Speaker 1: What's up? Its sauce on the side. Welcome back from vacation, Diamond, Oh,
Speaker 1: thank you? Did you go anywhere and do anything fun?
Speaker 2: No you going? No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I missed you. I missed you too. You know how
Speaker 1: you can tell if I miss you because I reach
Speaker 1: out to you. And because when I saw Scotty, because
Speaker 1: Scotti brought his daughter to Ohio to look at Ohio,
Speaker 1: the Ohio State University, so I got to show her around.
Speaker 1: We were standing outside a Donados where there was karaoke.
Speaker 1: It's a pizza place, it's a chain pizza place, and
Speaker 1: I could not believe there was karaoke. Was the worst
Speaker 1: thing I've ever heard, and I thought of you, so
Speaker 1: we FaceTime you. I was like, these are things Dumbe
Speaker 1: would love. Pizza and horrible karaoke my favorite. It's the best.
Speaker 1: I wish you would have been there.
Speaker 3: Do you know I hate when people are good at karaoke,
Speaker 3: like they can sing, Like, what's the point go fucking
Speaker 3: get a record deal or something like that.
Speaker 2: Right here, we want horrible singers.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mean you would have loved this one. It
Speaker 1: was so bad, was so bad I can't even do
Speaker 1: an impression of it. It was just so bad, and I
Speaker 1: was like, why are they a pizza place where?
Speaker 2: Okay, cool, cool, this is great, a good time.
Speaker 1: But wait, you're not a bad karaoke person, but you
Speaker 1: love karaoke, So how do you fit into that?
Speaker 2: What do you mean? I rap songs or I do? Like,
Speaker 2: are you not a good rapper?
Speaker 3: Sure, as long as you know the words right, But
Speaker 3: like I'm talking about people who can actually sing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who get up there and they're like this is
Speaker 1: my moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like fuck them.
Speaker 3: And there was this girl on a boat I'll never
Speaker 3: forget it. It's on a cruise and I did like
Speaker 3: tutsi roll and won an award, and then she came
Speaker 3: up right after me. Thankfully she was after me, and
Speaker 3: she did alone. How can I get killed it?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 2: Killed it?
Speaker 3: And like a part of me was like, wow, that's
Speaker 3: really cool, but then the other half of me was like,
Speaker 3: fuck you you can sing?
Speaker 1: Go get a record deal, oh, because it's just that easy.
Speaker 2: Well, like, girl, go join a choir.
Speaker 1: I always think too when there's somebody up there like
Speaker 1: doing terribly and then their friends clap for them like yeah, girl,
Speaker 1: you killed it. Oh my god. I'm like That's how
Speaker 1: American idol, terrible auditions happen. It is that right there.
Speaker 1: I'm might encourage your friend, but like, holy t.
Speaker 2: If you did karaoke, I'd be like, yes, how dare you?
Speaker 1: I would be amazing. I would not. I would not.
Speaker 2: Well, you can carry a tune. You and Danielle can't
Speaker 2: do karaoke.
Speaker 1: Then there's carrying a tune, and then there's being a
Speaker 1: good singer. Those are like wildly different things. You know,
Speaker 1: who can't carry a tune? It makes me chuckle.
Speaker 2: Oh coasor boy Josh, oh god.
Speaker 1: He like he does all of our imaging, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, if you don't know what that is, it's
Speaker 1: the sound effects and the image of our show. He
Speaker 1: puts all that together, so he's obviously musically inclined in
Speaker 1: some way. Well, that man cannot sing to save his
Speaker 1: damn life. He comes in like a key and a
Speaker 1: half off every time. That's but damn it if he
Speaker 1: doesn't give it us all anyway, All right, this podcast's
Speaker 1: been holding on to for a minute because I recorded
Speaker 1: it with my dad. I'm a little nervous because I
Speaker 1: do think that there are going to be things in
Speaker 1: this that you'll probably try to cancel him over, but
Speaker 1: I would like everyone to know he is uncancellable. He's retired,
Speaker 1: and he gives no fucks. He doesn't care if this
Speaker 1: is my father. He is an immigrant. He does not
Speaker 1: care about political correctness. So some of the things that
Speaker 1: you're going to hear, specifically, like one word in particular,
Speaker 1: might bother you. So I'm warning you in advance. You
Speaker 1: can yell all you want about it. This is what
Speaker 1: my dad had to say when people ask him about
Speaker 1: me us. Is that fair?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it's fair.
Speaker 1: My dad really liked you, by the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Him.
Speaker 3: I wanted to hug him, but I was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know if I should be hugging somebody's dad like this.
Speaker 1: You can huld my dad people hugs. He's actually like
Speaker 1: very cudly. Really Yeah, his cheeks are so soft. I
Speaker 1: love giving him kisses anyway. Okay, so here comes my dad.
Speaker 1: Best of Look, you've been warned. I don't want to
Speaker 1: hear it. Hello Dad, Hello, how are you good? Okay?
Speaker 1: So you have been probably the most requested person that
Speaker 1: people want me to have on my podcast.
Speaker 4: Because they want somebody to laugh at and make their day.
Speaker 1: Yes, that is it. That's what they want. So I said, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have my dad come into the podcast. I
Speaker 1: wanted you to be part of the show this morning,
Speaker 1: but traffic we got a little late, so you couldn't
Speaker 1: be on the show. But you're still doing my podcast.
Speaker 1: So people have sent questions that they want to ask
Speaker 1: you about me, about you, about family, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 4: I will do my best to answer them.
Speaker 1: Okay, the first question. First of all, Dad, thanks for
Speaker 1: joining me. I would say that to anybody who was
Speaker 1: coming in and doing the podcast with me.
Speaker 4: I am delighted to be here. Thank you.
Speaker 1: What made you come visit?
Speaker 4: I've not seen you in a long time, and I
Speaker 4: decided I want to see New York and see if
Speaker 4: you're really living here.
Speaker 1: Somewhere else and what have you determined?
Speaker 4: At least you're not living under a bridge, Dad. Nice apartment, Okay,
Speaker 4: beautiful apartment.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you like it.
Speaker 4: I'm very very jealous of that apartment.
Speaker 1: Plea. You have a nice house in Florida. Yeah, with
Speaker 1: a big pond, an alligators.
Speaker 4: Beautiful lights out there at night. It looks so beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we could trade anytime.
Speaker 4: And like I told you. I always love to see
Speaker 4: the clouds below the apart.
Speaker 1: That's nice, all right. So the questions they ranged from
Speaker 1: all over the place. First of all, is there anything
Speaker 1: you would like to say? Would you like to introduce yourself?
Speaker 1: I mean, this is my dad. His name's per Deep.
Speaker 1: He's one of my favorite people in the whole wide world.
Speaker 1: That's how I would introduce you. How would you introduce yourself?
Speaker 4: Well, as you already announced my name, I don't need
Speaker 4: to announce it again. No, but I came here to
Speaker 4: New York because I love visiting it as a tourist. Also,
Speaker 4: uh huh, and I wanted to see how things look
Speaker 4: from the apartment of Meda, which is a beautiful, beautiful apartment.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have a guest. It's Elvish.
Speaker 6: God, this is amazing.
Speaker 1: We were podcasting. He did this actually this attitude? Yeah nothing,
Speaker 1: do you want? You want to be part of the podcast?
Speaker 4: No? Go do you thing? There?
Speaker 1: You are?
Speaker 6: Hello, Welcome to New York Dad, Why, thank you so much?
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Now what were you guys talking about? What did I
Speaker 6: miss out on?
Speaker 1: This is we actually just started it. And this works
Speaker 1: out even better because now you can ask questions that
Speaker 1: you want to have answered if you want. But my
Speaker 1: dad was just introducing himself and saying why he came
Speaker 1: to New York. He said he loved it as a
Speaker 1: tourist when he was a kid.
Speaker 4: Actually, Elvis gave me a very good opening. Yeah, by
Speaker 4: calling me father, Now I can say I'm the father
Speaker 4: of New York compared to my grandfather was father of
Speaker 4: the nation.
Speaker 6: A lot of fathers in this film lot.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the godfather of radio.
Speaker 4: Well, let me say something about Elvis. Yes, we got
Speaker 4: a new financial investment advisor a few weeks ago. She
Speaker 4: and her daughter are running the business, and she was
Speaker 4: taking all the details from us, and she said, Mayda Gandhi,
Speaker 4: is that the lady on the Elvis Durancho. I said, yes.
Speaker 4: She goes, I love Elvis. I was born and brought
Speaker 4: up in Jersey City, and I moved to Tampa a
Speaker 4: few years ago, and I still listened to the radio
Speaker 4: show every morning. See, so I said, that is surprising.
Speaker 4: She goes, You've been here for a long time.
Speaker 6: Very long.
Speaker 7: I'm very I'm older than you. You're laughing, and I
Speaker 7: hear not in look not at all. See it's kind
Speaker 7: of wild.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I've been doing this in at this radio station in
Speaker 7: New York since nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so a lot of people fly, They fly out
Speaker 7: of the nest and go to Tampa. Yeah, and now
Speaker 7: she's driving you into bankruptcy.
Speaker 4: Off my chair. Her name is Lisa Green.
Speaker 6: Lisa Green from Jersey City. I remember Lisa Green.
Speaker 4: I don't know how she connected everything. That was amazing.
Speaker 6: Well, there's not many Gandhi's around.
Speaker 4: That's true. But then the other incident, and I don't
Speaker 4: know if may I shared this with you. My brother
Speaker 4: lives in a different part of Florida and it's called
Speaker 4: the Villages.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we're the old people hook up with other
Speaker 7: old people, leave their leave their dentures in people's beds
Speaker 7: and things.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, that's the one.
Speaker 4: So they had gone to the Barnes and Noble in
Speaker 4: the Villages and when he was at the register paying,
Speaker 4: the lady saw the name Shanti Gandhi and he said,
Speaker 4: are you related to the famous Gandhi? And he said, what,
Speaker 4: Mama Gandhi. No, no, no, I'm talking to.
Speaker 6: Look at that.
Speaker 7: Finally, finally, hey, quickly they forgot how quickly they forget
Speaker 7: what Gandhi did and now you're the famous Ghandi.
Speaker 4: Tension is the right word? Made them?
Speaker 6: Maybe not to riotriting, notieting.
Speaker 7: So I missed out of the conversation. You said you
Speaker 7: came to New York when you were younger, Like what
Speaker 7: what years did that?
Speaker 4: Spad once? The first time I came here was when
Speaker 4: I came with my parents in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 7: What was New York City like in nineteen seventy two?
Speaker 7: A whole different city.
Speaker 4: It doesn't seem much different, which was already so developed
Speaker 4: by then that I can't tell the difference. New York
Speaker 4: has been always a haven for tourists, and we had
Speaker 4: heard so much about New York in Mumbai, all the
Speaker 4: pictures we had seen of New York, especially the one
Speaker 4: where the guys are building the Empire State Building.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah up in the.
Speaker 4: So for us when we come here, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 4: I've seen this in pictures before. Whereas many other cities
Speaker 4: you can tell, oh, it wasn't this way. It was
Speaker 4: a rural town and now look at it. So New
Speaker 4: York was developed so far back that one is very
Speaker 4: hard for me to tell the difference.
Speaker 6: Do you remember what you ate oh here, Yeah, what
Speaker 6: did you eat?
Speaker 4: Well, I have to say that I was exposed in
Speaker 4: front of my dad. We were vegetarians in India. Mm hmm. Well,
Speaker 4: when I came here, I took to all the sandwiches
Speaker 4: and everything, and my dad got suspicious and he said,
Speaker 4: have you been eating meat in India? I just say, yeah,
Speaker 4: I did eat whoops?
Speaker 2: He said.
Speaker 1: He would take his pocket money and run out to
Speaker 1: street vendors and get meat and eat meat.
Speaker 7: Just meat, no bread, no vegetables, just meat. You would
Speaker 7: eat live livestock, eat a live You would eat a
Speaker 7: chicken as it walked by.
Speaker 6: God, what are they doing Mumbai? You need to eat
Speaker 6: some meat. Well, that's that's fascinating.
Speaker 7: Nineteen seventy two in New York City because my mom
Speaker 7: and dad would be here as well during those years.
Speaker 7: I would never come. I came as a child. I
Speaker 7: was in in the nineteen seventies, but I don't remember
Speaker 7: it that much. But they said New York City to
Speaker 7: them was a whole different place than it is now.
Speaker 7: The way they describe New York City in nineteen seventy two,
Speaker 7: when you were here was just a wonderful, positive place.
Speaker 7: So I went online and googled street scenes nineteen seventy
Speaker 7: two New York City. There's cars on fire, there's so
Speaker 7: you got.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: You got to sort of like this year.
Speaker 7: You got to see some obviously the better parts of
Speaker 7: the city.
Speaker 4: But the things that stick out today that I can
Speaker 4: remember is not so much of New York City. But
Speaker 4: my brother took us all on a trip from Detroit
Speaker 4: to San Francisco by car. Wow. He was studying to
Speaker 4: be a cardiac cardiologist, so he had a conference there
Speaker 4: while he was working in Detroit. So we all went
Speaker 4: with him, and he did a neat thing. He attached
Speaker 4: the movie camera to the driver's side reary mirror, so
Speaker 4: as he drove, it took the movie.
Speaker 6: All along the original GoPro that's hot.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So we went past Las Vegas and everything today
Speaker 4: and I see Las Vegas. I can tell, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: look at this.
Speaker 7: This is so different it's at now Las Vegas has
Speaker 7: gone through quite the transformation.
Speaker 4: New York looked like it was New York from eighteen nineties.
Speaker 7: It was a lot of New York is still here
Speaker 7: as a matter of fact. Down in the village where
Speaker 7: they have the rosen rows of Old Town homes built
Speaker 7: in the eighteen hundreds. When it snows, the snow seems
Speaker 7: to cover up everything that's modern day. And you just
Speaker 7: see what you see left over are these old town
Speaker 7: homes and you can imagine those exactly.
Speaker 6: That's exactly what the streets look like back in those days. Beeping.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm glad you asked that question. So my dad
Speaker 1: has a pump, has a diabetic pump for his insulince.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, do you need to call that? Nine
Speaker 6: one one is letting him know you look good.
Speaker 1: The beep is letting him know his sugar's high. And
Speaker 1: I know why his sugar's high, because I think he
Speaker 1: snuck off to Krispy Krean before he came here.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, did you or did you not? Yes?
Speaker 7: For you, Thank god you didn't have that hooked up
Speaker 7: to you back in the day and it detected meat
Speaker 7: in your system. Can you guysually have a meat a meatometer?
Speaker 7: Your son's been eating meat again? What do we do
Speaker 7: with this boy?
Speaker 4: But actually, my mom was a meat eater and my
Speaker 4: father was a vegetarian, and so it was always a
Speaker 4: conflict at home, and he had forbidden my mother from
Speaker 4: making any meat or any fish. She loved fish more
Speaker 4: than me, right, so one day she just couldn't handle it.
Speaker 1: Get closer to that microphone if you're yes.
Speaker 4: So when he was out of town, she had some
Speaker 4: shrimp brought into the house, cooked everything, and she was
Speaker 4: an excellent chef, but it leaves an odor. Unfortunately, he
Speaker 4: decided to come home early and while she was cooking
Speaker 4: all this, he was on.
Speaker 6: His way while it was in the pan, almost.
Speaker 4: Cooked, and she had me rushing around with all these
Speaker 4: deodorant smells and everything like that. My dad came, what
Speaker 4: the hell is all this deodren going on smelling something funny?
Speaker 4: I said, that's all you're smelling, right, Yeah, okay, no problem.
Speaker 6: And still, I mean never found out.
Speaker 4: I think he suspected, but he was too hesitant to ask.
Speaker 1: Well, outside of all things podcasting, I really just wanted
Speaker 1: you guys to say hi, I meet each other because
Speaker 1: my dad, my big brother.
Speaker 7: It's an honor to meet you, and thank you for
Speaker 7: the gift of Mayda because we're having way too much fun.
Speaker 6: How long have we worked together now?
Speaker 1: Six years?
Speaker 6: Six years.
Speaker 1: I have been here for six years, dad, Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: I feeling like yesterday I came to see you in Boston.
Speaker 7: And it was like just yesterday she arrived here as well.
Speaker 7: That's the magic of your daughter.
Speaker 1: Time warp.
Speaker 7: There's no concept of time or space.
Speaker 4: No, I didn't realize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know it's crazy, right, Okay, Well I do
Speaker 1: have to run, But I have a question.
Speaker 6: But I have a question. I have so many questions
Speaker 6: for you.
Speaker 7: My favorite one is are you proud of where she's
Speaker 7: living and what she's doing right now?
Speaker 4: We are very proud, especially because our contribution as parents
Speaker 4: has been very minimal. And the reason I say that
Speaker 4: we are not from the entertainment industry, so we know
Speaker 4: nothing about it. For this kid to have bucked the trends,
Speaker 4: taken on all those challenges, the only credit we would
Speaker 4: claim is we didn't stop her from doing anything, and that,
Speaker 4: to me, is entirely her credit. I knew she was
Speaker 4: cut out for something. I don't know what, because when
Speaker 4: I was coming home from work one day and she
Speaker 4: was about twelve years old maybe, and when we pulled
Speaker 4: into our development, there's a little area there with a
Speaker 4: concrete wall, and she was sitting on that wall grave
Speaker 4: and as I was going to stop and say hi,
Speaker 4: she just waved me on, so I went home. Then
Speaker 4: she came back. I said, what the heck were you
Speaker 4: doing there? That's my thinking spot, your thinking spot.
Speaker 1: I had a thinking spot.
Speaker 6: Do you have a thinking spot today?
Speaker 1: I do now, it's more like the couch in the
Speaker 1: bathroom hid my own space. But when you're a little kid,
Speaker 1: you just need to get out of the house and
Speaker 1: get away from everybody and think. And that was my
Speaker 1: thinking spot. He thinks. That's so funny, man.
Speaker 7: That brings up a lot of what it's like living
Speaker 7: with parents who have expectations for your education and your
Speaker 7: education foundation of education, and of course the different plateaus
Speaker 7: of excellence and success. And she always wonders if you
Speaker 7: guys really truly are proud of where she is.
Speaker 6: And what she's accomplishing. Oh yes, so he told you
Speaker 6: clear as day.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think that.
Speaker 4: I think she doesn't realize that. It's understandable. Parents from
Speaker 4: India and countries out there, they don't normally boast about
Speaker 4: their kids and family because it's considered a bad taste.
Speaker 4: So we grew up that way and to adjust to
Speaker 4: this new culture. It's tough for people, you know, so
Speaker 4: we just say, Okay, she's doing fine, no big deal.
Speaker 4: But she has done a great job. And even though
Speaker 4: I don't like comparisons, just to give an idea when
Speaker 4: she was when she was first born, I truly thought
Speaker 4: she was retarded.
Speaker 6: Yes, because at that age, how can you detect?
Speaker 4: Our older daughter was moving along very very well. This
Speaker 4: one came along and she was well behind in all
Speaker 4: the developmental phases from our first daughter. I do not
Speaker 4: remember in orders my wife remember her ever standing up
Speaker 4: and learning to walk. She was crawling at the age
Speaker 4: when our older daughter was walking. And now even when
Speaker 4: we took her to the daycare center, I told the
Speaker 4: lady there, I said, please keep an eye on her.
Speaker 4: I think she's retarded.
Speaker 1: He thought I was joking.
Speaker 6: Okay, how that worked out?
Speaker 4: He developed in quantumly. There's no incremental things. One day
Speaker 4: she's crawling, the next day she's walking. There's no learning
Speaker 4: stage there of falling and all that same thing. In school.
Speaker 4: I said, man, this kid's gonna be retarded. But then
Speaker 4: I started testing her and she goes way ahead of
Speaker 4: the crowd. There you go, I said, I want to
Speaker 4: leave her to her face.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yes, he tells everybody this. By the way,
Speaker 1: in that exact same phrasing, and he says he never
Speaker 1: remembers me saying a first word. I said nothing until
Speaker 1: it was way late, and he thought I was elementally challenged.
Speaker 1: And then I said a full sentence. It was I
Speaker 1: would like some milk so.
Speaker 7: Rather than I would like some milk please, so rather
Speaker 7: rather than her first word.
Speaker 6: It was her first thesis.
Speaker 4: Center one day and the lady said, mister Gandhi, you
Speaker 4: kept thinking your daughter was retarded. She was discussing Einstein's
Speaker 4: theory of relatives.
Speaker 7: Wow, your daughter is a theory on the marine montressory
Speaker 7: theory of precognitive learning.
Speaker 4: Exactly what.
Speaker 7: She's the opposite of developmentallystion is mainly to leave them alone.
Speaker 6: Good good thinking, please. But also I would think.
Speaker 7: That you know, Meida is more in line of this
Speaker 7: creative thinking side of the brain and content for a show.
Speaker 7: And your other, your sibil, your your sister, maybe she's
Speaker 7: more book smart more.
Speaker 4: No, they are very practice And I've got to say this,
Speaker 4: I was going to say that earlier. I look at
Speaker 4: both our kids and they're very different. Yes, our older daughter,
Speaker 4: before she takes a step, will analyze every possibility, m
Speaker 4: rolls and cons and then she moves this one, jumps
Speaker 4: in with both feet without thinking, and if it doesn't
Speaker 4: work out, declares victory and walks away.
Speaker 7: So maybe there's water in that pool, maybe not dive in.
Speaker 7: I must leave you now.
Speaker 1: It's the moment.
Speaker 6: It's a pleasure meeting you. Oh my god. I could
Speaker 6: go on and on for hours with.
Speaker 1: You, you and your daughter.
Speaker 4: She tells us you are a blessing too.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, she's candy coating that, sugarcoating.
Speaker 4: That that's one thing you won't get to there.
Speaker 6: This is true. I love you. I love you even
Speaker 6: more than element.
Speaker 1: Thanks for stopping.
Speaker 7: There's more podcast to go, more podcast.
Speaker 4: Thank you very much, take care by.
Speaker 1: Later. So okay, so these no, you're okay. These are
Speaker 1: actually some of the questions that people wanted to ask you.
Speaker 1: You know, what was it like growing up with me
Speaker 1: or what was it like raising me as a child.
Speaker 1: You've kind of answered that the best question. And I
Speaker 1: want to start here, what do you think I do
Speaker 1: for a living?
Speaker 4: You have exercise? First thing is you have known from
Speaker 4: childhood what you were, who you were, what your attributes
Speaker 4: are with ninety percent of humanity does not know.
Speaker 1: Oh that's nice.
Speaker 4: That led you into the profession of your choice, and
Speaker 4: when you use your talents into the right profession, your
Speaker 4: contributions are magnificent. Most people, i'm sorry to say, don't
Speaker 4: know that, myself included, and it's at a later age
Speaker 4: that we find out, ooh, I needed to go here. Luckily,
Speaker 4: in my case things worked out fine where I made
Speaker 4: the choices and moved on. But that early recognition of
Speaker 4: who you are has set the stage for where you are,
Speaker 4: and because of that, your contributions turn out to be outstanding.
Speaker 4: If only all of us knew that, we'd be fine.
Speaker 1: Well, that's very nice of you, thanks Dad.
Speaker 4: And I have to say that even with Priya, she
Speaker 4: was very decisive after graduating in journalism for her to
Speaker 4: completely change course do it all on her own. The
Speaker 4: first time I came to know she had changed her
Speaker 4: career was when she almost graduated from me. Yes, and
Speaker 4: that requires a lot of courage, and for her to
Speaker 4: take up a profession in which blood is the major
Speaker 4: factor and she hated. The sight of blood tells you
Speaker 4: how well she thinks. Two thinks, though, so we feel
Speaker 4: very fortunate to have two wonderful.
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that, but no, my question was, what
Speaker 1: do you think I do? What do you think my
Speaker 1: job is? What do you think I do for a living?
Speaker 4: I would say your job is number one to entertain
Speaker 4: the public at times of stress, okay, and number two
Speaker 4: to educate them through that process, okay, without coming across
Speaker 4: as if you're lecturing them.
Speaker 1: So if somebody were to ask you what is your
Speaker 1: daughter's job, what is your answer?
Speaker 4: I said, my daughter's job is to inform the people
Speaker 4: and make them laugh okay, and they are ready to cry.
Speaker 1: So you wouldn't say she's a co host of a
Speaker 1: radio show.
Speaker 4: I would not even I would assume they knew that.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: That's why, because the people asking me would be very
Speaker 4: much the ones who know you're on a show.
Speaker 1: Well, Prayer and I were talking the other day and
Speaker 1: we said, you know, I don't know if somebody asked
Speaker 1: mom and dad what do both of us do, if
Speaker 1: they would be able to say it in one sentence,
Speaker 1: what either of us do?
Speaker 4: But see, if I tell everybody you're a co host
Speaker 4: of a radio show, it is not as impressive, okay
Speaker 4: as telling them what you actually do.
Speaker 1: But you know I'm a co host of a radio show. Yes, okay, Yes,
Speaker 1: and what would you say, I'm bringing that.
Speaker 4: Kind of I would say inhibits. Like I told Elvis earlier,
Speaker 4: Indian parents is they don't like to boast about it. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: to boast about them, So it can be easily construed
Speaker 4: by people as if we're boasting. So careful about how
Speaker 4: we come across.
Speaker 1: I totally get that. And I actually don't think you know.
Speaker 1: I told you I don't want you guys to talk
Speaker 1: about my job. I just want you to talk about
Speaker 1: us as people whomever we are. Lot no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I would rather you not do it. We were just
Speaker 1: wondering if both of you, if you and mom actually
Speaker 1: knew what we did.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely. Mom actually thinks she is the co
Speaker 4: host with you on Elvis Durantro.
Speaker 1: Did she figure out how to get the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1: back on her phone?
Speaker 4: I don't know if she's figured out how that phone works.
Speaker 4: Did you?
Speaker 1: You don't have it on your phone either.
Speaker 3: Do you?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, I don't have that app?
Speaker 1: No, because you just got a new iPhone, right okay, and.
Speaker 4: I'm still trying to master Remember this is my first smartphone.
Speaker 1: I know you had a flip phone until a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, a flip phone. That is nuts. Do you know?
Speaker 4: I do not like the iPhone because to me, the
Speaker 4: purpose of a phone is communications. That's it. Okay, my
Speaker 4: flip phone, I could do everything I wanted except text messages.
Speaker 1: And now you're texting like a champion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but that did not connect people too.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's okay.
Speaker 4: It's a matter of time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll figure it out.
Speaker 4: And don't get me wrong. I love the technology. It
Speaker 4: is the misuse to which it can be put so
Speaker 4: that bothers me. Okay, so that's why the flip phone.
Speaker 4: You could not misuse it that way.
Speaker 1: Dad. I was so mad when you broke the first
Speaker 1: flip phone and you went to the store to get
Speaker 1: it fixed. I thought you were going to come out
Speaker 1: with a smartphone because I didn't know they had flip phones.
Speaker 1: And when you came home with a second flip phone, correct,
Speaker 1: I wanted to have that guy's ass. You said. He
Speaker 1: walked back in the back, found a box and was like, oh,
Speaker 1: we have another flip phone for you.
Speaker 4: I would have had a third flip phone had they
Speaker 4: not said that we don't repay these phones anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, thank god, because it's a relic. It
Speaker 1: might as well be on the Titan.
Speaker 4: Yes, so am I kind of relic too, Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: proud of it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Other questions that were submitted by listeners of our podcast.
Speaker 4: So I need to do the names. Who these listeners are?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 1: We don't have names I have.
Speaker 4: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I have Instagram handles, and I know you don't like
Speaker 1: Instagram and all that stuff either.
Speaker 4: The only gramm I know is telegram.
Speaker 1: Wait you know telegram?
Speaker 4: I mean sending a telegram.
Speaker 1: Oh, like the instant telegram, because you know Telegram is.
Speaker 4: An app now too, Oh I didn't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's it's like another social platform where you
Speaker 1: can talk to people and communicate.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, why do you need so many platforms
Speaker 4: when there are already so many there?
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people don't like certain censorship on
Speaker 1: certain platforms, so then they'll go somewhere else where they
Speaker 1: think they have more free speech.
Speaker 4: Some people don't like that choice. So you get to
Speaker 4: talk to everybody whatever you want, you.
Speaker 1: Like calling them? Yeah, okay, all right?
Speaker 5: What wait?
Speaker 4: Wait wait, I got to say something about what calling
Speaker 4: versus texting? Yeah, I have seen you and Priya sitting
Speaker 4: in the car are as my passengers and people from
Speaker 4: other cars looking inside to see what these monkeys are doing.
Speaker 4: You look like crazed, insane people banging away at the iPhone.
Speaker 1: Now, welcome.
Speaker 4: You would not have had that problem with the flip phone.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the club. Now you're going to do the
Speaker 1: same thing.
Speaker 4: Use it. I just use it for a couple of
Speaker 4: things communications meaning contacts and text. That's it. I yet
Speaker 4: to look at any of the apps. I asked the
Speaker 4: Apple guy, can you delete all these apps from the phone?
Speaker 4: And he looked at me like I was insane. He said, so,
Speaker 4: why are you buying an iPhone? Yes? I said, only
Speaker 4: for this.
Speaker 1: And you also put a case on your phone that
Speaker 1: protects it. But you can't use the camera.
Speaker 2: You have to take.
Speaker 6: The case off.
Speaker 1: You have to take the case off to use the camera.
Speaker 4: No, I don't need to do a case off.
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 4: What I do is it's for those who are in
Speaker 4: the know. I have an outer box case and the
Speaker 4: auto box case comes as a case with a holster
Speaker 4: feathers that it protect the camera. Yeah cover when you
Speaker 4: want to take a picture, all you do is take
Speaker 4: the whole stout.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You're going to take the case off.
Speaker 1: You have to take it out of that thing to
Speaker 1: take a picture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't take the case out of the phone.
Speaker 4: What I don't take the case off the phone.
Speaker 1: Oh you're saying, just the just the whole thing that
Speaker 1: clips on. But still you have to take it off
Speaker 1: to take a picture.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to take picture.
Speaker 1: Have you even taken a picture? Have you taken one?
Speaker 4: No? Okay, no?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 4: But I want to remind you of what George Carlin said.
Speaker 2: Yes. Please.
Speaker 4: For those who don't know, George Carlin was a great
Speaker 4: comedian okay in the nineties, and in one of his episodes,
Speaker 4: he said, what is this thing with the one hour
Speaker 4: development of photographs? You just saw the damn thing. Why
Speaker 4: do you have to take a picture of it? Now?
Speaker 4: That's how I outrate.
Speaker 1: That is not true. You love photos. You love looking
Speaker 1: at a picture, a baby picture of Pria and I
Speaker 1: or Pria's wedding pictures. You always want to see pictures,
Speaker 1: you say, send me photos. Whenever I take a trip,
Speaker 1: send me photos. You want to see them?
Speaker 4: Yeah, because now I don't travel anymore. Okay, try not
Speaker 4: to travel, so I get all my vacations for from
Speaker 4: watching videos. Okay, normally I watched those videos on the computer.
Speaker 4: So if you send me the photographs, I watch it
Speaker 4: on my computer so I can see. Okay, may I
Speaker 4: went to Mexico, and this is how Mexico looks. Okay.
Speaker 4: When I was traveling a lot, it didn't matter to me.
Speaker 4: I could go and see it for myself.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: But now because I'm not traveling, I've had so many
Speaker 4: vacations sitting at home. Okay, I've seen the entire Russian countryside.
Speaker 4: I've traveled the Trans Siberian Railway. Now I wants to
Speaker 4: travel in person, I don't. I've seen it all.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 4: I can give advice to people who want to go.
Speaker 1: Next listener submitted question, I don't think we've even gotten
Speaker 1: really any yet. What are you least proud of? When
Speaker 1: it comes to me, least least proud of.
Speaker 4: That I cut your hair and made you look like
Speaker 4: a boy.
Speaker 1: That's true. That was so bad. Do you remember how
Speaker 1: often people used to ask me if I was a
Speaker 1: boy or a girl.
Speaker 4: Wasn't I preparing you for today's world?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks, that's why now I want to have so
Speaker 1: much hair and all the hair all the time because
Speaker 1: you made me look like a little mushroom. Like every
Speaker 1: Indian kid, by the way, gets these horrible haircuts. So
Speaker 1: thanks a lot, but.
Speaker 4: Sorry, that's the one thing I'm not proud of it.
Speaker 1: But that's something that you're not proud of about you?
Speaker 1: What about me? What about me? Are you least proud of?
Speaker 1: And you're not gonna hurt my feelings.
Speaker 4: About you that I'm least proud of about me? I
Speaker 4: really cannot think of anything, okay nothing. I would probably
Speaker 4: say I'm most proud of you about many things, but
Speaker 4: I don't think anything i'm least proud of you. The
Speaker 4: most proud of you I am is you can associate
Speaker 4: with its comebacks, You can associate with wonderful people and
Speaker 4: not lose even the slightest knowledge of who you are.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you really didn't like some of my friends growing up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and time proved it to be true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 4: So that to me, I cannot think of a single
Speaker 4: thing that I'm not proud of about you in Priya.
Speaker 1: Wow, really, what a nice thing to say. Thanks Dad?
Speaker 4: Okay, And I would tell you right now.
Speaker 1: I know you would, I have no doubt. So I
Speaker 1: tell stories about you a mom on the air all
Speaker 1: the time, and people don't believe them. They think there's
Speaker 1: no way that that happened. And some of them make
Speaker 1: me laugh all the time. You guys make me laugh
Speaker 1: all the time. But specifically, you know, we live in
Speaker 1: this age where parents are just clapping for their kids
Speaker 1: all the time. You're amazing. Everything you do is the
Speaker 1: best thing that's ever been done. And people don't believe
Speaker 1: me that you showed up to our school to tell
Speaker 1: the teachers that they gave us too good of a grade.
Speaker 4: Yes, we did, absolutely we did. And you can see
Speaker 4: today what's happening in education. Ye right, to get a
Speaker 4: report card on your English language writing which was full
Speaker 4: of spelling errors, full of grammatical errors, and then to
Speaker 4: read that you got a bee is an insult to us.
Speaker 1: So you came to the school to tell the teacher
Speaker 1: that it is an insult that she gave a bee. Yea,
Speaker 1: and in fact that paper deserved a lower grade. Right,
Speaker 1: very shocking for that teacher.
Speaker 4: Nope, she was actually actually she was afraid when she
Speaker 4: met us. She said, what's the matter? Should have given
Speaker 4: them an A. And that really made Mangola and me
Speaker 4: live it.
Speaker 1: That's my mom.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we said, what are you talking about? This
Speaker 4: paper deserves an F. And she was breathing such a
Speaker 4: sigh of relief. She said, mister Gandhi, you have no
Speaker 4: idea how much grief I tolerate because parents come here
Speaker 4: demanding that their kids get an A. Yeah, and today
Speaker 4: we are seeing the result of that poor grading process everywhere.
Speaker 1: I bet, and now we are. I'm actually really glad
Speaker 1: that you guys did that. I say all the time,
Speaker 1: I am very happy almost everything that you and mom
Speaker 1: told me when I was younger, you will thank me
Speaker 1: for this when you grow up. You're right about I
Speaker 1: actually can't think of the things that you were not
Speaker 1: right about. So I'm just going to say you guys
Speaker 1: were right about a lot of it. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you guys were hard on us. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: that you guys didn't just clap all the time and
Speaker 1: you were honest with us, and that you made us
Speaker 1: do our own work. I'm very happy about that.
Speaker 4: I'm not proud of saying that you will thank us
Speaker 4: for it. I'm proud that you understood and appreciated it
Speaker 4: and took full advantage of it. That's what I'm proud about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys made us very self reliant and independent,
Speaker 1: and we figured out how to, you know, get around
Speaker 1: a lot of things.
Speaker 4: I was actually simply carrying on a tradition of my parents. Yeah,
Speaker 4: because when I was in school in India, I remember
Speaker 4: my father coming to school and berating the teacher for
Speaker 4: giving me a higher grade than I deserved.
Speaker 1: Oh, so you were just paying it forward.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, great.
Speaker 1: Are you having fun doing this?
Speaker 4: Enjoying it?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I'm also amazed by the technology. Amazing of the studio incredibly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's fun. It's a fun. Oh
Speaker 1: you want to see something cool? Hold on, So we
Speaker 1: have these screens in here and we can change them
Speaker 1: to be Oh, there's.
Speaker 4: Me baby, hot sauce.
Speaker 1: That's me sauce on the side. That's the name of
Speaker 1: the podcast, by the way, did you know that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, the name of this podcasting you do.
Speaker 1: I banned you and mom, Mom do you? Mom told
Speaker 1: me you guys listen sometimes together.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: What I find out is what she tells me. Yeah,
Speaker 4: you said, and not by watching.
Speaker 1: So the only reason I banned you guys, and by
Speaker 1: ban no, no, but this is you have to This
Speaker 1: is my reasoning. So everybody knows. I think Indian kids,
Speaker 1: first generation Indian kids, we all have double lives. We
Speaker 1: have our regular life and then we have the lives
Speaker 1: our parents think we lead. I think I've blurred those
Speaker 1: lines a lot more than most Indian kids have, because
Speaker 1: most of them just have completely double lives. Separate, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean again, we have the life that we live,
Speaker 1: and then we have the life our parents think we live. No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Okay, either way. The only reason I
Speaker 1: don't want you a mom to listen is because mom
Speaker 1: just has a lot of critiques. She likes to tell
Speaker 1: me the things I should and shouldn't say.
Speaker 4: Then I said, those are like that.
Speaker 2: I guess so.
Speaker 1: But I always say, Mom, I got this far doing
Speaker 1: it the way that I'm doing it. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to change it now she thinks I make fun of myself.
Speaker 4: Are off the podcast?
Speaker 1: No, No, we're recording.
Speaker 4: I mean we're recording.
Speaker 1: Why what were you going to say, Mom?
Speaker 4: Go ahead, No, I don't want to be killed.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: Fair enough. Yeah, okay, So back to the questions from listeners.
Speaker 1: Things that they want to know what was or are
Speaker 1: some of your favorite childhood memories of me of you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are quite a few. One of my earliest,
Speaker 4: not earliest, but most poignant memories was when Wiley came
Speaker 4: to the house for a party and he's a big guy. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I told him, you know, maya could fit into
Speaker 4: your shoe. And he started roaring with laughter and he said,
Speaker 4: keim running to I don't know what your dad said.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. Dad. If I we had a
Speaker 1: dollar for the amount of times people said do you
Speaker 1: know what your dad said? I would be so rich.
Speaker 1: I have no doubt that. After Elvis walked out of
Speaker 1: this room, he went and told everybody out there about
Speaker 1: our conversation. Old everybody.
Speaker 4: But the other other memory I have is when we're
Speaker 4: staying in that apartment.
Speaker 1: We're in South Florida in North.
Speaker 4: North Northtown apartments in Columbus, Ohio. Yeah. Yeah, you came
Speaker 4: one day and you were kind of crying, and you
Speaker 4: were you had come running home and I had looked
Speaker 4: out and you were running home yelling at some kids,
Speaker 4: saying wait till I grow up, I'll kill you. Oh,
Speaker 4: and then you came home. He had kind of been
Speaker 4: rough with you. He was word three times a side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was like twelve, and I think I was
Speaker 1: like five or six.
Speaker 4: If you looked like he was twenty one. Okay, But anyway,
Speaker 4: you came home and you asked me a question, not
Speaker 4: that day, but the next day. I think, so, Dad,
Speaker 4: what happens if someone if you throw a banana peel
Speaker 4: in front of somebody? And I said, boy, they'll slip
Speaker 4: and fall. Well, a few days went by and I
Speaker 4: was pulling in home from work and a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of your friends came running up to my car and said,
Speaker 4: mister Gandhi, mister Ghandhi, you know what made that is?
Speaker 4: And I said, no, she threw a banana peel in
Speaker 4: front of that bum and he slipped and hit his
Speaker 4: head on the concrete. And may that told him next
Speaker 4: time you'll be dead. Yeah, and the guy never fooled
Speaker 4: with you again. I said, I was proud you were
Speaker 4: not a Mahatma Gandhi descendant. You.
Speaker 1: I'm a descendant, not a disciple.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, exactly, So.
Speaker 1: That is actually another question. First of all, I think
Speaker 1: if I would have told that story and told people
Speaker 1: I threw a banana peel at someone and made him
Speaker 1: fall and crack his head. Nobody would have believed it.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad that you relate the stories. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because I think a lot of things just seem unbelievable,
Speaker 1: but if you hear them from another person, maybe more believable.
Speaker 1: So one of the other questions was what do you
Speaker 1: think Gandhi g would think of both of us, of
Speaker 1: you and of me. That's a tough one. I never
Speaker 1: know what to say because I didn't.
Speaker 4: Know what he would think. But I know one thing
Speaker 4: he would appreciate that we are both following what we want,
Speaker 4: not trying to be blind disciples of him like many
Speaker 4: of his other relatives are. I don't believe in derived glory.
Speaker 4: The glory has to be ours. We have to earn
Speaker 4: our own way. Just because I'm born as his grandson
Speaker 4: doesn't mean that or great grandson. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 4: I have to follow everything he says. Sure, like you said,
Speaker 4: we are his descendants, not his disciples. We are to
Speaker 4: think for ourselves because what was right for him may
Speaker 4: not be right today. But one of the things I
Speaker 4: disagree with him the most is his obsessive policy of
Speaker 4: non violence. Had he been under hitler, he would have
Speaker 4: been killed and not even heard from again. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 4: so that's one of the pink things. You have followed
Speaker 4: your own rules. You followed your own principles in life
Speaker 4: right from a young age, and I'm very proud of that.
Speaker 4: That's why I say, if we had very little to
Speaker 4: do with yours and Pria's advancement in their careers, but
Speaker 4: we are proud that you are our kids.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that at all. I think, even
Speaker 1: though you will always say you raised us with benign
Speaker 1: neglect and that's why we turned out the way that
Speaker 1: we did, I think you guys played such a key
Speaker 1: integral role in the way that we are in taking
Speaker 1: personal accountability for things and following through with things and
Speaker 1: not quitting. You guys didn't let us watch TV forever,
Speaker 1: and I'm really happy at this point in my life.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that you didn't.
Speaker 4: I'm thankful that you think that way. But you know,
Speaker 4: to expand a little bit, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
Speaker 4: both banned their kids from being near any screen device
Speaker 4: until they were twelve years old. That included television, that
Speaker 4: included iPads, that included anything that had a screen. They
Speaker 4: were smart enough to know what it can do to children. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a child learns best by doing, not by sitting on
Speaker 4: a sofa and playing with a machine that has nothing
Speaker 4: to do with the real world very little. And you're
Speaker 4: seeing the results there today. Sure, where kids can't write,
Speaker 4: they can't read, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: Sure, But I'm glad that you guys did those things.
Speaker 1: I really am. And I'm glad that you made us,
Speaker 1: even though I hated it at the time. You always
Speaker 1: made us do extra homework, especially in summertime. You didn't
Speaker 1: like that school just stopped for that amount of time,
Speaker 1: so you gave us your own homework and we had
Speaker 1: to write two to four essays every single day before
Speaker 1: we could go out and do anything. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what, Dad, I'm pretty good at Jeopardy now because
Speaker 1: of that. Because of that.
Speaker 4: And on the homework side and all. I have to
Speaker 4: give mom the credit because she did a lot more
Speaker 4: of that than I did. And when I think of
Speaker 4: how much time she spent with you guys, taking your
Speaker 4: gymnastics and all these things while not becoming a soccer
Speaker 4: mom speaks well for her too. Yeah, you have to
Speaker 4: give the devil the credit.
Speaker 1: Yes, you call him on the devil.
Speaker 4: Yes, because I'm senior DEVI.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, the two of you together a pair of Satans.
Speaker 1: One of the things I also really appreciate that you
Speaker 1: guys did for us was instill And I've said this
Speaker 1: on the show so many times and they say it too.
Speaker 1: Your lack of planning is not my emergency.
Speaker 4: That I believe in one I know.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, as a little kid, that's
Speaker 1: a pain in the ass, because how many kids are
Speaker 1: really planning? Kids don't plan their kids.
Speaker 4: However, you planned very well how to make our lives miserable? Oh?
Speaker 4: Did I very well? Plant out?
Speaker 1: Oh you're miserable. This is you being miserable. Yes, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you look so tortured. Oh my god, I hope you get.
Speaker 4: Just telling me that you're surprised that I look like
Speaker 4: a ninety year old guy. Yeah, I'm only seventies.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something, Dad, you don't have one wrinkle.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it's possible. There's not a wrinkle
Speaker 1: on that damn head. But you've given everyone else wrinkles,
Speaker 1: and I need to know how it happened.
Speaker 4: The wrinkles I gave you guys made you look better.
Speaker 1: How do you not have wrinkles? You laugh all day long,
Speaker 1: you laugh all the time, you have a good time.
Speaker 1: Not a wrinkle. I'm looking at you right now, no one.
Speaker 4: Well, that's because they're not looking well now.
Speaker 1: I can see.
Speaker 4: Please, I've got a wrinkled head.
Speaker 1: Please. Anyway, what is something that always makes you think
Speaker 1: of me?
Speaker 4: Think of you? Yeah? I have to keep coming back
Speaker 4: to the fact that, because it is a very very
Speaker 4: important thing that from the youngest days of your life
Speaker 4: you thought differently from most people. What I thought of
Speaker 4: you as being retarded was actually you being very different, Okay,
Speaker 4: And that difference today is blossomed into who you are.
Speaker 4: And I remember in school, wherever you went, you're a
Speaker 4: swarm of kids behind you, like mosquitoes after a guy
Speaker 4: who was sweating, And I found that amazing. You were
Speaker 4: not the epitome of a perfect kid at school, yet
Speaker 4: to have this huge crowd behind you was amazing to me.
Speaker 4: Prior took a brunt of our learning experience, as every
Speaker 4: older kid will tell you, Yeah, they're the brunt of
Speaker 4: their parents' learning experiences. And in spite of that brunt,
Speaker 4: even she turned out beautifully. Yeah, We're very proud of
Speaker 4: both of you.
Speaker 1: She's awesome. I will say I would like to apologize
Speaker 1: to you, a mom, because, as you said in a
Speaker 1: very nice way, I was not necessarily the perfect kid
Speaker 1: when it came to school. You guys spent a lot
Speaker 1: of times coming in and talking to principals or teachers
Speaker 1: or whomever because I was a little naughty, which is
Speaker 1: actually one of the other questions. What were some of
Speaker 1: the mischievous or naughty things that you can remember about
Speaker 1: me growing up?
Speaker 4: Mischievous things? Uh, you know it's funny. Mom and I
Speaker 4: were talking a few weeks ago about you guys and
Speaker 4: how kids were getting into all this kind of trouble.
Speaker 4: We know people whose kids got into trouble of a
Speaker 4: very terrible kind, like what drugs, alcohol? Some of them
Speaker 4: are into prostitution.
Speaker 1: What you guys have friends who have hookers for kids?
Speaker 4: Not when they were young. At that age, we didn't
Speaker 4: think they were prostitutes. But I should say lose people
Speaker 4: and I won't name any names.
Speaker 2: Hello, you get beep talking.
Speaker 1: I invited Diamond and in case she had one question
Speaker 1: for you, Oh yeah, yeah, but no, no, no, finish what
Speaker 1: you're saying. So you mom, were talking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I can remember some of the unfortunate things,
Speaker 4: especially when we moved Florida and you told me you
Speaker 4: wanted some money from your savings account that you had
Speaker 4: built up very well to help out two guys who
Speaker 4: had been unfortunately arrested, and to give them the bail money. Yep.
Speaker 4: And I remember telling you may that get ready to
Speaker 4: lose your money and your friends yep. And you said no, no, no, no,
Speaker 4: that will never happen. And it showed yep. But what's
Speaker 4: more important is not that you defied me, but that
Speaker 4: you learned from it. That's what life's sold.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll never build anyone out of jail again. Want and done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just kidding at you. To bail people out
Speaker 4: of jail, you need to revise your friends.
Speaker 1: Happens that it happened.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 4: That I remember. There were unfortunate incidences, but nothing that
Speaker 4: I could say made us regret.
Speaker 1: You have no regrets, none for you guys. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you this. I've said this to Diamond before too.
Speaker 1: Most of the people that I know now who have kids,
Speaker 1: including my friends, they're like all of my kids, and
Speaker 1: they're cool. But if I could do it again, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't no.
Speaker 4: No, no. If the only regret I have is the
Speaker 4: way I was and I would do things differently today,
Speaker 4: what would I do differently? I was tough with you guys, tyrant,
Speaker 4: but in some ways I was brutal. Yes, now, in
Speaker 4: India that would not have been considered out of the
Speaker 4: way at all.
Speaker 1: I tell them all the time, Indian parents are crazy breed.
Speaker 4: I believe the love is very different. And I'm sorry
Speaker 4: to say, I don't intend to offend any Americans, but
Speaker 4: to just put a little placard out there saying we
Speaker 4: love our kids drove slowly doesn't cut it. If you
Speaker 4: really love your kids, you should be involved in them
Speaker 4: all the time, involved with them in every aspect of
Speaker 4: their lives, without trying to dictate. I never saw that
Speaker 4: in many American parents, and that's why we today have
Speaker 4: the problem. And I'm sorry. I don't mean to be
Speaker 4: a lecturing person. Okay, okay, we can worry for this country.
Speaker 4: I worry about the future of the youngsters. And you
Speaker 4: cannot produce youngsters if you don't teach them adversity. And
Speaker 4: the whole attempt prize right now is to avoid adversity
Speaker 4: with the kids. The way I grew up. The best
Speaker 4: friend you could have was someone who told you what
Speaker 4: you needed to know, not what you wanted to hear.
Speaker 4: The best friend you can have is an honest critic.
Speaker 4: And unfortunately, in our country today, we can't handle criticism
Speaker 4: and that's why we have so many problems.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure we'll get some criticism on this podcast.
Speaker 1: I can't wait, Diamond, I asked you earlier. So, Diamond, Dad, Diamond, Diamond, Dad,
Speaker 1: you met her downstairs.
Speaker 2: She walked you up.
Speaker 1: I don't know how I would do a lot of
Speaker 1: things without her, specifically this podcast. That beeping, Diamond just
Speaker 1: wondered what it was. It's a blood monitor for sugar. Yes,
Speaker 1: someone went to krispy Kreme.
Speaker 2: You went to Krispy Kreme. Yes, yes, okay.
Speaker 4: There are times my legs are not under my control,
Speaker 4: just like my car is not.
Speaker 1: Oh that's true.
Speaker 4: Driving by a Krispy Kream. The steering will suddenly turns.
Speaker 4: Cannot control it.
Speaker 1: That, you know what, Dad, That also happens when you're
Speaker 1: not driving by Krispy Kreme and you just hit curbs
Speaker 1: only He said, okay, so I feel like you'll appreciate
Speaker 1: this time, and then you can ask your question or
Speaker 1: if you have a question. So my dad, my sister
Speaker 1: and I tell my mom and dad all the time,
Speaker 1: like we just want to hire you guys a driver, Like,
Speaker 1: let's just get you guys a driver. Because he says,
Speaker 1: he says this, I don't say this. I've been in
Speaker 1: the car and I experienced it. He says, he drives
Speaker 1: by sound. He doesn't wear his hearing aids half the
Speaker 1: time because he thinks that people are going to tap
Speaker 1: into them, so he doesn't want to wear them. So
Speaker 1: he doesn't have great vision. And he says he drives
Speaker 1: my sound, but he won't wear his hearing aids. So
Speaker 1: that's the type of driver we're dealing with over here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just go by the sound. But I hear
Speaker 4: somebody going, ah, somebody, Okay.
Speaker 2: This is my father.
Speaker 1: A couple curves have met their maker from things hit.
Speaker 4: The cars have kept going, and.
Speaker 1: That is the important part. Yeah, I won't bring up
Speaker 1: all of the things. But Diamond, did you have any
Speaker 1: questions for my dad?
Speaker 2: I just want to know what she was like as
Speaker 2: a child. Oh, there you go.
Speaker 4: She was like as a child.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what was she like as a child?
Speaker 4: Well, if you look closely. There are two stubs of
Speaker 4: horns on her head.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, one two.
Speaker 4: Stubs of horns, and I had to chop them off.
Speaker 4: Luckily they've stopped growing again.
Speaker 1: And you're saying I was a Satanic child. Satanic Satanic
Speaker 1: child as.
Speaker 4: A child, she was truly, Seriously, I was just telling
Speaker 4: her that earlier, and I'm afraid I'm repeating myself here.
Speaker 4: She was a cut from a different cloth. She had
Speaker 4: a different view. People would look at something, she would
Speaker 4: look at it and have a completely different perspective on it.
Speaker 4: So after a while I realized it's best to leave
Speaker 4: her alone because that perspective will grow into a nice person.
Speaker 4: At the end of it all.
Speaker 2: You think she's a nice person, she's a competent person.
Speaker 1: Wow, dad, Well an honest critic, we have one here.
Speaker 4: Now. We know we love her that I will say, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I never doubt that you love me.
Speaker 4: I will tell you that we butt heads on many things.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, we go at it.
Speaker 4: But that's what it's all about. Yeah, if two people
Speaker 4: think the same way all the time, only one is
Speaker 4: doing the thinking. Okay, it's an old problem. So we
Speaker 4: seldom agree on manythings. So she was always a different
Speaker 4: kid from the beginning. And you will notice that people
Speaker 4: who tend to think differently are not cut out for
Speaker 4: school because school school regiments you. H Okay, and I
Speaker 4: don't mean to put Mesa in the same class because
Speaker 4: I think she does belong there. But Albert Einstein kicked
Speaker 4: out of school. It was totally never amount to anything.
Speaker 4: Thomas Edison, Steve Jobs in most recent times.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can put me in that class.
Speaker 4: I'm go on, that's a parent who did it, but
Speaker 4: I do. Steve Jobs, if you want, go back and
Speaker 4: watch his his commencement speech. I think it was the
Speaker 4: University of San Diego somewhere. He talks precisely about that originality. See,
Speaker 4: a creative person sees possibilities where others cannot. So you
Speaker 4: and I might see, see this little technology piece and
Speaker 4: sow the buttons here, This switch is there, wonderful. Steve
Speaker 4: Jobs would look at it and say, how can I
Speaker 4: make it smaller? So that's why creativity is so important. Now,
Speaker 4: where creativity has a liability is many creative people cannot
Speaker 4: determine which creative idea is really workable and which is not.
Speaker 4: That's where you need us ordinary people us, meaning me,
Speaker 4: not you.
Speaker 2: No, I think we're ordinary.
Speaker 4: That's why we need to tell them, Hey, there's bullshit.
Speaker 4: There's not going to work. If a creative person doesn't
Speaker 4: have that kind of person with them, they often end
Speaker 4: up going way off the rails.
Speaker 1: Oh thank god I had all of you.
Speaker 4: That you need.
Speaker 3: I have two questions. I don't know which one you did.
Speaker 3: You did kind of the first one. Did you give
Speaker 3: her spankings as a child?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, see, this is what I'm talking about. Did you
Speaker 3: put her over the lap and spank her? Or did
Speaker 3: you grab the hand and let her try to run
Speaker 3: away and spank? Which one combinations? She seems like a
Speaker 3: kid who needed and asked. I'm just saying, oh, I'm
Speaker 3: so sorry to somebody's dad.
Speaker 2: I just thought about that. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Did you even hear what she said? Did you even
Speaker 1: hear what she said? Yeah, that's okay, you're okay, okay,
Speaker 1: speaking of that.
Speaker 2: What's your favorite curse word?
Speaker 4: My favorite? Yeah? I don't even think.
Speaker 1: Of Let me tell you what. This is a plot
Speaker 1: to us, because I will say this, I don't ever
Speaker 1: really hear my dad cursing. He they grew up speaking
Speaker 1: like the English that they learned is kind of British English.
Speaker 1: So he says bloody, like that's the worst thing that
Speaker 1: I've heard him say, is like this bloody idiot. You know,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't really hear you curse that
Speaker 1: often publicly. I don't hear you curse privately. You curse
Speaker 1: in your head.
Speaker 4: No, I don't say that.
Speaker 1: You don't say that. Okay, use it on. There's some
Speaker 1: interesting stuff about you. He really doesn't curse. He'll say,
Speaker 1: he'll say things that are like it should have been
Speaker 1: a curse word, but instead like George Carlin, Yes, he
Speaker 1: loves a good comedy show. I never really saw him
Speaker 1: like fawning over women or even acting like, you know,
Speaker 1: like I do. I always say he looks at food
Speaker 1: the way I think most men look at women, like
Speaker 1: like if a nice dosa walks by, he's like, what
Speaker 1: was that?
Speaker 4: You know. Muslims they believe in going to heaven and
Speaker 4: they get seventy two virgins. Yes, that's their philosophy. I
Speaker 4: formerly believe when I go to heaven, I have seventy
Speaker 4: two waitress waitress coming. It's all.
Speaker 1: He wants it all. He cares about the only two
Speaker 1: people I ever even heard him say, were pretty? Were
Speaker 1: Aliyah and Whitney Houston? You would if I showed you
Speaker 1: her picture, you recognize her. She was a singer. She
Speaker 1: died in like the very early two thousands. But you
Speaker 1: were walking by one day and you saw her in
Speaker 1: a music video and you said, huh was she might
Speaker 1: have been on a horse at some point. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was a music video. It was the Rock the
Speaker 1: Boat music video.
Speaker 4: It was the Rock the Boat. I know.
Speaker 1: You just never say it. He doesn't care about anything.
Speaker 4: It's like because you know, no, No, that's not why
Speaker 4: I think looks are fleeting. You know, so many of
Speaker 4: I have seen so many times the most beautiful women
Speaker 4: ending up looking the ugliest old women. At the other
Speaker 4: way around too. I have seen in my school in
Speaker 4: Indiana really good looking guys whose parents were ugliest. Sin.
Speaker 4: That's how mother nature works. Nobody knows how it works,
Speaker 4: you know. So to me, looks are a passing glory.
Speaker 4: You know. See, if I'm to marry somebody and I
Speaker 4: marry them just for the looks and nothing else matches,
Speaker 4: imagine how miserable they're going to be. You know.
Speaker 1: Okay, I have one last question, but you have to
Speaker 1: speak into the microphone.
Speaker 4: Okay, can you hear me? Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can. I can hear you the whole time,
Speaker 1: but it's not yeah yeah, all right. So everybody here
Speaker 1: knows I don't want to get married. They would like
Speaker 1: to know how you feel about that.
Speaker 4: Well, I've passed your word on to a lot of people,
Speaker 4: have you, and they've adopted your philosophy that marriage is
Speaker 4: a scam by the government to take your money, but
Speaker 4: the other person and them are non lunatic asylum.
Speaker 1: So how do you feel about it? By the way,
Speaker 1: the Diamond calls me allatic all the time.
Speaker 2: I think she's a lunatic for sure.
Speaker 1: Excellent. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 4: The choice is yours and we have I certainly have
Speaker 4: no problem with.
Speaker 2: It, all right.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's a good note to end on.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you wanted to say you wanted to add?
Speaker 4: The only thing I want to add is I hope
Speaker 4: those who are viewing this podcast view it with the
Speaker 4: same sense of bluntness and honesty that we've both engaged in.
Speaker 4: And if you don't, my apologies, but I hope you
Speaker 4: had a good time.
Speaker 1: That was nice. Thanks Dad for joining me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me on any time, Diamond for
Speaker 4: your questions.
Speaker 5: All right, by, goodbye, and there we go.
Speaker 1: That is my father, Ladies and gentlemen. When they say
Speaker 1: the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, I beg
Speaker 1: to differ. I think I rolled down a hill. But
Speaker 1: other people are like, oh my god, you guys are
Speaker 1: just alike. No, I wouldn't use these words.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: I think you guys are just to like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: we look alike.
Speaker 1: That's terrifying. Let me tell you rules.
Speaker 2: Stop. I just want to cuddle the both of you.
Speaker 1: Oh, you got a meetings and you want Let's see,
Speaker 1: we are way past the limit of episodes that I
Speaker 1: thought we were ever gonna do for like this year.
Speaker 1: I think I'm supposed to do thirty maybe or thirty
Speaker 1: five or something like that, and we're like, way, way
Speaker 1: way past it. So should I just stop? Should keep going?
Speaker 1: Do I go out on a high note or a
Speaker 1: low note with this podcast?
Speaker 2: I think you should keep going? Oh okay, yeah, keep rolling.
Speaker 1: I think I've told before our highest rated episodes are
Speaker 1: when we just kind of shoot the shit together, either
Speaker 1: you and me, you me and Andrew, You me Andrew and Josh,
Speaker 1: those are the ones that people seem to like the best.
Speaker 1: And I think maybe for the next episode we'll do
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, I love it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, Okay, if people want to find you, where
Speaker 1: do they find you?
Speaker 2: Diamond at Diamond Sincere on Instagram and I am at.
Speaker 1: Baby Hot Sauce on Instagram. And if you're trying to
Speaker 1: find my dad, you never will because he doesn't subscribe
Speaker 1: to any type of social media because he thinks the
Speaker 1: government's watching him. I'm not kidding real quick. He he.
Speaker 4: Did.
Speaker 1: He stay in thatdicone. He won't use his hearing aids
Speaker 1: even though he can't hear shit, because he thinks that
Speaker 1: the government's going to tap into his hearing aids and
Speaker 1: like safing.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I'm like, it's better than you hear nothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh love of God.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. I love this man.
Speaker 1: He's great. Love him too. He's just a bit of
Speaker 1: a liability alright, until next time, say bye bye.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.