Awful and Awesome Ep 396: Search, Wayward, the good old days of MTV

While starting the discussion:

Abhinandan: Before we start the show, I have a surprise for you.

Rajyasree: That you have not watched anything this week?

Abhinandan: How did you know? You’ve killed my surprise!

Rajyasree: The good thing is you’re dependable that way. You don’t shock me at all.

This and a whole lot of awful and awesome as Rajyasree Sen and Abhinandan Sekhri review the series Search: The Naina Murder Case, Wayward, and the good old days of MTV. In a new throwback segment, Abhinandan and Rajyasree also suggest songs to rediscover. 

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Timecodes  

00:00:00 - Introductions and announcements 

00:03:46 - Letters
00:07:47 - Search: The Naina Murder Case 

00:18:40 - Letters
00:21:10 - The good old days of MTV

00:32:22 - Letters

00:34:00 - Rediscovering old songs

00:38:47 - Letters 

00:49:40 - Wayward 

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Rajyasree: Hello. Hello. This is the O and Awesome Entertainment Rap episode 396. This is Rajeen 

Abhinandan: and this AB welcoming you to the Pop Culture magazine Show of News, laundry, where you get all the pop culture's, latest happenings, and other such things 

Rajyasree: and lessons are not how to speak in English Also. 

Abhinandan: That made no sense, but that is not unusual for this show.

But ri saying, we have on the list here. 

Rajyasree: Yes. 

Abhinandan: A series called the Nana Murder Case. 

Rajyasree: Yes. 

Abhinandan: Available on Geo Hot Star Wayward, 

Rajyasree: a 

Abhinandan: Netflix show. And we will discuss MTV, which is shut down officially. Yeah. Um, which was from December 31st, at least from my [00:01:00] generation, which is real above yours 

Rajyasree: and mine. And mine and 

Abhinandan: yours.

Uh, but for my generation it's a different. Deal. Um, so yeah, we'll discuss that. But first I just like to tell everybody we have a Diwali subscription offer till the 31st of October Light, the Way for Democracy Clean, the Reverend of Fake News and propaganda and Motivated news funded by. Corporations and governments scan this QR code.

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There are link to both links to both in the show notes [00:02:00] below. Please do support our journalism 'cause we take no ads. Rash said, I've made my announcements. Do you have any announcement? 

Rajyasree: Happy Diwali. 

Abhinandan: Post. 

Rajyasree: Post Diwali 

Abhinandan: with such enthusiasm. 

Rajyasree: I'm not a fan of Diwali. You, 

Abhinandan: you are. You are anti Hindu, 

Rajyasree: I feel if if you were doing 

Abhinandan: a, then you'd be doing

show and you'll not be enthusiastic about 

Rajyasree: No, because double we don't. These 

Abhinandan: are double Bali standards. 

Rajyasree: Double Bing, Bengali and ti Stan. 

Abhinandan: No, I don't. I'm 

Rajyasree: not a fan and going by the pollution 

Abhinandan: in Delhi. 

Rajyasree: I don't think anyone should be much of a fan, but sure, keep bursting crackers. 

Abhinandan: Before we speak about MTV having shut down, I have a surprise for you 

Rajyasree: that you have not watched either.

Abhinandan: How did 

Rajyasree: you know you didn't watch even one episode? [00:03:00] 

Abhinandan: How did you know? 

Rajyasree: Because I know 

Abhinandan: what 

Rajyasree: you're like. It's not 

Abhinandan: a surprise. You killed my surprise. 

Rajyasree: Yeah. Actually I haven't watched anything. The good thing is you're dependable. That way you don't shock me at all. 

Abhinandan: See, but I watched MTV in its heyday, so I can talk about that.

Rajyasree: You did not watch even one episode of these. 

Abhinandan: No. It's been a very busy week. Cru recent. Manisha has been on leave. I did Nuisance. You were 

Rajyasree: home on the valley. The 

Abhinandan: Champions League is on. Soon because my eyes are so weak. Let's discuss Champions League. I can talk about the Arsenal Match. Amazing Match four Zero.

Rajyasree: I can't tell you all about Roy Keen. Can I tell you all about Roy? No. 

Abhinandan: So that's disgusting. So why don't you tell us about that? But I, but we have an email that has suggested that we should talk about old movies or songs that we like. So every episode, no, we'll come up with two films or old songs that we liked, which.

The younger generation can read discover. They may not know about 

Rajyasree: that is not the contribution that you're supposed to make, but that's okay. We will read P Cheese meal. [00:04:00] Why don't you read P Cheese meal? You read. No, you read. You have nothing to say on the other things that I'm going to discuss. 

Abhinandan: Don't have to be snide.

There is no such requirement. 

Rajyasree: I thought that my key deliverable, really, that's the first thing that's there. 

Abhinandan: So Prachi, our subscriber. Thank you Prachi. First of all, being a subscriber says, dear AB banana Ri. Thanks a lot for sharing the content of both my emails and my recommendations of zube and G songs.

Special thanks to Radhi for her skillful prey. 

Rajyasree: I pressed her two males now. Oh, 

Abhinandan: really? 

Rajyasree: And made it into one meal of 40th. 

Abhinandan: I got a bit carried away last week. I'm looking forward to reading the story about the political impact of Ian's passing. In fact, Prachi, um, we've been kind of exploring, there's just so many conspiracy theories there because, um, of, you know, the kind of statue he had.

You know, Sam, we have to tread very carefully while reporting on that because if I were ri I would of course [00:05:00] payload all those conspiracy theories. But there's some really outtake conspiracy theories that are being floated around. So whenever we do report on this, so what is happening? Um, it'll have to go through a lot of scrutiny because right now the environment is such that telling fact from fiction.

Speculation is very hard. 

Rajyasree: Although the Singapore police is the postmodern report. Yeah, they have says that it is a heart attack and, uh, 

Abhinandan: but what does 

Rajyasree: Singapore know? 

Abhinandan: But PNI Aldi has a 12 word email. Huh? All it says is, thank you for your attention to this matter. With the link of the song, meet Brothers My Favorite, which we had our own version of a nuisance called If You Haven't Seen Nuisance.

Lincoln in the show notes, the song was something like this. Woo,[00:06:00] 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: best friend.[00:07:00] 

Is using a.

Abhinandan: So I say, I've read two emails, I've, I've done my bit for this show. You done 

Rajyasree: your bit, what do you want to start with ab? 

Abhinandan: And you would see it. I can start off with, uh, suggesting that song, 

Rajyasree: I'll do that later. No, why don't you do, what do 

Abhinandan: we discuss from the list? Tell us about the Nana murder case R [00:08:00] 

Rajyasree: So the Nana murder case is not about the Nana, so, 

Abhinandan: Hmm.

Yeah. Not We don Nana. So Murder, it was basically, I think it was the eighties. If I, or was I already in News Track? It was the nineties. Uh, this congress, youth Congress leader. I think he was, yeah. Uh, so she, Sani was his name, 

Rajyasree: Sharma. 

Abhinandan: So he Sharma, she was son. She Sharma, he had killed his wife and burn her in the Honduras called the Ur murder case.

Rajyasree: Yeah. 

Abhinandan: And it was like big thing at that time was, 

Rajyasree: and he did get arrested and he did go to, uh. For, yeah, a while. I think he's out. 

Abhinandan: Yeah, I think he's out after that. So 

Rajyasree: y'all might be lucky enough in Delhi. The good thing about Delhi and Chanika, which I like, is you might be at a dinner somewhere and the person sitting next to you might be looking familiar because you actually seen them in the news for murdering someone.

But they are out. So it's a very like a, I'm making 

Abhinandan: fun of it. And Cole Kata. 

Rajyasree: In Cal, we don't 

Abhinandan: murder. Well Kata you will not meet [00:09:00] anyone for dinner because you'll never be invited for dinner because they all will eat their own dinner. 

Rajyasree: People are very hospitable in Cal. We, we don't murder like you'll find someone who's living with his dead mother.

For three years in his house, that kind of thing. We are very, like, it's a different kind of problem we are facing. I see. So psychological. So, 

Abhinandan: no, it's fiction. 

Rajyasree: It's fiction and uh, it starts Con and Shema as, uh, the cop and it's directed by Rohan Sipi. 

Abhinandan: Oh, he's the son of the director of, uh, sole. 

Rajyasree: Correct. And, uh.

Con playing San, who's the a CP? And there's a rookie, a CP, who has been put on the, who's gonna replace her? Basically, she's shifting, she's married to Ul Chata, who is in uh, Delhi, and not in Delhi. He's in Bangalore. So she's gonna shift. So this is the last. Two [00:10:00] days of her posting, but this murder takes place.

And of this college girl, she's found, her dead body is found in the dickey of a car, which has been, uh, driven into a, like a pond. So is it s Delhi? It's s 

Abhinandan: Which pond could that be? 

Rajyasree: No, it's not Selli, it's Eren Bombay, I think. 

Abhinandan: Do you know anything about the show you're reviewing? Cities are very bad. What?

She said 

Rajyasree: cities are very bad about. It's 

Abhinandan: better to not have watched a show than to not know what you watched. 

Rajyasree: It's in Bombay because they go towards P now or something at one point, but that's not the point of it. Is there a, there's a point. It's like a eight episode. It's like I'm saying because it might happen more episodes, but it was eight episodes.

Abhinandan: It's like an eight episode, not like a eight episode. Carry on. Quiet. 

Rajyasree: That first bitch was said. I had like five mistakes in the English, but uh, basically this is Kona [00:11:00] doing what? Kate Vincent, uh, Jody Foster, all of them have played these fabulous cops and very gritty, uh, crime. That show. Yeah. Mayor of East Town, right?

Uh, Jody Foster has done, I think through criminal, the accused. That also. But, uh, no, 

Abhinandan: she wasn't a detective in that 

Rajyasree: true detective. She wasn't true detective. So they have, there's a whole bunch of these true crime, uh, not true crime. They're crime, uh, series, which, uh, these top actresses have done. So Con has got this con acts brilliantly in it, I must say, and not like that.

Brilliant. But you always look intense. Now, that's one kind of acting also, but basically this goal gets modeled. Her parents don't know where she is because she's going to spend the night at her friend's place. So they have no clue that she's actually missing. And, uh, con told that you can't leave now 'cause you have to solve this, uh, case said, was she leaving for, [00:12:00] I said where she was leaving for?

Abhinandan: No, 

Rajyasree: I just said she was married to KU and she was gonna bangal. 

Abhinandan: Okay, so you can't leave for bangy. You have to solve this case and then leave for Banky. 

Rajyasree: You're gonna repeat everything I say. This is the worst in interviews. I have a tip for people in interviews and someone's interviewing you, or when you're talking to someone and you have nothing to add to the thing, the last thing that they see you should say.

So if they say, and then I went and, uh, we met these people at Tata and they said and had ULA and they had a choice ju and you had a ula and you just, and they think that you're involved. If they are dim, they'll think that, but I'm not dimmed, so I don't think that, so, and that's everything in this, there's student politics.

There is, uh, item 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: song. 

Rajyasree: Not items. There's this thing about how little parents actually know about kids online social media lives, 

Abhinandan: which is like a hat tip to. [00:13:00] That child who murders them. 

Rajyasree: Which child has murdered? Some child has murdered so much. No. That 

Abhinandan: show. Yeah. Which a adolescents. Adolescents, 

Rajyasree: huh? But these are of course, much older kids.

These are 20 year olds and all. So everything was fine. It is very, there are many twists and tones and all this. The problem was at the end of the last episode. They have just not told you who's committed the the murder so that they can have a second season. 

Abhinandan: How many episode episodes do you watch? 

Rajyasree: The full thing.

Eight episodes. Eight 

Abhinandan: episodes. And you came out not knowing who's done the murder. 

Rajyasree: No. And I was like, is there another episode? But it's not. They just left it like that so that they can do a season two, but you can just do a season two with a fresh murderer. It's a very weird way of pulling it forward.

Well, either that. Oh, I did not understand. Yeah. That the murder has been, I don't think that could have also been there. Because, because I saw 

Abhinandan: an article. You have demonstrated that brilliance in the past since I'm shows you [00:14:00] watched where you came up and gave the wrong plot and I had to explain that that's not what happened.

Rajyasree: No, I don't think 

Abhinandan: I mansplained 

Rajyasree: you. Mansplained. You are always mansplaining. But what is really like they've got that whole dynamic of students and their parents and how you can also play your parents, but they have no. You are nice enough, but they don't know what you're actually up to as well. And this thing of sometimes professors, older male professors being very friendly to younger female students, but also her perception that just because that's happening doesn't mean that that person's the murderer.

So how shift 

Abhinandan: Pande in this 

Rajyasree: shift Pande is, which one? 

Abhinandan: He's in 

Rajyasree: the, no, but there are two big men in this. That's why male characters, chef Pande is 

Abhinandan: because he's a youngster Junior. Oh, he's very junior from my school. Oh. 

Rajyasree: He's very hot. He's a very good 

Abhinandan: basketball [00:15:00] player. 

Rajyasree: He's the politic politician. Oh. He's a youth politician, so, and his 

Abhinandan: brother's a very good football player.

He used football together. How old is he? 

Rajyasree: 41. See, he's about 

Abhinandan: 10 years younger than me and his brothers. I think his brother even played for Salka in Goa. We used to play together when we were young. 

Rajyasree: He was in Chatan also this chap. So he is the youth, this upcoming young politician and all. So there's that angle.

Has a politician killed her? Was the politician having her, but you don't know anything. 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: Okay. So what is it worth about? So I 

Rajyasree: feel that the politician has obviously killed her, but since they did not clarify this, I am not sure. 

Abhinandan: It's speculation. 

Rajyasree: It's speculation because I think they also could not tie up that.

Loosen loosen. But thanks to them keeping it so open-ended, I did try and watch the next episode, but I was on last episode so I felt it's a bit of A-K-L-P-D. 

Abhinandan: You don't, you language can't care. This is Afu, [00:16:00] Seagate, I swear. I got angry. I try to maintain a certain by not watching. Anyways, sophistication. To the show and you'll come and do a kpd 

Rajyasree: and ruin the No, no, I'm just saying from 10 to two 30.

I watched at two 30. Nobody knows no one killed Nana. 

Abhinandan: So anyway, so if Achi got it wrong and it was revealed, but she had passed out at that time, I did not 

Rajyasree: understand, 

Abhinandan: then just let us know. You can mail us@podcastatnewsone.com. We only entertained subscriber emails, so Achi and both a US or not. 

Rajyasree: Yeah, it's worth a watch, but it would've been nice if they told us who the murder was.

The second thing is this thing of showing Bengali women are shown as two, one of two things loose, loose. If someone's having an affair, it's the Bengali woman and the, and that, that, that stereotype, even 

Abhinandan: gangs, VA had, uh, 

Rajyasree: you just as they have that connector, even acts effect, 

Abhinandan: the woman is wearing a red. It has to, Bengali has, because 

Rajyasree: all we are doing is having sex [00:17:00] with everyone.

We have no sense of that. A stereotype 

Abhinandan: that must be broken. Second. Yeah. The 

Rajyasree: second is, if it's a hardworking, focused woman who does not have a working marriage, who is considered to be, she's bully and she'll be wearing specs. Wearing specs or will be dressed down. 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Hmm. 

Rajyasree: Like everyone else would have blow dried hair.

She will be the one without makeup. They're the best 

Abhinandan: representation of Bengalis in any film. 

Rajyasree: Was Bengali? No. Which could have been is my point, uh, in of, um, Bengali. I can't really think of card that worst was Rocky or Ronnie. 

Abhinandan: Yeah. 

Rajyasree: But best Sari blouses even I won those, Ari, the donor. Don was very good, but she did not look Bengali.

It did pan 

Abhinandan: of What do you look Bengal? How do you look Bengali. You look 

Rajyasree: Bengali also now. 

Abhinandan: No, this is the problem. No, but it had stereotypes without being stereotyped. Yeah. Do you get it? It was the best presentation. It was very good. And that conversation about the wedding was [00:18:00] the best. How? 

Rajyasree: Because that is how we talk.

Abhinandan: Comedy scene Beauty. 

Rajyasree: Also, the worst thing you can do for Bengali is to go home and say, I'm gonna marry her. My boyfriend's Punjabi. Our parents always give us a look like, okay, maybe this is a right of passage. She'll get over it. At one point, maybe he went 

Abhinandan: to fight in Delhi and someone knock him off.

That's right. Then our daughter will be back home. 

Rajyasree: Bong women love Punjabi men. 

Abhinandan: On that note, why you so 

Rajyasree: watch this thing and if your see that it's clearly said, who the murder is, then that, you know, maybe I fell asleep for a sec. I also do many things while watching a show. I'm writing an article, I'm checking my phone.

Abhinandan: What a way. I mean, you don't take this job seriously 

Rajyasree: clearly. Like you, your is better. You just don't do it to, 

Abhinandan: okay, now tell us a few emails. 

Rajyasree: Tell us a few emails. Should I tell you a few emails? Oh, I wanted to see whoever it was, who I met at [00:19:00] Calta Airport and the people I met at CCFC. Who said that they listened to our show and that, uh, it's very interesting how you never watch anything, but that's also part of the charm.

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Abhinandan & Rajyasree: Have 

Rajyasree: you seen it? I haven't seen, no, I don't 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: think so. 

Rajyasree: At the time of writing, there's one of a two part compilation on the channel with s several or Modi's pearls of wisdom through his distinguished career. Hmm. Some commonly known utter utterances, but also many hidden gems. Incidentally, your ex-colleague Magna, has done a re reaction to the compilation again on [00:20:00] YouTube for those who prefer added commentary.

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: Thank you so much. The link to this in the show notes, I'll definitely have a look at this sounds very fun and. 

Rajyasree: It jumped her neck. Uh, has written, hi, this is for,

hmm, in the last, uh, a WA, someone recommended Black Prince movie and I was surprised that you have not seen that. Did they recommend Black Prince? Yeah, I always thought too loud Punjabi music, but I was disappointed. I'm constantly disappointed in him. You must watch the movie. It's. The best Punjabi historical movie to the date as the Sing is excellent.

The songs and music are of Next level. SA is like Jaji Sing of Punjabi music. Oh, 

Abhinandan: okay. 

Rajyasree: I would request you to watch the movie and discuss here if possible. Okay. This sounds very interesting. I'll watch I Black Prince. Yeah, black Prince. I 

Abhinandan: must watch that. You liked 

Rajyasree: Ju Jitting. 

Abhinandan: Yeah, I used to love him. He had such an [00:21:00] amazing voice.

He had such a great sense of humor. I had the good fortune of meeting him also, uh, before his passing. Right? So Rahi san, what was his 

Rajyasree: wife's name? Ing? 

Abhinandan: So, um, we can talk about, uh, MTV. I can tell you my song recommendation. I can have a few notes. No, we'll talk 

Rajyasree: about MTV. Come on. 

Abhinandan: So Rahi, MTV, shut down. 

Rajyasree: It's to shut down.

Shut. They were announced that they were shut. The music channels. The reality, reality, reality, because 

Abhinandan: MTV is no longer a music channel. It is a reality show channel that is trash. 

Rajyasree: Yeah. And very bad Jersey show and all, is it? It trash, really trash. 

Abhinandan: But the it, uh, music MTV had launched in 81. Yeah. And can you tell me which of the first music video they played?

Rajyasree: In 81 there. 

Abhinandan: Radio. No. Radio Killer Radio. I love Star. That was the first song, which was 

Rajyasree: the first, the first Grammy Awards, which was [00:22:00] shown on Didi. 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Mm-hmm. 

Rajyasree: Had a live performance by a band, which we all watched because at that point there was only one TV in everyone's house. Everyone and everyone watched whatever was, and do you remember which?

Who? 

Abhinandan: Your honey singer? 

Rajyasree: No Shut.

You don't remember? 

Abhinandan: Take on me. I can sing. Take on me. Take on me.

Okay, so you don't remember watching? Aha. Dude, I don't know which year I watched What in? I mean, I don't remember. It's what I watched last week. First for you. It may have been an event for me, it was not. 

Rajyasree: I had a very sheltered life. I did not, 

Abhinandan: I was ruling in the gies of the Flying ONGs and Catching Chameleon, uh, chameleon.

Yeah, that's what we used to do. But, uh, so Rashi, MTV was. A cultural Yeah. That truly was a pop culture [00:23:00] phenomena. And I think what MTV also showed was the power of Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson videos, like Thread was almost like a film. Yeah. Uh, like a, the one 

Rajyasree: which he did with the, what's her name? Yeah.

That very well known actress. And Eddie Murphy. That Egyptian 

Abhinandan: Right, right, right. 

Rajyasree: Won. It's like films. Keep it in the 

Abhinandan: closet. I think that was, that was months later. Yeah. With Naomi Campbell. 

Rajyasree: No, no, she's that other one. Yeah, I know. Who's um, this one's, uh, wife. Something wife. 

Abhinandan: Yeah. I know the one you're talking about.

David 

Rajyasree: Bowie is Iman. 

Abhinandan: Hmm. 

Rajyasree: Iman and, uh, bill Cosby. Naomi 

Abhinandan: was dancing in that. 

Rajyasree: Yeah. 

Abhinandan: So his, like, he was so big Hmm. That he actually sustained MTV, I mean, uh, the excitement in the eighties. Uh, uh, I'd say 82, 83 mm. We had one, uh, family friend who was in the Merchant Navy back then. So you had a VCR. [00:24:00] So, and I had a friend who lived in Germany and he'd get VHS tapes with music videos, and we'd all sit around and watch it.

And it was such an event. And 

Rajyasree: Kylie Minogue used to have lots of videos. There were some. Singers who had like their focus on their videos was very strong. So MTV, 

Abhinandan: for those of you who you know are not the MTV generation, it was such a phenomenal concept and that excitement of it, excitement of watching videos, it's not an event anymore 'cause there's so much of information and consumption content.

But I mean need, I won't say favorite, but. You know, tell me your three music videos that you will recall every move. 

Rajyasree: Tony Braxton. 

Abhinandan: Which one? 

Rajyasree: Unbreak My Heart. Mm. But she's swimming in nineties and All right. No, but that's because you are 

Abhinandan: five years younger than me. 

Rajyasree: Yeah. I'm not five years younger than you, but it's, I [00:25:00] look.

Five years younger, that's the thing. 

Abhinandan: But, uh, Tony Braxton's, should I tell them what that person said when we went to watch that film? 

Rajyasree: They'll know you're lying. Say it then they'll know how you try and fat shame me and shame everything. Shame me for my dark color, like an Indian, nothing like this. See? See 

Abhinandan: of.

Yeah, 

Rajyasree: no. So, uh, Tony Braxton for sure, because I really like that video. I did like, uh, oh, Madonna had a series of videos. This is when we are older. This one we are around 18, I think, uh, series, uh, of videos which Herb Bri had done for her, the photographer. Hmm. And those were exquisitely done. This, you know, with that matador.

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Hmm. 

Rajyasree: She is, what is it? I, it will come back to me. Bon No, no, no. There's one with a matador who's, uh, this is in her later years. Shama later mean [00:26:00] shaman. 30 years old, don't you? 

Abhinandan: There was one music video that there all in the Matador singing. So Ga Yeah. Yeah. It's a really beat up. I think it was works factor.

Is 

Rajyasree: it, is it now you should be done over by a mat. That's what is required. But that then, uh, there was. This Jason Priestly. Did I take a bow? Is the song Madonna song? 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Mm 

Rajyasree: Uh, Jason Priestly. How do you make Love to an angel? Mm. Do you remember this song? 

Abhinandan: Never heard of it. 

Rajyasree: What are you seeing? It's a black and white because you're not a girl.

That's, he was very cute looking. Uh, there was that, and I love Paula Abduls, that first song. 

Abhinandan: What's up? No, no. Straight up. Straight up. Not Do You Really Want, so Rashi, of course, thriller will be one of. 

Rajyasree: You liked color? I, 

Abhinandan: it was 

Rajyasree: okay. It was very revolutionary. It, I re 

Abhinandan: remember distinctly where I was sitting, what the weather was [00:27:00] like while were in the room.

It was an event. Uh, then there were these two, uh, I forget the songs, but just the, it was, there used to be these poker faced women and, um, uh, 

Rajyasree: oh, another one. Rights at Fred. I am too sexy for because they were so good looking. That 

Abhinandan: was, again, nineties and 

Rajyasree: weird. 

Abhinandan: Not good. So, um, again, I've my gift with names, but he used to be in a suit and just singing and about a dozen.

Poker faced women. Really pretty dressed up. Oh, with 

Rajyasree: this thing? Uh, it's a very well known brand. It looked up to me. Yeah. So it was 

Abhinandan: this one guy, his name was, uh, then the other, of course, Papa don't preach where she wore that shirt. Italians do it better. 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Hmm. 

Abhinandan: Madonna. Oh. And um. And the guy who was the father in Papa don't preach.

He's done a bunch of films where he's a mobster. I forget his name, 

Rajyasree: and I love like a prayer. 

Abhinandan: Yeah, 

Rajyasree: yeah. That deal 

Abhinandan: [00:28:00] was, and that caused repercussions. Of course. No one. Burned her house and she was not in prison because she showed burning crosses, which was, and 

Rajyasree: he's on the cross, a black advantage. It is a black Jesus.

Correct. 

Abhinandan: So, uh, yeah, I think it was a really permissive time. So it's a, it's a pity you, I don't think we have effectively articulated what MTV was, but it was. Such a wonderful part of at least my life, uh, that it's sad. Uh, it's gone and 

Rajyasree: y'all have to listen. It's called The Heights was the band's name. How do you talk to an angel?

It's just fabulous, that song. And, uh, also, have you heard Berlin seen the video for, uh, Roy Orson? Uh. I drove all night. 

Abhinandan: Yeah. Very nice. Yeah. 

Rajyasree: So those euro, there were, I know that you too. Yeah. 

Abhinandan: Where they performed in Germany on top of that building. Yeah. Where the streets have, where the streets have known.

Oh my god, dude. Just 

Rajyasree: so good. But also MTV and then, and then when 

Abhinandan: [00:29:00] Bba Se did with mothers, listen, it's 

Rajyasree: very big. There was a standing fan. Puja. Genji. We call it Chand. Genji, it's called a wife beater. Basically in a West, he's wearing a ggi, but a colored vest. It's not a white ganji. He's not wearing, uh, what's that Baan that this one does?

Alman does not. That Baan and, uh, Alicia Chino is made in India. Mm-hmm. It was a mil soman comes out of that. Uh, 

Abhinandan: and Malika was she shot to fame because of that. 

Rajyasree: So that's the thing MTV brought to India, the concept of VGs, which we never had, and that it was such. A cool profession. We'd never seen UN 

Abhinandan: until Y Annu Malik also became VJs for for a while.

Yeah. And I'll never forget Annu Malik as a vja in leather pants and a cap and then Yala and that's when Yes. 

Rajyasree: Was also a vj. Yeah. So, 

Abhinandan: and that's when I knew it's the question of time. This [00:30:00] channel is gonna die. And sure enough, it died. 

Rajyasree: The bird MTV had, so channel B were second to M-T-V-M-T-V had Danny Mcg, like they had what was considered cool.

You had Danny McGill and 

Abhinandan: the most beautiful girl in the world. Oh, Kamal. 

Rajyasree: S Lela. 

Abhinandan: Lela was, she was, she was 

Rajyasree: standing, my friends shipped into her flat in Bombay and they couldn't get over. She was, I think she 

Abhinandan: was the most beautiful 

Rajyasree: girl. She's still alive. Oh, she does. I've, I've watched, uh, shows which she's in, um, in a film and all that scene.

Not in Hindi films in this thing. That was Lela, Danny Kamal, uh, Malika, MMDA Amita, uh, no, but, 

Abhinandan: but now they were not. That that is when it started going down. Yeah, that is Then Nick 

Rajyasree: was still cool. 

Abhinandan: Yeah, that is in. But of course the sia, 

Rajyasree: yeah. 

Abhinandan: Uh, what's his name? Cyrus. 

Rajyasree: Cyrus, uh, hooker Cyrus. Cher Cyrus. 

Abhinandan: CIA was so funny.

I remember a young Cyrus, this was the mid nineties. Uh, he was [00:31:00] so cocky and so cheeky, I think. And 

Rajyasree: this bunch, because I knew the main producer of the shows, se Herba, who was the producer across all their show. This bunch didn't have scripts as in dialogue script. And the later bunch of, some of them, I've heard very funny stories about some of the, and Channel V became big, which was a copy of this thing, but channel we had Singh.

Abhinandan: Yeah, but channel, we became more creative than MTV. 

Rajyasree: Yeah, 

Abhinandan: they came up with some really fantastic, uh, characters including those, uh, clay Masons that they used to do. Yeah, it was so funny. 

Rajyasree: And so when we were in posts grad in college, uh. Like also we'd never heard of salaries like that. Some 20-year-old is getting a salary of 50,000 going in for four hours of work in the week.

That all, we were like, what all is happening over here? But it 

Abhinandan: was very cool. I was busy making photocopies at New Strike office, so those were not things I was, no, 

Rajyasree: we were, and it [00:32:00] was just a, like that was a phase in India, which had Sunday. We'd become very American. Okay. And now we have, they have Jersey Shaw, Jordy Shaw, we have big boss.

Abhinandan: Right. 

Rajyasree: The level has been set. 

Abhinandan: So all the big boss, not on MTV, but that kind of stuff. No, but the 

Rajyasree: quality of 

Abhinandan: Splitsville type of shit. Yeah. So Rashan, um, the song that I wanted to recommend before you tell us about, you know, wayward is, uh, actually first, let me read that email. Okay. So Rama has said I wanted to write something in je sri's defense.

If one has a pop culture podcast, I do believe one should have an overall understanding of the landscape, correct. I dunno, who has an understanding of any landscape here, but fine. 

Rajyasree: Let's read. Unfortunately, this 

Abhinandan: includes passing through films and shows that are objectively or subjectively bad. Correct. In a previous episode, Raji praised the film Aina.[00:33:00] 

Rajyasree: I did not Praise, I said I really liked. Ina also is different. That's, 

Abhinandan: anyway, it is such a regressive, sexist film, but I did not think so when I first watched it as a kid. Have you considered devoting episodes to older films, such as Deep Dive Into Ya, Chopra films? Great idea. We will do this every now and then.

Ram is today. 

Rajyasree: We will discuss. Okay, let's do that. Yeah. 

Abhinandan: Or let's not Okay this. We'll, today we'll do songs. Okay. But as Ram says every episode, we'll come and we'll review one. Old Masterpiece Forgotten or not? Uh, or we recommend some old song that you can rediscover from. Stray Comments in the Church Up podcast.

I got a sense that Atul has a different and potentially unique take on popular culture. Would you consider bringing him over? Why not? Why not? Shaul and Jesse have appeared on this podcast as well. Yes, Rama. That's a great idea. We shall do that 

Rajyasree: next week. We can also discuss Zmi, or have you watched Zmi?

Orth? No, with Punit, sir. And uh, I didn't 

Abhinandan: watch it. Anyone? I have 

Rajyasree: [00:34:00] not. You didn't go with pun. I haven't watched, I watch on big screen, 

Abhinandan: I think very underrated film called Vera. I think this was released sometime in 95 or 96 with 

Rajyasree: Pja. Batra Ka. Yeah. And it, uh, an Amris. Puri. 

Abhinandan: An puri. 

Rajyasree: Yeah. 

Abhinandan: Uh, I really liked it at the time.

I also liked it. There was this lovely song, song 

Rajyasree: which he does, uh, taboo. 

Abhinandan: That was the no, but I prefer the other song.

Just imagine Puja,

but Rashan. What are the beauty of the song? Other than the melody, not clearly, 

Rajyasree: not this, the melody other, 

Abhinandan: this one line, which kind of I've, I am paraphrasing [00:35:00] that puja that you are my God. And I pray to you. See, 

Rajyasree: these are, you say this to me every time I walk. 

Abhinandan: Sentiments of wives too. Yeah. You know what one episode we should do?

I'm very serious. We should do. Songs like, like an, in fact when she has been slapped by her member's hand, which would be bigger than her Dante face. And after that she sing the song. You know? Or you know, 

Rajyasree: but women should know that place. So these 

Abhinandan: kind of beauty sentiments that have made true, they're not.

Uh, so we should do one. So this is one song I recommend, and the other is this one.[00:36:00] 

Actually, this is Mother Mohan Mo.

It is. One of my all time favorite songs is 

Rajyasree: Bengali Ma Mohan 

Abhinandan: More Mo. Now tell me, why should I not articulate my views on Bengalis? When 

Rajyasree: could be Bengali, but first let 

Abhinandan: me check. 

Rajyasree: He might be, if he is he never know me. That's true. That's also there. 

Abhinandan: Tell me two of your rediscovered songs that you recently rediscovered.

Playing A Loop in a 

Rajyasree: deep, there's a song, she's on a boat. 

Abhinandan: There's a film called Jeep Dustan y. 

Rajyasree: What are you saying? It has that Rio or someone? I'm sure I've got this. No, there's 

Abhinandan: a song called a No, there's a 

Rajyasree: movie. A Jeep Al. 

Abhinandan: Okay. Mad Mohans. 

Rajyasree: No, I meant the song. 

Abhinandan: Born in Baghdad, 

Rajyasree: right? B [00:37:00] Can be born in Baghdad.

Father, his father's name was.

Holy tea after Punjabi. 

Abhinandan: Thanks, God, otherwise made.

Rajyasree: I like, and my favorite song is Sari. I love singing it all. Sir. Should I sing all a line? 

Abhinandan: No, you sing very bad 

Rajyasree: Saga. 

Abhinandan: You actually, you're the only joking. You're the only Bengali I know. Who doesn't play an instrument though. You insist. You play the piano. I play the 

Rajyasree: piano. 

Abhinandan: This is like. You know, I don't play like it is like I'm an astronaut.

You have to take my word for it. S 

Rajyasree: I'm an ultra singer. I was singing, 

Abhinandan: uh, desks. Very nice. So those are the two recommendations. This week 

Rajyasree: I'm singing, Ari, you play, I give you the. 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: S[00:38:00] 

Okay. I'll sing y'all my favorite song, 

Rajyasree: and y'all have to say which film this is from. Jli ELE io IO jli, me, me aimi Uba,

who

it is from Thousand. Dozen. You know, we're fucking, oh,

okay. If these are the old songs we're gonna be discussing 

Abhinandan: the old, then I'm outta this show. 

Rajyasree: You've never heard these Really? 

Abhinandan: Why the fuck would anyone they born then why you asking them? And. If you're not 70 years old, za they're much younger, why will they fucking watch Taza? Why will any of us thousand?

It's classic 

Rajyasree: Caman. Bja was a national swimmer, I think level swimmer and 

Abhinandan: you think, okay. Anyways, so very good 

Rajyasree: looking. 

Abhinandan: So, uh, let a couple of other [00:39:00] emails. 

Rajyasree: Kimmi cut was beautiful though, 

Abhinandan: he says. In defense of hate watching Rahi, please ignore as and rega us with a five minute rant on. Too much. 

Rajyasree: Yes, I have a new rant, 

Abhinandan: this train wreck of a show that's so bad that I want to send Amazon a thank you ham for creating it.

Ni you are ruthless. 

Rajyasree: It is 

Abhinandan: really 

Rajyasree: bad. 

Abhinandan: We are living in an era of too much. No pun intended content. And for a show to stand out for being so spectacularly terrible from beginning to end is indeed a, an accomplishment after the sad demise of and just like that. What is that? 

Rajyasree: Which is Sex And the City's last.

Uh 

Abhinandan: oh, I see. 

Rajyasree: Uh, this thing, another absolute 

Abhinandan: cluster fuck of a show. There was a. Say void in our lives and middle-aged, middle class ladies like myself had nothing left to discuss at office water coolers and children's bus stops. Thank you Dear God's of entertainment, of filling that void with too much.

And now over to you. 

Rajyasree: Yeah, so I watched the latest episode. I watch [00:40:00] each episode just so that I can say what, how are they doing this? Mm-hmm. This had govinda and chunky pani who actually were not, they were not bad. The worst thing about the show. Is and twinkle. 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Hmm. 

Rajyasree: And Twinkle has a problem, which a lot of people have.

I've noticed every sentence they think needs to be a witty comment or have a pun. So there's nothing natural in the delivery. Hmm. Because it's impossible to talk like that. Right. So. Uh, so you watch it still, you mask. 

Abhinandan: All right, so, um, the one thing I've noticed is I know when I've seen interviews of.

People who are in showbiz and also when you meet them, 'cause somewhere the other, some can also 

Rajyasree: very well, 

Abhinandan: they tell you stories that don't have a point or a punchline. And they, and you'll notice this even in interviews, especially this [00:41:00] young, they will really think about something and cover something really al like.

Um, you know, they'll, uh, this is a story that they'll be telling.

Now you are fucking waiting for a punch and there's some point. There is no, and then he gave me 

Rajyasree: show. There is no 

Abhinandan: fucking point to the story. It goes round and round and you're like, what the fuck is the point? And you see this on Kama show. You see this, whether it's Saja, they've gun, whether it is a. I would say sev.

Sometimes I punchline two stories. 

Rajyasree: Sev, did you cure that one, which I sent you? Yes, I did. It was too funny. Too funny that ya, Chopra one and only he says these. 

Abhinandan: Okay, Rashan, he's the wittiest person on Earth. He basically, John Stewart [00:42:00] should jump off, give his show to s 

Rajyasree: no happy even said very funny story about he said.

At one point, NIPA Roy was forever getting kidnapped. No, there was one other, there's an actor who's very well known, whose name I, he said he was constantly selling Nipa Roy in every film. So he said he, this actor in the film goes and tell NEPA Roy, Bobby Man and takes her to Mud Island. 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Hmm. 

Rajyasree: And he said, in mud on Mud Island, there's a sheik standing there.

Hmm. And why I, I check myself. Why is a sheik standing on Mud Island of all the places and says, so this guy who's a very well known actor, it's like, almost like my mother. It says,

and then this shake. Buys Nero Paro and he leaves. So he already refuse to make no sense as as opposed 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: TOMAR films. That [00:43:00] made a lot of sense. 

Rajyasree: No, ma, I feel your seriously, but this is a funny anecdote. 

Abhinandan: Okay. 

Rajyasree: It's not a funny 

Abhinandan: self awareness. So then Vanessa says. What does Vanessa 

Rajyasree: Dear a and RI was pleasantly surprised by the episode and it's not just, and not just art's response to anon.

I didn't watch D two, so I never wrote, responded to 

Abhinandan: direct two. 

Rajyasree: Oh, I've been thinking it's some South Indian film. All this while I read this mail yesterday. D 

Abhinandan: two, ME two. There 

Rajyasree: are two. So I never wrote, responded to our observation. You read all, you read all the males, even critical ones. In that spirit, I wanted to add that are many points.

I disagree with both of you on worldview opinions and tastes. It made me. It made me stop following the show. It didn't make me unsubscribe, but just not interested in the show. A lot of changes have come into the show and it reassured that change is possible, reassured me that [00:44:00] change is possible. And this episode was proof.

I didn't watch D two, but I watched pp. And the shame is real. Shame is real. Ann's response to ours question and how you handled it left me hopeful. I think a, a a A can do more for this discourse, Dali writers and artists are making work that's challenging the hedge many and culture happy to help.

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: Imagine this. Imagine this. Thank you, Vinne. 

Rajyasree: Thank you Vinne. 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: And thank you for a subscription 

Rajyasree: Anonymous has written. Hi. I would appreciate it if you could review the song Bus by. We will next time. And, uh, Mota has written, dear Ab and Rahi came to know recently through a NA that AB did Eco Honors from du.

Hmm. Okay. Would love to get some book recommendation on political eco economy, economics, other areas under economics. Surprised so why [00:45:00] he studied in this. I can also give you some recommendations. 

Abhinandan: I also said it's not competition. You can just 

Rajyasree: ing in life is a competition, is the's how I will get ahead.

This 

Abhinandan: is wrong attitude. 

Rajyasree: No, that's how Bengalis are so successful as that's a bad 

Abhinandan: attitude. 

Rajyasree: By the way, you guys are so funny. I fell flat on my face laughing when I was listening to a and a. Were doing foot up. I'm sorry. Also Raji. She looks very pretty in every video. Thank you. Don't wear makeup that will make her skin grow.

Do you understand? Thanks for keeping news independent. Thank you, Mota. I will. 

Abhinandan: Recommend a few books. I read them and they were released. And I disagreed with some of them possible, but it's, it's good to read them now because the whole world ought is changing in the, between the mid nineties to, let's say the late two thousands, what was often referred to by conspiracy theorists and left of center people, as the Washington Consensus had a lot of endorsements from books like Bagtti wrote in Defense of Globalization.

Uh, [00:46:00] then there was, um, it'll come to bat read in Defense of globalization. Also read. Uh, STIG wrote a book, which I'll just, uh, I'll just tell you. I, I think it's called Globalizations and it's Flaws or something of the sort. Just Google Search it. These are two books that have two very, uh. Different and opposing takes on globalization and the flow of capital, which was one of the major discourses at the time.

I highly recommend it. And I also recommend, uh, which I recommend, the Hafta Sharma's latest book, the name of which again, I've forgotten, which I will just Google and tell you, and of course. I can't recommend it enough money by, uh, the French, um, 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: economist. Um, 

Rajyasree: what went wrong with capitalism? 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: What went 

Abhinandan: wrong?

That's STIGs and no, 

Rajyasree: that's Richard. 

Abhinandan: That's Richard. What went wrong with capitalism, 

Rajyasree: with STIGs? Uh, 

Abhinandan: money is by who? French, uh, French economist Money. [00:47:00] Capital. Sorry, not money, capital. See, 

Rajyasree: now you're making my search incorrect. I dunno why 

Abhinandan: mine isn't working, 

Rajyasree: because sometimes it doesn't work if you're not a good person.

That's capital. You're talking, talking about capital 

Abhinandan: books. You can 

Rajyasree: read Karma. I have an input also that don't only read nonfiction, read fiction, that will expand your horizon and improve your language, and you can think about the economy. 

Abhinandan: Also that's Pickety, Pickety Capital. Pickety. Um, I wanted to marry Pickety.

That's, that's a very good book because it's very interesting how he has kind of, um, made, um, you know, how he has compared what, how much was Rich, what wealth was like, and. Contrary terms in, let's say the 18 hundreds and 19 hundreds. He's taken books like, uh, you know, Jane Austen, where a Pride and Prejudice, where they said she was a woman of handsome disposition and she was in interested in this man [00:48:00] who had an inheritance of a hundred thousand estate or whatever.

So he said, if this book was written in such and such here, and this is considered a rich man. 

Rajyasree: Mm-hmm. 

Abhinandan: By purchasing power parity. What would that be today? 

Rajyasree: Oh, like that. So he has 

Abhinandan: actually used even literature. So he is a returned back back then. So it's, it's, um, yeah, so those are the three or four right now.

Uh, and you can mail me it Amazon and say, create Gmail. I'll send you a few more. My memory is names of terrible, I'm terrible. Names, 

Rajyasree: faces, also 

Abhinandan: faces. I'm fine with. I recognize people, 

Rajyasree: but you don't know who they are means you are recognizing how you're saying familiar. This is what I know. The 

Abhinandan: face, I may not know the name.

It's a very common ail of people my age. 

Rajyasree: My mother has it. She's 75. Yeah, you forget names. It's okay. Same 

Abhinandan: thing with books or movies. Sometimes some. I have seen this movie, the stories I say, I've seen it. But I've forgotten the name, like 

Rajyasree: Taren 

Abhinandan: that have not watched 

Rajyasree: when I was in, uh, working in one of the PR agencies [00:49:00] along with my fabulous clients, which I had.

We also got a request to do the PR for one, like a project pr. And everything used to be given to my, uh, friend Ri and me because we were good at our work. But even we drew the liner, it was for thousand there. There was something I said, what, like Warren insult to us, to this thing that you asked us to do this while we are doing GlaxoSmith Kline, uh, avian Flu Crisis and all, but I remember reading this story, they sent us a synopsis of storyline, read the whole thing.

Interesting. And I said. Like you must give it to someone else. Must have the opportunity to handle this, to work 

Abhinandan: on that, 

Rajyasree: not out. So we'll 

Abhinandan: read three more emails, we can review. Uh, 

Rajyasree: no we would, we do this thing otherwise it will get short review because you haven't watched it. So then give us short review so it can't be long.

Right. So we would, is this. You notice I pronounced it correctly? 

Godi hai toh mumkin hai SONG: Mm-hmm. 

Rajyasree: Uh, is a series on [00:50:00] Netflix. It stars Tony Collette and, uh, me Martin has created it who is a Canadian, very well known Canadian, uh, filmmaker and all. It's set in Vermont, which I've never been to. Have you been to Vermont? It's supposed to be very beautiful.

No, I don't know if that, so Vermont, uh, it set in Vermont at a place called Tall Pines. A small town called, and the thing with. Many towns and, uh, smaller cities in America, uh, that there'll be vast stretches of, uh, land with no population and then there'll be a house. Then there'll be like miles of land again.

Lots of forest area also. It's beautiful. It's very pictures, you know, but the story is based on a true, on something which happened to me Martin's friend, when they were growing up. There are these boarding schools with troubled or difficult children are sent to very often very, [00:51:00] very rich parents. And so Paris Hilton, in fact has spoken to at the US Senate and all, uh, for laws against these kind of schools because she was sent to one of these schools, she was considered a trouble child by her parents.

People come into your house. This is with full permission of the parents. People will come into your house at two, three in the morning wearing masks. They pick the child up from the bed. The children are usually in their teens. 

Abhinandan: Why do they have to have masks? 

Rajyasree: Because it's, I don't know. It's really bizarre.

I'm not 

Abhinandan: making up this shit. 

Rajyasree: No, I swear. Just because it was then the show. Doesn. No, in. I've seen the documentaries also. They bundle you into a van. The kids usually think that they're on the ice. Asians. I just trump the father, they were practicing for ice. Uh, and you are bundled into a man and you're taken to some, like, you don't even know.

So Paris Hilton was taken to Utah at this very, very known, which has now been closed down because there was so much, uh, [00:52:00] ill treatment of the children over there. It come to me. The name her one. So she's spoken to Department of Health and Human Services and all. She's like, she's become the voice of, uh, reason against child.

Yeah. Against child abuse. No, don't be Paris. Hilton is the voice of reason. 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: Then it's time to what? No, 

Rajyasree: she is really, but, so over here also, this one girl is, the parents are not happy with the way she behaves. She's doing drugs, she's doing this, that. The parents won't realize that they are basically, in essence, sending her to what is a cult run by.

Tony Collette because all these schools are very, it's very harsh that we are, no phones are allowed and all you're allowed to speak to your parents once a week, so it's a good 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: breeding ground for Yeah, 

Rajyasree: and Tony Collette is so chilling. She, anyway, looks like a cult leader. I've always felt She looks a little.

Off all the time. She is [00:53:00] this and very like, sweet. Please come to her, come to Wayward Pines where we will, uh, look after you when it's a home away from home. But you see how these kids are like basically broken down. Totally. And then a murder happens. Like it's a very, it is a fabulously tight, well scripted series, and there's a cop who has come to that real.

That's interesting. I'm 

Abhinandan & Rajyasree: tempted to watch it. You 

Rajyasree: must watch it. Because it is also the interactions between the students that happen, how some become friends, how some turn on each other. Because if you rat out a film. It's a series I have to watch. It's a series. Series. Why? Why can't you ever 

Abhinandan: suggest a film?

Rajyasree: 'cause I feel you must invest like this. But it's really good. And unlike Nana, whatever it was. Mm-hmm. At the end, we know who has done what. 

Abhinandan: Okay. So, okay. 

Rajyasree: But I did feel the end, the two options that were shown, [00:54:00] the first option should have happened and not the second. It is really good. And she's excellent.

All the characters are excellent. 

Abhinandan: So this weekend, me, Hoge, 

Rajyasree: and the town, you realize. Little spoiler. Spoiler 

Abhinandan: alert, 

Rajyasree: there are no children in that town. 

Abhinandan: They've eaten them all up. 

Rajyasree: It's, so, first I thought of the killer, they, it is a town where all the adults are young adults. Mm-hmm. Married couples, but there are no children.

And you realize that by the sixth step episode or something. You have to walk then 

Abhinandan: Sanja. 

Rajyasree: Oh, I did not know I met a lot of old people. No, I should not. Maybe they're listening to the podcast. You we're not that old. You have a very interesting people, I have to say, uh, a few days back and one of them was telling me that, you know, I remember and I did not understand why we were talking about lots of things and I was talking about some song.

Not ta, something a little classier. And she said that one song from surely a very well known song. [00:55:00] I remember one of my first memories of Daddy is because they were all in college during the emergency. Mm-hmm. She said, I remember this song from Sure. Playing. In CP and these tents, so, mm-hmm. I thought she was gonna say, and then you'd go and she would buy kebabs or something, and she said, and all these men lined up going into the na Nas Bundi.

So the music was used to attract them. Attract them, and as you went snip. And you were given a film ticket maybe at 10, I don't know, but I was like, wow. Who? I never knew I what song 

Abhinandan: it was. 'cause it could be either Wasn't Coi Hasina

or it could be It wasn't Uba song. 

Rajyasree: It was, she said, do you remember this song? Song? 

Abhinandan: It was a 

Rajyasree: py song, 

Abhinandan: which I say other thing, which would make everyone 

Rajyasree: unsubscribe from this thing. Don't say 

Abhinandan: that. So we have two emails left. I Hate. Surely has a 

Rajyasree: film. 

Abhinandan: She has no taste. 

Rajyasree: It's and [00:56:00] ti I wish that horse had turned and eaten her.

Abhinandan: The horse are vegetarian, but so annoying. Shena has sent a show to review and the last line it says, would you review his recent video? Especially since Mr. Ary has a pedigree in this genre, which is, which isn't food and travel show, Rahul, these Colombian coffee shows. So we will review both these things.

Anonymous has sent us this song called Bus and this show, we will review both of them next, but 

Rajyasree: I just want to say that this, I am a big fan of Raul Gandhi looks more than his politics. You shallow. Because politics also I like because just decency I think should get turned on Televis. Oh, you shallow his word, huh?

But I. Scene this. It was on my Insta Reels or something. Rahul Gandhi is learning how to make Colombian coffee, and you're like, dude, what the fuck? Now, yesterday when came, he's making me tie at GI mean, what is he doing? This is not how you win, but she'll 

Abhinandan: review this. Um, [00:57:00] next week? 

Rajyasree: Yes. No, week after, 

Abhinandan: week after, sorry.

So those of you who would like us to do things differently, you have some critique to offer some criticism. You want to correct our facts, which are often wrong here because of you know who, uh, you can mail us at podcasts@newsrun.com. I repeat podcasts@newsroom.com. We only attend the emails of subscribers.

All the abuse you can leave. On my Twitter timeline after I did the pollution, uh, tweet over the weekend because of how brilliantly Delhi handle the pollution, lots of it has come and I would like to tell you most of it I read, so I would acknowledge that. Thank you. Keep it coming. Uh, but for the emails, you have to subscribe to News Laundry.

Here is a QR code. You can scan it and subscribe and paycheck eight news free. We would like to thank a wonderful sound, recordist Anil, and a wonderful producer Pali and, uh, like to remind you of the two song recommendations, rediscovery Tara, and[00:58:00] 

Recommendation. 

Rajyasree: Hi, why would it be? 

Abhinandan: Hi, what is wrong with C? Great song recommendation. Come from there. Sophisticated song recommendation come from 

Rajyasree: here. I have suggestion also. I take 

Abhinandan: this. I try to take this show to slightly cultural level by not watching anything so that we can go for Sahi Academy and someone who brings it out to KLPD level.

You know who, 

Rajyasree: if we ever get nominated, it would be quite good for somebody academy. 

Abhinandan: You talk. 

Rajyasree: I have a, I just want to see something about behavior to our followers on Instagram. Y'all don't have to comment and fight with each other on the Instagram. Yeah, please 

Abhinandan: read of you. We hate it when other fight each other.

Two 

Rajyasree: comments and my notification is fine. Don't fight to each other. [00:59:00] And I want to tell you all that. Yeah, don't fight with each other. Fighting. It is not 

Abhinandan: worth it. No Fighting with some song that starts that. No fighting. No fighting. Shakira. Shakira. No. Fighting. The fighting.

Rajyasree: Okay. Just thank you Mr. S. Thank you, Mr. And it's a wrap.

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