Awful and Awesome Ep 192: Mank, The Wilds, and A Call to Spy

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Awful and Awesome Ep 192: Mank, The Wilds, and A Call to Spy

The pop culture podcast that isn’t afraid to pop the bubble.

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Talking about Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte in A Call to Spy:

Rajyasree: One of her parents was Indian and she was a pacifist. So all those things...

Abhinandan: She was a what?

Rajyasree: A pacifist. She doesn’t believe in… a, like a baby pacifier, but a pacifist.

Abhinandan: Ok, who believes in Pacific Ocean?

Rajyasree: Haa like she used to swim in the Pacific Ocean, so she was a pacifist.

Abhinandan: She was deep. I’m more of an Atlantist.

Rajyasree: Yeah, I’m also someone known as an Atlantist you know.

Abhinandan: You’re a bloody Hoogliest. Which is dirty and full of fish!

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 historical drama A Call to Spy; David Fincher’s Mank; Amazon series The Wilds; Pakistani animated short film Swipe; and Smiths City’s whiteware commercial.

Song: Vanjhali Waja

Timestamps

00:01 - Introduction

1:29 - A Call to Spy

12:10 - Mank

28:50 - Letters from listeners

37:28 - The Wilds

47:46 - Letters from listeners

51:09 - Swipe

56:25 - Letters from listeners

1:01:27 - Smiths City ad

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