Omar and Sandeep Prove Astrology Is Real… and Break Up ~ Khalistan?, Monkeys, Lunar (A·B·C·D) Ep 30

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Ever wondered if the stars could predict your perfect match? Buckle up, folks! We're embarking on a journey of discovery that encompasses our cultural identities, astrology and the cosmos, and even the affairs of the heart - all with a dash of fun and humor. And for our die-hard astrology fans, we're turning up the heat with the Celebrity Edition of Astrological Perfect Match or Mortal Enemy. Plus, we're keeping the conversation grounded with our insight into the realm of business relationships.

Picture this: monkeys invading a village in India. Sounds like a scene straight out of a movie, right? But it's real, and the innovative measures the villagers took to protect their home will both amaze and amuse you. We also touch upon India's remarkable strides in lunar exploration. From potential moonquakes to the prospects of constructing space colonies with moon soil - we've got it all covered. In the spirit of celestial bodies, join us as we dive into the world of astrology. We unravel the enigma that is our astrological signs and discover if we're compatible or not. Spoiler alert: you'll be pleasantly surprised!

As we navigate our way through the maze of business relationships, we discuss the delicate balance of setting boundaries and maintaining professionalism. If you've ever found yourself questioning how to work effectively with a colleague or what to do when feelings become involved, this is the episode for you. From moon exploration to astrology and relationships, we've filled this episode to the brim with exciting conversations. We guarantee you wouldn't want to miss it!

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An often belittling term, "ABCD (American Born Confused Desi)" is being redefined in new livestream/podcast series American Born Chatty Desis hosted by internet personalities Sandeep Parikh (The Guild, The Legend of Neil) and Omar Najam (Dimension 20). The two hosts (and a sometimes exciting guest) engage in front of a live chat, with a fast and loose format where they check in with their chakras and debate over their American roots v. Desi heritage! Come for the light hearted commentary, stay for the deep insights into life from the second generation point of view. We're here, we barely speak Hindi, get used to it.

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Transcript

American-Born Chattie Desi's

Speaker 1 0:07

What , what .

Speaker 2 0:08

Really .

Speaker 3 0:10

Really oh man Wow , I feel like that most of that applause was just for you , omar . I heard a lot of Omar claps , like specific claps .

Speaker 1 0:22

Oh , interesting . I think that your side of the audience was a mic . I think that was the problem .

Speaker 3 0:28

Yeah , that's right . Just like a wedding , we divide our audience , like you know , omar's side , sunip's side . That's definitely what we do , hi everybody . Hey , welcome to ABCD , american-born Chattie Desi's . I'm your host , but let me introduce my co-host , who will soon be working again as a writer .

Speaker 1 0:52

Oh .

Speaker 3 0:52

Omar Najam .

Speaker 1 0:54

Oh , best news I've heard , best news I've heard all week . Thank you so much . That's great . I love to hear that . And , folks , let me introduce to you this week's host . His son's sign is the peace symbol , his moon sign is a yin-yang and his rising is a no-fear poster voter . It's Sandi Farik . I don't know if that's funny .

Speaker 3 1:21

Did you say a no-fear what ?

Speaker 1 1:24

A no-fear poster . Remember there's no-fear folders in the 90s .

Speaker 3 1:28

Okay , so I had no-fear t-shirts . This is maybe dating myself , so we had no-fear t-shirts . Maybe by the time I got to you it was a poster folder .

Speaker 1 1:36

I think I wasn't allowed to wear them because they had to go fear .

Speaker 3 1:40

Yeah , that's true . They had no-fear , so little fear that the school was absolutely not you need to display a proper amount of fear . I am the host of this week . I'm here to tell you that we are the American-born Chattie Desi's . It's a podcast within a live stream . We're live right now and that live stream is within our lives as two American-born Desi's . It's a pod duckin . Ladies and gentlemen , this is for anyone out there who , like us , are navigating our cultural identities and just want to chat it out .

Speaker 1 2:12

Yeah , folks , and Papa Squawk , because we've got some great stuff . We have a new segment , or a return of an old segment , in a way , where we're going to be talking about the news , then we're going to hop into our chuck or check-in to talk about this week's topic . Are you ready for it , sandi ?

Speaker 3 2:26

I was ready , for it Turns out the day I was born .

Speaker 1 2:29

Oh my gosh that makes sense because it's astrology .

Speaker 3 2:33

Oh yeah , we Desi's love astrology . We should do it .

Speaker 1 2:38

We really do . That's not a joke . I'm laughing because you laugh or you cry . It's pretty intense in our culture . And then we're going to play a game Astrological Perfect Match or Mortal Enemy Celebrity Edition . What does that mean ? You're going to have to stick around to find out , and then , finally , we will celebrate our Desi of the Week .

Speaker 3 2:57

Yes , but before we do all that fun stuff , we got to do this fun stuff , which is talk about our sponsors . Our first sponsor is , as always , our Dungeons and Dragons actual play series . That stars me and Omar , that's right , we're in the show together outside of this show , and it's set in a South Asian mythological inspired universe built by our star game master Jasmine , that bronze girl , buller . It's got a stellar cast obviously the two of us , but also also Critical World darling Anjali Bhimani .

Speaker 1 3:30

Yes .

Speaker 3 3:31

And dimension 20 darling Rekha Shankar . A lot of darlings , a lot of darlings , a lot of darlings .

Speaker 1 3:38

Did you see the hot news about Desi ?

Speaker 3 3:39

Quest ? Did you see the hot news ? I don't think I did . Our premiere date finally dropped . We actually have a date , can ?

Speaker 1 3:46

you share it with us .

Speaker 3 3:48

I can , and it's a very auspicious date . Oh , it is November 14th , which is Diwali , so we thought what better of a Diwali gift ?

Speaker 1 3:58

Yes , right , yes .

Speaker 3 4:00

Than the premiering , the pilot episode of Desi Quest . I mean , come on .

Speaker 1 4:07

What an absolute dream . Come on , absolute dream . I'm so excited I'm going to just get an entire Tower of Jalebi to celebrate this , there we go yeah . I'm so excited , oh .

Speaker 3 4:17

I'm going to . I was just going to say I'm going to snort the rungoli . I'm just going to take it down like a pixie stick , you know .

Speaker 1 4:28

I went to . This is this is we're going to get stuck on this because you're going to intro but I went to an Armenian bakery and they had what looked like Jalebi and I was like really Call this and then they .

Speaker 3 4:36

I forget what it was called I forget , and then they glanced around .

Speaker 1 4:40

And I was like , oh , we have that because it's a lady , and they're like you don't have this because it's this , and I was like , yeah , yeah but we do OK . I just wanted to connect OK by that .

Speaker 3 4:50

It's the butter battle . Totally hey look whether or not you're Armenian or Indian or anything else between between the basic quest dot com , that's D , s , I , q , u E S T dot com . We'll click the link in our show notes to get on our mailing list or , even better yet , you can go to the Patreon for this request at patreoncom , slash this request and become a citizen of the DC Quest world and get exclusive access to our after show podcast .

Speaker 1 5:19

Yes , yes , yes , yes . Folks , this is so wonderful because you're supporting just great art happening . It's so appreciated . And I want to give a special shout out to our second sponsors of the show . That's right , it's you , the triads . Thank you so much for helping us out . You make this show happen . Head over to patreoncom , slash F and funnyE F , f I N , funny F U N N ? Y . We've got multiple tiers for contributing , with a handful of subscriber benefits , including your name listed at the end . Credits of the show that we will sing off in a way that a chat decides will not sing off , because every time we do that we're off .

Speaker 3 5:59

Oh , yeah , and never call what we do singing .

Speaker 1 6:01

Yeah , yeah , we do . What's the opposite of a vocal warm up ? Because a warm up is a promise of something coming .

Speaker 3 6:10

This is like shutting it down . Yeah , it's a . It's a . It's a vocal let down . It's a vocal let down .

Speaker 1 6:16

But , folks , you don't let us down . So head over to patreoncom slash F and funny to keep these ABCD lights on . Thank you so much .

Speaker 3 6:23

Yes , I appreciate that , and then finally , just real quick , I have a fake sponsor for you .

Speaker 1 6:27

Oh yeah , sure .

Speaker 3 6:28

Or an official sponsor . I think , considering this is our astrology episode . Yes , I am putting the sound to the ether . I think they are going to become our sponsors because I love Asha pops so much . They have been there . This is not . They have not sanctioned the sponsorship , but I think they're so delicious and they're LA based that I'm just going to keep pretending that they are sponsored until they become our real sponsor . Right , so good . You know , these are the lily seeds . Have you ever had a lily seed ?

Speaker 1 6:58

before . I've never had these .

Speaker 3 7:00

Dude , it's like , it's like good for you popcorn . Is popcorn that's actually like has , are you a big benefits and like nutritional benefits , like real nutritional benefits you know what ? They are , you know , I don't know . They say it's got other protein , it's a protein packed protein protein , protein , and they're just delicious . I'm eating the vegan cheese one right now .

Speaker 1 7:23

Oh my God , we're also Indians . We know how to get protein out of out of non meat items .

Speaker 3 7:28

Let me tell you we excel at it . Okay , that's it .

Speaker 1 7:32

I that this is . We're going to get this a lot in this episode . But what perfect , serendipitous timing . What fate of this . The stars are aligned , because I just rented a movie from video store here in Los Angeles that's called Chutney popcorn . Yes , I remember that movie . So look , look at this .

Speaker 3 7:51

It's meant to be meant to be so talking about stars aligning .

Speaker 1 7:54

Do you mind if we hop into the news to talk ?

Speaker 3 7:56

about it . Can I just say this last thing ? Sure , so curl up , watch some chutney popcorn and eat a bag of Asha pops .

Speaker 1 8:03

There it is . There's a tagline .

WGA Strike, Women's Representation, Sikh Assassination

Speaker 3 8:05

Okay , now let's get into our first segment , the news .

Speaker 1 8:10

Beautiful timing on that . Wow , folks . The first news story the day that we got is the there's . We got some , we got an update on the WGA strike .

Speaker 2 8:21

I'm just going to read it , to realizing .

Speaker 1 8:23

Well , let's see , let's talk about . Let's talk about this real quick . After several long consecutive days of negotiations , the Writers Guild of America and the labor group representing studios and streamers have reached a tentative deal on new contract , in a major development that could precipitate the end of a historic 146 day writer strike , just five days before the strike would have become the longest in the guild's history .

Speaker 3 8:46

Oh , hold out , Hold out for five more days . We can do it . Let's get the record . Come on , let's get the record at least we got .

Speaker 1 8:55

I got to say I I'm in some of the best shape I've ever been in my entire life .

Speaker 2 9:00

I've been through a lot of walking time to work out .

Speaker 3 9:03

Finally , a lot of time to get up . Yeah , the Pilates class that that you get to , class you're taking now Huh .

Speaker 1 9:11

Pilates you get to , pilates you get to . Is is trying the philosophies are a little competitive .

Speaker 3 9:18

The am PTP issue their best and final offer on Saturday .

Speaker 1 9:23

Of course they're making us work on Saturdays and the WGA met on Sunday to discuss the parties . In terms on a provisional three year agreement which will need to be ratified by the WGA members to take effect . Details of the deal aren't public are available to the public yet . There is no deal in the works yet for striking actors .

Speaker 3 9:42

I'll let you know how I vote . I'll let you know , we'll see . We'll see . I might want the five extra days . I guess this is really good news . You know that we're getting to a place of compromise , yes , you know . And getting back to work , I think I just know so many people that are really struggling right now . Yeah , it's not just the writers , it's it's it's it's crew , yeah , it's people in the service industry . It's , it's , it's really rippled throughout Los Angeles . So I am excited just for my friends to be in some , you know , better financial standing and some hope .

Speaker 1 10:22

Yes , yeah , I mean . I'm not part of WGA , I'm IOTC and and . I pretty sure I've lost my health insurance . So if we get back to work . That would be great . I'd love to accrue a couple of hours .

Speaker 3 10:35

Yeah , for sure , this is what I mean . Yeah , it really does . It turns out we're connected .

Speaker 3 10:39

Yeah , yeah so you know , yeah , there's a domino effect here and hopefully we'll start picking these dominoes back up . Yeah , well , that brings us to our next story in our new section of news , in the diaspora section I don't know . Working title India has passed legislation to reserve one third of seats for women in the lower house of parliament and state legislatures . I mean , let's go , that's like kind of more progressive than the US . This is this is wild . So a bill requiring India's parliament to set aside a third of its seats for women candidates past the bodies upper house . This week , women's representation in both houses around 14% , and women only made about 8% of the candidate field in 2014 . Yes so , proponents of the bill , so they could bring about better policies for women in areas like education and health care and employment , while opening pathways for India's women to pursue higher education and career opportunities . By the way , I am reading verbatim and I will give credit to Vox writer Ellen Alonis or loans on this . So you know this is this is wild , man . The legislation will not affect just representation of parliament , but in state assemblies as well . Despite support , though , it could be years before it's actually passed and even longer actually social effects or really take place . This is good .

Speaker 3 12:08

There's a quote here from from I don't know who this is actually , because I didn't read the article . Okay , what do you want me to say ? It's notes or notes , but they're saying that women make different policies . Women tend to emphasize policy issues that are relevant for women . This extends both from the kind of public goods that women may care more about , given the responsibilities to think about more about safety , and making it easier for women to report on crime or investments in women's health . I mean , what I love about this is it's like it turns out , women care about women . I don't know if you know , I love that . This is like kind of a surprise to the men , so much so that they're like hey , wait a second .

Speaker 3 12:47

Like wait a second . Men have such difficulty empathizing with not themselves that they're like wait . Even women care about women . That's crazy .

Speaker 1 12:58

But this is good . This is good . This is absolutely fantastic . I feel like oftentimes , when we're talking about stories from India , it's either like here's a wacky story or here's something that , like we as a diaspora like , are you know , talking about ? This is something I'm like let's take a page from from the middle of its book . This is great . I love this . Like this . This really brightened up my week . I'm very , very excited about this and I , as someone who is , you know , distant but still emotionally attached , I throw myself behind this bull hardly . Let's go . I am so excited .

Speaker 1 13:28

Maybe on the flip side a little bit on the flip side , story number three , which you might have seen in the news , a Sikh man , hard deep Singh , was killed in Canada . Sikhism is the world's fifth largest religion . He was a Canadian citizen and Justin Trudeau , prime Minister , accused India of assassinating him . This is wild . So other war , other Western powers , including the United States , appear to back Canada's version of the story , canada's theory . The Indian media and public are alleging that this was a terror , that he was a terrorist with links to the Punjab's separate groups and therefore the Indian security services were justified in killing him there is a minute .

Speaker 1 14:10

Yes , according to , in terms of the , just like a possible justification of this assassination .

Speaker 3 14:21

Yeah , it is a very tricky story denying involvement and saying but kind of saying that if we were involved it would have been fine .

Speaker 1 14:31

This is the OJ Simpson book approach to International what seems to be sort of like spy laden espionage , international assassination stuff . So , without getting so deep into the like democracy now of it all which I don't know if I'm necessarily , it's not my jurisdiction to hop into the journalism what I will say is this is pretty , a pretty wild situation for Canadian Indian citizens .

Speaker 3 15:02

It is because it turns out right that they at that they are now . So . India escalated this . They expelled Canadian diplomats . Yes , halted visa visa services , so Canadian citizens can't go to India . Yes like that's crazy . That's , yeah , wild . And Canadians on the other side have also expelled an Indian diplomat , mm-hmm , so it's getting it's , it's . I just , I mean , I'm , I don't know . This is this was not in my bingo card of crazy world events . Yeah , you know , obviously my heart goes out to the family and and folks that that , that were you know affected with , with , with hard deeps , untimely Murder , mm-hmm .

Speaker 3 15:45

But an assassination , I mean . But this is , it's talk about dominoes . I mean , this is .

Speaker 1 15:52

This is because the separate is group , like a lot of this ties back to also the , the group that was Blamed for in their agandis assassination . So like this is a pretty long-going historical tension that Canada is now involved in , and so It'll be interesting to keep our eye on this developing story if this happened in America , and this is .

Speaker 3 16:14

You know , I'm not in Canada , so talk for me it's . But you know , this is like Canadians like can't go to their cousin's wedding , probably now . You know yeah if this happened to me is like oh , I wouldn't be able to go to my cousin's wedding . That's set for next year , or whatever . Yes like this is .

Speaker 1 16:26

I have onset , can't go just casually go get fabric . I will also say it's really weird .

Speaker 1 16:33

We're gonna apologies I will say and this is not obviously the most pertinent and important take away from the story , but just in terms of our personal experience , I will say , whenever I imagine spy stories happening , I think I always imagine myself somewhat involved , where I'm like I would be a James Bond , like I need to learn how to drive a car fast and do , like you know , kung-fu and be able to climb a building and be an action hero . This was very humbling to see spy stuff happening and as I'm just checking it in bed on like the NPR news app and I was like , oh , I'm not involved , Unfortunately , you're not involved in this .

Speaker 3 17:09

Yeah , but we are getting fact-checked in real time , which is good . I love about doing this live . India . Stop processing new renewals and renewals of visas in Canada . Not that can eat the can't . Can't go to India if they have Previous visas right , I heard .

Speaker 3 17:25

I mean , you know this is coming from sluka bill . Okay , so I you know , I Know , but the point is is like , clearly the the West and India Mixing a little bit like oil and water here , yeah , and I don't think that's good for our , for our , for our people , for food and what . But our people's is that the folks that was born in the spas , bars , yeah , yeah , especially with G20 going on .

Speaker 1 17:52

But you know what that might take us to our next story .

Speaker 3 17:55

Yes , so the G20 right went down . For those unfamiliar , the G20 summit happened in India . They hosted it . This time is this is when , you know , 20 of the world's Leaders come together , talk about climate crises and hopefully come up with some plans and some ideas and how to , how to do better , so that we don't all just erupt into a Ball of fire , melt into the earth's core or wherever we're headed . So this year and New Delhi , india now , a lot of stuff went down at this , but the weird kind of human interest story , or maybe monkey interest story that we want to talk about is India had to work early , hard to keep monkeys from interfering with the event . Okay , this was the conversion comm , other the conversation comm Reported on this and it turns out the area has these Reese's macaques Is that how I say it ?

Speaker 3 18:45

Macaques was , I know it , macaques , which are these like bold and very curious , aggressive monkeys ? Yeah , and so they had to sort of like Launch a really unconventional Way of keeping them out because , also , you know , india is , like you know , really big on not harming animals , and so , listen , but these macaques , they're gnarly , they , they steal lunches , they damage property , they bite I believe it was . These are the same monkeys that were trained to steal the sunglasses off my mom's head when she was like , walking around , this like temp , this like temple , this one .

Speaker 3 19:26

Yes , and then like a trained like a guy was like oh , I'll sell you this food To yeah , that's totally them . I'll sell you this food , that , that , and I'll get your sunglasses

Monkeys and India's Moon Landing

Speaker 3 19:36

back . And it was this whole like oh my god lift .

Speaker 3 19:39

They were running , but anyway , they thrive in these urban environments and so , okay , here's what they decided to do . You want to hear this ? Sure , this is wild . So the monkeys , they don't . They don't want to come . So the thing that they're afraid of are these languars , yeah , which are like a bigger monkey , yeah , I Scare your monkey . And so they placed large cutouts of the languars around . Yes , I would scare it would . And and they also this is the craziest right to me they have deployed I love that , that's the verb between 30 to 40 men who can mimic the sounds of languars I hope I'm saying it right to trick the Reese's monkey into thinking that they're nearby .

Speaker 1 20:25

You know what's so wild about this ? Yeah , is that Universal Studios has a haunted house . That's exactly this .

Speaker 2 20:31

The .

Speaker 1 20:31

Carbohelonga .

Speaker 3 20:32

And then just men making the noise ? I haven't been in so long Right around the corner .

Speaker 3 20:36

Wow , you got to get the fast pass for that when the line is out the park . And then they also they also , I guess , got live Lengors and rented them , and I guess they were rented and put on duty . Oh , this was in 2010 . Oh , they can't do that again because there were concerns over them being held in captivity , so they're not doing that . Yes , that's why they're doing the cardboard cut out thing and just hiring these like who's the guy from police academy ? Again they hire him .

Speaker 1 21:05

They get him Is that he has a whole story behind it where it's the helicopters coming down with the lunges or the and then , and the light itself is made of like whoopee cushions yeah .

Speaker 3 21:19

Oh , man , amazing , amazing .

Speaker 1 21:22

Oh , absolutely incredible .

Speaker 3 21:25

Well , let me tell you , folks , that's , that's it must have worked right , because we didn't hear much about . You know , like the monkeys , you know , tearing the face off of Rishi Tuna , or something Joseph Biden wasn't like .

Speaker 1 21:38

yeah , my biggest takeaway was there are a lot of monkeys just stealing our packed lunches , stealing our sunglasses .

Speaker 3 21:45

Outbreak started again , or yeah , whatever . Let me tell you Outbreak minute yeah , yeah , yeah yeah , outbreak to .

Speaker 1 21:53

Anyway , let me tell you folks , there's no bad ideas . You know , shoot for what is the saying ? Shoot for the moon , because even if you miss your land amongst the stars , but , here's the thing , India we shoot for the moon and we land . That's right , because last news story we actually have a lunar lander that touched down on the lunar surface on August 23rd 2023 .

Speaker 3 22:15

We're a little late . We're a month late , but that's okay .

Speaker 1 22:18

I'm a little late than ever , making India the fourth nation to successfully land on the moon and the first to land in the South Pole region . That's right .

Speaker 3 22:27

The first . Take that back , just say India was a first to land , there's a first to land , and then whisper in the South Pole region . Yeah , that's definitely how my dad or my uncle's uncle Right there .

Speaker 2 22:43

Did you ?

Speaker 1 22:43

know we were the first to play tennis . We were the first Indian was the first Indian to play tennis .

Speaker 3 22:48

What are you saying ? That's a tautology .

Speaker 1 22:52

But I'll tell you this we are leading the exploration of frozen water on the moon because we are exploring the surface to see if the moon is a habitable environment for life . What , yeah , yeah , yeah . We're exploring the top soil and we're going down 10 centimeters or four inches below the surface to see kind of what's going on there .

Speaker 3 23:15

And yeah .

Speaker 1 23:17

A little quick result , that's you know , for all the science nerds out there , it's showing that the moon soil is a very good insulator and could be used to build space colonies and keep heat and cold and radiation out . What ?

Speaker 3 23:28

Can it grow weed ?

Speaker 1 23:30

Yeah , I mean it's already doing that .

Speaker 3 23:32

What ? Okay , amazing yeah . Can it grow a pang ? That's why we're there .

Speaker 1 23:40

There is something that's a little terrifying to me . There is a possible there's a possible detection of a moonquake . Okay , so how bad ?

Speaker 3 23:51

was it ? Does it just like ? Like what happens when a moonquake happens ? Do you just get like launched off the moon Because I feel like you know you can bounce so high anyway ? There's no Speaking of bounce . We also had a successful hop .

Speaker 1 24:05

The hop tested we hop tested the restart , which restarted the engine after a lunar landing to make sure it is still operating fine , and it was successful . They hop tested it . Yeah , we hop tested it . I actually have been . When I read that I got really excited because I've actually been learning about home brewing for beer and I was just like let's go . And I was like , oh no , this is different type of hop . Yeah , different type of hop .

Speaker 3 24:26

What is that I mean ? Does that mean they just like drop , like they use the energy of the drop of a hop to start the engine ? Is this kind of like , because sometimes , when I had my 1993 Toyota Camry , which was a stick shift and we'd have to pop it into neutral , we'll go down the hill , sure , and that's how we could get the engine to start . Yeah , we have to sort of like .

Speaker 1 24:47

Is it like that In a little way , because this was a test , you know . Luckily we didn't have to , this wasn't like an emergency situation , but this was a test and , to put it in there's no colloquial way for me to put it I actually have a background in astronomy .

Speaker 3 25:00

So the bottom , unfortunately , I'm going to have to refer to only scientific terms , so keep up with me here .

Speaker 1 25:07

But this is what we call a fawns in the industry .

Speaker 3 25:11

Okay , yeah .

Speaker 1 25:13

Just a little pop , get the engine going , we're back in business . We're heading back to earth , thanks a lot .

Speaker 3 25:19

Henry Winkler is truly the he's going to be the dacy of the week .

Speaker 2 25:23

This is cool .

Speaker 1 25:27

This is so cool . This is great Like .

Speaker 3 25:32

I feel like we heard so much about the moon growing up as kids and you're like what I thought I'd be on the moon by like 30 . Yeah , I mean , like I thought like as much as we talked about it being this big , and it's like for them to feel like we just had this whole long period of no one going on the moon , yeah , or doing anything interesting , and they still haven't landed people there .

Speaker 1 25:52

But and don't , please , don't , send my uncle there , because I'm just telling you you mean , india hasn't landed , we have like landed , like in the world , has landed people there ? No , but we have . But India has . Okay , great , I just wanted to make sure that this is what the car is . I wasn't going to discover that you're like no , that's fake .

Speaker 3 26:09

That's the conspiracy theory that I believe is that the landing was faked . I really yeah , we'll talk about it later .

Speaker 2 26:15

Except for India's , except for India's .

Speaker 3 26:18

All the rest of them want to fake . That's right down there .

Speaker 1 26:21

There's real landing .

Speaker 3 26:22

There's real landing . I'm just saying that if we're looking for frozen water and you send up with the monkey , he'll plant it there , okay .

Speaker 1 26:29

Yes .

Speaker 3 26:31

Just don't , don't send up with the monkey , all right .

Speaker 2 26:35

So I'm just saying , when we send it .

Speaker 1 26:36

When we send Indians to the moon and we find frozen water , you know that we're just going to be storing it in like cheap water bottles that will just live in the fridge .

Speaker 3 26:46

Oh my gosh , amazing . All right , speaking of amazing , I think it's time to move on to our next amazing segment , the Chakra Check-in . Oh , baby , we are talking about astrology today . Why astrology ? Because we're they sees . And also why now ? Because it was the a tunnel equinox , which I don't think I ever tracked until the show . But yes , that began on Saturday the 23rd .

Chakra Check-In: Embracing Change and Resilience in Autumn

Speaker 3 27:14

Yeah , here's some facts about the , the equinox or equinox Hit me with that .

Speaker 3 27:19

Depending on how you say it , equinox comes from the Latin meaning equal night , referring to a 12 hour day and 12 hour night . That occurs only on these two days of the year , right .

Speaker 1 27:29

We know this the the terminal and the vernal .

Speaker 3 27:31

I remember that . I remember that from like seventh grade . On the equinox , we honor the balance of light and dark and feel gratitude for the changes that come with the passing of time . Yes , right , yes , it's so . It's a meaningful time to honor the harvest of your efforts and intentions for your life path and that you set in the earlier . So maybe this is a time for you to check in on your New Year's resolutions , kind of a vibe .

Speaker 1 27:56

I like that Right . I like that a lot .

Speaker 3 27:59

And you lit a candle and you have a JJ Abrams lens flare on your .

Speaker 1 28:02

I got my two video . Yeah , my two .

Speaker 3 28:05

Neo big and traditions burning a candle and celebrating to filmmaker JJ Abrams yes , yeah , so this is the time of year where you're supposed to go within , inside yourself , empty out some space . This is where you do a little , you know , a terminal cleaning , yes , and compost your ideas . Okay , don't , don't just throw them in the trash . Compost , recycle your ideas .

Speaker 2 28:29

Yeah .

Speaker 3 28:29

Use the energy that they hold to make fertile soil for new creativity and matured visions .

Speaker 1 28:34

Beautiful poetry . I love that so much .

Speaker 3 28:38

So what are you composting ? Let's let's get into what's going on with your . What are you looking in in words for ?

Speaker 1 28:44

You know what ? I had quite a few goals at the beginning of the year where I was like this is my . I will say this without getting into too much , but my life and my day to day was very different at the beginning of our calendar year than it is now . Yeah , and it was also . Yeah , it was . You know , we thought that we were going to work on shows and stuff also there was a lot of things happening , yeah , and a lot changed , and so for me I was like I guess I'm losing a lot of progress .

Speaker 1 29:20

but then I went . Well , this is a great opportunity to see what is sticking around . So a lot of the stuff that's gone . I'm just letting those leaves and those sticks and , you know , some of that dry grass , like you know , deteriorate turn it to nice minerals . Yeah , and I'm packing that down to then feed the ongoing plants that I have , which are like my friends , who have stuck around with me and have been very close to me . My family , my relationships and my family are stronger than ever right now .

Speaker 3 29:52

They did not go strike , so that's good .

Speaker 1 29:54

Exactly . Yeah , I'm in therapy , so I'm using a lot of like this stuff , like a lot of my podcast podcast . I said friends and family you know you're a friend , you're a close friend to me and Delvin your family could say so because my mom has adopted you .

Speaker 2 30:13

That's the whole . Thing .

Speaker 3 30:15

We put over this .

Speaker 1 30:17

And should I , is this the time to share a really first , can I share a really personal thing that was an ABCD related thing .

Speaker 3 30:24

No .

Speaker 1 30:24

Okay .

Speaker 3 30:26

Anyway , so moving on . Of course , it's a time before . I'm gonna have an asher pop , just a little dose of protein .

Speaker 1 30:40

moving on , I think it was literally minutes before the second episode with my mom , like half an hour before I had a breakup of a relationship and it was right before the ABCD taping and so I was like it was like 20 minutes and I was like I'm gonna go in the backyard I'm gonna cry , but I'm a professional and I love ABCD , I'm gonna . My mom is a special guest today , so I'm just gonna pull it together , and so it was like logging on .

Speaker 3 31:06

Hey mom , let's do an episode man Just finishing blowing your nose , kind of thing .

Speaker 1 31:12

Exactly Dried my eyes today . But here's the thing like talking about this , what are we like , what are we composting , what are we letting go ? Yeah , there were a lot of like life plans I had , but what's stuck around , what's kept growing ? Naturally , this show , this community , these conversations , you know , even when our writing stuff Sandeep , you and me , like when we were in the industry , our acting stuff has gotten challenged . Then we saw each other at the picket lines for the South Asian day and celebrated that community .

Speaker 3 31:40

So , yeah , I think it has been the rally part of it has been really fruitful and soul kind of infusing in a way that I didn't see coming . So I'm with you , man . That's really great . I think what is dead will never die kind of a thing Like the ideas that you were going to work on or had . Those are still there . Those can still sprout , maybe on more fertile soil . I love that .

Speaker 1 32:15

I hope that yeah .

Speaker 3 32:16

You're nailing the metaphor so well today . So how about you ?

Speaker 1 32:20

What's your backyard ?

Speaker 3 32:25

Man , that's yeah , there's a lot . I mean , I think for me it's been really trying to focus there's a lot of . I tried a lot of new things this year . You know , stand up was really new and I really dove into that headfirst Also . But with the money sort of disappearing , I had to sort of refocus , like F and Funnys company efforts , into more corporate type stuff and ended up also engaging with family to hire their companies to produce for them , Because you know , sometimes the first place you got to go is to family to keep a business afloat .

Speaker 3 33:09

So you know , that's been . It was challenging to the ego , to be perfectly honest , to have to like , you know , to have . It was challenging to be like , okay , I'm going to need help here , but then to like sort of accept that I've come to this thanks to my therapist , this other realization that's really helping , helpful , which is like that we are interdependent . You know like we're ultimately becoming to this world as these like totally naked little babies that need to be nourished in every way humanly possible to survive , and so it's like that doesn't like that interdependence doesn't really stop .

Speaker 1 33:50

Oh , I love that it's not like it's a fallacy .

Speaker 3 33:53

It's sort of like a trick of the of like our , our logic left brain to be like oh , now we should be entirely independent , you know and it's like no , you are always interdependent and and even if you are , you think you're entirely independent , like , say , you're independent from your families , you need need for your family's help .

Speaker 3 34:11

Well then a strike happens and that turns out oh wait , I was interdependent with a whole ecosystem of writers , creators , performers and , you know , business folks and producers that is entirely out of my control to now , sort of in a way that fooled me into thinking I was independent , right ?

Speaker 1 34:34

Yes .

Speaker 3 34:35

And it goes oh wait , no , that can totally be taken away from me too . And so I think the thing that I I've realized I'm trying to work on is accepting really , really fundamentally , at a like cellular level , accepting that I am an interdependent being and being OK with that and letting my ego cool off a little bit because I can get really spun up and spun in the in like a really negative kind of shame spiral for myself if I don't .

Speaker 3 35:02

And then the other piece is is figuring out how to be resilient and like .

Speaker 3 35:05

I think that's the thing that I learned from the pandemic , you know , because , like , coming out of the pandemic pandemic was was obviously another version of life , being really scary and , you know , the wheels kind of just completely coming off . But we became pretty resilient as a company from that , like people stuck around , you know , my business partner stuck around , you know we had we . We figured out how to shrink and and pivot and create new . We started Twitch streaming , we figured out how to we put on Patreon for the first time . We just started figuring out how to , how to not become so dependent on one source of of income , like sort of you know , have multiple heart speeding , I guess , and so we just had to sort of figure out how to do that again , you know . So I think those are the things that I'm like trying to really remember is like , hey , remember how you were just resilient , like just got to keep , keep that , keep that going and and that we will come out . You know the other side of this , just a more resilient beast , you know .

Speaker 1 36:08

I love that . That is such a wonderful way to go into autumn .

Speaker 2 36:15

Yeah , because .

Speaker 1 36:15

I mean , autumn is also like a known for , like , not equinox Wait it's not as you have to show you want to balance of darkness and light . It's all you can't handle .

Speaker 3 36:26

So eat me , but like harvesting .

Speaker 1 36:30

I think that like is , on one level , a little use word fallacy . I think that's a good one to lean on , because you know like well , we're constantly harvesting because we have to eat as human beings , but like , so that's like a little .

Speaker 1 36:42

I think it's less of harvesting food and more of like , looking back on what you've grown so far this year , like it is that harvest of just like , wow , what grew , what didn't , what was the challenge and also what naturally popped up that was a surprise where you're just like , oh , I didn't realize that these seeds were planted a while ago .

Astrology Compatibility and Relationships

Speaker 3 37:00

Talking about nailing the metaphor Omar .

Speaker 1 37:02

Come on . No , I can't . You did the entire 80% of that . I can't come in with the last 20% .

Speaker 3 37:07

Now , that's , people only remember the last 20% . So you're great , this is great .

Speaker 1 37:12

Well , should we talk about ? Talking about interdependency and connections and stuff ?

Speaker 3 37:16

Should we ?

Speaker 1 37:16

talk about a little astrology .

Speaker 3 37:18

Yeah , I guess we kind of yeah , we got to do that he said we were going to .

Speaker 1 37:24

So here we go we're . Should we talk about our compatibility real quick ?

Speaker 3 37:31

Oh yeah , Absolutely Okay . Do you know about our compatibility ?

Speaker 1 37:35

We , because there was some compatibility that was tested . Because you're a cancer , Leo cusp . Is that right ? That's right .

Speaker 3 37:42

So I'm I've always what I've been told is that I'm a Leo . I'm on a cusp day . Yeah , I'm technically a Leo . Yeah . I guess , since I'm cusp-y , there's like some , supposedly I have attributes from all 12 . These are the X sides . This is what I was told by our astrologer . So I'm like , oh , so you can just say anything , basically , and it's like it's true . Anyway , that's what I was told .

Speaker 1 38:06

Yeah , I , so we , we . I believe we got a sign compatibility chart done , so we can blast it . We did , we'll find out about it . So Kailin did this , I believe .

Speaker 2 38:17

Oh my gosh .

Speaker 1 38:18

Kailin , am I wrong in saying that ?

Speaker 3 38:20

This is amazing . Can we get an off ?

Speaker 1 38:22

camera nod from Kailin or a shake of the head If that's not true .

Speaker 2 38:25

I'm seeing a nod . I'm seeing a nod .

Speaker 1 38:27

Yeah , so , kailin did this . Okay , okay , let's get into it , so let's get into it . What do you want to try to ?

Speaker 3 38:32

say Are we a good match ?

Speaker 1 38:34

Are you ready ?

Speaker 3 38:37

Well , before you jump in , I'll just say this yeah , if you haven't seen Indian matchmaker , do know that . Like , culturally at least my family , I don't know if yours is the same but they take this stuff really seriously . Like , like , it's not a pseudoscience to my dad , like he really believes that this is there's a scientific merit to astrology , and there is . I mean , look , hey , jury's out for me on this one , because , like you know , I haven't gone into their ancient Vedic libraries but there's some like old , some old dusty books there that have a lot of information in there , and there's these , like I mean , I'll just say this astrology is an industry out there , okay , and they take this stuff really seriously . They make life decisions based upon it .

Speaker 3 39:21

My parents were determined to be or incompatible , but then they had to do some rituals and stuff to get there . They had to pour some milk on some coconuts .

Speaker 1 39:36

Yeah , and we pour milk on a lot of stuff they had to chant a few things .

Speaker 3 39:40

They had to sit in the rooms and chant out some statues , and they figured it out . So the gods made it okay , but there was some work . Though it was involved , there was some work .

Speaker 1 39:51

Really quick . Before we hop into this , let's do it really quick . You can only say yes or no . It's one or the other no in between Astrology fully legitimate or completely illegitimate . You have to choose one or the other .

Speaker 3 40:08

Well , I'm going to choose fully legitimate then , because I just want that to be true , because that's more fun . I just feel like it's more fun to have magic in the world . So I'm just going to choose that one .

Speaker 1 40:18

I'm going . If we have to choose between one or the other , I'm going , fully legitimate , there's no middle ground . So can we for this ? Because you want to be a lion .

Speaker 3 40:28

That's cool . I'm a lion right now . If you take away astrology , I'm no longer a lion . I don't like that .

Speaker 1 40:34

And I'm twins , all right , so our producer , kaylin , put this together , so we don't know this . This is our compatibility chart .

Speaker 3 40:40

This is the first time we've been looking at this .

Speaker 1 40:43

So we're going to have Delvin technical director . Delvin , read us off our compatibility .

Speaker 3 40:50

We a match .

Speaker 2 40:51

Yes , yes , okay . So through the power of Kaylin , I have consulted the stars , through Kaylin as a medium in terms of the world of astrology . So I'm sensing first and deep . I'm getting a really strong answer . Little cuss from you .

Speaker 3 41:09

We said that earlier .

Speaker 2 41:11

Well , that's great . So we've confirmed that in fact , that's amazing . That's proof of right there because I just got that through the stars , through Kaylin .

Speaker 1 41:19

That's honestly incredible .

Speaker 2 41:21

And then Omar , I'm getting him . It's a Gemini , but I feel like it's like , not like they're like . Gemini was great . Can we milk that IP a little bit more ? And they put a sequel out like a second Gemini or Gemini two .

Speaker 1 41:34

How could you know that ?

Speaker 2 41:36

Doesn't sound like I know a lot about astrology .

Speaker 3 41:38

What I'm calling is that is a Gemini two . There's ones and twos .

Speaker 2 41:41

I feel like it's a Gemini two situation . I don't feel like this is a .

Speaker 3 41:44

I never heard of that .

Speaker 2 41:45

It's not a base Gemini .

Speaker 3 41:47

My kiddo is a Gemini . Oh the Cancer .

Speaker 2 41:49

Leo cusp is claiming that Omar's sign is fake .

Speaker 3 41:55

Are you man-plating ?

Speaker 2 41:56

Omar's .

Speaker 3 41:58

That's what I'm , leo explaining , right .

Speaker 2 42:00

Leo's planning Answer Leo cusp planning Okay . So , based on that , the best relationship type Okay you can have is love .

Speaker 3 42:11

Yeah , it makes sense . It makes sense .

Speaker 2 42:15

The worst possible relationship that you have is work . So , whatever you do , try not to put yourself into a situation where you're both like co-working on the same thing . There's so much room for love between the two of you , but you're just not going to be compatible in like a productive environment where you need to like get things done .

Speaker 3 42:36

Oh my .

Speaker 1 42:37

God , avoid this .

Speaker 2 42:38

That's so funny , so I mean you've got your empathetic , your energetic , your innovative , great for a loving relationship . However , you're also oversensitive , way too nervous and particularly unstable , which is this relationship that the two of you have . Oh , the relationship is empathetic , which is why you're not going to be able to have a good work relationship because you're not going to have that stability that you need to actually get things done .

Speaker 1 43:03

That's your side . Gemini is never known for this .

Speaker 3 43:06

This makes sense to me , actually . No , actually I'm going to . Here's what I'm going to sell it or spin it . Is that being podcast host buddies is not the same as like being in a business together ? Okay , it is a different type of relationship and I think it's a more playful and kind of like loving relationship . I don't love Anand , my business partner . I can't love that guy . I can't love him , but fuck , do we work well together .

Speaker 3 43:35

Yeah , yeah , I see that , I see that I'm just kidding , anna , and of course I love you , but we would never be compatible . We would not be compatible like hosts . I don't think we would be very compatible hosts .

Speaker 1 43:49

This makes a lot of sense because , like in every weekly meeting , you go . I sort of remind you I don't love you and I've always thought that .

Speaker 3 43:57

I do start the meetings with that .

Working Relationship and Bearded Dilemma

Speaker 2 43:59

That's just important to have a good , healthy working relationship , what you two never do , which is why you can't really work that well together .

Speaker 3 44:05

We always go around the room and we just talk about how we would never be a good love match , right . We just quickly just kind of review .

Speaker 1 44:12

Yeah , hr has pulled us aside every week .

Speaker 2 44:16

Right , you have the room for really passionate and exciting romance , oh yeah , However , however in marriage , you're likely to lose the spark , because what is marriage ? Marriage is work .

Speaker 3 44:31

That's that just hit me like a ton of Indian person .

Speaker 2 44:34

All the routine , the predictable routines , the responsibility handling that comes with marriage is not likely something that you're going to be good at doing together . Wow , okay , so like you've got , you got the energy . You got the understanding . Like no end to that thing .

Speaker 1 44:50

Okay , we don't have a regularly scheduled show together .

Speaker 3 44:54

No , I think that's the thing is that we have a regularly scheduled Trist .

Speaker 1 44:59

We just get together .

Speaker 3 45:01

We fuck around on Sundays , yeah , and then we go about our lives and we don't tell our partners , okay .

Speaker 2 45:09

I'm getting one more thing , okay , yeah . So I'm feeling from the stars that you have entered into some sort of relationship that you would actually categorize in the business world . So I do have some advice for you .

Speaker 3 45:21

Uh-oh , okay , all right .

Speaker 2 45:23

So to work side by side in an organization you're going to have to overcome your sensitivity to each other's feelings Okay .

Speaker 1 45:29

I know that you understand each other too much .

Speaker 2 45:31

Hey , you're going to have to work past that , you're going to have to get over the hump . Okay , it's okay Sometimes , you know , just put a little toe out there and see how it goes and let them feel how they feel . Okay .

Speaker 3 45:41

Okay , I've never had the strength to say this before , but , omar , I think we both can't be bearded . One of us has to go and I think mine's better . What ? Whoa ? Hey , don't be so sensitive . Good point , don't be so sensitive about it .

Speaker 2 46:02

You're going to work on that . You're going to have to work on that if it's going to work .

Speaker 3 46:06

I just think we should have a beard off and um you're a working actor , don't you ?

Speaker 1 46:14

don't you want to be on those fresh CW shows as a 17 year old ? Lose the beard , it's best for you . A 43 year old , you have nothing . You have nothing but everything to gain from this .

Speaker 2 46:29

You could be .

Speaker 1 46:30

Archie on the reboot of Riverdale . Look at you .

Speaker 2 46:33

All right , the moment is passing , the signs are misaligning . I've losing that connection .

Speaker 1 46:38

I will say . I will say this does give a different context for the one of the first . The first time I met your wife , her saying oh , you're Omar .

Game: Perfect Match or Mortal Enemy?

Speaker 3 46:51

Um , interesting . Was there a certain sort of uh ? Uh , yeah , there was a kind of a side-eyed mist to it or something .

Speaker 1 47:01

It was said with a very different tone , it was said with a very like apologetic , like oh , I'm so sorry I was rushing . I you know I didn't properly , but now hearing this , I'm remembering it differently . I am writing that memory in my head .

Speaker 3 47:12

Yeah , she's very jealous of our time together .

Speaker 1 47:14

Uh well , let's take the heat off of us right now . Maybe , and throw the heat onto some , some folks who are here to defend themselves . Let's play a little game , let's Okay ? So , um well , you know , I'll let you explain this , Sandy , since we worked so well together is called perfect match or mortal enemy , the astrological celebrity edition .

Speaker 3 47:37

I changed the title a little bit just to make it my own . Okay , kailin just nodded , it's okay . Um , I think it's better Just gonna say it Okay , I , I , I . Okay , this is big , you guys . We are going to what we're going to do . We're trying to guess which celebrity is our own astrological perfect match or mortal enemy , based on the choices provided by our game master Delvin .

Speaker 2 47:59

Yes , and then the co-host said the part that has the co-host .

Speaker 1 48:05

Yes , that's right . After each round . I forgot I was just like I deserve to be the host this week . After each round , delvin will issue one point to whoever correctly guesses their own astrological match or enemy . The winner will be decided by whoever earns the highest number of points .

Speaker 3 48:21

Okay , I think I think I got it . Is there anything else that you need to know or are you satisfied with this basis of where we're just ?

Speaker 1 48:27

guessing like a celebrity and it's like mortal enemy , or Okay .

Speaker 2 48:35

Here's their first round . Yeah , sounds like you have no question , so we're just going to get into it .

Speaker 3 48:39

Let's just try it , let's see what happens . All right , great .

Speaker 2 48:41

So first round , we've got action stars here and you are trying to decide who your perfect match is .

Speaker 1 48:48

Yes .

Speaker 2 48:49

So we have , in not the same order as the image , kanna Reeves , arnold Schwarzenegger and Angelina Jolie . So each of you is going to pick for you .

Speaker 3 48:59

Oh , okay .

Speaker 2 49:00

Who is your perfect match . So , sandeep , you're picking Sandeep's perfect match of these three and . Omar . You're picking Omar's perfect match of these three .

Speaker 3 49:07

And this is astrologically yes , so we have a scientific yeah , not like what you feel like scientifically based on the stars , have a lot of feel . So who are the people getting ? So it's very , it's very small on my screen .

Speaker 2 49:19

So Kanna Reeves , Arnold Schwarzenegger and Angelina Jolie .

Speaker 1 49:24

Okay , I have my answer written down .

Speaker 3 49:30

Okay , I wonder if we have the same answer . Here we go All right three , two , one .

Speaker 2 49:34

No , no , no , no , we're doing it because we , only because you're , you have different matches , right yeah ? We're doing this one at a time . So Omar first . Who did you choose ?

Speaker 3 49:41

Okay , oh , do I wait , hold on . Do I have to pick who ? I think Omar is the best match for Omar .

Speaker 2 49:45

No , you're picking who your best match ?

Speaker 3 49:47

is , but we're looking at Omar's first , if that's okay with you . Oh well , we wrote it down , but okay , great .

Speaker 1 49:54

I wrote down Keanu .

Speaker 2 49:59

I have good news for you , Omar yeah , and a . Reeves of Virgo one a pragmatic and deeply imaginative combination and career , love and marriage .

Speaker 1 50:08

Yes , I agree , although you can both work together and exciting and imaginative career endeavors .

Speaker 2 50:13

Your love affair would be sensuous with back rubs , warm baths and cuddling .

Speaker 1 50:18

I got to say it's so nice to be able to work with someone who I can also love and love someone who I can also work with for once .

Speaker 2 50:24

Yeah , I've really happy for you . That's going to be great . Okay , so that's going to be a point for you . All right , and now , cindy , who did you pick ?

Speaker 3 50:32

Arnold . Can't read our mind the camera is not picking up either of our papers . Yeah , it's not really a little overextosed there ?

Speaker 2 50:45

But , as it happens , yes , your what your perfect match is indeed Arnold Schwarzenegger .

Speaker 3 50:50

I guess he seems like a good outside spoon , and I love being the inside spoon .

Speaker 2 50:55

Yes , the two of you are elected together . They're going to lead the great success . Even the top is important for this pair . You use relationship to reach social , political and financial goals . Spouses , the two of you may be very ambitious for each other . You may even team up in a career activity .

Speaker 1 51:10

Yes , what .

Speaker 2 51:10

Also getting a relationship where you can work together .

Speaker 3 51:15

Listen , I have a crazy story about how me and Arnold already teamed up . We'll talk about it after the show , if you want . But yeah , I'll just say , let's just say he'll say I will be bought some instead of I will be back and I think it's really good .

Speaker 1 51:27

That's the merch .

Speaker 2 51:28

However , in this matchup , your children shouldn't expect the great deal of attention from either of you . So that's just a fair warning .

Speaker 3 51:33

She's going to shoot me with the main dammit . They're warning there , yeah , and then run for governor .

Speaker 2 51:38

OK , so you both got a point . You're both . You're both neck and neck . Ok , round two . So which of the following famous babies is your mortal enemy ? Well , again , each picking for you astrologically , who is your mortal enemy ?

Speaker 3 51:57

Dude all babies .

Speaker 2 51:58

Your options are Riot Rose is Rihanna and Asap Rockies newborn .

Speaker 3 52:04

Yeah , ok .

Speaker 2 52:06

We have Kai . Aeaz is rhymes in Elon Musk's child . It's possible I didn't pronounce that correctly because I don't speak .

Speaker 3 52:15

No , isn't there like , isn't it like ? Isn't it like schwa or something ? It's like one syllable .

Speaker 2 52:19

I'm sorry .

Speaker 3 52:20

I'm just .

Speaker 2 52:20

I'm reading it as it's written . I don't have pronunciation notes here , so it's possible .

Speaker 3 52:24

It's like Bill .

Speaker 2 52:25

Yeah , if we could get them on the show maybe they could correct us , but that's yeah .

Speaker 3 52:29

Grimes will be next week I don't know , elon and then you're rescheduling .

Speaker 2 52:32

And your third option here is Boss Baby . You may know from Boss Baby as well .

Speaker 3 52:36

Does Boss Baby have a birthday that you actually did ?

Speaker 2 52:39

Absolutely Very well defined .

Speaker 1 52:42

Imagine if Boss Baby didn't have a canonical birthday the one the one things that babies are known for is just being born .

Speaker 2 52:50

Yeah , it's so . This is our enemy , this is your mortal enemy , astrologically speaking . Ok , all right , this round we're doing some deep first .

Speaker 3 53:00

All right , I picked , I picked schwa we can't see anything .

Speaker 2 53:06

All right , let's just we'll lose the sheets .

Speaker 1 53:08

You just like just be honest about being like I'm still doing it , but we have to . We have to acknowledge that we .

Speaker 2 53:13

We're not going to work on camera at all .

Speaker 3 53:16

What if , I like , darken the lines ? Does that help ? Ok , sure , I picked schwa .

Speaker 1 53:22

No , like maybe I'm colorblind between with white and every other color .

Speaker 3 53:30

That's the only now it works . Ok , now next to the face . Ok , got it .

Speaker 2 53:36

It really is , and I'm afraid your mortal enemy is right at Rose , who you too , wow , you're clashing energies . Any relationship ?

Speaker 1 53:44

is not so simple .

Speaker 2 53:45

You're going to need to periodically withdraw yourself , which is going to make right feel rejected , and withdraw , in turn , show signs of hurt , even paranoia , and you're going to feel understood , misunderstood , where right is just going to enter a depression .

Speaker 3 53:59

Dude , now I know how Voldemort feels . Yes , like , like , suddenly , like there's like a baby that's out to get me already , like I have to do something about this .

Speaker 1 54:06

That's a pretty good point . Actually , I've never thought about it from his perspective . Right , right , you're like hey , this baby is going to kill you .

Speaker 3 54:12

You're like , oh shit .

Speaker 2 54:14

Yeah , if you've found it about Hitler when Hitler was a baby , that'd be your moral right , like this is the same . This is basically the same situation , right ?

Speaker 3 54:20

Voldemort , harry Potter was his own personal Hitler .

Speaker 1 54:26

All right , I mean that one . Now we're going to .

Speaker 3 54:29

Yeah , I'm sorry . There's going to be a whole wicked type thing on Voldemort called Voldy .

Speaker 1 54:34

Voldy's good , You're going to be Voldy Mort .

Speaker 2 54:38

That's very good , all right , and Omar , who is your immortal .

Speaker 1 54:42

My Marxist ass is going to war with that boss baby , oh wow . I have good news You're good at picking out your perfect match , and you're good at picking out your mortal enemy .

Speaker 2 54:53

Boss baby Also a Leo to you would be together . You love gossiping . You love making jokes at the expense of others , but your frank remarks will eventually wound and anger boss baby , who is likely to respond with violent outbursts and then stony silences , while you , omar , are going to feel misunderstood . Boss baby doesn't really care about you , so not going to work out Well does boss be be care about anybody ?

Speaker 3 55:20

I mean these billionaire babies .

Speaker 1 55:22

They're so detached from us Normal babies yeah . The day to day babies . They don't know what a .

Speaker 3 55:28

All right , you'll never write on a boss . Baby spin off is basically what that means . Oh my God , I feel so good about this .

Speaker 1 55:35

All right .

Speaker 3 55:36

Right now is it ?

Speaker 1 55:37

is this tiebreaker , but not tiebreak . Is this the end ? Is this ? It ? Is this our last round ?

Speaker 2 55:42

We had many prepared , but given how long the episode ran with the news , I think probably we want to wrap it up for this one .

Speaker 1 55:47

OK , OK , great we can save you .

Speaker 2 55:49

There's a later . You're the furthest behind . Are you comfortable with that ? You have the opportunity to make it up here , but that is putting a lot of pressure on you right now .

Speaker 3 55:58

And I want to respect cancer or cusp . If I have to , yeah , let's just do it that way . Like I have to win this round , if I don't , then then the game's over .

Speaker 1 56:06

OK , it's like , and I'll just be doing it All right .

Speaker 2 56:09

And then if you , if you catch up , if I tie I'll be good round .

Speaker 3 56:11

We'll do the exact OK .

Speaker 2 56:12

OK , OK . So which of the following gamer boys is your perfect match ?

Speaker 3 56:19

Hmm , your options are linked Shit , you may know from the .

Speaker 2 56:22

Zelda games . We have Mario , who you may know from the Mario games , and we have clank from the ratchet and clank games .

Speaker 1 56:31

Wow , oh .

Speaker 3 56:33

God , this is Sophie's choice times three .

Speaker 1 56:37

Yeah , that's very . Sophie's choice .

Speaker 3 56:40

Like this is brutal .

Speaker 1 56:45

Oh man , this is also harkens back to our previous video game episode .

Speaker 2 56:52

It does , but now we got the wild part . That's true , link Mario or Clank .

Speaker 3 56:59

OK , who goes first Me this round ?

Speaker 2 57:01

This round is going to be Omar first , that's right OK . Omar , who did you pick ?

Speaker 1 57:07

I love Link with everything , which is why I put down Mario , because sometimes you like people too much .

Speaker 3 57:15

OK , before you give an answer , because I think this is more dramatic I also put down Mario . So is it a me or is it a he , I don't know .

Speaker 2 57:27

All right , so to start with the pasta sauce here we go . Omar , your perfect matches . I knew it . Come on , I guess I knew it .

Speaker 1 57:38

That's why I didn't say telling you , mario , is such an outside spoon .

Speaker 3 57:42

This is got it .

Speaker 2 57:42

This is going to work In some ways clank is actually you , Omar , turned inside out , and vice versa .

Speaker 1 57:50

What you tend to mirror each other's Isn't the vice versa , that being turned back Things that are ?

Speaker 2 57:54

hidden for you are external for clank . The things that are hidden for clank are external for you .

Speaker 1 57:59

That makes the metal the things that you like to think when you're in a perfect match a lover of between would likely lead to marriage , in fact for the most part shared activities strong sympathy , understanding , emotional support and powerful physical attraction .

Speaker 2 58:14

I don't know how accurate this is , Would make up the energetic and easy going relationship . Yeah , I'm just , I'm just , I'm just thinking back to Omar facts , but yeah , so .

Speaker 1 58:23

Listen , there's always an exception to the rule , and clank happens to be the exception . I just want to .

Speaker 3 58:28

I want to see the movie where Omar and and clank have to fall in love and the person that's trying to tear them apart is possible .

Speaker 2 58:40

All right and all right . Omar did not pull ahead . So , Cindy , this is your opportunity to catch up .

Speaker 1 58:45

Let's see , Come on . This is your stay behind . Your perfect match is if you get Mario .

Speaker 3 58:50

Thank oh yeah , I've never been so sad to find out that my perfect match is my favorite video game of all time .

Speaker 2 58:59

So Link and Aquarius , aquarius Pisces us . Your perfect yeah .

Speaker 3 59:04

No , it makes sense . I like the strong , silent type .

Speaker 2 59:07

Yep , you both have a great deal to teach to each other . Link is going to help you find out more about yourself . Yeah , you can help Link realize some of it .

Speaker 3 59:16

Yeah .

Speaker 2 59:16

I mean , what does he want ?

Speaker 3 59:18

You got a whole hard container for him , you know yeah , should we make it spicy ?

Speaker 1 59:23

Should we do one last round ? Takes it .

Speaker 3 59:25

Well , why don't we just do two points for this next round ?

Speaker 1 59:28

Two points for this next round .

Speaker 2 59:28

Two points for the next round Sounds good to me . All right , all right . So just as a review , though , then , if you're still losing , just make sure you're on the same page .

Speaker 3 59:38

I was aware , but yeah , didn't need the review and just make it your all in the same page .

Speaker 2 59:43

OK , so this is this . Is it this ?

Speaker 1 59:45

is this is final match .

Speaker 2 59:47

Final match .

Speaker 3 59:47

Two points , just like last time , was it ?

Speaker 2 59:49

This is the last one was with , with yeah , but nobody got it right . So you both , you know it's fine , OK .

Speaker 3 59:53

So this is the final final round .

Speaker 2 59:55

It's worth two points .

Speaker 3 59:56

Mortal enemy right OK .

Speaker 2 59:58

Which of the ?

Speaker 3 59:59

following , we got to do two more . What am I doing ?

Speaker 2 1:00:01

Oh yeah , absolutely so which of the following hot is your mortal enemy ? Your options are Idris Elba Eile . Jenner or Timothy Shalom . Is it Shalom May or Shalom Met ?

Speaker 3 1:00:12

It's Shalom May , the accent .

Speaker 2 1:00:15

It seems like French , but then also , sometimes people don't use the , the orgy pronunciation .

Speaker 3 1:00:19

That's an inside joke for anybody Watch the guilds does D&D .

Speaker 1 1:00:22

That's very good .

Speaker 3 1:00:24

All right , so Idris Jenner or Shalom May . Ok , all right .

Speaker 1 1:00:37

OK , mortal enemy , right yeah , mortal enemy According to the stars , and this is two points . So , I go first so we find out . If I lose on deep , what ? Then you have the chance to take it . I hold host again .

Speaker 3 1:00:59

All right , here we go .

Speaker 2 1:01:00

All right , hang on , we'll do Omar first .

Speaker 1 1:01:04

OK , or should we do ? Or , for jeopardy's sake , do we want to do Sunday first ?

Speaker 2 1:01:08

Now we're doing Omar first . Has been announced , has been adjusted live .

Speaker 1 1:01:10

You're right . Ok , live , here we go . Are you ready for my answer ? Yep , mortal enemy according to the stars Timothy Shalom .

Speaker 3 1:01:21

A OK once again , I think I could do the same thing .

Speaker 2 1:01:23

Oh no , that's a liquid for you , Cindy , because indeed , Omar , you're more than anything , Timothy . Shalom , a Capricorn one . Oh you , your relationship would be skin deep , both of you only interested in one of those physical beauty . Omar , you and Timothy , your biggest challenge would be communication . You may feel that Timothy only pretends to understand what he says and Timothy may grow exasperated and even right off the relationship . Oh , if , omar , you continue to miss a point , I feel you , timmy .

Speaker 1 1:01:54

I feel you Whoa whoa whoa , you're on this , you're on this Willy Wonka , bastard side . I don't think so . I don't need this .

Speaker 2 1:02:01

All right , so it does settle up for Omar , but shall we see if you're at least going to finish , you know , with a close match . Cindy , who did you choose ?

Speaker 3 1:02:07

Yeah , let's see , we will not . We will not . Who knows ?

Speaker 2 1:02:13

We don't know .

Speaker 3 1:02:14

I chose Shalom .

Speaker 2 1:02:16

Oh , I'm sorry , Kylie Jenner . Leo too was your , was your born here .

Speaker 3 1:02:21

I didn't want to be sexist , so I didn't choose Jenner .

Speaker 2 1:02:23

Yeah , sorry . Well it's . It's not about your sexist , about your energies . They're going to clash when you're forced to act on a daily basis .

Speaker 3 1:02:29

She was the only . She was the only female representation on that board , and so I didn't want her to be my mortal enemy . Ok , but it turns out she is , so I'm going to have to murder her and the baby situation , right .

Speaker 1 1:02:42

That can only be one , kylie .

Speaker 2 1:02:44

Jenner . All right , omar Omar , you are the host next week . Congratulations , thank you .

Speaker 3 1:02:51

I'll tell you what . You're not the host of this week's show . Ok , so , let's move on to our final segment of the podcast .

Speaker 3 1:02:59

They see the

Desi of the Week

Speaker 3 1:03:00

week , all right this week , or they see the week we are . We are throwing back to Kalpana Chawla . Kalpana became the first Indian born women to go into space in 1997 . Tragically , six years later , on February 1st 2003 , she died when the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry into Earth's atmosphere . And , yeah , so you know , we wanted to shout her out because for any you know , for my nieces out there , you know you can be an astronaut , you can do it , chawla . A little bit more about her . She was born in Karnal India in 1962 . Until she started school she hadn't been formally named . Her parents called her Montu . She had been named until she's done school . Like that's how . That's a hardcore , remember . It's like you don't get a name until we figure out what track you're on . Ok , they probably were following astrology , I bet you . The name Kalpana means idea or imagination . Chawla's interest in first flying developed and flying first developed as a child , often visiting her local flying club with her father . Yes , yeah , you want to take this next .

Speaker 1 1:04:05

At university , despite professors trying to dissuade her from her desired career path through the limited opportunities for girls in India . Chawla earned her degree in aerospace engineering , so they told her no and she said I'm going for this Get out of my way . Chawla immigrated to the United States in the 1980s and became a naturalized citizen to continue her studies , ultimately earning her doctorate in aerospace engineering . She began working at NASA the same year . Her work focused on understanding how air flows around an aircraft during flight and incorporating computer Peters into the work .

Speaker 3 1:04:39

She felt passionately about providing science education opportunities for young girls in India and during her time as an astronaut , nasa invited her secondary , a childless secondary school , to take part in their summer space program . Each year , the school sent two girls to the foundation for the International Space Education United Space School in Houston . You know the one that they used to give away on double dare Yep , which I was desperate to win , and Chela would then invite them into her home for an Indian dinner . Between her two missions , chela allowed 30 days , 14 hours and 54 minutes in space . She lived to be 40 years old .

Speaker 1 1:05:16

Incredible , such an incredible day of the week , yeah .

Speaker 3 1:05:20

And that is our show , my friends , as always , if you want to see our lovely faces and you want to watch the VOD and all the other ways that you can hang out with us , they're all in the show notes . Please , please , please , before you do any of that , rate and comment on our show and really it really , really , really , really helps the show . So if you're listening now , if you're on the live stream , if you really enjoyed what you're doing , please jump on to your favorite podcasting service and just go ahead and drop us a little comment and a rating . It really helps us out . Any other comments or suggestions or feedback can be sent to ABCDpodcastshowcom or our Discord , that's right .

Speaker 1 1:05:55

I also want to give a shout out to our sponsors , Daisy Quest , the TTRPG that stars us and like other people , and it's going to be awesome . It's really really good we have our premiere date , oh .

Speaker 3 1:06:07

I'll just say , if you enjoyed Omar's and Clank's burgeoning relationship , let me just say that there are some parallels that kind of play out pretty well there .

Speaker 1 1:06:19

That's been . Has that been revealed ? Have we ? Have you revealed that character detail yet ?

Speaker 3 1:06:23

Apparently , I don't know we have , so I'm not going to say more than that .

Speaker 1 1:06:27

Okay , Because I have a . I have a thing right here that I got in Australia in honor of that , but I'll wait .

Speaker 3 1:06:32

Let's wait . Let's wait for the reveal .

Speaker 1 1:06:34

Yeah . So if you want to get more information about that , like , for example , what Sandy was referring to , head to daisyquestcom D-E-S-I-Q-U-E-S-Tcom to sign up for that mailing list . You'll get up to the minute news about the show and you might even learn about some stuff before I do .

Speaker 3 1:06:50

Oh yeah , and speaking of Daisy Quest , Omar ABCD is coming to a close this season .

Speaker 1 1:06:57

What .

Speaker 3 1:06:58

Yes , I'm sorry you're finding out right now . This is very awkward for me to tell you , but this is our penultimate episode . Next episode will be our last of the season , oh my God . Okay , in two weeks that'll be our next and last episode . No , you're not .

Speaker 1 1:07:11

I'm not .

Speaker 3 1:07:11

No , you're not Because you're not going to miss me at all because daisyquest is coming out , obviously , but also we are the hosts of the daisyquest after show , so the very thing that I was talking about . You can join the Patreon and get exclusive access to the after show . Well , that's basically me and Omar interviewing different cast and crew from daisyquest and like doing a deep dive on that episode . It's going to be awesome , so you can get more of us . And then , once that's all done and that shows world out , we are going to come back with ABCD season three stronger than ever . Yeah .

Speaker 1 1:07:45

Join us to celebrate in the last episode , next episode and then join us to kick off the show , which is so exciting .

Speaker 3 1:07:54

Yeah , we also got to shout out our Patreons . We've got to do it in . How are we shouting them out today , Delvin ?

Speaker 2 1:07:59

We had so many great suggestions , so we're actually taking two suggestions at one . What , what you are going to be doing is announcing the patrons in the style of a Shakespearean vampire .

Speaker 1 1:08:15

Okay .

Speaker 3 1:08:15

All right .

Speaker 1 1:08:17

I am Vic Pentameter .

Speaker 3 1:08:19

I want to suck the blood of Joshua Ryan , Torbiam Kahlo , Benjamin Low .

Speaker 1 1:08:31

I forgot we do three to row . Yes , yeah , it is better to be Hunter P Brown , miranda Hollager and Michael Long than not I wish to drain the life force of Raylin Fox , selina B and Adam Nickerson . I heard by the moonlight the nervous wrecks , Sarah H and Odekah Couplet speaking .

Speaker 3 1:08:58

Thou art a villain , varun Moldy . Minorized button . Yep , varun Moldy , varun .

Speaker 1 1:09:06

Philip Dizon , Doth thou bite your thumb , Kathleen Schlegel , Ducati and Reverend Cattino , Because if you do , I wouldn't mind sucking on the blood . Yes , yes .

Speaker 3 1:09:17

I will suck the blood at a Bradley pace . I suck your blood so hard . No , I suck .

Speaker 1 1:09:24

The Shakespeare is really coming out in this one . It is a lot .

Speaker 3 1:09:29

I'll do it by midnight with a midnight stream .

Speaker 1 1:09:36

Sit , if you dare , and enjoy this two-hour traffic of Hong Solo , 8-bit D and Andrew FL telling you the story of whoah .

Speaker 3 1:09:47

A Thelon quote Chris Sims , dan Wally Nebish Heretic .

Speaker 1 1:09:56

Christina Romero . Christina Romero , where art thou , christina Romero ? Perhaps Zach , by any other name , what's this ?

Speaker 2 1:10:04

Wow you're laying out now .

Speaker 1 1:10:07

Were I to be any fish , I would be Danny's corner fish , or should I say fish ?

Speaker 3 1:10:14

I've completely run out of quotes . Oh man , what's the thing about the fat and the blood ? A pound of flesh I'll take a pound of flesh from fish . There we go , legend 247, . And then our gods , Laura Clark , scribbles , flapchaks , vaden and Death , queen Vex . And , of course , I'll leave the last one for you to feast upon Omar .

Speaker 1 1:10:41

That's going to be as the sun strikes now here in hot Verona , but not during the day , because I'm a vampire . It's Devon Neville , you're not a daywalker . Amazing , we did it . We did it , folks . The show is produced by Gail Mone . The show's technical director and sound designer is Devon Neville . The show's executive producers are Sandeep Parikh and Anshah . This is edited by Sean Mer , music by Harsh Alcindor Taz , fierce Sing and Malik Savari . This has been an effing funny production .

Speaker 3 1:11:12

On behalf of our co-host , Omar Najam . I've been your host . Sandeep Parikh , may your chakras be aligned and smothered in chutney .