and I think aboutit a lot like he just wants to
play, and then if someone wantsto play enough and has a vision
about what they want to play,then a bunch of people are like,
fuck, that sounds cool, I wantto play.
I want to play with you, thatsounds fun and I think that's it
feels like that was the energythat, like pretty much everybody

(10:46):
who came on board, that's wherethey, that's where it came from
.
Um, it wasn't, you know, uh,you know it wasn't for
themselves or it wasn't for, itwasn't for the money, that's for
sure.
Because we were, you knoweverybody's coming on because
they were just like.
They just were like hands up,like I want to get in on this
game.
Hey, so sorry to interrupt, butthe rest of this episode is for

(11:12):
our Patreon subscribers 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,five zero of this conversation
over at patreoncom slash daisyquest.
Thank you so much forsupporting the show.