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Awful and Awesome Ep 191: Jallikattu, Bhaag Beanie Bhaag, and Quiz
The pop culture podcast that isn’t afraid to pop the bubble.
Talking about the Netflix series Bhaag Beanie Bhaag:
Abhinandan: Rajyasree, what was your calling in life? I mean what would be your Beanie moment where you could just say, “I’m going to go pursue my dream!”
Rajyasree: I wanted to work with animals. I wanted to work at the…
Abhinandan: Oh, in the kitchen you keep killing them and cooking them.
Rajyasree: That way only I was working. If I was given a job at the Gerald Durrell, this thing, there’s a sanctuary that’s there, like a zoo, I would have worked over there. Where the full island…
Abhinandan: What would you have done?
Rajyasree: I would have looked after the Pandas. I’d be like Tiger King.
Abhinandan: You would’ve what? Hug the Pandas? Like what is the work? I mean just being something…
Rajyasree: No, no, you hugging Pandas is also a job. I can be a Panda nanny.
Abhinandan: Panda nanny nahi panny. Acha theek hai ji! You know I always wanted to be a dancer. Now at my age you can’t coz you’re old.
Rajyasree: You can still be! Why don’t you raise money for Newslaundry by having a channel which is Nikku dancing and people will pay money to watch you dance more and more and that money will then…
Abhinandan: Jab tak paise chalenge basanti ke pao chalenge type?
Rajyasree: Haa, like that!
Abhinandan: Jude, what do you say? Jude, can we visualise a show like this?
Jude: No.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the Malayalam film Jallikattu; Netflix series Bhaag Beanie Bhaag; game show scandal miniseries Quiz; Black Eyed Peas’ new track Girl Like Me featuring Shakira; Bob Dylan selling his songwriting catalog to Universal Music; and Doc Morris Christmas ad.
Song: Rooh by Tej Gill
Timestamps
00:01 - Introduction
06:13 - Jallikattu
25:08 - Quiz
34:13 - Letters from listeners
39:39 - Bhaag Beanie Bhaag
50:44 - Letters from listeners
57:10 - Girl like me by BEP ft. Shakira
1:00:18 - Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog
1:03:00 - Letters from listeners
1:05:18 - Doc Morris ad
1:07:30 - Diljit Dosanjh and Kangana Ranaut's twitter clash
References
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Charles Ingram on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
Black Eyed Peas ft. Shakira: Girl like me
Bob Dylan Sells Songwriting Catalog In 9-Figure Deal
Doc Morris ad ‘Take Care of Yourself’
Diljit Dosanjh & Kangana Ranaut scrap on Twitter over farmers' protest
Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Umrav Singh.
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