Omar & Sandeep Fail The Spelling Bee! ~ The Art and Challenges of South Asian American Spelling Bees - (A·B·C·D) Podcast Episode 22

Can you spell 'Ohdillock'? Join us as we plunge headfirst into a linguistic labyrinth in a thrilling spelling bee, designed to test our South Asian American English skills! From sharing heartfelt anecdotes about our cultural identities to discussing our philosophies on studying and test-taking, this episode is a wild ride of emotions, fun, and friendly competition.

Ever wondered how far parental pressure can go to ensure a child's success? As we recount our stories, you'll hear about an unexpected project to build a model mosque and the struggle to balance between ambition, creativity, and self-worth. We also put our spelling skills to the test as we challenge each other - words like 'Cernus' and 'Sammophile' are no match for us! You won't want to miss the hilarity and camaraderie that ensues.

Capping off our linguistic journey, we celebrate an extraordinary achievement - Dev Shah’s victory in the Scripts National Spelling Bee! Saluting his hobbies, accomplishments, and inspirations, we discuss the intricacies of our word of the week - 'Sammophile'. So, dust off your dictionary and join us for an episode filled with laughter, learning, and a whole lot of love for the quirks of South Asian American English!

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:08

Oh my goodness, wow.

Speaker 2 0:10

T-shirt cannon Wow T-shirt. Cannon Wow, wow, wow. Enjoy that crowd.

Speaker 1 0:16

Did you hear that? Did you hear that?

Speaker 2 0:19

Yeah, i didn't actually throw a T-shirt, it's just a cannon that says T-shirt, cannon over and over again. That's it says it. Yeah, it just says it. It was like a loud speaker.

Speaker 1 0:30

It's a talking cannon. Yeah, that makes yeah.

Speaker 2 0:34

It says what it aspires to be. That's beautiful.

Speaker 1 0:38

It wishes it was a T-shirt, cannon. Oh, that's incredible. That's incredible. Hello everyone, i have the wonderful pleasure of being your host this week, which means I get to introduce our co-host. He will never cross a picket line, but today he's probably going to cross some line. It's Sandeep Parish. Thank you, sandeep. Thank you so much. He's going to cross a line. He's going to do it. He's going to make a joke.

Speaker 2 1:05

Oh man, let me tell you, let me. I can't even fake, make the joke.

Speaker 1 1:13

Have you ever been to Whole Foods? Have you been to this place, whole Foods?

Speaker 2 1:16

Yeah, oh man, yeah, i got nothing, i got nothing. I punch up, punch up, punch up, let's make fun of Jeff Bezos. All right, i'm going to introduce our co-host, a man whose name, if you spell it by fogging up a mirror and then writing his name into it and you get all the silent X's, j's and Z's, he will appear in your bathroom. Oh my n'Rajam. Ladies and gentlemen, that's it. That's it.

Speaker 1 1:45

That's it. That's it. That's true. It's not a paranormal thing. I'm just around. It's like the scene in the elf, Yeah yeah, he's just there waiting.

Speaker 2 1:57

Yeah, you know, just out the ready.

Speaker 1 2:00

Yeah, i'm just, i'm listening for the squeaks against the mirror.

Speaker 3 2:07

The specific squeaks The specific squeaks.

Speaker 1 2:09

Folks, this is ABC the American-born Chetty Dacys. It's a podcast within a live stream, within our lives as two American-born Dacys. It's a pod ducking, if you will. This is for anyone out there who, like us, is navigating your cultural identity and you just want to chat it out.

Speaker 2 2:23

That's right, we're live right now. We're live on YouTube. If you join us at 7.30 PM Pacific Time, which you should. You should on the F and Funny Twitch, but on tap for today. we've got our Chakra check-in, where we're going to talk about phew, it's a big one exams, tests and quizzes. Like growing up trying to be that studious Desi boy, if that was your experience or not. And then number two, it was the spelling bee this week.

Speaker 3 2:49

This is basically South. Asian.

Speaker 2 2:50

Super Bowl South Asian, american Super Bowl. So let's spell it out. We're gonna we're gonna challenge ourselves with some spelling bee You know words to see if we got it, what it takes, and then, in numeral tris, we're gonna pick our desi of the week. You probably have an inkling who it might be And then we're out.

Speaker 1 3:07

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Speaker 2 3:52

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Speaker 3 3:53

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Speaker 2 3:56

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Speaker 1 4:03

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Speaker 2 4:06

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Speaker 2 4:14

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Cheating and Studying for Tests

Speaker 1 4:24

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Speaker 2 4:41

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Speaker 1 5:44

Incredible. so, with all that behind us, what do you say? we hop into the show? I would like that. Yeah, let's go to the chucker check. All right, it's that time of year, folks. We're talking Finals, we're talking big essays, we're talking projects, exams, tests and quizzes. Oh my, oh boy, oh boy.

Speaker 2 6:11

Yeah, i'm like, i'm sweating. Talking about tests and quizzes and SATs and stuff is like making me feel like I shit, i didn't, i didn't prepare enough for this. I didn't. I thought can I cheat? is there a way I can cheat? is literally what I'm thinking. Jacks you to T, i don't know.

Speaker 1 6:30

Were you? okay, let me kick it off with this. Were you someone who did cheat on quizzes?

Speaker 2 6:35

So I was known to help people cheap, help people cheat. I got in a lot of trouble. I was never. I liked people. I like to be liked by people more than I was afraid of being caught cheat, cheating. So I very much Like took tests and you know, like did it at the edge of my desk So that, like my buddy Chad you know who you are, chad could totally see all my Spanish vocab answers. And yeah, i was like I just, i don't know I guess I just didn't have any scruples about that piece, that And. But then now I think about it, it kind of doesn't make much sense because I was also hyper competitive. I really wanted to rank like. I definitely Took validation from, from scores.

Speaker 2 7:26

I was a, i was a grade whore I don't know that, maybe you can't, is that that's? I was a great sex worker. Wait, probably none of that's good. Have I crossed the line that you integrated earlier? I think I just did. I Really I was like that kid that like, hey, teacher, you gave me a 94. There's these two points. I think it should get back. Yeah, i think it should be 96. And I remember my teacher being like dude, it's already an, a like You're not gonna like it, these two points don't matter. Like stop caring about grades so much I And I was like, yeah, good one teach.

Speaker 1 8:02

This is your life, teacher. I know your weakness.

Speaker 2 8:08

So yeah, i, i, i didn't cheat myself. I'm trying to think, if I ever cheated I'm gonna flip it back to you because I think maybe I do. I there was a time now I remember I Programmed a TI 85. I programmed some, some, some formulas into TI 85.

Speaker 1 8:29

Not all right and I did.

Speaker 2 8:30

She did physics. How about you? What was your um? you know grade mongering like.

Speaker 1 8:36

Here's the thing I I care very much about doing. Well, in school I also had a philosophy that I don't think was the smartest philosophy, and that philosophy was I shouldn't study for a quiz, i should just already know the stuff.

Speaker 1 8:54

So I never really studied and it culminated into When I went to go take the SAT twos, which is where you like it's a subject-based SAT. I went to go take my Spanish quiz And they're like you need a tape player for the to listen to it. And I was like I don't have a tape player with me. I didn't know that and though he should probably read the instructions, but I didn't, and so they were like, well, you can't take it then. And so it's like, alright, i'll switch to another one, because I paid for it, i'll do American history, why not?

Speaker 3 9:22

and they're like do you study for it?

Speaker 2 9:23

I'm like I'm an American, i should know this fly. I swapped on the fly swapped an SAT two on the fly, Yeah. I was like let's go. Gump shit, that is such gum shit. I am envious of that. I would be. I would fake a heart attack. There's no way. I would just swap out. That is insane, i'm so impressed Omar.

Speaker 1 9:49

I'm so. I was as a teenager. I refused to study. I was like that doesn't make sense to me, i should just know it, i should just be aware of this stuff. Or I didn't do my job on the day-to-day and if someone's like, oh, so you're a good student.

Speaker 2 10:02

No, no, you just had a philosophy, a losing philosophy, and you stuck to it.

Speaker 1 10:06

It's like I kind of resembled the stoics in that when people are just like how do you improve life? And they're just like I wouldn't.

Speaker 2 10:14

Yeah, yeah, for sure, you resemble the stoics, whatever year they did, whatever they did whatever they did, whatever that was. That's amazing. I it's so funny.

Speaker 2 10:24

Like I remember, i didn't study for the SATs when I first took it because I think I had the same idea Where I was like, oh, i'll be, i do well on all my tests. Yeah, i'll be good at this. And I did okay, i did okay. I think people would probably think that was, you know, as a decent score was like, yeah, 1260 or something, but not for my family, that that was like to them. They were like that's embarrassing. Yeah, well, they didn't. I don't know if they said, but they were just like you could do better than that, you can do better than that. and so I was like, oh, I should study for the test. Yeah, and I just got my own books. I didn't take any prep classes, mm-hmm, because we wouldn't pay for prep classes.

Speaker 2 11:00

No, I just got my own books that had like SAT Old tests, and I just tested my, just quizzed myself, and then I got into the rhythm of like, oh, this is what a three-hour test feels. Like, oh, that's smart, like it was an endurance thing for me. I realized because I had never taken a test longer than like 45 minutes. We had this weird rule in school where you could You didn't have to take finals if you were getting an A in class.

Speaker 1 11:27

Sure.

Speaker 2 11:27

I went to like a public school in. New Hampshire They'd half of my class did not go to college, so it was very like you. Just I just barely ever took finals. I didn't take long tests. Yeah, i was just bad at testing for a long period of time and then I Studied up and I did much better on my SATs. But all of it doesn't matter. None of it matters. Now I'm doing a podcast. You think anybody asked me what my fucking SAT score is?

Speaker 1 11:57

I, yeah that's a really good point. I also like I don't know if I should say this on on a hot mic, but like folks, you can. You can put stuff on your resume.

Speaker 3 12:10

Maybe that's as far as yeah, yeah they're not gonna check it.

Speaker 1 12:13

They're not gonna check it. Yeah, yeah, oh.

Navigating Parental Pressure and Personal Ambitions

Speaker 2 12:16

Man, I love this in chat. This is from one of our South Asian American friends here. I got a 1360 on my SATs and to this day my mom still gives me crap about having a quote. Low score I'm 37.

Speaker 1 12:31

That's it. That's the vibe nervous Rex.

Speaker 2 12:33

I hear you, man. That's so funny I.

Speaker 1 12:36

I. What's funny is so my parents weren't like we want you to be an engineer or a doctor. My mom's a nurse and my dad's an engineer and they're just like we. We got it in the bag, it's fine, don't stress. But whatever you do, you should do it like you have to do what you want to do And you have to do everything as well as possible. And I remember one time we had to build a mosque, like a little moth, like a model mosque.

Speaker 2 13:01

That's a good qualification. I was like you know, just this little project. We had to build an entire mosque.

Speaker 1 13:08

We had to go on hodge We. We had to build like a little model mosque. And I remember I brought the one that I built home and I was like, yeah, i did this. And my mom Yelled at me and was like this is so insulting to your father. He had not seen it, he was not at home. This is so insulting to your father, rebuild it now. Go get a book on the most beautiful mosques, pick one and rebuild it like tile for tile. And I still have it to this day. It was just. It was like I don't think I slept that night, like I just stay up and just design like Muslim architecture.

Speaker 2 13:43

Yeah, don't half-ass a mosque man. That's yeah. Yeah, it's not gonna be good for you.

Speaker 1 13:49

Wow, that's intense, that's interesting So it's that kind of stuff for my parents what they would be like. We don't need you to be a doctor, but if you're gonna do theater, you have to be the best person in theater that's ever existed.

Speaker 2 14:01

Oh, so you represent the arts really well that's not was tough, that's wild. I, my parents, were like You don't need to take the arts. That is, we could take an after-school class or something.

Speaker 1 14:19

You can take. You can take a kumon to learn about Antigone.

Speaker 2 14:25

Like you need to take class. This is not class, this is play, and you know art should be play, so maybe they they were on half wrong.

Speaker 3 14:33

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:34

I eat. So what? so what's? what chuck road does this hit you at? We'll just close it out with let's let's a hundred percent do that.

Speaker 1 14:40

For me It's solar plexus. I feel it completely In my navel right there. This, to me, is self-esteem. It's the ego. It's right. It's right there. Honestly, it's not like It's not anything up here. It's not the road, it's not how I communicated. It's all just about like I just wanted to best the system and and find a way to beat it.

Speaker 2 15:05

Well, in the spirit of this, i'm gonna copy your answer. I am going with solar plexus. It's total ego for me. Yeah, total power, let's go and total dominance. Yeah, in a way like, oh God, i was such a little shit. I like loved when they posted scores.

Speaker 2 15:25

Yeah this is terrible. I got so much validation external validation from being good in class and I really don't want to pass that on to my son. I really don't want him to get his validation and his sense of self-worth from how he scores. It's like it is something I'm really, but I also don't want him to completely, you know, not think any of it's important either, you know.

Speaker 2 15:48

I want to come from like an intrinsic place from his own, his own wants and desires to excel and succeed in something that he really cares about and really is interested in. So I'm hoping to thread that needle and not pass down that Generational trait of just like you've got to be number one. But, to be fair and and we will edge this out, like my, the only reason My dad was able to come to this country, yeah, because he promised He didn't get into any graduate schools. He's trying to get a student visa. This is in the 60s. It's the only way to really come to the US as an Indian was to get this student visa. And and he didn't get in anywhere and he promised, he wrote letters out that said It will you, will you reevaluate if I get an A in my last semester? I think?

Speaker 2 16:32

maybe I've told this story before so I'll sum it up quickly. But like, so it's. And like a couple of them wrote back and said if you get an A because getting an A in India is very different than getting, yes, very difficult, it's like you're in the top 5% or whatever of your class, so like you get an A in your last semester, we will reconsider said like Northwestern and Oklahoma State. And so he used that letter. Like he got the a, he studies. I thought, wow, use the letter to get the visa to come to the US. And then he had two weeks to convince them to turn that temporary visa into a Permanent one. And that's a hole. That's a hole. I'll save that story for the post live show if people are interested. But like it's just, it's clear to me that they, like you know they're, their whole world was dependent upon these scores. So of course they're gonna pass that down. It's not surprising me, but I think that hopefully I can pass it down in a healthier way than I took it on.

Speaker 1 17:23

I do think that's good. I won't go into a huge thing so we can keep moving. But like I do, i did have to unlearn a lot of bad Personality traits that being competitive in school taught me. And even still, every so often It'll, it'll spike a little bit and then someone will be like, oh, that that person's really gonna improv. And I'm like, yeah, i'm pretty, i'm pretty good at improv. Like what is this?

Speaker 2 17:46

Why can't I just be happy that they like that person and they're my? yeah, I don't want to be clear like I've done so much work I've got.

Speaker 1 17:52

I've worked with like therapists or our online people who call themselves therapists, but I don't know if they were- And what were their scores?

Speaker 2 18:01

What were the cities Their SAT scores?

Spelling Bee Challenge

Speaker 1 18:03

well, they didn't study so, but I've done a lot of work to get out of that because it's not useful. I very much like to be part of a communal experience. That's why I want to work in television, because I like the idea of a room succeeding and not someone being like. Only this episode stands out like. I Like the idea of a healthy Artistic environment and I think that school was a little detrimental to me in that way. So what you're doing, sonny, but sounds good. It sounds like you're threading that needle. Do I get an A? Um 90s? I'm 96 is good enough, bud. All right, all right, fair enough, all right.

Speaker 2 18:36

Well, look why. Why we're talking about all this stuff? Yeah, because it was the national spelling bee this week, so we're gonna do this next segment called. Let's spell it out.

Speaker 1 18:49

There we go.

Speaker 2 18:53

Oh shit, I'm scared. Are you ready?

Speaker 1 18:58

Not now not after this.

Speaker 2 19:01

What's happening? Gonna play the whole time.

Speaker 1 19:04

What is this? the music from Shark Tank? What is happening?

Speaker 2 19:13

All right, so we're gonna kick it over to our it's still going. We're gonna kick it over to Delvin. Delvin is our tech director here. He's gonna put us to the test. We're gonna go head-to-head, you and I, because, as we all know, as you know, Indians and South Asians in general, crush the spell.

Speaker 2 19:32

It's like it is our. You know, we put our stamp on this country in competitive national spelling. Yeah, that's our thing, that's what we do. Yeah, i think we've won, like I don't know, some crazy amount, like When it's news when and a non-bassy person wins Yeah, so It was. It just happened, i think, two days ago. A winner has been announced, and so let's see, omar, do we have what it takes to Compete in the spelling bee? Yeah, but let's find out how bad.

Speaker 1 20:03

Yeah, I think so All right.

Speaker 3 20:06

All right, gentlemen, so the way we're gonna score this, some of these words are Um meant for people that are very good at spelling.

Speaker 2 20:13

So we were to score this.

Speaker 3 20:15

You're gonna get three points for spelling. Partial credit is possible. We'll see if you blow. If you blow some of the water and you don't miss any, omar, then it won't matter that there's partial credit, right, that won't happen, okay, but I really don't want this to end on just like two zeros. So we're gonna include partial credit as possible, okay, and then also two points for getting the definition right as well.

Speaker 1 20:41

So in the actual spelling bee There are so there are.

Speaker 3 20:44

In the real one there are fewer definition rounds than there are spelling rounds. We're gonna give you both, because we're only giving you like one from each person. So you're gonna get first the spelling and then possibly two points for get the definition right. All right.

Speaker 2 20:56

Okay, just to remind everybody, these are like 13 and 14 year olds. Yeah, that's the national spelling bee.

Speaker 3 21:05

Yeah, yeah, i believe. I believe this year's winner is a 14 year old. You're an eighth grade, okay.

Speaker 2 21:10

I, so we should be able to take this in the bag, yeah you should.

Speaker 1 21:14

you should have this.

Speaker 3 21:15

Okay, so Omar you are the host this week, are you not? Yes, i am all right then, as hosts, you have the decision on are you going first or second?

Speaker 1 21:23

Sunday goes first.

Speaker 3 21:26

All right, your word is. Oh dillock, oh dillock.

Speaker 1 21:33

Oh, i should start. This is so easy.

Speaker 2 21:38

So like, can you use it in a sentence or some shit?

Speaker 3 21:48

Here's the thing you can ask me use it in a sentence, but you're gonna surrender your definition points if you do that, because now you're gonna get the definition out of the use.

Speaker 2 21:55

Oh Gotcha. So if you need it.

Speaker 3 21:57

If you believe it's gonna get you the three points, you can go for it, but no, i got this.

Speaker 2 22:01

I mean How many different way. I mean oh dillock, it's like I dillock, right, except that it doesn't know. I mean like how could it not be that? I'm sure it's not oh dillock, it's gonna be something weird. Oh, all right, um sir, a silent, okay, fine. Oh, did I already lose? Keep going. Oh dillock, oh, oh, h D y L. I see.

Speaker 3 22:33

Okay, you know what, like I'm, gonna give you partial credit on that. You're off by one letter. Okay, so the H was extra. You otherwise spelled it right.

Speaker 2 22:45

Wow, oh, do, why I see cuz I was like it can't just be a OD y L. I see yeah.

Speaker 3 22:49

So you were. You were close, you're close on that we're gonna give you partial credit. You're off the only up at once, so we'll give you two of the way it was oh. Od y l. I see yeah.

Speaker 1 23:01

Yep, yeah, this is. This is meant for kids and the definition Oh.

Speaker 2 23:09

Well, that's obvious. The definition of Odillick is Like so idyllic that it's orgasmic.

Speaker 3 23:20

I'm sorry, that is Odillick. Now the first part of the definition is complete bull. It's of or relating to Odill, of course, your nature powerly A lot to reside in certain individuals and things and to underlie hypnotism and magnetism. Yeah, so it's an old-school pseudoscience, turn Okay, which you're pretty good at spelling. You just don't know.

Speaker 2 23:45

Yeah, sounds pretty orgasmic to me. I think I should get partial credit.

Speaker 3 23:51

All right, omar, your word is Cern u s, cern u s.

Speaker 1 23:59

Cern U s s u r n. No way, you online.

Speaker 3 24:12

I'm sorry that is, we'll give you one point on there cuz you got the tail end on there. Yeah, it's, it's a CERN.

Speaker 1 24:20

Yeah, yeah, see, yeah, you know the one that makes a hard cuss out. No, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 24:30

You're thinking of K, that makes the hard case All right. And the definition. This is your chance to recover. You get definition right. That's to put you a three-point total.

Speaker 1 24:40

Um, cern, you is To act with complete certainty, to have very little hesitation, to be devoid of trepidation, like when you passed earlier.

Speaker 2 24:54

Cern you you're pretty, you're pretty.

Speaker 1 24:56

Cern you as when you pretty Cern, you is.

Speaker 3 24:59

No, cern you us would be inclining or nodding.

Speaker 1 25:03

Inclining or nodding Yeah, like confidently and yeah.

Speaker 3 25:09

As I approached the stranger going down the street, he was Cern you us.

Speaker 1 25:13

Incline Oh, I don't like that. That's a weird stranger. Wait like, like, i mean, like, i'm kind.

Speaker 2 25:24

Oh, I see it got you. Okay, like I'm inclined to do something. Okay, not like he's you get. It's only people who are nodding uphill.

Speaker 3 25:32

I.

Speaker 2 25:35

Notting down. He always during you, as my parents were Cern you as two miles in the snow every day to school. All right, so deep.

Speaker 3 25:45

This one is to you okay. Palama.

Speaker 1 25:49

Oh, he gets all the easy ones Palama, palama.

Speaker 2 25:53

Say it again Palama. Palama, palama, palama.

Speaker 1 26:00

These for lunch today Palama.

Speaker 2 26:06

This seems too easy again. I'm sure it's not P. P Start with the yeah, palama, palama, pa LL AM a Palama.

Speaker 3 26:20

This is another. You're only off by one letter, so we gave you the two out of three on this. It's single L. Otherwise, yeah, three, if you just stop. Second guess.

Speaker 1 26:34

I know I'm losing, but the fact that you keep getting so close.

Speaker 2 26:39

Listen, i was gonna do one L and then I was like it's good, i'm just overthinking it. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 26:46

All right, you guys are new as these are not winning words, right?

Speaker 2 26:50

These are like mid tier words.

Speaker 3 26:52

So these are national study winners these so the currently we're in the 2019 winning words. The 2019 was an odd year. There were actually eight co-champions, because they went so many rounds Where nobody could get it that they just sort of ended up on the 20th round said okay, fine, you all went Perfect. This is a winning word from 2019. There's just multiple.

Speaker 1 27:13

We all take it or leave it.

Speaker 3 27:15

This was a BJ Kodali and the definition. Wow Yeah that's what's the definition seems?

Speaker 2 27:25

too easy, but okay, i mean.

Speaker 3 27:26

I'm, and, to be fair, like I didn't decide who's getting what, omar decided who's getting what. So this?

Speaker 1 27:33

could have went the other way.

Speaker 2 27:34

I did Palama, like, like, like. Something can be Palamitas, you know, like yeah.

Speaker 1 27:43

Yeah, it's done. So right the calamity can.

Speaker 2 27:48

To control. It's so bad That nobody's your pal anymore and you lose all your friends.

Speaker 3 27:55

It's a calamity where you lose all your friends.

Speaker 2 27:57

It's so, it's yeah.

Speaker 3 27:59

Palama, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry that is no where the ballpark, a calamity cannon would be a cannon firing the webbing of feet of aquatic bird.

Speaker 1 28:10

Oh, that's what the mama is.

Speaker 3 28:12

It's.

Speaker 1 28:12

That's the webbing on the aquatic bird Oh, that's so cute, that's good.

Speaker 3 28:17

Those are All right, omar, your work is and the look.

Speaker 1 28:26

And the look Pen Do Look And the look and the end.

Speaker 3 28:36

Oloque Pendelow very close, like Sunday, if you're off by one letter. So we're gonna give you two out of three on that. El, not a dol.

Speaker 1 28:47

Oh.

Speaker 3 28:48

Pendelok yes, and the definition.

Speaker 1 28:53

Pendelok. Can I get? can I ask for an origin? is that possible? what you can say, no, and or what?

Speaker 3 29:02

would have been possible if we had Diego here, but we don't, so I have no idea where this came from. I just have the definitions that That he is dating its real definition.

Speaker 1 29:11

Okay, pendelok, i'm gonna say for Lorne, sad with drawn. Keep adding on till you get it right a. Dearth of emotion.

Speaker 3 29:26

I'm sorry, it's not. That's not even in the y'all that not been even getting to the like. Partial credit round on the definition here.

Speaker 1 29:32

Yeah, i think this.

Speaker 3 29:32

I think it's pretty close, so a pendulum is a noun about this or another gemstone that you cut into a pear shape.

Speaker 1 29:40

What okay, what do you mean Okay?

Speaker 3 29:44

So like on a chandelier you've probably seen some pendulum on chandeliers.

Speaker 2 29:49

Oh yeah, I knew that, I knew that pendant.

Speaker 1 29:55

Like no, it's pendant. No, it's like pendant like. Dant.

Speaker 2 30:04

Loki.

Speaker 3 30:07

Well, yeah, but if you don't put it in the dense and you just have the pen Hanging?

Speaker 2 30:11

from a deloc on its own the world. It's just the gem. By the way, the etymology of it is that it is from an old French word, pendelaire, which means to dangle.

Speaker 1 30:21

Oh.

Speaker 2 30:21

I know, and a layer, well then you should know. And pendelauch, bro Shouldn't on pendelauch, all right, yeah, okay, you're ready for your word. Yeah, sure, i'm ready.

Speaker 3 30:33

Yeah, your word is a guillette.

Speaker 1 30:37

Yes, egg will act. That's a good idea. I guillette egg will it? a guillette egg will egg will it?

Speaker 2 30:46

egg will it? Remember some words have apostrophes like a cappella egg, well egg wall.

Speaker 3 30:53

Yes, we are now in the sinfran part of the.

Speaker 2 30:59

Let egg, will it? I'm not.

Speaker 3 31:03

I'm not looking it up, i'm just typing it like your eyes are looking where you tend to look when you're looking things up.

Speaker 2 31:08

No, no, i'm just typing where I I'm typing on a, on just a blank notes page. Egg, will it ee?

Speaker 1 31:17

no.

Speaker 2 31:18

I think it's not right egg and egg, wallet and egg. Do I have to stick with ee? now that I've said it out loud, is that one of those things?

Speaker 3 31:31

I don't think they get to spell multiple versions and decide which one they like. That.

Speaker 2 31:35

Yeah, that's true. I have to stick with it right like once you say the letter Yeah, you're on ee. All right, eeg you Egg, will it egg wall it. Eeg you a L eeg egg, will it?

Speaker 3 31:59

All right, fine, go. Your word is much shorter and only has a few letters in common. I don't think I can give you partial credit on that.

Speaker 1 32:07

The correct.

Speaker 3 32:07

See it the correct spelling is a I, i, g, u, i. I Fuck. I don't know the origin, but I'm guessing off of this in this pronunciation.

Speaker 2 32:23

I just want so phonetic. It was pathetic.

Speaker 3 32:26

Yes, you spelled eeg you a let, which I think it's a small bird.

Speaker 1 32:32

Oh.

Speaker 2 32:34

Egg, will it? it's a? oh, i know this, though. I know what it is. Oh, yeah, it is um an egg, will it? is a dressing or ornament With which you adorn mm-hmm. Chickens. Yeah, bring it home other livestock To People know that they're yours when they wander off. That's it. It's an in France. It has. It's only in France, Yeah it's French earrings for cows. It's only the town of a guillette. It's like champagne. It is in this town of France All right.

Speaker 3 33:14

I gotta say I'm actually gonna give you partial credit on that because it is. It is an ornament. It's an ornamental cord that you would put on a uniform, so you don't put it up birds Uniforms, but it is an ornament That you put on things. Oh, we'll give you a look if you have credit.

Speaker 1 33:31

On the definition, yes, I'm so upset you should be.

Speaker 3 33:36

I can't believe that right, omar, your word is that one man Who can Villia Oh.

Speaker 1 33:45

You do, yeah, oh my, i'm gonna.

Speaker 2 33:49

I'm gonna get it wrong, but I'm gonna try Oh Man Oh. I'm gonna get the word right now N-G-V-E-L-I-A-H that I. Type out what.

Speaker 3 34:10

I tapped out what you spelled and I don't think I would even pronounce what you spelled it like.

Speaker 2 34:20

No negative points.

Speaker 3 34:23

It's. I mean, it's closer in length than yours was some deep, so I don't know you if you want to go to the negative point category, but it's, wow, it is not quite close, bou BAIN.

Speaker 2 34:34

GAINVILLEA.

Speaker 3 34:39

That is, yeah, that is correct.

Speaker 1 34:43

Omar, do you have?

Speaker 3 34:44

do you have the definition that Sunday was about to give?

Speaker 1 34:47

you, It's a. It's a. It's a flower with colorful petals that's very popular in states of California.

Speaker 3 34:55

Yeah, i give it to you. Yeah, it's any, it's a. Yeah, they're very shrubs and vines that all fall within it. But yes, that would be yeah amongst the definition. So we'll give you that.

Speaker 2 35:04

What else is the definition? It's not like dead on?

Speaker 3 35:08

Angling sadness with any of the shrubs or vines that are within that genus, and though Omar mentioned some of the things that are in it, there are other things that are in that. That's close.

Speaker 2 35:17

It's those big bright pink flowers that grow everywhere like a weed. They're beautiful Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:23

They are gorgeous, honestly. Yeah, yeah, very ostentatious, all right.

Speaker 2 35:29

So what do you? what's the score here? How we doing five, five you are now.

Speaker 3 35:32

You are now tied at five, five Yes is this the tiebreaker round?

Speaker 1 35:36

then, scoring working.

Speaker 2 35:38

Fine, okay, here we go. All right, this is huge.

Speaker 3 35:41

We have two more rounds, okay, and then a potential tiebreaker after that, Okay so what one word? for one word for each of you here.

Speaker 2 35:49

I'm, are you?

Speaker 1 35:51

Oh, this is it takes it.

Speaker 3 35:52

We can do. We can do longer if you want to do longer. I've got a couple other words we can do. I.

Speaker 1 35:56

Say we go for it, we're tied up. Let's go for it now. Let's go for the throat. This is it.

Speaker 3 36:00

All right. So this is your last word. Each in life you tie it up.

Speaker 2 36:02

We have to go to the fabric okay, all right, come on, pump Rick, let's do this.

Speaker 1 36:08

I think your word is flawn.

Speaker 3 36:11

Your word is Morehen Yes morehen, yes, morehen, morehen, yes.

Speaker 1 36:23

Bust up the gay like.

Speaker 2 36:24

Here we go, because I wanted to say it's very simple and I'm gonna get that wrong Morehen, mm-hmm m No.

Speaker 1 36:41

I'm gonna say you nailed it. That is exactly it.

Speaker 3 36:43

That was the 20-20 to winning word that you've got there and you spelled it correctly.

Speaker 2 36:45

Yeah, I'm gonna say it's morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen.

Speaker 3 37:01

Morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen, morehen.

Speaker 2 37:08

Wow, these words are not as hard as I thought they would be. I thought they all had like silent, you know P's Like they're like Djibouti. They have a silent D at the beginning.

Speaker 3 37:18

Well, yes, the thing is, if they all have a silent P, then you just start everything with a P.

Speaker 2 37:22

Yeah, but you know what I mean. Like that's crazy. I guess that's the thing You outsmart yourself.

Speaker 3 37:27

Terri Dekdol, you think they all have something.

Speaker 1 37:29

T-E.

Speaker 2 37:30

Yeah.

Speaker 3 37:31

All right, and the definition.

Speaker 2 37:34

Oh well, obviously that's a hen who thinks highly of themselves, of course.

Speaker 1 37:44

Of course That's where the more comes in. That's where the more comes in. I mean obviously.

Speaker 3 37:52

I will give you partial credit because it is a female bird And you did get the hen part right. Yeah, it's the female of the red grouse via the more hen.

Speaker 1 38:02

Oh yeah, Sure Yeah.

Speaker 3 38:05

All right and Omar. Here we go, the word is, and I'm sorry, what? Why Samophile? Samophile.

Speaker 1 38:16

Oh, samophile, samophile. I feel like this should be pretty straightforward. You said I'm so sorry. Ok, t-s-a-m-o-p-h-i-l-e Samophile.

Speaker 2 38:43

I like that you put the T. I like that you swung for T. Man, I don't know where this is going to land, but that's bold.

Speaker 3 38:53

All right, so you're off by two letters on that. You got a wrong word, a wrong letter, and you also have a missing letter on that, so we'll give you some partial credit there. That's not bad, though.

Speaker 1 39:00

Partial, here we go. Partial credit on that, here we go.

Speaker 2 39:03

So just nail the def and you're good man.

Speaker 1 39:06

Can you let me know what letters I got wrong before I get this definition?

Speaker 3 39:10

Yes, so the correct spelling is P-S-A-M-M-O-P-H-I-L-E.

Speaker 1 39:16

So it's a P, not a T.

Speaker 3 39:19

And yeah, there's two M's in there instead of the one.

Speaker 1 39:22

So it's P-S-A-M-O-P-H-I-L-E, p-s-a-m-m-i-l-e. Yes, sam.

Speaker 3 39:32

A file, a file of Samo's.

Speaker 2 39:36

No hints.

Speaker 1 39:47

I'm gonna say I don't think this is close. I'm just going to the, i'm just going for proximity, but I'm gonna miss it. One who is attracted or well-versed in the Bible or religious texts.

Speaker 2 39:58

Oh, i like the definite. Can we just this is that before we tell what the definition is, that is a very good Balderdash definition.

Speaker 3 40:06

Excellent Balderdash definition if I didn't have this in front of me And, like, if I didn't know the definition, i would have given that to you.

Speaker 2 40:12

On that, that was four points, whereas a hen that things highly.

Speaker 3 40:24

But in reality? No, what is it? It's not even close. I'm sorry. Samo follows a plant or animal that prefers to thrive in sandy areas. Sandy areas, yes, so the sort of plants you would find, like in the Arabian Peninsula and the Sahara and dunes of.

Speaker 2 40:39

Bikini bottom. So it's like a lover of. So say what is Samo? What's like the root of Samo? Is it like dirt? probably say desert sand.

Speaker 1 40:48

Wow interesting sand PS a and D.

Speaker 2 40:54

I did like that. You wanted to TS like tsunami.

Speaker 3 40:56

Very, very brave, thank you. Thank you, it's a very brave choice to get with the tea.

Speaker 2 41:01

Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 41:04

Like I know, this has latin or maybe Greek sounds to it, but no, we're going Russian.

Speaker 2 41:08

I like that moldy work like put smoked to salmon.

Speaker 1 41:12

All right, so that's it, that's great.

Speaker 3 41:14

So some deep. There's no tiebreaker. You settle it on the final round. You are going into the next week, the host and you are the best speller On the show.

Speaker 2 41:24

Whoo Enjoy your lame duck post Omar Boom Oh.

Speaker 1 41:30

I will, i will and I'm gonna use my powers for good, like going to the next segment because it's time for a day See of the week. Here we go. This week, our they see of the week is Dev Shah, that's right that's right. That's right be a crowd. Dev Shah took victory this last week in the scripts national spelling be. Dev has many hobbies, including reading, which makes sense, playing tennis, playing the cello and solving math problems. Wow, that makes me feel real self-conscious about myself.

Speaker 2 42:04

I don't want to say he bookended it with the nerdy stuff and then like threw in the tennis school cellos. Yeah, i like.

Speaker 1 42:11

I like reading and math, but in between Oh, He loves learning and spending time with his friends as well. In his free time which is amazing that he has any He frequently calls friends and solves math problems with them. That's how you do it. He loves watching historical fiction movies and reading historical fiction books. He also exercises because it gives him time to read to unwind. His favorite movie is la la land. His favorite athlete is Roger Federer and his favorite game is wordle, which checks out the runner-up this year with Charlotte wash. Congratulations to you both and everyone who competed. Dev Shah, you are the day C of the week.

Speaker 2 42:47

They see the week and I just like to say that he Spelled the hardest words while having the easiest to spell Indian name.

Speaker 3 42:58

What a hundred percent.

Speaker 2 43:00

What I saw.

Speaker 3 43:01

I actually the stuff and make sure, like wait, did I get the real name or did I get a nickname?

Speaker 1 43:07

They still got it wrong when he ordered his coffee. They were like they said.

Speaker 3 43:14

All right, so Sam will file by the way is that is Dev's winning word is Sam will file.

Speaker 2 43:19

Sam. Oh, that was his word.

Speaker 3 43:20

That was his winning word.

Speaker 2 43:22

Okay, um, i know, i'm so sorry. I know that you said that his favorite movie is la la land, but that was actually a mystery, it just came back. His favorite movie is me.

Speaker 1 43:39

That's so much. I had a.

Speaker 1 43:41

I had a backup joke about that's actually he was just going for the word land, but he was just making sure who's just going through the spelling these tabs. I think yours is much, much better. Folks, that's our show, as always. If you want to see our lovely faces, all the VOD and other ways you can hang out, that's are in the show notes. Do us a huge favor and rate and comment anywhere that podcasts are available. That really really helps us out. Comments, suggestions and feedback can be sent to ABCD podcast show at gmailcom, or hit us up on discord. Let's hang out. Let's have some fun.

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Speaker 1 44:37

And while you're getting ready for this, i Had a personal idea, but I realized now you already put the names in, so we don't need it All. Right back to you Sunday.

Speaker 3 44:47

How did you know this during the show? because we did change your numbers during the show.

Speaker 2 44:50

Oh, We did oh god, okay, great, a quick, quick look see if we got any more. So while you're doing that, i'll talk about on fourth grade.

Speaker 1 44:59

Our teacher, mr Carberry, was like let's, let's do a project where here's a bunch of materials, use them to make a paper airplane go as far as it possibly can along this string, and It was such a good exercise. I Learned a lot from that. I think about it often and it's wild because I think that he actually ran Legends of Zelda, tears of the kingdom temple in fourth grade for us And I will forever appreciate the fact. That's real and it makes me want to throw a tears. The kingdom party, where we just have to do a bunch of challenges and build stuff To compete against each other. So I think that's my new version of a quiz. Also, it's wild that I went through school and higher education and then I start playing that game and I'm like I don't know anything. I don't know a single. I don't know a single thing. I don't know how to do anything.

Speaker 2 45:58

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Speaker 1 47:22

The show is produced by Diggle and now the show's technical director and sound designer is Devon Neville. The show's executive producers are son deep perique and an on-shot. This is edited by Sean meager. We got music by Harshal Sestodia, jasper sing and Malik Savairi. This has been an effing funny production. On behalf of our co-host, son deep perique, i've been your host, omar Najam. May your chuckers be aligned and smothered in chutney. Goodbye everyone.