Awful and Awesome Ep 190: Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives, Hillbilly Elegy, Tinder ad

Talking about Tinder’s new ad campaign:

Rajyasree: So by midnight tonight, guys, y’all can search for Abhinandan on Tinder, and please reach out to him. He will be in the pre-section because he’s too cheap to pay for Tinder Gold.

Abhinandan: I’m not going to pay for a date, ya. That’s not good for your self-esteem, paying for your date. That’s not nice.

Rajyasree: Then also you’re not guaranteed a date. And if you are guaranteed a date, there’s no guarantee it’s not a stalker or a psycho, so there are no guarantees over here.

Abhinandan: Beta, that guarantee is not there in life only yaar, forget Tinder. Matlab psychos aur stalkers are not just an online phenomena.

Rajyasree: But Tinder India, there's a swadesi button also, so all your rightwing guys who get no action in real life, when they go on the Tinder rightwing version also they still get no action because no one…

Abhinandan: Are you joking or you’re serious?

Rajyasree: I’m kidding.

Abhinandan: I was like “dude, are you serious?”. That’s intense.

Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.

This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss Ron Howard’s film Hillbilly Elegy; the Netflix reality series Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives; the trailer of Coolie No. 1, a remake of David Dhawan’s 1995 hit; RC Cola commercial and Tinder’s ad campaign 'In our Own Way'.

Timestamps

00:01 - Introduction

05:02 - Hillbilly Elegy

16:47 - Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives

30:18 - Subscriber letters

34:31 - Tinder ad

38:17 - RC Cola ad

40:16 - Coolie No. 1 trailer

References

Hillbilly Elegy

Moonlight

Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives

Alka Yagnik & Udit Narayan: Akhiyaan Milaoon Kabhi

Alka Yagnik & Shabbir Kumar: So Gaya Yeh Jahan

Marc Cohn: Walking in Memphis

Tinder India: In Our Own Way

Basta RC Cola

Coolie No. 1

Rosemary's Baby

Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Satish Kumar.

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