WEBVTT - What Was I Like as a Kid? 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:08.480 What's up? Its sauce on the side. Welcome back from vacation, Diamond, Oh, 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.040 thank you? Did you go anywhere and do anything fun? 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.720 No you going? No, no, no, no. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.479 I missed you. I missed you too. You know how 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:19.840 you can tell if I miss you because I reach 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.160 out to you. And because when I saw Scotty, because 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:25.720 Scotti brought his daughter to Ohio to look at Ohio, 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.200 the Ohio State University, so I got to show her around. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.720 We were standing outside a Donados where there was karaoke. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.880 It's a pizza place, it's a chain pizza place, and 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:36.600 I could not believe there was karaoke. Was the worst 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.400 thing I've ever heard, and I thought of you, so 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:40.800 we FaceTime you. I was like, these are things Dumbe 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.800 would love. Pizza and horrible karaoke my favorite. It's the best. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:46.040 I wish you would have been there. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.000 Do you know I hate when people are good at karaoke, 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.880 like they can sing, Like, what's the point go fucking 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:53.480 get a record deal or something like that. 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.960 Right here, we want horrible singers. 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:58.639 Okay, I mean you would have loved this one. It 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.000 was so bad, was so bad I can't even do 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:02.440 an impression of it. It was just so bad, and I 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.000 was like, why are they a pizza place where? 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.560 Okay, cool, cool, this is great, a good time. 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.319 But wait, you're not a bad karaoke person, but you 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:12.760 love karaoke, So how do you fit into that? 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.480 What do you mean? I rap songs or I do? Like, 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.080 are you not a good rapper? 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.000 Sure, as long as you know the words right, But 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.440 like I'm talking about people who can actually sing. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:24.880 Yeah, who get up there and they're like this is 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:25.240 my moment. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:26.039 Yeah, like fuck them. 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:27.760 And there was this girl on a boat I'll never 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.520 forget it. It's on a cruise and I did like 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.280 tutsi roll and won an award, and then she came 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.880 up right after me. Thankfully she was after me, and 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.720 she did alone. How can I get killed it? 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:41.479 Wow? 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:42.280 Killed it? 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.759 And like a part of me was like, wow, that's 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.959 really cool, but then the other half of me was like, 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.280 fuck you you can sing? 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.760 Go get a record deal, oh, because it's just that easy. 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:54.240 Well, like, girl, go join a choir. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:56.680 I always think too when there's somebody up there like 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.960 doing terribly and then their friends clap for them like yeah, girl, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.480 you killed it. Oh my god. I'm like That's how 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.320 American idol, terrible auditions happen. It is that right there. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.160 I'm might encourage your friend, but like, holy t. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:09.239 If you did karaoke, I'd be like, yes, how dare you? 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.960 I would be amazing. I would not. I would not. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.119 Well, you can carry a tune. You and Danielle can't 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:14.680 do karaoke. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.680 Then there's carrying a tune, and then there's being a 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.760 good singer. Those are like wildly different things. You know, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.359 who can't carry a tune? It makes me chuckle. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.160 Oh coasor boy Josh, oh god. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.360 He like he does all of our imaging, which, by 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:28.679 the way, if you don't know what that is, it's 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.400 the sound effects and the image of our show. He 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.040 puts all that together, so he's obviously musically inclined in 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:37.920 some way. Well, that man cannot sing to save his 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.400 damn life. He comes in like a key and a 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.880 half off every time. That's but damn it if he 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:47.160 doesn't give it us all anyway, All right, this podcast's 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.120 been holding on to for a minute because I recorded 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.680 it with my dad. I'm a little nervous because I 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.480 do think that there are going to be things in 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.400 this that you'll probably try to cancel him over, but 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.520 I would like everyone to know he is uncancellable. He's retired, 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.440 and he gives no fucks. He doesn't care if this 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.360 is my father. He is an immigrant. He does not 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:08.480 care about political correctness. So some of the things that 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.119 you're going to hear, specifically, like one word in particular, 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.320 might bother you. So I'm warning you in advance. You 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.320 can yell all you want about it. This is what 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.200 my dad had to say when people ask him about 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:19.480 me us. Is that fair? 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:21.000 Yeah? I think it's fair. 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:22.280 My dad really liked you, by the way. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:23.240 Yeah. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:23.639 Him. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:24.880 I wanted to hug him, but I was like, I 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:26.600 don't know if I should be hugging somebody's dad like this. 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.000 You can huld my dad people hugs. He's actually like 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.800 very cudly. Really Yeah, his cheeks are so soft. I 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.880 love giving him kisses anyway. Okay, so here comes my dad. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.760 Best of Look, you've been warned. I don't want to 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:47.120 hear it. Hello Dad, Hello, how are you good? Okay? 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:51.720 So you have been probably the most requested person that 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.120 people want me to have on my podcast. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.800 Because they want somebody to laugh at and make their day. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:59.840 Yes, that is it. That's what they want. So I said, okay, 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.640 I'm gonna have my dad come into the podcast. I 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.600 wanted you to be part of the show this morning, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.240 but traffic we got a little late, so you couldn't 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:07.960 be on the show. But you're still doing my podcast. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.200 So people have sent questions that they want to ask 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:17.159 you about me, about you, about family, all kinds of stuff. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.040 I will do my best to answer them. 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.640 Okay, the first question. First of all, Dad, thanks for 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.760 joining me. I would say that to anybody who was 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:26.520 coming in and doing the podcast with me. 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:28.680 I am delighted to be here. Thank you. 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:29.760 What made you come visit? 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:31.640 I've not seen you in a long time, and I 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.680 decided I want to see New York and see if 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.800 you're really living here. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.800 Somewhere else and what have you determined? 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:41.560 At least you're not living under a bridge, Dad. Nice apartment, Okay, 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.480 beautiful apartment. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:43.320 I'm glad you like it. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:45.719 I'm very very jealous of that apartment. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.120 Plea. You have a nice house in Florida. Yeah, with 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.159 a big pond, an alligators. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:53.640 Beautiful lights out there at night. It looks so beautiful. 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.719 Yeah, we could trade anytime. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:57.840 And like I told you. I always love to see 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.000 the clouds below the apart. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:03.760 That's nice, all right. So the questions they ranged from 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:05.440 all over the place. First of all, is there anything 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.679 you would like to say? Would you like to introduce yourself? 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.239 I mean, this is my dad. His name's per Deep. 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.920 He's one of my favorite people in the whole wide world. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.160 That's how I would introduce you. How would you introduce yourself? 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:19.360 Well, as you already announced my name, I don't need 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.279 to announce it again. No, but I came here to 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:27.520 New York because I love visiting it as a tourist. Also, 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:30.240 uh huh, and I wanted to see how things look 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.680 from the apartment of Meda, which is a beautiful, beautiful apartment. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.520 Okay, we have a guest. It's Elvish. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.880 God, this is amazing. 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:53.240 We were podcasting. He did this actually this attitude? Yeah nothing, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:54.840 do you want? You want to be part of the podcast? 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.760 No? Go do you thing? There? 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:01.080 You are? 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.080 Hello, Welcome to New York Dad, Why, thank you so much? 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:05.920 Thank you so much. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.479 Now what were you guys talking about? What did I 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:08.000 miss out on? 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.080 This is we actually just started it. And this works 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.320 out even better because now you can ask questions that 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.440 you want to have answered if you want. But my 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.400 dad was just introducing himself and saying why he came 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:18.640 to New York. He said he loved it as a 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:19.680 tourist when he was a kid. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.640 Actually, Elvis gave me a very good opening. Yeah, by 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.799 calling me father, Now I can say I'm the father 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.760 of New York compared to my grandfather was father of 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:28.240 the nation. 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.240 A lot of fathers in this film lot. 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:33.760 You know, he's the godfather of radio. 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.720 Well, let me say something about Elvis. Yes, we got 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.279 a new financial investment advisor a few weeks ago. She 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.440 and her daughter are running the business, and she was 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.760 taking all the details from us, and she said, Mayda Gandhi, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:54.360 is that the lady on the Elvis Durancho. I said, yes. 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.120 She goes, I love Elvis. I was born and brought 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.719 up in Jersey City, and I moved to Tampa a 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:06.200 few years ago, and I still listened to the radio 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:11.320 show every morning. See, so I said, that is surprising. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.520 She goes, You've been here for a long time. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:14.160 Very long. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:18.640 I'm very I'm older than you. You're laughing, and I 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.640 hear not in look not at all. See it's kind 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.080 of wild. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:22.440 Yeah. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.040 I've been doing this in at this radio station in 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:26.560 New York since nineteen eighty eight. 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:26.960 Yeah. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.760 Yeah, so a lot of people fly, They fly out 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.880 of the nest and go to Tampa. Yeah, and now 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.520 she's driving you into bankruptcy. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.280 Off my chair. Her name is Lisa Green. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.160 Lisa Green from Jersey City. I remember Lisa Green. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.840 I don't know how she connected everything. That was amazing. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.600 Well, there's not many Gandhi's around. 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.320 That's true. But then the other incident, and I don't 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.080 know if may I shared this with you. My brother 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.760 lives in a different part of Florida and it's called 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:58.320 the Villages. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.760 Oh yeah, we're the old people hook up with other 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.360 old people, leave their leave their dentures in people's beds 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:04.840 and things. 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:06.840 Yes, yeah, yeah, that's the one. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.440 So they had gone to the Barnes and Noble in 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.160 the Villages and when he was at the register paying, 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:17.559 the lady saw the name Shanti Gandhi and he said, 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.680 are you related to the famous Gandhi? And he said, what, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:23.960 Mama Gandhi. No, no, no, I'm talking to. 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:26.280 Look at that. 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:30.600 Finally, finally, hey, quickly they forgot how quickly they forget 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.760 what Gandhi did and now you're the famous Ghandi. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.040 Tension is the right word? Made them? 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.320 Maybe not to riotriting, notieting. 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.680 So I missed out of the conversation. You said you 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.600 came to New York when you were younger, Like what 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.000 what years did that? 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.880 Spad once? The first time I came here was when 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.120 I came with my parents in nineteen seventy two. 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.040 What was New York City like in nineteen seventy two? 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:56.439 A whole different city. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:59.800 It doesn't seem much different, which was already so developed 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:04.080 by then that I can't tell the difference. New York 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.320 has been always a haven for tourists, and we had 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.720 heard so much about New York in Mumbai, all the 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.480 pictures we had seen of New York, especially the one 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.560 where the guys are building the Empire State Building. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:16.719 Oh yeah up in the. 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.480 So for us when we come here, it's like, yeah, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.920 I've seen this in pictures before. Whereas many other cities 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:26.160 you can tell, oh, it wasn't this way. It was 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.920 a rural town and now look at it. So New 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:32.040 York was developed so far back that one is very 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.400 hard for me to tell the difference. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.160 Do you remember what you ate oh here, Yeah, what 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:37.800 did you eat? 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:41.280 Well, I have to say that I was exposed in 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:46.200 front of my dad. We were vegetarians in India. Mm hmm. Well, 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.359 when I came here, I took to all the sandwiches 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.560 and everything, and my dad got suspicious and he said, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.440 have you been eating meat in India? I just say, yeah, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.000 I did eat whoops? 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:57.880 He said. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:09:59.760 He would take his pocket money and run out to 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.640 street vendors and get meat and eat meat. 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:07.880 Just meat, no bread, no vegetables, just meat. You would 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.719 eat live livestock, eat a live You would eat a 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.439 chicken as it walked by. 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.040 God, what are they doing Mumbai? You need to eat 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.360 some meat. Well, that's that's fascinating. 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.320 Nineteen seventy two in New York City because my mom 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.520 and dad would be here as well during those years. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.520 I would never come. I came as a child. I 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.480 was in in the nineteen seventies, but I don't remember 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.640 it that much. But they said New York City to 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.880 them was a whole different place than it is now. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.400 The way they describe New York City in nineteen seventy two, 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:39.560 when you were here was just a wonderful, positive place. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.640 So I went online and googled street scenes nineteen seventy 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:48.160 two New York City. There's cars on fire, there's so 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:48.480 you got. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:49.400 Twenty twenty four. 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:50.760 You got to sort of like this year. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:52.920 You got to see some obviously the better parts of 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:54.000 the city. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.760 But the things that stick out today that I can 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.439 remember is not so much of New York City. But 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.920 my brother took us all on a trip from Detroit 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.720 to San Francisco by car. Wow. He was studying to 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:12.160 be a cardiac cardiologist, so he had a conference there 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.760 while he was working in Detroit. So we all went 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.680 with him, and he did a neat thing. He attached 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:23.520 the movie camera to the driver's side reary mirror, so 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:25.760 as he drove, it took the movie. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:28.400 All along the original GoPro that's hot. 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.320 Yeah. So we went past Las Vegas and everything today 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.400 and I see Las Vegas. I can tell, oh, yeah, 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:34.880 look at this. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.280 This is so different it's at now Las Vegas has 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.520 gone through quite the transformation. 0:11:39.360 --> 0:11:42.280 New York looked like it was New York from eighteen nineties. 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.440 It was a lot of New York is still here 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.280 as a matter of fact. Down in the village where 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.040 they have the rosen rows of Old Town homes built 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.040 in the eighteen hundreds. When it snows, the snow seems 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:57.080 to cover up everything that's modern day. And you just 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.520 see what you see left over are these old town 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.760 homes and you can imagine those exactly. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.920 That's exactly what the streets look like back in those days. Beeping. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.400 Oh, I'm glad you asked that question. So my dad 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:11.800 has a pump, has a diabetic pump for his insulince. 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.319 Oh my god, do you need to call that? Nine 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.040 one one is letting him know you look good. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:18.680 The beep is letting him know his sugar's high. And 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:20.160 I know why his sugar's high, because I think he 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.240 snuck off to Krispy Krean before he came here. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.840 Oh my god, did you or did you not? Yes? 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.760 For you, Thank god you didn't have that hooked up 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.079 to you back in the day and it detected meat 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.199 in your system. Can you guysually have a meat a meatometer? 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.160 Your son's been eating meat again? What do we do 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:37.760 with this boy? 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.160 But actually, my mom was a meat eater and my 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.640 father was a vegetarian, and so it was always a 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.520 conflict at home, and he had forbidden my mother from 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.679 making any meat or any fish. She loved fish more 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.520 than me, right, so one day she just couldn't handle it. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.640 Get closer to that microphone if you're yes. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.840 So when he was out of town, she had some 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.640 shrimp brought into the house, cooked everything, and she was 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.440 an excellent chef, but it leaves an odor. Unfortunately, he 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.720 decided to come home early and while she was cooking 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:11.800 all this, he was on. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.920 His way while it was in the pan, almost. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:19.000 Cooked, and she had me rushing around with all these 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:24.240 deodorant smells and everything like that. My dad came, what 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.520 the hell is all this deodren going on smelling something funny? 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.760 I said, that's all you're smelling, right, Yeah, okay, no problem. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.400 And still, I mean never found out. 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:39.040 I think he suspected, but he was too hesitant to ask. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.880 Well, outside of all things podcasting, I really just wanted 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.760 you guys to say hi, I meet each other because 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.720 my dad, my big brother. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:49.840 It's an honor to meet you, and thank you for 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:54.000 the gift of Mayda because we're having way too much fun. 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.280 How long have we worked together now? 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:56.000 Six years? 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:56.560 Six years. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.920 I have been here for six years, dad, Yeah, that's crazy. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.760 I feeling like yesterday I came to see you in Boston. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.400 And it was like just yesterday she arrived here as well. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.520 That's the magic of your daughter. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:06.319 Time warp. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:10.280 There's no concept of time or space. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.360 No, I didn't realize. 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:13.920 Yeah, I know it's crazy, right, Okay, Well I do 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.040 have to run, But I have a question. 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:16.679 But I have a question. I have so many questions 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:17.000 for you. 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:22.400 My favorite one is are you proud of where she's 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.440 living and what she's doing right now? 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:29.240 We are very proud, especially because our contribution as parents 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.520 has been very minimal. And the reason I say that 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.120 we are not from the entertainment industry, so we know 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.320 nothing about it. For this kid to have bucked the trends, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.120 taken on all those challenges, the only credit we would 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.440 claim is we didn't stop her from doing anything, and that, 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.520 to me, is entirely her credit. I knew she was 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.160 cut out for something. I don't know what, because when 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.120 I was coming home from work one day and she 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.240 was about twelve years old maybe, and when we pulled 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.680 into our development, there's a little area there with a 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:06.160 concrete wall, and she was sitting on that wall grave 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.600 and as I was going to stop and say hi, 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:12.760 she just waved me on, so I went home. Then 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.960 she came back. I said, what the heck were you 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:19.840 doing there? That's my thinking spot, your thinking spot. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:20.760 I had a thinking spot. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.120 Do you have a thinking spot today? 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.360 I do now, it's more like the couch in the 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.000 bathroom hid my own space. But when you're a little kid, 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:27.960 you just need to get out of the house and 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.520 get away from everybody and think. And that was my 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.480 thinking spot. He thinks. That's so funny, man. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.680 That brings up a lot of what it's like living 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.920 with parents who have expectations for your education and your 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:45.200 education foundation of education, and of course the different plateaus 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:49.800 of excellence and success. And she always wonders if you 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.680 guys really truly are proud of where she is. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.520 And what she's accomplishing. Oh yes, so he told you 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:56.320 clear as day. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:57.280 Yes, I think that. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.160 I think she doesn't realize that. It's understandable. Parents from 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:08.040 India and countries out there, they don't normally boast about 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.600 their kids and family because it's considered a bad taste. 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.960 So we grew up that way and to adjust to 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.560 this new culture. It's tough for people, you know, so 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.080 we just say, Okay, she's doing fine, no big deal. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:27.760 But she has done a great job. And even though 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.720 I don't like comparisons, just to give an idea when 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.360 she was when she was first born, I truly thought 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:36.120 she was retarded. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:45.840 Yes, because at that age, how can you detect? 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:51.480 Our older daughter was moving along very very well. This 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:54.360 one came along and she was well behind in all 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:59.360 the developmental phases from our first daughter. I do not 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.920 remember in orders my wife remember her ever standing up 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.320 and learning to walk. She was crawling at the age 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.160 when our older daughter was walking. And now even when 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.440 we took her to the daycare center, I told the 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:14.199 lady there, I said, please keep an eye on her. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:15.160 I think she's retarded. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:18.520 He thought I was joking. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:20.360 Okay, how that worked out? 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.800 He developed in quantumly. There's no incremental things. One day 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:30.040 she's crawling, the next day she's walking. There's no learning 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:34.280 stage there of falling and all that same thing. In school. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:39.640 I said, man, this kid's gonna be retarded. But then 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.399 I started testing her and she goes way ahead of 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:45.720 the crowd. There you go, I said, I want to 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:46.840 leave her to her face. 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.040 Oh my god. Yes, he tells everybody this. By the way, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.120 in that exact same phrasing, and he says he never 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.880 remembers me saying a first word. I said nothing until 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:01.000 it was way late, and he thought I was elementally challenged. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.600 And then I said a full sentence. It was I 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:04.480 would like some milk so. 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.960 Rather than I would like some milk please, so rather 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:09.520 rather than her first word. 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:19.720 It was her first thesis. 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.000 Center one day and the lady said, mister Gandhi, you 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.600 kept thinking your daughter was retarded. She was discussing Einstein's 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:23.400 theory of relatives. 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:27.280 Wow, your daughter is a theory on the marine montressory 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:28.760 theory of precognitive learning. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.040 Exactly what. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:37.800 She's the opposite of developmentallystion is mainly to leave them alone. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.840 Good good thinking, please. But also I would think. 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.760