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

Join us for a lively chat with the brilliantly witty Rekha Shankar, as we navigate the thrills and spills of her journey from a childhood Seinfeld aficionado to a highly regarded writer and script doctor. Ever been banned from Slack for over-communication? Rekha has, and we undoubtedly share a hearty laugh over it. 

This conversation isn't just fun and games, though. Rekha offers a first-hand perspective on the ongoing Writer's Guild of America strike, revealing the intricacies of negotiations and discussing the shift in content creation from TV to streaming platforms. Drawing on her own experiences, we delve deep into the complexities of mental health within the comedy industry, and how she transitioned from a family that rarely spoke about feelings to embracing therapy and gaining self-awareness. 

We wrap up by tackling some of the biggest issues in the entertainment industry, including the glaring wage gap between CEOs and employees and the labor strikes. Stick around for a fun game of guessing companies with the largest wage gap and hear Rekha's unique spin on a classic Sex and the City joke. We also discuss the power of peer pressure and the significance of vulnerability in today's digital age. Buckle up for a rollercoaster of laughter, insights, and thought-provoking conversations.

Transcript

Sandeep Parikh 0:08

What, what is even happening? Oh my gosh, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Hey everybody, hi, this is a very special episode of American Born Chatty Desis. Um, before we get to why it's so special, uh, I'm going to introduce the cohost of this uh podcast, and that is a man, if you can even call him that, because I hear he's actually part marsupial, as he is gone back to his homeland of Australia and is that's where he's recording from today. He's got a little pocket in the front where he keeps his little ones. That much I know, omar Najam.

Sandeep Parikh 0:54

Oh, thank you, Thank you, thank you, thank you Clean the pocket, or do you have to like it just itself cleaning it's self?

Omar Najam 1:02

cleans. It's like an oven. Oh yeah, yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:07

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

Omar Najam 1:15

And folks, I would like to introduce you to the host of this week's episode, my brother from another hemisphere. It's Sandeep.

Sandeep Parikh 1:23

Okay, I like Australia. Cause you're in Australia. Yeah, this is wild. We're, we're, you guys. The technology today, holy cow Um. Our show ABCD American born chatty desis is a podcast within a live stream within our lives as two American born desis. That's right. It's a pod duck in the back. This is anyone out there who, like us, are navigating our cultural identities and just want to chat it out. Huh, huh, that's what it is.

Omar Najam 1:54

That's right. But, folks, things are. We're going to do things a little different this week because we have a very, very special guest. It's one of my favorite people on the planet and genuinely one of the funniest human beings that was ever created out of clay. It's Rekha Shankar.

Rekha Shankar 2:11

Oh my.

Sandeep Parikh 2:14

God, wow, listen to that?

Speaker 5 2:18

Wow, I thought it was a fever pitch. I thought it was a mob, but it's an audience. Yeah.

Rekha Shankar 2:26

It's funny how that changes.

Omar Najam 2:27

Can we, can we read off a couple of your credits here, Rekha? Would that be all right with you?

Speaker 5 2:31

You absolutely can do that.

Omar Najam 2:33

You've written for a show that I recently saw on an airplane Grand Crew.

Speaker 5 2:38

That's the highest honor yeah over to run a plane together.

Omar Najam 2:45

Digmen on Comedy Central. You perform at UCB, franklin and in various movies and TV and videos, like between two ferns, the movie oh hacks you ever heard of that one? Maybe college humor you ever heard of that? And then I want to give this one a special shout out, because I'm actually in their home country right now and their home city, auntie Dona's why am I mispronouncing it? Aunty Donna's House of Fun. And this fall you will see Rekha as genuinely one of the greatest characters in fictional entertainment ever.

Sandeep Parikh 3:21

You goddamn right it's.

Omar Najam 3:23

Ladoo Auntie in Desi Quest. Everyone welcome Rekha.

Speaker 5 3:26

Oh my God, I love intros.

Sandeep Parikh 3:29

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

Rekha Shankar 3:34

Just have them introduce you with all your credits.

Sandeep Parikh 3:38

Rekha, do you? I really do think you're going to be the fan favorite of Desi Quest. Yeah, ladoo Auntie is so amazing.

Speaker 5 3:46

Oh my God, the hell, so nice.

Sandeep Parikh 3:50

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

Speaker 5 4:01

simply always popping off in the chat when Zoom came like became so prevalent in pandemic.

Rekha Shankar 4:08

Yeah.

Speaker 5 4:08

Every job I did. I am popping off in the chat You're talking about something You're like what was the name of that movie? I've found it and I've linked it. Damn, I am going to the chat. You need to find me in the chat.

Omar Najam 4:24

Yeah, yeah. Am I wrong in saying that you were banned from Slack for chatting too much? Is that right? The platform Slack said you chatted too much.

Speaker 5 4:34

Yeah, slack said I was too efficient and I was chatting too much.

Sandeep Parikh 4:39

They said that you use their app too well.

Speaker 5 4:43

Yeah, it was too. I broke the system, damn.

Sandeep Parikh 4:47

Yeah, all right. Well, we, we start off all of our interviews, except for the last one we did because we forgot. We all are interviews with this question Rika, what does your name mean? What does Rika mean? And if you don't know, that's fine. What does it mean to you?

Speaker 5 5:07

So my name means line, like a line on a piece of paper.

Omar Najam 5:13

Oh really.

Speaker 5 5:14

Or it also means it can be, I believe, a little extrapolated, to be like artistic. But yeah it means line yeah, that is the story I love that, I love line.

Sandeep Parikh 5:31

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

Speaker 5 5:46

Because I have cousins and stuff and their names mean like strong or like.

Sandeep Parikh 5:52

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

Speaker 5 6:03

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

Sandeep Parikh 6:12

Right.

Speaker 5 6:12

So, like it's like I try to compare it to like an American, I'm like.

Sandeep Parikh 6:15

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

Speaker 5 6:18

I don't have one I typically go to, but I was just spitballing right now.

Rekha Shankar 6:22

I'm like.

Speaker 5 6:24

Maureen, maureen, that's not common.

Sandeep Parikh 6:27

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

Speaker 5 6:33

Sarah. No, it's not. It's not Sarah, it ain't Sarah.

Omar Najam 6:36

Now, that's the new merch, by the way.

Sandeep Parikh 6:40

That's going to be our shirt for.

Rekha Shankar 6:42

ABC.

Speaker 5 6:42

It ain't Sarah Sonthi.

Omar Najam 6:44

Yeah, could it be like that? Like I'm, I do, I have a complex, I have a complex, I have a complex, I have a complex, I have a complex.

Speaker 5 6:48

I have a complex, I have a complex. I think it's more unique than it is because I've only met three in my life.

Omar Najam 6:57

It's not enough.

Speaker 5 6:58

And that's kind of not enough for me. I've only read it. I read it in one book once, yeah.

Omar Najam 7:05

Okay.

Speaker 5 7:05

It was a girl in his classroom in the namesake and she did Janet speak.

Rekha Shankar 7:11

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 7:12

Hey, sorry If we could rewind a second. What do you mean? You came after me pretty hard.

Speaker 3 7:21

Yeah.

Speaker 5 7:21

For saying Maureen isn't very common, yeah. And then you kind of flew us back to 1970 and said Janet, are you okay?

Sandeep Parikh 7:32

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

Rekha Shankar 7:38

Oh, like it's not, john.

Sandeep Parikh 7:40

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

Speaker 5 7:48

I feel like it's more common than Phillip. I feel like it could be like Tom.

Sandeep Parikh 7:51

No, it's not. How dare you.

Speaker 5 7:54

I know I feel so hurtful to be like your name is common. I mean, you're not like Samir.

Sandeep Parikh 7:59

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

Omar Najam 8:04

Bill or snow offense to.

Speaker 5 8:05

Samir no offense to Samir we love you All.

Sandeep Parikh 8:07

the all the offense to Samir's.

Speaker 5 8:09

I'm going after Samir. I'm problematic. Okay yeah, this is. I like playing this game, though I'm like Megan.

Rekha Shankar 8:19

I'm kind of a Megan.

Sandeep Parikh 8:19

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

Omar Najam 8:25

I know three Magans, I. How did you know? You knew three Megan. So fast.

Sandeep Parikh 8:30

Yeah, that's quick I counted.

Speaker 5 8:31

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

Rekha Shankar 8:41

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

Speaker 5 8:43

I'm not, like I'm not like I'm not like I'm not, I'm not like I'm not like I'm not like I'm not like I'm not like my. My name is.

Sandeep Parikh 8:52

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

Omar Najam 8:57

Okay.

Sandeep Parikh 9:00

Yeah, I feel like that, like we run a course on that. You're great, hey. So we're going to check in with your chakras. Okay, You're going to check in with how you're aligned from Gen Con and this was Rekha's first, you know sort of nerd convention like her first experience. Yeah yeah, I know the audience is is cannot believe it. I couldn't believe it. How are you feeling? What's?

Speaker 5 9:28

your takeaways. I had a blast. I was worried I would not know anyone and that that was true. But what I didn't know, we there. I love seeing you guys. You guys are so much more ingrained in that, in that like hobby, so I was just like, oh, I'm going to be just tagging along and kind of not knowing anything. But everyone was super nice. And I love board games and I think I thought maybe it would be more TTRPG focused than board games.

Rekha Shankar 10:06

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

Sandeep Parikh 10:11

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

Omar Najam 10:23

I love board games, so I literally just got lunch with mob and Brian from Chaosium who run stuff, and they were talking about how wonderful it was to meet you, Reika, and you said to Sunday. But we were just talking about mostly Reika. Sorry, no, no, no, that's not what I meant. It was just because Reika said that she didn't know anyone, including us, and so I just wanted to let you know that you made a very good impression.

Speaker 5 10:51

Okay, Omar, this is actually brings up an excellent point. It is everyone's legal responsibility to tell me if someone says something nice about you. That's true.

Sandeep Parikh 11:00

Actually, that's true.

Rekha Shankar 11:01

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

Speaker 5 11:07

I don't, I don't care, I literally don't care it's freaking speeding ticket. Okay, good, but I had, I had a blast. It was so fun. The they see quest meet and greet was really fun. So cool meeting everyone If you came out. Thank you so much. That was so, so inspiring, wasn't that wild talk?

Omar Najam 11:33

about that, can we talk about?

Speaker 5 11:34

that yeah really quick.

Omar Najam 11:35

Yeah, please. It was just like such a magical. We've been doing this Sort of in. I don't want to say like a vacuum, but like in if, like a physical space. It's like people who are on production have been working on it. This was kind of our first Taking the baby out to the world and the folks who showed up and show the support more excited. It was incredible. How did you both feel about you know the event itself and being able to show that extended trailer?

Sandeep Parikh 12:11

You know, for For me, because I have done a bunch of these, it's been a while since I've been to a convention and it was really special, like because there was something very intimate about the way we did it. Like it was not at a normal, like panel hall, like it was not in a normal you know, we weren't behind a table, it was just like us standing up there in front of this TV, in this packed room, at this bar, and there was this like real. There was like an intimacy to it that I thought was really special and cool To present the show that way. I felt like it was like come into our living room and just like what, here we're gonna show you this little, this project that we've made. And and it felt, you know, I felt really connected to the people there and it was cool to have so many people that like said afterwards they're like we drove here for you, like we weren't planning on coming to Gen Con.

Sandeep Parikh 13:05

This is one person from Columbus Ohio, I think it was, who drove from Columbus Ohio as soon as we announced and just like came just for us. Like I didn't even get a Gen Con badge, I just came to like come to this request thing. It was cool, we were, and I just had a room full of backers, you know, people who really were like invested in the show, and it was special to me. It was an unforgettable kind of an experience, rick. What about you?

Speaker 5 13:33

Everyone was so.

Omar Najam 13:42

That's twice as much as Sondeep.

Speaker 5 13:45

No, it was really nice. It was so cool to see how much support the show has before it's even aired.

Content, Demographics, and Board Game Victories

Speaker 5 13:55

Yeah right, it's crazy which is really, really nice. I think sometimes, when you make content and it is kind of maybe not for a specific demographic, but it's featuring a specific demographic, it can feel like, oh is only, is this only gonna appeal to like a fraction of a fraction of our possible audience? Wow, it's so nice to be like oh no, this appeal to everyone, like we wanted it to, and that's such a relief. Like, obviously we want tons of South Asian people to watch it, but it was so nice to see.

Speaker 5 14:30

Yeah everyone that's just like oh, we are just fans of Angeli, or we're just fans of TTRPG, or we're just like interested in what the project is or loved the trailer.

Sandeep Parikh 14:38

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

Omar Najam 15:03

Totally agree, daisy quest after episodes of mom this fall.

Sandeep Parikh 15:10

Let's go.

Omar Najam 15:13

It was genuinely, genuinely, genuinely credible. Are you, do you want, to go to some more conventions, rika? Are you in now Like? Do you have? Is there blood in the water?

Speaker 5 15:22

There might be blood in the water. I mean I had a blast again. Simply love board games, Would love to go play some board games with people so deep has kind of been bearing the lead here, but the guy at the Pictionary Air. Okay in the convention center said I got the highest score he's ever seen, and so they kind of famously took a video that he like didn't send me for I quite a while because I guess, very embarrassed or something that yeah, I got a better score.

Sandeep Parikh 15:56

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

Omar Najam 16:14

Cindy was involved at all Okay.

Speaker 5 16:16

typical to all success it was only me and nobody else but for real to all.

Omar Najam 16:25

Going to the moon.

Sandeep Parikh 16:29

Yeah, listen. And Rick, it did crush a picture. I mean like the drawings were fast and amazing.

Speaker 5 16:34

I was impressed.

Sandeep Parikh 16:35

It was a great cast, sir, it's sure, but all yeah, listen, I just I was hoping for that retort compliment, but yeah, no, you were good, you can. You beat me seven to four. You crushed me. You know I think you were guessing poorly on purpose when I was drawing, but that's fine, I just so you were fast. You're so fast like you just generated the idea and drew. Like incredible For me. I was like taking forever. Anyway, great job. Okay, you can watch the, the video. Did you already post it, rika? Did you?

Speaker 5 17:04

post it.

Sandeep Parikh 17:07

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

Omar Najam 17:11

But the winning word was Michelle gondry and your ability to communicate that just a couple lines.

Speaker 5 17:16

Thank you.

Sandeep Parikh 17:17

Yeah, it was incredible.

Speaker 5 17:18

It's like she really hard, but you can do it if you think about it.

Sandeep Parikh 17:25

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

Rekha Shankar 17:34

I.

Speaker 5 17:38

There's a drawing you can do. That's just three lines, if you really think about it.

Omar Najam 17:42

Did you really think about it? Yeah, one of them well doesn't seem, you know, or we should say three Rekas, one of them Um triple R. Speaking of entertainment stuff and the arts, really quickly, before we kind of move away from our checker, check and you know, on a on a more serious note, like we are entering, we've passed, not entering, we've passed a hundred days of the strike for the WCA and and SAG is up in the mix. Rika, I believe you're doubly affected by the strikes.

Speaker 5 18:21

Yeah, I am.

Omar Najam 18:24

How are you feeling about it? I think that's a question a lot of us have been asked by family. How are, what are your thoughts? How are you feeling? Are you feeling optimistic?

WGA Strike and Future Prospects

Speaker 5 18:36

I am optimistic. No, we're. Yeah. I don't know what I think, because in my mind I've been always thinking of a deadline at the end of the year. I can imagine negotiations taking a long time, and that maybe because my my goalpost is a little farther away. I'm like surely, if it ends in like two months or something, and not a amount of time, they can negotiate now. Is that founded, is that sane, is that correct? Who's to say?

Sandeep Parikh 19:11

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

Speaker 5 19:18

Yes so.

Sandeep Parikh 19:19

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

Speaker 5 19:25

So before these emails went out that said they went back to the table, I thought like december, okay, you know, it's like the, the running, it's almost like with when covid happened and you hear random made up science from various people and no one knows where you got it. It's like did you know that if you pass by someone who's jogging, you'll get double covid?

Speaker 5 19:45

You're like yeah and like yeah, exactly, it can, it can love. And I feel like it's a little similar with like wga strike stuff, where it's like I've heard some timber and like where do you hear it from people like I don't know? Oh so I heard december floated and it's like totally unfounded but it just like stuck in my brain. Yeah, I don't know.

Sandeep Parikh 20:13

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

Speaker 5 20:22

Yeah, how are you guys feeling?

Sandeep Parikh 20:26

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

Speaker 5 20:45

Gonna be everything.

Sandeep Parikh 20:47

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

Speaker 5 21:02

Thanks, that's coming back probably correct, like there's gonna be Some sort of middle ground that's probably towards the lower end, because it's just streaming and the things that go into have like sort of it seems irreparably damaged or industry for everyone involved.

Sandeep Parikh 21:19

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, and I just don't know how. If streaming is all subscription based At like, because the whole idea is you want to participate in the success of your show, so how do you start to like, like before you could run ads again, you know the people who are running ads against a show. There's like, clearly you could do accounting on, like this show is bringing in this much money for the network, like I feel like they don't. I'm sure maybe have some version of them. I'm sure you can model it, but it's not quite as clean and they certainly keep a lot of that data hidden anyway. So I think that's the biggest thing is like, how do we participate in the success of a show that we, we write or act in for Streamers? That's yeah, that's the thing we've got to solve for. And then after that, ai I don't know how they do it, um, but I hope they do it.

Speaker 5 22:04

Yeah, absolutely.

Sandeep Parikh 22:06

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

Speaker 5 22:12

I've been trying to perform live a lot more. Um which has been very fun and like good for my brain.

Speaker 5 22:20

I just missed it a lot, so that's been really nice. And then, um, like I filmed a sketch a couple of months ago, which was really nice and I'm hopefully going to release it so soon. Um, I cut it myself, so it just it took me a while to get my editing legs back, uh, and it was like the last time I was an editor was um 2017, and now, like I'm like 4k footage I mean, I know that was around then too, but now, like, everyone has a camera that shoots 4k.

Speaker 5 22:53

So like all my footage is two bajillion terabytes and Takes 55 days to load into my computer. So I'm like To do that, um, and then I don't have a tiktok presence at all, but I am, I'm Practicing.

Omar Najam 23:10

Okay but for me.

Speaker 5 23:12

That's really nice. I like don't really make videos. I'm trying. I there's something in my brain that's like I can't do characters and I was like, hey, that's what stupid.

Sandeep Parikh 23:23

That's a limiting belief.

Speaker 5 23:24

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

Sandeep Parikh 23:31

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

Speaker 5 23:47

Can I pressure you?

Sandeep Parikh 23:48

to do a live release.

Speaker 5 23:49

I can give you a live release.

Sandeep Parikh 23:51

What?

Speaker 5 23:51

because I was gonna release one of them tomorrow.

Omar Najam 23:54

Let's go, don't wait for tomorrow, when today is the?

Sandeep Parikh 23:57

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

Speaker 5 23:59

Yeah don't wait for tomorrow when today is dead. What did you say?

Omar Najam 24:02

That's not what I said, but that's better.

Speaker 3 24:04

Yeah, today is dead, don't wait for tomorrow.

Sandeep Parikh 24:06

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

Omar Najam 24:11

does the phrase take a nosedive at the end?

Speaker 5 24:17

Um that actually kind of ties to the video I'll post right now.

Sandeep Parikh 24:20

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

Speaker 5 24:42

Oh, my god, what see this is?

Sandeep Parikh 24:43

how much?

Speaker 5 24:44

I'm not on tiktok I. I think it's rake at el shunker.

Omar Najam 24:48

Let's find out. I'll tell you because I follow you.

Speaker 5 24:50

Okay.

Sandeep Parikh 24:51

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

Speaker 5 25:00

Give me two seconds. I have to adjust this is no, no, we can't.

Sandeep Parikh 25:03

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

Omar Najam 25:11

Yeah, I've got some stuff, but nothing Okay oh my gosh, when you search, when you search ricka, you actually get like fan cams.

Speaker 5 25:19

Oh, that's funny.

Omar Najam 25:20

Oh, okay.

Speaker 5 25:22

Okay, this is incredible that I've posted this. It's extremely vulnerable because I don't think it's that good, but it's topical because I'm a huge, huge, huge sex in the city buff.

Rekha Shankar 25:32

And.

Speaker 5 25:32

I've been watching and just like that, because I have to, and, um, I have a lot of thoughts about it and that's okay and so. You get, that's okay and you get an exclusive and if you don't understand it, it's okay. It's very vulnerable to post and I'm not great at characters, so thank you all for joining me in this journey ricka d, can, I, can, I, can I give you some numbers real quick.

Speaker 5 25:55

I literally thought you were gonna say notes on the thing I just posted and I was like, okay, like you can. But oh my god, omar, it's like an eight second.

Omar Najam 26:05

Okay, so let's start with number one, here we go so an hour of notes. Okay, I'm gonna. I'm gonna hit you with some numbers, is that all right?

Rekha Shankar 26:15

Yeah, yeah 12.7k.

Omar Najam 26:18

35.8k. 51.7k.

Speaker 5 26:22

Whoa, you found my bank account.

Sandeep Parikh 26:29

Cool, Fuck yeah.

Omar Najam 26:31

I can't believe you have, I can't believe you have three separate numbers in one bank account.

Speaker 5 26:36

I'm not sure what I'm looking at. That's weird. I'm celebrities child.

Sandeep Parikh 26:40

Those are just all blackmail payoffs.

Omar Najam 26:43

Those are the numbers of someone who apparently isn't big on tick tock.

Sandeep Parikh 26:49

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

Speaker 3 27:01

I'm just gonna drop this up on stream, right?

Sandeep Parikh 27:03

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

Speaker 3 27:06

That's the one you just posted to your tick-tock, right.

Sandeep Parikh 27:08

Yeah, yeah, let's listen to it.

Speaker 3 27:09

All right, let's see if this works.

Speaker 5 27:11

Oh, one hour wait. What is this springtime? I did, you did. I missed you saying you're oh, I am swaying, it is like. It is like it is like seeing someone show your full oh on a live stream.

Sandeep Parikh 27:42

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

Speaker 5 27:52

Yeah, in case that joke didn't make sense to anyone, I just think the jokes on the news sex in the city, on interest, like that don't make any sense and are profoundly non-specific. There will be jokes like oh, I know Brady from that one winter trip we took and I was like what, what's the? What am I supposed to take from that? Was he annoying? Was? It annoying that it was winter. Everything is like kind of AI generated to be honest. For sure.

Sandeep Parikh 28:23

Listen, I got a couple notes.

Speaker 5 28:25

Now it's great, it's perfect.

Sandeep Parikh 28:29

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

Speaker 5 28:39

That is springtime. I think it's great. Are you guys older brothers? It's giving older brother.

Omar Najam 28:51

Hey everybody, everybody come in.

Speaker 3 28:55

Come look, look, look, look look.

Sandeep Parikh 28:56

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

Speaker 3 28:58

They got like the context, I got the notes and all that.

Sandeep Parikh 29:01

Let me wake up my son.

Speaker 5 29:02

Hold on it's good to to feel it's good.

Omar Najam 29:09

Yeah, it's good to feel.

Sandeep Parikh 29:11

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

Speaker 5 29:33

Oh my God, so sick. This is huge Maybe the joke registers If you watch him just like that, and if it doesn't, I'm sorry. You can give me that to the chat.

Omar Najam 29:42

I watched one episode and at the end of the episode, um, these Australian guys showed up and like, can we buy you a drink? And then she was like you know what? Yes, and then my friends turned to me and went that's supposed to be character development.

Speaker 5 29:55

Sandeep.

Sandeep Parikh 29:56

Yeah, what yes?

Speaker 5 29:58

My trouble Sorry. Omar said that I'm so sorry.

Omar Najam 30:00

No, because I was using my Sandeep impersonation.

Speaker 5 30:04

I know that is literally exactly correct. That is supposed to be character development or a joke. One of the two things and that is a very common issue with the show, where you can't tell what anything is trying to be or what genre it is, or what it's trying to accomplish, or, with the point of view of any of these Already established characters, is it'll be like, like, like, correct.

Speaker 5 30:27

We can't talk about the plot. And then I, I, just I, I feel like, um, I don't know how I'll get my hands on the show now. And then I was like Carrie being like huh, you know what, miranda, I've been thinking about it. Maybe I created the A bomb.

Sandeep Parikh 30:40

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

Speaker 5 30:48

Yeah, it's been a while since they made the show.

Rekha Shankar 30:50

Maybe they're also relearning how to edit.

Sandeep Parikh 30:54

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

Sandeep Parikh 31:11

Um the rake of past, yeah, like you know. When did you know you wanted to? Let's, yeah, let's. Let's go backward back in time. When did you know you wanted to be a performer, like as a career, like how? How did you talk to your parents about this?

Obsessions, Film School, Parental Concerns

Speaker 5 31:25

Yeah Well, I wanted to be a comedy writer but wasn't like super aware that was possible starting in high school. I uh only started watching sign files when I was in high school and I became like really obsessed that it four different episodes would air a day to you.

Sandeep Parikh 31:41

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

Rekha Shankar 31:46

Yeah.

Speaker 5 31:47

It's exactly what you think it is. Um, just just check your desk. Um, and I got so obsessed- I would watch four episodes a day. Um, and then the DVDs came out and I requested them for my birthday and that was the only thing I was like. If all of my friends come into my birthday band together at each donate $2, I can get these DVDs.

Sandeep Parikh 32:06

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

Speaker 5 32:11

I like on the invitation. I was like you don't have to get me a gift, but if you would like to, if you all contribute like $2, I could get these DVDs which is so sick so sick, um, but I was so obsessed I would watch all the DVD commentaries and stuff, and searching your favorite shows on the internet wasn't as much of a thing Like I would go to um. Uh right, what, what the hell was the website called? Um? No, it's like a TV like kind of. Tv tropes kind of website.

Speaker 5 32:42

Tropes Um, I would go there Something like it was like that. It wasn't that one exactly. Television without pity, television without pity.

Rekha Shankar 32:50

Oh.

Speaker 5 32:52

I would read that obsessively for like fun facts. And I read how Seinfeld started with just Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, like walking around a Korean grocery store, and I was like that's the job I want. I want to be able to just like write funny stuff from like observation. But I didn't know it's possible, uh. So I kept that in the back of my head and one of my friends was even like, why don't you go to N Way for film school? And he's like, well, I don't want to do film.

Speaker 5 33:15

So that's not going to happen. Um and I was fully like planning to become a doctor. My parents luckily they're not Push G or strict at all. They are just sort of, they know the things they know and that's what they will suggest. And so what?

Sandeep Parikh 33:32

are your parents? What are your parents do?

Speaker 5 33:34

Uh, my mom, um, when she lived in India she was a doctor and then she became a same. Stay at home, I'm here and then my dad is an aeronautical engineer.

Sandeep Parikh 33:44

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

Speaker 5 33:53

I'm the only granddaughter who is not a doctor.

Sandeep Parikh 33:56

Um and out of how many.

Speaker 5 33:58

Out of eight or something.

Sandeep Parikh 34:00

Wow, so you are the black sheep of the.

Speaker 5 34:04

Yes, and I was going to be a doctor, I went to like a biomedical research camp and stuff like that, cause I was interested in that sort of stuff. Oh my God, it was TV Tom. It wasn't television, without pity, it was TV Tom, yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 34:16

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

Speaker 5 34:20

Yes, um, yeah. So I was planning to do all that and then I just got to college and was taking John ads and immediately was like very unhappy and I. I did go to NYU and I just I uh worked really hard Right over there, I worked really hard on a video submission and I had no background in that stuff at all. Um, and wrote like a funny essay and got into the film school, which was very life changing for me that's amazing.

Sandeep Parikh 34:48

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

Speaker 5 34:51

Yes, I have one sibling, and and, and, like everyone in my family like they're finance like whatever, so this is totally out of the norm. Yeah and um, my dad. I remember the day I got my acceptance to Tish. I called him and my dad is just very like, even killed about everything. Nothing gets him excited, nothing gets him upset.

Speaker 5 35:13

So, I called him and I was crying, I was so happy. I was like, dad, I got into film school and he went all right and I was like, and I was running down Fifth Avenue to go like, sign the paper, to like, except the thing. And um, I was like, yeah, and I can double major, I could do something like math. He wasn't even upset, like he didn't care. He was like, as long as you know, if he went, yeah, do biology or something you know.

Sandeep Parikh 35:41

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

Rekha Shankar 35:49

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 35:51

Or it's like math is the thing you do to do physics.

Sandeep Parikh 35:54

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

Speaker 5 35:57

So he was like half. I was like I have to go, I can't talk about it.

Sandeep Parikh 36:00

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

Speaker 5 36:04

So they didn't totally care, but it did make it so annoying at family functions.

Sandeep Parikh 36:10

Yeah, oh sure.

Speaker 5 36:12

Yes, and I think what's nice is I have always been very academic.

Sandeep Parikh 36:17

I have always done like straight student kind of person.

Speaker 5 36:21

Yes, I was hyper responsible.

Sandeep Parikh 36:23

You crushed them, sats, I did fine.

Speaker 5 36:25

I was always a better like student than like aptitude Achievement takes test paper than aptitude, but I was always just a very responsible kid so I think there was maybe part of my parents. It was like I guess she knows what she's doing, maybe OK, nice OK. But not, you know, like don't get too excited, nothing in like that. We trust our daughter. I think they're just like we don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 5 36:47

So we can't say anything, but as a result I'm like I am not wasting one dollar of this education because I was privileged enough that they paid for my education. Right, like I am attending every fucking class, like that was always my MO. Anyway, I never skipped anything, I barely had sick days. I'm doing all the homework and then some. I've never interacted with this career. What's go ever yeah.

Rekha Shankar 37:09

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

Speaker 5 37:14

So, they didn't totally care, but they do ask tons of annoying questions. And when I like used to be in post production and I quit my job to pursue comedy more full time, my mom was like are you spiraling into a depression? Comedy more so than the film industry was like huh. To my mom.

Sandeep Parikh 37:30

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

Speaker 5 37:41

my, my dad doesn't know either way and does it totally care. So my mom is like deeply like disturbed that I'm a comedian. She constantly leaves me voicemails, being like you should change your job.

Rekha Shankar 37:55

Wow.

Speaker 5 37:55

Like, yeah, like, or shall find clips of mine, and this is what Indian Like can you be a horror filmmaker please?

Sandeep Parikh 38:02

Yeah, I prefer you to pick a different genre.

Speaker 5 38:06

This is very typical Indian.

Sandeep Parikh 38:07

Slasher pics.

Speaker 5 38:09

At least mine. But she will call and be like I saw some clip of yours. Why do you keep making trashy stuff, reika and I'm like what do you mean? She's like I don't know? I saw one of your shows and it was trashy. She heard Zach Alfinakis in the Between Two Ferns movie. My family gathered to watch that and no exaggeration did not stop talking from the moment we hit play.

Speaker 5 38:32

Yeah, until the end and then, of course, had no idea they would not stop talking. It was like 10 people in a room and I was like All right.

Sandeep Parikh 38:38

I feel that in my core right now.

Speaker 5 38:40

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

Sandeep Parikh 38:52

She's like I can't. She was so upset that he was talking about sex.

Sandeep Parikh 38:57

Yeah, yeah, no, I know it's so tough. Like sex is the is like really that that's the threshold. I feel like my parents have sort of like gotten accustomed to swearing a bit. They don't, they don't love it still. Action and gore like totally fine at this point. My dad loves like he loves Mission Impossible movies and anything Tom Cruise totally fine with that. But like anything remotely sexual and it's like no, this is like you know, this is my, my as well. It's to their brain, I imagine. It just all looks like torture porn or something like a kiss, just all looks like the most extreme version of it. It's just so uncomfortable. So, omar, are you hearing us or are you having chat?

Omar Najam 39:37

It appears to be bad. So often it boots me out, but I can put together from context clues. Except for this last one, I have no idea what could have possibly led to that torture porn, just the uncomfortability around our parents Like.

Sandeep Parikh 39:51

I don't know if you feel the same way with your parents, but you know, anytime any sexual content comes up in a movie or romance that gets too. You know risque that that's no good.

Speaker 5 40:04

I watch the show where two people were kissing and my mom was there and I knew the kiss was going to happen and I was. Sometimes I will cough if I think someone's going to say a swear word in a TV show so that she can't hear.

Speaker 5 40:19

But she was so upset that they were kissing and she got so angry. I was like I don't know how to live, like so exhausting and like so we, just I just she does not watch anything I make, not that anything I'm making is so rude. She just thinks it's all like trashy or incomprehensible. So I'm like whatever.

Sandeep Parikh 40:45

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

Omar Najam 40:57

Yeah, yeah, it's like every stop in. I hang out with friends whose parents are like deep in what they do and they're like I've watched all your videos, I've done all this and I'm just like what is this foreign concept?

Speaker 5 41:09

Yeah, I, I, my. My dad is more like supportive than my mom, so he'll like he might have seen my episode of hacks. I don't think he knows what Auntie Donna is, and I told him what it was.

Rekha Shankar 41:20

Oh he tried to watch it.

Navigating Cultural Identity and Family Disconnect

Speaker 5 41:21

He said it was too weird. I think he doesn't remember, he can't say Zach Alfinakis, his name, properly and he doesn't ever remember the name of the movie. He doesn't.

Sandeep Parikh 41:31

To be fair, that's a tough one.

Speaker 5 41:34

I think he vaguely remembers college humor. He doesn't know what dropout is. I told him I did stuff with Dungeons and Dragons and he goes Rika. I hear that stuff is really evil. And I was like no, oh boy. Oh, boy, and so okay like when we're talking about, like why representation is important. It's like, okay, you're all come from, if you're, if you're someone with parents that understand it, like role plays, where they're like reciprocating information with you about media.

Sandeep Parikh 42:02

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

Speaker 5 42:16

I don't think my mom's ever seen a college humor video. I don't think they know like God's of Food or any of this other stuff I did. I don't think they've read maybe, anything I've written. They're just so disconnected from it.

Sandeep Parikh 42:26

Yeah, and it's. I think it's tough. I mean I, you know, I I try to. My dad literally calls the legend in Neil like your X-rated show. He means it playfully honestly. He's not like that upset about it, but he's like, he's like, he. Definitely he knows that he cannot show it to anybody.

Sandeep Parikh 42:42

Yeah, there's like a lot of masturbation jokes in it. There's like no way he's doing that I remember. I just want to share this one specific memory because it's so visceral to me now that my dad, like my dad, is obsessed with Tom Cruise, right, and he loves Top Gun. We watched Top Gun a million times and every time it got to the sex scene in Top Gun he would he see. The thing is he loved the, the track. So he loves Take my Breath Away, like it's like one of his favorite songs of all time. So he would find a way to basically mute the video, like he'd. Like he'd like turn up the volume but then like either look away or like you know, he's like don't or like don't watch this part, but just listen yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 43:20

What he like loved the thing, so it's just so funny. Anyway, that's funny. Yeah, our parents are. It's interesting, it's interesting. It's interesting being the arts, being, you know.

Omar Najam 43:31

I my my mom texted me when I was on my way to, or my mom called me when I was coming back from Indianapolis. She was keeping me awake Because I got to.

Sandeep Parikh 43:41

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

Omar Najam 43:44

Okay, Everyone does know my mom, but a story about my mom really quick is that I worked on Ms Marble and Ms Marble is now an ABC TV. Not I'm where I'm from right now in Australia. That's a different thing, but the American broadcasting yeah.

Speaker 5 44:00

In case you were wondering.

Omar Najam 44:04

And so they're showing Ms Marble. And then so my mom was like, oh, and I'm watching Ms Marble, it's so good, there's a wedding and stuff and it's just so beautiful and the show's so important. And I was like you remember I worked on that right. And my mom's like yeah, of course. And I was like so did you see episode two? Did you see the? The scene that I wrote? My mom was like no, I must have looked away for that part. Look away. She's like I don't sleep. What do you mean?

Speaker 5 44:27

Absolutely.

Omar Najam 44:28

I told you about this, so it is the zanginess of just like it's so exciting it's. Who are the people who makes this show? I've worked on it, yeah, okay.

Speaker 5 44:38

Yeah, yeah, exactly Like truly.

Sandeep Parikh 44:40

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

Speaker 5 44:50

That you would like to have a trouble engaging with it. Yeah, what if he became like Um, like a?

Omar Najam 44:56

pop patrol like an actual pop patrol character, like a cop.

Speaker 5 45:02

Yeah. Yeah that's what you get, like dad.

Sandeep Parikh 45:10

I want to be military police. I want to be an MP. Okay, this is tough for me. Yeah, I guess, I guess, I don't know what it could be.

Speaker 3 45:20

Um, I've requested to be stationed at Guantanamo Bay.

Speaker 5 45:23

Yeah, you're not gonna support me.

Speaker 3 45:27

I really feel like I could bring order to that place, All right right. Oh.

Sandeep Parikh 45:32

Man, that would be tough. That would be tough, yeah, okay, so let me ask you this, because I feel like we've covered that sort of a lot of this path of being a South Asian artist, like how is your relationship to being like regarding being an Indian American, like how do you navigate the two cultures for yourself?

Speaker 5 45:53

Yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 45:55

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

Speaker 5 46:03

It's always very interesting because it is so different on every day, every hour and with every person where um, I find that I'm sure this is a common tune people have sung on this show.

Speaker 5 46:21

Where I was born, in the United States. Yeah, and my parents are immigrants and Were very much like well, you know English, that's great. So they didn't teach me Tamil, which is my family's mother tongue, and that is a huge bummer for me in my adulthood. Yeah, because my whole entire family speaks Tamil, except basically me, because everyone else was born in India. Um, and that is a bummer because yeah it's, it's funny.

Speaker 5 46:55

What if someone was like oh, but they're speaking it all the time. How do you not pick up on them Like, do you hear anybody translating anything? Are you like you can understand Conversational stuff, but not a lot I can understand, so like I grew up half raised by my grandparents and.

Speaker 5 47:13

I can understand stuff like a Grandparent would just say to you, because they're the only ones that have like really consistently spoken Tamil to me, so I can say stuff around like eat this or like go to bed or did you finish a lot of eating things, yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 47:26

Close the door. I can say close the door, oh my god.

Speaker 5 47:30

I know how well. Here's what's time, I know how to. Be quiet.

Rekha Shankar 47:36

Yeah you're.

Speaker 5 47:37

I know many ways to say your hair looks bad, because they were said to me so thank you just said who said we all have really nice hair, because that's not the narrative I've been told.

Sandeep Parikh 47:50

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

Speaker 5 47:59

Hey, it's just a look Like you're about to fucking slap them.

Sandeep Parikh 48:05

Yeah, I know to say that. It's funny, my dad recently just said the same thing, where he was like my one big regret is not like Not making sure that you could speak a drathe, and I'm like, yeah, me too. Yeah, I'm like like that's also my regret for you.

Speaker 5 48:18

It's so frustrating and, like you know, my dad doesn't totally see the value in it, probably because one he looked. We live in America and English is such a valuable language to a lot of immigrants which I totally get to. He knows Tom all, so he's probably it's like if I'm like a curly hair is not so great or whatever, I'm sure someone like no, I really want that. It's just like when you have it, you know, think about it as much and my family is all like basically Trilingual, quadrilateral or quintal angle.

Speaker 5 48:45

Yeah, I know don't know what it's like when you're like trying to keep up with that and you just can't. So, to answer your question, the way I've tried to reconcile with that kind of gap I feel, because it's almost like grief, it's just like grief for something I can't really ever have is Cooking.

Speaker 5 49:05

I do a lot of Indian cooking Because I'm like well, I did grow up eating a lot of Indian food and I do know what stuff is supposed to taste like. So, even if I can't speak, I'm like if I can make something that my grandmother made me growing up, it almost feels like yeah and I'm right.

Omar Najam 49:22

Did you? Did you pull that in for your character in Desi quest like? Did that inform?

Speaker 5 49:27

all. So you know that is interesting. The choice I guess to be her is just the part of Indian culture I think I'm the most steeped in is like Probably around food and family, like I don't know pop culture in.

Speaker 5 49:47

Indian India very well, especially also because, you know, for those who aren't as familiar, there's like Bollywood, but there's colliewood, there's Hollywood, there's movies that are probably not musicals like there's. So it's so Spread out and fractured and different than what we just think about it, maybe in America. So it's hard to catch up With all that and I don't know anything about the pop culture there, so like food and I've been. I've been around a lot of aunties and uncles in my life. My family is around 800,000 people big and.

Speaker 5 50:19

Would stay in my house, really half of India in my house. Growing up I'm very steeped in like dynamics of like. Here's how brahman uncles talk to brahman aunties and.

Rekha Shankar 50:46

It's not good.

Speaker 5 50:47

Here's how aunties talk to girls versus boy. Like that stuff. I'm very, very Verstead, especially as, like one of the younger cousins and a girl, it's like huh, I wonder why I'm cleaning up and wonder why I have to babysit the cut, the kids that are 100 years younger than me and can't go hang out with the adults. Interesting Food has been food and that kind of like food and gossip, like family, just dynamics.

Sandeep Parikh 51:15

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

Speaker 5 51:36

Make a the sauce, like I can't speak a mama, but I don't know, but I make it a sauce.

Sandeep Parikh 51:44

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

Omar Najam 51:48

Yes, I do, I absolutely do. And then we'll hop over to some fun stuff. Um yeah that's reset my things.

Sandeep Parikh 52:01

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

Omar Najam 52:06

You know, with what we do, it can be very tough and I think that, like, we Are very happy in public, because that's like an aspect, an element. I think that someone complaining about things that comedians complain about, but it not being happy, can be very draining. I'm very difficult and we do see a lot of joy in oftentimes unjoyful things. But it's also really important to kind of check in, like with the show. You check for check-in, so like what would you say is kind of your relationship to like mental health, like mental hygiene, in terms of the keeping that in check. Because I think that one thing that I really noticed at like at the day sequence event At GenCon was, you know, it was such a great chance to connect to people in person and to kind of communicate that like.

Sandeep Parikh 53:00

What did he notice? Many elements.

Omar Najam 53:03

Can you?

Speaker 5 53:03

guys know, I can hear him, cindy, I can hear Omar.

Sandeep Parikh 53:06

Okay, good.

Omar Najam 53:07

I missed it. Okay, let's go that. We can explore so many elements of what is funny about our culture and what's funny about our disconnect, but also there's some elements of that that are tough and that are real. So how do you tackle that? Do you have any best practices that you do to keep yourself feeling good?

Speaker 5 53:29

Yeah, I'll give some backstory where I think part of my gravitation towards comedy in addition to the fact that I just really liked it and I liked watching comedy was to sort of ingest harder stories and process them in a way that allowed me to continue to function. And I used to very proudly say and it's so mortifying to me, if I could talk to this 14-year-old, I'd be like you're wrong. I'd be like, oh, I don't have feelings, I'm a robot. I'm a robot Because that was extremely valued in my family, for sure. Now, they would not say I had no feelings, they would say I cried a lot, which is probably true, which is true, it's not probably it is true.

Speaker 5 54:16

But I mean, and that's what happens, when you go around to all your friends in high school being like, oh no, no worries, I don't have feelings. That's what happens too. So when I graduated college, I started therapy and I thought I was pretty aware of, like, what my limitations and things were, but you always find so, so, so much more, and really finding the language which, with I could just think to myself, has been really helpful. Even we're not even talking about changing yourself yet, just like thinking and identifying and like the things I was afraid to do and like like.

Speaker 5 54:56

Individuation is a word my therapist has used a lot, especially when I was in my early 20s where I think it can be hard coming from a communal culture where it's like. How do you make yourself? The individual adult that is like for me, picks up and moves to Los Angeles where, like none of my family lives. That's really hard to not feel very bad about.

Sandeep Parikh 55:19

Look at you learning a new language.

Speaker 5 55:21

Look at ha ha. I'm feeling well in the feelings.

Sandeep Parikh 55:25

That's right. Maybe the most important language you learn.

Speaker 5 55:29

Therapy has really helped and I think also having to see what things that my family has given me that really serve me, like my work ethic I really am grateful for, and maybe some of the things that haven't served me, Like if I make a mistake I don't need to go every single time I make a mistake.

Rekha Shankar 55:50

Yes yes.

Speaker 5 55:52

Or I don't need to. I need that one, yeah, or I don't need to like my dad. If I have good work ethic, my dad is 800 times more tenacious because he will be like let's take a seven layover flight and then take a 45 hour bus ride because it costs 50 cents and then we'll stay in this free hotel where you have to suspend yourself from the ceiling.

Rekha Shankar 56:17

And you can't touch anything.

Speaker 5 56:19

Yeah, and you can't touch anything and you'll yawn and he'll be like you need to have a little more stamina and you're like I've learned what has helped me about that and what is like, ooh, maybe I'm allowed to take a break.

Omar Najam 56:32

Yeah, can I A little bit, because this is something I'm kind of exploring right now and something I'm focused on while I'm in Australia with some time to myself, is how do you know when you're getting close or have crossed that threshold for yourself?

Speaker 5 56:49

Like where I'm doing things more for my mental health, or threshold of like where I'm going too far, like working too much.

Omar Najam 56:57

Because I feel like a lot of people say like this is good, this is bad. It's so dependent upon the person. How do you know when you're starting to run low on your fuel and you're like I need to recharge, like? This adventure is actually feeling taxing now, or this job is actually taking up too much of my energy.

Speaker 5 57:15

Yeah, I think that's a what is it?

Sandeep Parikh 57:16

draining and what is it energizing?

Speaker 5 57:18

That's a really good question, I think one of my like signs is usually a lot of negative self-talk.

Rekha Shankar 57:25

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

Speaker 5 57:29

Yeah, like I worked a job that creatively was satisfying. This was like many years ago, but just like-.

Omar Najam 57:37

This is Toys R Us right.

Speaker 5 57:38

Yeah, this is Toys R Us with Jeffrey and so-.

Omar Najam 57:40

Toys.

Speaker 5 57:41

R Us. I love it.

Sandeep Parikh 57:44

With Jeffrey the DREF.

Speaker 5 57:45

Exactly the DREF. Now my co-worker stands, Jeffrey. We're just a little bit exhausting and draining for me and it was like kind of taking a little dose of social anxiety every day over the course of like a year or two, and each day I would come home being like was I fucking weird when I said this? When I did and I would be like why don't I have the energy to like do my shows after work and just like, oh, you're tapped the fuck out from that because you feel like shit about yourself.

Speaker 5 58:15

I was in like such a rut, like doing like improv at that time a little bit too, and I was like, oh, because I'm feeling like I'm a shitty person, because I can't like function in this work environment very well or to the ability that I know I can.

Rekha Shankar 58:29

Yes.

Speaker 5 58:30

So that's one little sign for me.

Sandeep Parikh 58:32

I love that.

Speaker 5 58:33

I think too, like yeah, knowing just like bodily stuff like my body is so fucking like, nah, if I don't eat enough vegetables in a day. I get like and so like. Sometimes that is almost an indicator to me. Like you didn't have time to cook for yourself this week, Uh-oh, Take a goddamn breather.

Sandeep Parikh 58:52

Wow, that makes a lot of sense, good stuff. So I think it's like the key is like being able to identify those things. I mean, I think it's why it's therapy so important I'm so I just started therapy this year, like one-on-one therapy, and it's like been life changing, so like if anybody's on that plate, anybody in that place, are like I don't know, should I do? I really need it? Blah, blah, blah. So worth it, it's worth doing the exploration. I think you're totally right about you learn the language, you learn how to be, you know just like, and you learn these things where you can pick out these. You know these things about yourself, or like, oh shit.

Sandeep Parikh 59:27

And give you a little bit more of the observer about you and your habits in a way that can be, just so much more beneficial

Omar Najam 59:34

and productive, completely agree. I took therapy from the airport flying back from GenCon because I didn't want to miss out on my weekly session and it was really interesting. I don't recommend it, but I just want to say if anyone is on the fence about therapy or it's just like I don't know, like it hasn't done anything in the past. First of all, I'm sorry, like 100% find the best therapist for you, but also therapy is like the opposite of dentistry Therapy. It takes a while for you to realize what's kicking in and you start to feel it more than you consciously know it. Dentistry instantly you're like something's being shoved into my tooth.

Speaker 5 1:00:14

Uh-huh, that's okay. Very apt, omar. They love that.

Biggest CEO-Employee Wage Gaps

Sandeep Parikh 1:00:19

That comparison or that anti-comparison, that antonym to it. All right? Well, sage words from everybody here. We're going to jump into a little game before we close this thing out, cause, you know, rika likes games so much.

Rekha Shankar 1:00:35

I do.

Omar Najam 1:00:36

It's called.

Sandeep Parikh 1:00:36

Pictionary.

Sandeep Parikh 1:00:37

So, kind of going off. It's called yeah, exactly, get out your Pictionary pen that you bought from GenCon. Okay, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to play a game called Top 10. This is the way this works. I have a list of a top 10 list in front of me and these are statistical, like. So they're like, you know, they're numbers based to top 10. This is an opinions based and you guys are going to go back and forth, cause I'm hosting this game. Rika is going to go against Omar. Rika, the stakes for this game are huge. Okay, because the winner of this game be basically becomes host next week. Like right now, I'm the host.

Sandeep Parikh 1:01:17

Omar was was introduced as a co-host. You know, you saw how embarrassing that was for him, right? Like the way I introduced myself as a host. So, rika, you're subbing in as my champion. If you win, I get to retain the host level for next week or our next next show, and Omar gets to remain co-host. But if he beats you, then he gets to. You know, you serve me and it's very. It's really rough on my relationship with my parents.

Speaker 5 1:01:41

You're really good at doing this. Okay, this is so typical I have to kind of hold it together for you. You're my champion.

Sandeep Parikh 1:01:48

So I'm running for you and luckily I'm also running the game, so I will definitely cheat in your favor. But what so? The way this works is I have this top 10 list. The way you score is in reverse of the, or sorry, you score based upon the rank that you guessed. So if you guess number 10, you get 10 points. If you guess number one, you get one point.

Sandeep Parikh 1:02:10

So it's actually behooves you to try to guess. The ones that are a little bit more difficult to get to the top 10. The ones that are a little bit more difficult to get, the low boys that are lower on the list. Yeah, does that make sense?

Speaker 5 1:02:22

And if you guess anything?

Sandeep Parikh 1:02:23

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

Speaker 5 1:02:26

It's a little like family family feud kind of, but there's more points for the stuff that scored lower.

Sandeep Parikh 1:02:31

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

Speaker 5 1:02:34

It's like a real family.

Sandeep Parikh 1:02:35

You're obviously a board game master.

Speaker 3 1:02:36

Oh, my God, and there's a chess box here. So when it's your turn, the clock's ticking.

Sandeep Parikh 1:02:41

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

Omar Najam 1:02:46

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

Rekha Shankar 1:02:51

Yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:02:51

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

Speaker 5 1:03:13

Okay, okay, okay.

Sandeep Parikh 1:03:16

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

Rekha Shankar 1:03:30

Yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:03:30

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

Rekha Shankar 1:03:40

Rika you can start.

Sandeep Parikh 1:03:41

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

Speaker 5 1:03:46

Okay, amazon.

Sandeep Parikh 1:03:49

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

Speaker 5 1:03:53

Yeah, I thought it might be number one, but it was like maybe there's somebody worse, maybe.

Sandeep Parikh 1:03:56

Yeah, you never know. That's the number one, andrew Jassy, the CEO. He makes $212 million a year. Sorry, $0.7 million. I shouldn't just throw away that. Yeah, I think it's pretty important to me, it's important to the workers.

Sandeep Parikh 1:04:13

The annual salary of the of a median worker on Amazon makes $32,855, which is actually rather high for most of these companies. I'll say that, and so the way that, so the way they put it on this list is the years that it would take for you to, if you had the median salary, to reach the CEO. Pay is 6,474 years, okay.

Speaker 5 1:04:39

You have to work to get the CEO and do I get stock options for all 6,000 years or like yeah, yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:04:45

Totally. Oh yeah, all the stock options you want as a corpse for sure, I'm sure they'll best only post your death. So yes, congratulations, you got the number one answer. But that only gives you one point.

Omar Najam 1:04:57

One measly.

Sandeep Parikh 1:04:58

Omar, you're on the clock.

Speaker 5 1:04:59

Okay, hey, first of all, I won't.

Omar Najam 1:05:01

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:05:06

Surprisingly high-scoring. For you, that's going to be number eight on the list. That's eight points for you. Timothy Apple, as I believe this is actual NASA last name Timothy Apple. Mr Cook here makes $98.7 million. The median worker makes $68,254. It would take you 1,447 years to reach the CEO. That was me. I used to work at the Apple store.

Omar Najam 1:05:33

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

Speaker 5 1:05:37

Oh, my God.

Rekha Shankar 1:05:38

I hate this.

Speaker 5 1:05:39

Are they all? Studios, cindy and by?

Sandeep Parikh 1:05:40

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

Speaker 5 1:05:44

You guys can throw some answers in there. Now I'm not cheating.

Sandeep Parikh 1:05:47

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

Speaker 5 1:06:00

Okay, I'll just do Um McDonald's.

Sandeep Parikh 1:06:03

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

Speaker 5 1:06:17

Kent.

Sandeep Parikh 1:06:19

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

Speaker 3 1:06:34

But it would take him 10 years to reach the salary of Amazon CEO, the number one slot.

Sandeep Parikh 1:06:39

It would. I was going to say he doesn't make much for a CEO If he was working for Amazon.

Speaker 3 1:06:44

it'd be like God, this is a little unfair. This guy only makes $20 million. That's not that much compared to the CK, yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:06:50

In some ways it it, yeah, it is like, you know, mcdonald's cashier Pay, you know what I mean. Yeah, he's really slumming it with those 20 million a year. He's the lowest paid CEO on this list actually, so Okay, so maybe I should get 10 points for that. Oh my God, You're on the clock.

Omar Najam 1:07:14

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:07:22

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

Speaker 5 1:07:30

Are you trying to make me feel bad? Yep, that's what you're doing.

Sandeep Parikh 1:07:35

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

Speaker 5 1:07:56

Basically.

Speaker 3 1:08:02

On his average day he does 1000 Walmart greeters worth of greeting every day. Sure, does Wow Okay.

Speaker 5 1:08:11

Okay, bye, I bet that's not on there. I'm so sorry, viacom is not on the list. Good guess, though no, I'm not. No, it's not Okay, do you want?

Sandeep Parikh 1:08:19

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

Omar Najam 1:08:39

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

Speaker 5 1:08:44

Oh my God, oh my God.

Sandeep Parikh 1:08:53

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

Rekha Shankar 1:09:06

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:09:12

So that is. I'll just quickly do the numbers for you. Starbucks Kevin Johnson, the CEO, makes 20.39 million dollars. It would take you 15, almost 1600 years to reach his CEO pay. The average annual salary of a median worker is a 12,935 dollars. You're on the clock, Rika.

Speaker 5 1:09:32

Warner Brothers.

Sandeep Parikh 1:09:34

I'm so sorry. I will say this for you Don't go forward. There are no studios on this top 10 list.

Omar Najam 1:09:39

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:09:43

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

Omar Najam 1:09:57

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

Speaker 5 1:10:00

No, oh, am I supposed to? No, I think it's your turn, omar, your time's moving. Oh dear, I'm going to go with general. I made a guess.

Omar Najam 1:10:05

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

Speaker 5 1:10:06

No, general motors Right. No, general Clock.

Sandeep Parikh 1:10:15

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

Omar Najam 1:10:21

Oh, I've got this.

Sandeep Parikh 1:10:22

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

Omar Najam 1:10:24

Exxon Okay Mobile. Exxon Mobile.

Speaker 5 1:10:28

Gas.

Sandeep Parikh 1:10:30

No, and no gas companies on this list. Amazingly enough, I'm going to throw you a couple. I'm going to throw you a couple of hints, I'm going to need double the hints, yeah, so there's, there's, there are, I'd say, at least three of them are tech companies oh, no, tech specific, and uh, one of them is a. I will say okay, then there's something in the food and drink industry Okay, and there's one that's in the uh, apparel industry.

Speaker 5 1:11:03

Okay.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:06

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

Omar Najam 1:11:14

Okay, cisco systems.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:20

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

Omar Najam 1:11:25

This counts.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:26

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

Speaker 5 1:11:33

Oh, my God.

Rekha Shankar 1:11:34

For one of them.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:35

Yeah.

Speaker 5 1:11:36

Oh, AT&T.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:38

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

Speaker 5 1:11:43

Not on the list If Omar doesn't come back, and I guess for him.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:49

Yeah, absolutely that's going to be.

Speaker 5 1:11:50

I can guess for him.

Sandeep Parikh 1:11:52

Oh, we lost, we totally lost him.

Speaker 3 1:11:53

Yeah, we lost him, you said it counts against his time, so I'm leaving it running. You want me to stop it? I'll stop it.

Omar Najam 1:11:58

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:12:03

Go ahead, omar, you got one.

Omar Najam 1:12:04

Yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:12:05

You hear?

Omar Najam 1:12:06

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

Guessing Companies Conversation

Sandeep Parikh 1:12:11

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

Speaker 3 1:12:21

No, it's not. I'll say this I look to the list.

Rekha Shankar 1:12:23

It's not on that list.

Sandeep Parikh 1:12:24

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

Speaker 5 1:12:27

Oh, you're thinking something. What are you thinking?

Sandeep Parikh 1:12:30

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

Speaker 3 1:12:38

A couple of these that are a holding company where there's a lot of brands that would count.

Sandeep Parikh 1:12:42

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

Speaker 5 1:12:48

Yeah, oh, freaking like the fucking people that own.

Omar Najam 1:12:54

That's good. That's good for the apparel company A very difficult brand to market at least in the United States.

Speaker 3 1:13:03

For the apparel company.

Sandeep Parikh 1:13:06

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

Speaker 5 1:13:15

OK, I'm not looking. Ok, is it the people that own?

Sandeep Parikh 1:13:24

Think cheap clothes.

Speaker 5 1:13:25

Target.

Sandeep Parikh 1:13:27

No, it is not target.

Speaker 5 1:13:29

OK, I was going to guess another thing, and I should have guessed that cheap clothes.

Omar Najam 1:13:33

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

Speaker 5 1:13:36

God Omar luxury brand.

Omar Najam 1:13:38

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:13:45

No, no, you know the thing. The thing about think about hot topic, it is it is the same place twice. But this place that I'm thinking of is never the same place twice. If you remember that commercial jingle from the 80s it's how's moving castle. It's really never the same place. I'll break it around your time.

Speaker 5 1:14:05

Yeah, I know the same place. Twice, you've given me a Trolls riddle the same place twice.

Sandeep Parikh 1:14:12

No, it's never the same.

Speaker 3 1:14:14

It's never is never the same place twice.

Sandeep Parikh 1:14:16

It's never that.

Speaker 3 1:14:16

That is honestly a fair marketing campaign for this place. What?

Speaker 5 1:14:21

The same place.

Sandeep Parikh 1:14:24

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

Speaker 5 1:14:30

Never the same place twice. Can you tell me if that's a pun off the name?

Sandeep Parikh 1:14:36

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

Speaker 5 1:14:41

It's not a pun, it's stupid.

Sandeep Parikh 1:14:43

Oh my gosh.

Speaker 5 1:14:44

OK, OK, OK, OK.

Speaker 3 1:14:46

Can't believe Chad got it off of that clue.

Speaker 5 1:14:48

Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 1:14:49

Stop complaining about. The clue is a great clue.

Speaker 5 1:14:50

Oh my God, Everyone, everyone has to calm down. We are all doing fine and I can take as much time as I want.

Sandeep Parikh 1:14:58

No, totally you absolutely.

Speaker 5 1:14:59

Can you get another minute? Thirty eight, yeah, do you want to?

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:03

do another clue.

Speaker 5 1:15:04

Yes.

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:05

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

Speaker 5 1:15:19

Quantas no.

Omar Najam 1:15:24

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

Speaker 3 1:15:26

Oh, I'm going against American Airlines.

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:28

Omar.

Omar Najam 1:15:29

American Airlines.

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:31

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

Omar Najam 1:15:35

Now I know how to get to that airline.

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:36

He used this company.

Speaker 5 1:15:38

Oh, like Uber or Lyft or no, no, you go to. Australia. Well, you said to get to the airline. Oh wait.

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:50

Omar, your turn.

Omar Najam 1:15:51

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:15:56

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

Omar Najam 1:16:05

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

Speaker 5 1:16:09

Oh, what, what Shut up Uh. Visa information.

Sandeep Parikh 1:16:16

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

Speaker 5 1:16:29

Into to get that visa into his email, into his, into the government to get a visa. How are you talking about to get to get a visa, a computer?

Sandeep Parikh 1:16:45

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

Omar Najam 1:16:56

OK, ok, let's end this.

Speaker 5 1:16:59

Wait, I have 14 seconds left. Omar, if you're a gentleman, you'll donate all of your remaining time to me.

Sandeep Parikh 1:17:06

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

Omar Najam 1:17:09

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

Speaker 3 1:17:19

No, you do not.

Sandeep Parikh 1:17:22

The show has to end sometime.

Omar Najam 1:17:27

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:17:31

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

Omar Najam 1:17:38

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

Speaker 3 1:17:44

I don't have any clues.

Sandeep Parikh 1:17:45

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

Speaker 5 1:17:51

Try to find negotiator. There you go.

Sandeep Parikh 1:17:56

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

Speaker 3 1:18:10

The sea of one Booking dot com and the price. I like price shop you, just it's the same company.

Sandeep Parikh 1:18:16

It's the same company. You're not price, that's right. You do the same same data. So Rekha storms back, I think 10 points. Glenn Fogle makes fifty four million dollars a year. The average salary worker makes about fifty eight thousand. It would take nine hundred thirty years to reach there, wow, wow.

Speaker 5 1:18:33

It just dawned on me how long it's been since we've gotten an answer correct, because we didn't. You guys were on a.

Sandeep Parikh 1:18:39

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

Speaker 3 1:18:51

Yeah, I think we're using the form. The type of system we just before said. He was like if you run out of time and you're behind, you can try to run on the list, but you have to get none wrong.

Speaker 5 1:19:00

You still have a last like last ditch, we need to get back in. Oh, there's absolutely no. I mean, omar Cindy, there's no way. I won't get that wrong.

Sandeep Parikh 1:19:08

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

Speaker 3 1:19:25

And then you took these premonitions that you wanted to store them in an efficient database. Who would you go to to provide you with this database?

Sandeep Parikh 1:19:33

Maybe in Boston Massachusetts.

Omar Najam 1:19:38

Clearly this is psychic, psychic hard drives.

Sandeep Parikh 1:19:42

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

Rekha Shankar 1:19:52

Medium, medium, like that Medium just goes.

Speaker 5 1:19:56

OK, so sorry she's.

Sandeep Parikh 1:19:59

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

Speaker 5 1:20:04

Yeah, Fortune 500.

Sandeep Parikh 1:20:08

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

Rekha Shankar 1:20:14

Yeah.

Speaker 5 1:20:15

Forge Greece, fortune Fortune.

Omar Najam 1:20:17

Fortune. It was like a favorite song from the movie Greece.

Speaker 5 1:20:20

Greek money money Greece.

Sandeep Parikh 1:20:23

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

Rekha Shankar 1:20:30

Oracle yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:20:33

Four points for Rick.

Speaker 5 1:20:37

You've got this I'm so sorry and I'm so sorry we didn't see the matrix and we couldn't just say it was a character in the matrix. We had to kind of do something crazy and talk about crazy shit for a long time.

Sandeep Parikh 1:20:53

That's the actual definition of the word.

Speaker 5 1:20:56

Yeah, we could have just say the lady into matrix, we'd have to depend News.

Rekha Shankar 1:21:03

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:21:07

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

Omar Najam 1:21:13

Oh God, it's back to me.

Sandeep Parikh 1:21:16

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

Omar Najam 1:21:21

I want to say Intel.

Sandeep Parikh 1:21:23

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

Omar Najam 1:21:33

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

Speaker 5 1:21:45

Yeah. And then on the wind she whispers the message that nobody yes the name of the company.

Sandeep Parikh 1:21:53

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

Omar Najam 1:22:03

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:22:08

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

Speaker 3 1:22:19

Oh, Marshall's is in the same order. What a camera, yeah.

Sandeep Parikh 1:22:22

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

Speaker 5 1:22:32

when I was growing up, our TK Max was very messy.

Speaker 3 1:22:35

Exactly. That's why. That's why it makes sense every time you go in like listen, something happened on the shelves.

Omar Najam 1:22:41

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

Rekha Shankar 1:22:44

Yeah.

Speaker 5 1:22:46

The branding is the same place twice. It's now.

Speaker 3 1:22:50

TK Max. Tk Max now.

Sandeep Parikh 1:22:54

Is that what it's called in Australia?

Speaker 3 1:22:55

Yeah, it's the same company.

Sandeep Parikh 1:22:56

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

Speaker 5 1:23:07

Oh my God, the TK Max promise.

Sandeep Parikh 1:23:10

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

Speaker 5 1:23:26

Oh, my God, thank you for having me.

Sandeep Parikh 1:23:30

As always, if you want to see our faces instead of just listen to us on the podcast, then you can check out the VOD on our YouTube page, youtubecom slash F and funny and all that stuff's in the show notes. To do that. You can rate, you can comment, because I'd really help us. We really need that. Those are good things that make algorithms like us and, as always, feedback can be sent to ABCD podcast show at gmailcom or our discord. Yeah, yeah, and then, did we ever pick a genre? Did we ever pick a genre for our names?

Speaker 3 1:24:03

I just hear lots of yeah, the the top suggestion that was on there was yeah, metal. I don't have a baby metal track, but I do have like a J-pop track or a metal track.

Sandeep Parikh 1:24:15

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

Speaker 3 1:24:20

If you don't know what it is, the best way to describe it would be J-pop metal.

Omar Najam 1:24:23

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

Speaker 3 1:24:26

So it's up to you. You want.

Speaker 5 1:24:30

You T metal, that is to say what's it?

Rekha Shankar 1:24:34

I know TJ Metal, I know.

Sandeep Parikh 1:24:36

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

Speaker 3 1:24:44

Do you want J-pop or do you want metal? Because we don't have a baby metal track, so you're picking, unless you're saying you don't know what metal or J-pop is Well.

Sandeep Parikh 1:24:52

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

Rekha Shankar 1:24:57

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:25:00

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

Rekha Shankar 1:25:04

I'll get great.

Sandeep Parikh 1:25:05

OK, I need. Do you know this Omar?

Omar Najam 1:25:08

Oh, of course.

Speaker 5 1:25:09

I do.

Sandeep Parikh 1:25:10

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

Omar Najam 1:25:14

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:25:17

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

Omar Najam 1:25:21

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:25:28

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

Omar Najam 1:25:30

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

Speaker 5 1:25:32

We all the same outro twice Very accurate.

Acknowledgements and Shoutouts for DesiQuest

Omar Najam 1:25:37

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Sandeep Parikh 1:25:57

Here we go.

Omar Najam 1:25:58

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:26:02

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

Omar Najam 1:26:09

So you kick it off.

Sandeep Parikh 1:26:11

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

Omar Najam 1:26:41

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

Sandeep Parikh 1:26:46

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

Speaker 3 1:26:53

Jeremy Schwartz, jeremy.

Sandeep Parikh 1:26:54

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

Omar Najam 1:27:09

Buy. Oh the Berger, oh the Berger, oh the Berger, the Berger. I'm sorry, I was so excited about that. Sorry, I was so excited about that. Sorry. The shows technical director and sound designers down in Neville. The show's executive producers are Sandeep Parikh and Anshan. This is edited by Sean Maher. The music is by Harpchall Sasodia, jaspers Singh and Malik Saveri.

Sandeep Parikh 1:27:31

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