Awful and Awesome Ep 198: Framing Britney Spears, Soulmates, Rajiv Kapoor, and Christopher Plummer

Talking about Super Bowl commercials:

Abhinandan: When the public pays, the public is served, so we don’t want anyone else to bankroll Newslaundry.

Rajyasree: But they can at least outfit all of you.

Abhinandan: Why, what’s wrong with my outfit?

Rajyasree: Nothing. I don’t want to say. Foreign things you’re wearing. Oh Doon school!

Abhinandan: Dude you know, you always make fun of my clothes. She says I’m not a snob. “Nikku, you wear the same clothes every day...”

Rajyasree: No, nowadays I’ve said you started dressing up.

Abhinandan: “...you have no new clothes, you look like you got out of bed.”

Rajyasree: I never say. I say, “Nikku, you’re looking so handsome. I can’t concentrate on the podcast.”

Abhinandan: You’re always commenting on “you only have three shirts, you only wear the same shoes. You only have the...”

Rajyasree: Do you not wear the top three shirts?

Abhinandan: I will wear the same clothes everyday in my life. What goes off anyone’s mother?

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 New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears; the web series Soulmates; the lives of Rajiv Kapoor and Christopher Plummer; Super Bowl commercials, and more.

You can also watch the episode here:

Timecodes

00:01 - Introduction

03:38 - Framing Britney Spears

21:05 - Subscriber letters

30:04 - Soulmates

41:21 - Super Bowl

46:00 - Subscriber letters

53:29 - Mia Khalifa

1:02:02 - Christopher Plummer and Rajiv Kapoor

References

Framing Britney Spears

Kangana Ranaut compares herself to Meryl Streep

Soulmates

The One by John Marrs

Tere Naal by Shael Oswal ft. Sameksha

Dil To Pagal Hai: Ek Duje Ke Vaaste

Apple 1984 Super Bowl Commercial

The Weeknd’s Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show

Amazon’s Big Game Commercial: Alexa’s Body

Let's Grab a Beer: Anheuser-Busch

Horses: Samuel Adams

Twas the Night Before Super Bowl: Frito-Lay

Heartbeat Billionaire: Stella Artois

Lenny Kravitz - It Ain't Over Til It's Over

Al Pacino s Dunkaccino Commercial

Mia Khalifa Tweets in Solidarity With India's Farmers' Protest

Mia Khalifa: "Porn is not reality"

The Sound of Music actor Christopher Plummer dies at 91

Bollywood mourns the demise of Rajiv Kapoor

Ram Teri Ganga Maili

Recorded and produced by Jude Weston, edited by Umrav Singh.

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