Pod Insights The Romesh Ranganathan Show Shanthi on Being an Immigrant in the 70s & Superstitions About this episode Who would direct Shanthi's documentary about her life?
Romesh and Shanthi are back in the studio, discussing Miriam Margolyes, documentaries and whether Shanthi would make her own all about arriving in the UK in 1975 to navigating culture shock, kindness from strangers, and the realities of starting over.
They also tackle your listener dilemmas with some sound advice, from issues dealing with mother-in-laws, parenting and superstitions. And for once Rom and Shanthi agree!
Plus: We ask the team who is better to work with Karl Pilkington or Romesh?
A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Platform.
00:00 Intro
01:43 Shanthi on Miriam Margolyes
02:42 Would Shanthi make a documentary?
04:12 Shanthi on coming to the UK
08:43 Answering your dilemmas
10:09 Working with Romesh vs Karl Pilkington
10:42 Dilemmas continued
16:55 Ranganathan supersitions
23:06 Outro
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0:00 Speaker 00 Why are you shaking darling?
0:01 Speaker 01 Pardon?
0:02 Speaker 00 Shaking your legs.
0:03 Speaker 01 I've had this for a few months now, is it, is it bad?
0:05 Speaker 00 Denise does that as well.
0:06 Speaker 01 Yeah.
0:07 Speaker 00 Don't do that.
0:08 Speaker 02 It sort of looks like you're masturbating.
0:10 Speaker 01 Is it?
0:10 Speaker 00 Yeah.
0:11 Speaker 01 Is that how you masturbate, outside your trousers?
0:12 Speaker 02 Two hands.
0:13 Speaker 01 During a podcast?
0:16 Speaker 01 That's how I do it. I cannot get off unless I'm broadcasting.
0:21 Speaker 03 Now it all makes sense.
0:23 Speaker 01 Hello fuck monkeys and welcome to the Thursday edition of the Romesh Ranga motherfucking Nathan show.
0:32 Speaker 01 I'm here with a woman that needs no introduction.
0:36 Speaker 01 Every Thursday.
0:40 Speaker 00 Do I, I'm supposed to say something?
0:42 Speaker 02 That was very good.
0:46 Speaker 01 The team are also here, a group of people I've grown to tolerate in the way that you tolerate a noise from your boiler. You don't know what it is, you don't want to look at it, but you'd love to beat the fuck out of it. Every Thursday, we dissect the Monday celebrity episode and we become sort of like an agony aunt and uncle to the TRRS, the TRRS community. It doesn't work, does it?
1:05 Speaker 00 No.
1:06 Speaker 01 We, should we call it the, should we call it the truss?
1:09 Speaker 02 The truss.
1:09 Speaker 01 The truss. Every Thursday, dissect the Monday celebrity episode and we become like a sort of agony aunt and uncle to the truss community.
1:19 Speaker 01 Feels a bit JK Rowling.
1:20 Speaker 03 Sounds like a charity.
1:23 Speaker 01 With possibly mixed success, but we hope you get a bit of entertainment. Am I right mum?
1:27 Speaker 00 Of course you are.
1:39 Speaker 00 With me, Shanthi.
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2:42 Speaker 01 On Monday, we had the one and only Miriam Margolyes on the show, Mum. Do you know Miriam Margolyes?
2:47 Speaker 00 Of course, I do.
2:48 Speaker 01 Do you?
2:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
2:50 Speaker 01 What does she look like?
2:51 Speaker 00 I can't explain.
2:52 Speaker 01 You can't explain? Here's a picture of her. I think you'll recognize her when you see the picture.
2:55 Speaker 00 Yeah.
2:56 Speaker 01 The picture's not on my face, over there.
2:59 Speaker 00 Whatever she said, I remember her jokes and things. I like it.
3:04 Speaker 01 You like it?
3:05 Speaker 00 Some of them, yeah.
3:06 Speaker 01 Okay. She was promoting a new documentary made by a filmmaker she ended up becoming really good friends with. It's a bit like us, isn't it, Ben?
3:13 Speaker 02 I don't know, I feel like this is a trap.
3:16 Speaker 01 It's not a trap.
3:17 Speaker 00 Are we friends, Mum?
3:18 Speaker 01 Yeah, that's what I'm saying, yeah. We've become good friends.
3:21 Speaker 00 You're both of you, yeah.
3:23 Speaker 02 We don't spend, I mean, we don't do a lot of socializing, really, but we are friends.
3:28 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
3:29 Speaker 02 We speak a lot, texts and stuff.
3:31 Speaker 01 Well, yeah, because we've got this stuff that you want to run by me, we've got a new idea that you need me to post, even though I don't want to, to sort of shoulder the burden financially of this company.
3:39 Speaker 02 Anyway, Miriam Margolyes?
3:40 Speaker 01 Anyway, Miriam Margolyes. Mum, if you were to make a documentary and have a director follow you around, who do you think you'd choose? And what would the documentary be about?
3:47 Speaker 00 About my life. About my life.
3:51 Speaker 01 Okay. What would you call it? Narcissism on screen. So you do a documentary about your life, yeah, go on.
3:57 Speaker 00 So many interesting things happen in my life.
4:01 Speaker 01 Which aspect do you think you'd focus on?
4:04 Speaker 00 Focus on the time I came here.
4:07 Speaker 01 Nice. An immigrant story? That's good.
4:10 Speaker 00 Yeah. I enjoyed life with my husband, thoroughly. I thought he's the king. I mean, I respected him and I put him on the throne. Then he threw everything away. But whatever has happened, forget that, concentrate and the motivation, you could become better and if you don't sit there and sulk.
4:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, so you don't wallow in it.
4:37 Speaker 00 Yeah, yeah, just forget it. But once in a way, I do.
4:40 Speaker 01 Droll iron under it. Don't be somebody that on a podcast fifteen years later, you're still banging on about it. Am I right?
4:45 Speaker 00 Banging on about is interesting. Some, some, the people should know what I went through. Some people say I get everything very easy. It's not.
4:54 Speaker 01 Who says that? You, you, you have got this, you've got this thing that you think that everybody's against you. It's not. You're quite paranoid.
5:02 Speaker 00 Yeah, I am. I am paranoid. Yeah.
5:04 Speaker 01 Yeah, you're a bit like, you know, you think that there are people saying things about you, but there aren't.
5:10 Speaker 00 Um, okay.
5:11 Speaker 02 Can I ask you a question?
5:13 Speaker 01 I'd love you to. Don't you put your hand up.
5:14 Speaker 02 Okay. Um, when you, what was it like? Do you remember when you first arrived here?
5:18 Speaker 00 Second of February. There you are.
5:21 Speaker 01 That's my birthday.
5:22 Speaker 00 Oh, happy birthday.
5:23 Speaker 01 Oh, cool. Let's make a note of that. Can we put a little caption?
5:26 Speaker 00 Nineteen seventy five, I arrived in England.
5:29 Speaker 02 What was your first, when you arrived at Crawley, what was your first impression?
5:33 Speaker 00 Crawley, uh, I, we walked and we, we were living in a council. Ranga was, uh.
5:40 Speaker 01 Got given that straight away.
5:41 Speaker 00 Key, key worker.
5:46 Speaker 01 What?
5:46 Speaker 00 What do you mean?
5:47 Speaker 01 What, what do you mean? I'm joking. I was just making a joke. Sorry. Go on.
5:52 Speaker 00 Give that straight away, you said? Yeah.
5:55 Speaker 01 Yeah.
5:56 Speaker 00 That's what I was asking. What does it mean?
5:58 Speaker 01 It means you were given a council house flat, flat straight away, right?
6:01 Speaker 00 Straight away because that was a key worker and.
6:03 Speaker 01 Yeah, yeah. Key worker.
6:05 Speaker 00 Yeah, he worked everywhere. Yeah. So, and we were living and we were walking, uh, near the one of the church.
6:13 Speaker 00 The big letter they have written. No issues.
6:17 Speaker 01 Really? No Asians, yeah.
6:19 Speaker 00 No, the church is still there, no Asians. I was so worried, you know, I asked Ranga, what's going to happen? But where we live, it's a really nice.
6:28 Speaker 01 How do you, do you know what the tone of that sign was? Like, cause.
6:32 Speaker 00 Don't come to that church.
6:33 Speaker 01 Okay, but that's one interpretation. One interpretation could be, what a shame, we've got no Asians. So, and it's actually encouraging Asians to walk in, do you know what I mean?
6:43 Speaker 00 Yeah, possible.
6:43 Speaker 02 Very positive person.
6:44 Speaker 01 Yeah, I mean, it depends on the font. If it's Comic Sans, I would say that's sort of welcoming.
6:49 Speaker 00 Yeah.
6:50 Speaker 01 No Asians. Like, you're reading it like, no Asians, but I see it as, no Asians.
6:56 Speaker 00 Okay, that's fine.
6:57 Speaker 01 Yeah, so maybe you should go in and go, fuck, yes.
7:00 Speaker 00 Okay.
7:00 Speaker 01 They could, we can finally take the no off. Just put Asians.
7:08 Speaker 00 Okay, whatever you say, my son, you are the comedian, so.
7:14 Speaker 01 Sorry. So they really, sorry, that's actually quite sho- I made a joke about something quite shocking. So it's really a sign saying no Asians?
7:20 Speaker 00 No Asians. Uh, but then one incident happened, uh, we were started living in there and, um.
7:27 Speaker 01 In the church.
7:28 Speaker 00 I love to cook for my husband, so he was fast asleep and I thought I'd go and get some chicken and leeks and everything and cook.
7:37 Speaker 01 What were you making?
7:38 Speaker 00 Those days, chick, what do you cook with the chicken?
7:49 Speaker 01 Oh, sorry, God.
7:51 Speaker 00 Then, no, you know, nineteen seventy, they used to wear the platform shoes, platform and the bell bottom.
7:57 Speaker 01 Yeah.
7:58 Speaker 00 So I was wearing that.
7:59 Speaker 01 Hmm.
8:00 Speaker 00 With the bag, I fell down on my face and there was a guy, young guy, he pooped, stopped the car, came running towards me and lit me up. And, you know, did all these to me and said, are you okay? Do you want to go to the hospital? Nothing broken. Then I was lying there, turn on, the frozen chicken was rolling on the road.
8:24 Speaker 00 He ran behind it, got the chicken, came back home, my body was aching, but I pretended that I was fine.
8:32 Speaker 01 Yeah.
8:33 Speaker 00 He was fast asleep, ten o'clock, snoring away, and I had to throw the kitchen, and I wanted to be a good wife, I did everything.
8:41 Speaker 01 Hmm.
8:41 Speaker 00 So twenty years it lasted, he ate my food and enjoyed, after that Playboy hit him.
8:50 Speaker 02 So that was your first impression?
8:51 Speaker 00 Yeah.
8:52 Speaker 02 So that's quite a good.
8:53 Speaker 03 He would be a good director for your documentary.
8:57 Speaker 01 Do we know any directors that would make a good documentary?
9:01 Speaker 02 Probably worth choosing someone that you've got, got a bit of an established relationship with, I guess, just adjusting the lens.
9:08 Speaker 00 I'll let you choose.
9:09 Speaker 01 No, but think about, who would you, who'd be the director?
9:12 Speaker 02 You want someone you'd trust, I guess.
9:14 Speaker 00 I want three of them.
9:17 Speaker 01 Yeah.
9:17 Speaker 00 But they don't direct, what do you mean? You are a director. You should not direct anything. Yeah, you direct these and so many, and they will help you.
9:28 Speaker 01 I think you're right, mum, they're all equally qualified. Ben, mum's worked with you loads, and the main takeaway from that is he needs two people to help.
9:41 Speaker 01 What a compliment.
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10:43 Speaker 01 Okay, uh, every week we hear from listeners and viewers with their dilemmas and or problems, and we try and help you, and we appreciate all of your messages, don't we, Mum?
10:53 Speaker 02 Of course, of course.
10:54 Speaker 01 Uh, you can always text or WhatsApp on 07731623355. What do you think of where I read the number there?
11:03 Speaker 02 It's fine, it's just...
11:04 Speaker 01 07731623355. What about that one?
11:10 Speaker 02 I just think get through the number.
11:11 Speaker 01 0773162355. Oh, fuck, I fucked it. Or you can email [email protected] . Uh, first up, we've got a voice note from Jess from Yorkshire. Apparently, is this true, that you, Jess sent a text, but you asked for a voice note because I think, I think you'd made it up?
11:30 Speaker 02 Yes, that is true.
11:31 Speaker 01 Okay, let's have a listen.
11:32 Speaker 07 Hi, Romesh, Shanthi and the crew. I'm Jess from Yorkshire and I love listening to the podcast.
11:37 Speaker 01 Great.
11:37 Speaker 07 This is actually a question for Ben, if you don't mind. Your voice sounded really familiar and I've realised that I recognised it from your work with the legendary Karl Pilkington. So my question for you is, what is Romesh like to work with compared to Karl? Thanks.
11:52 Speaker 02 How did that get in there?
11:55 Speaker 01 This is fucking mental. This is fucking mental. Okay, do you want to come and answer the question?
12:07 Speaker 02 No, no, no, I'm fine here.
12:08 Speaker 01 All right, go on. Okay, let's hear the answer.
12:10 Speaker 02 Um, uh, working with both of them has been the privilege of my career.
12:17 Speaker 02 That's it.
12:17 Speaker 01 That's the end.
12:18 Speaker 02 Well, no, it's been, well, I, it's been great.
12:20 Speaker 01 Let's be absolutely honest, Carl's better.
12:23 Speaker 02 I've really enjoyed working with both of you and you're both great.
12:26 Speaker 00 God has.
12:27 Speaker 01 But Carl Pilkington is.
12:28 Speaker 00 Directed him to meet you.
12:30 Speaker 01 Yeah.
12:30 Speaker 00 And me.
12:31 Speaker 01 Yeah, but Carl Pilkington, I'd say is like, he's got like a, there's something else. He's like got a, he's got like, the universe is giving him kind of a genius thing.
12:39 Speaker 02 We've got a question.
12:40 Speaker 01 Okay, let's go for another question. This is from Jordy.
12:44 Speaker 08 Hi, Romesh and Shanthi. And first of all, I just need to say, Shanthi, you are absolutely hilarious. You crack me up. The way you tell stories and some of the insanely hilarious stuff you come out with, honestly, it kills me. I laugh so much when I'm walking around with my headphones in. People think I'm just having a full on M T B, so.
13:03 Speaker 01 M T B.
13:04 Speaker 08 Thank you, I suppose. Um, right, so I have a little dilemma and I'm hoping you could both help me out. I'm a vegan and my boyfriend is a meat eater. However, he does eat vegetarian in the house. When we moved in, the oven was brand new, so I wanted to keep it meat free. No meat's ever been cooked in that oven. It's basically the virgin area of ovens. We also have a one year old little boy and we compromised on a vegetarian diet when we come to wean in him. He can make his own choices when he's old enough to understand and do a little money. And the issue I've got is my mother in law, who I do love dearly, but she's very old school. And she's already started making comments like, oh, you can have chicken nuggets at Nana's house.
13:48 Speaker 08 And, oh, what about the little ham sandwich? So far, I've just sort of laughed these comments off and let it go. But the problem is she does have form. She often gives my vegetarian sister in law beef gravy. And she once gave me what she claimed was a vegan cheese and onion pasty. And I can say with absolute certainty, it was as vegan as a sirloin steak. So my question is, how do I politely say, please don't feed my child chicken nuggets secretly behind my back without this causing an incident? And also, Romesh, I know your kids aren't vegan, but you are. Do they show any interest in a vegan diet? And have they got any favorite plant based dishes that you all enjoy together as a family?
14:33 Speaker 01 Hmm.
14:33 Speaker 08 I'd love to hear from you. Love you both. Bye.
14:38 Speaker 01 Jordy, thank you so much for your message. Uh mum, what do you think?
14:41 Speaker 00 What she's doing is a wrong thing.
14:43 Speaker 01 Wow.
14:44 Speaker 00 It is a wrong thing.
14:45 Speaker 01 Okay.
14:46 Speaker 00 Because.
14:47 Speaker 01 Okay.
14:48 Speaker 02 John loved that, by the way.
14:50 Speaker 00 It's true, John. If, if, if your mother decides what she wants to feed the child.
14:56 Speaker 01 Hmm.
14:56 Speaker 00 Respect, respect that.
14:58 Speaker 01 Respect that.
14:59 Speaker 00 That's it.
15:00 Speaker 01 Respect that.
15:02 Speaker 00 It's very true.
15:03 Speaker 01 Yeah.
15:04 Speaker 00 Yeah, what she, mother-in-law is doing, very naughty thing.
15:07 Speaker 01 Really naughty.
15:08 Speaker 00 Well, making ham sandwich doesn't take, and she's tempting him. It's very bad.
15:16 Speaker 01 Uh.
15:17 Speaker 00 Very bad.
15:18 Speaker 01 Jordy, I agree with my mother.
15:20 Speaker 00 Yeah.
15:20 Speaker 01 Your mother-in-law is bang out of order.
15:23 Speaker 00 Yeah.
15:24 Speaker 01 Bang out of order. You decide, as you said, it's a very sensible path you've taken. You're vegan and it sound, by the sounds of it, feel pretty strongly about it. And you've decided to compromise and have your child eat dairy and stuff, but be, still be vegetarian. And your mother-in-law isn't respecting that. And for that reason, I think she loses visiting privileges. That's what I think. I, I, I don't, I think if you cannot be trusted to feed somebody's child what they've asked you to feed their child, then they don't come around. I, I, I think you can be as strong about it as that because it's not, it's not, it's not a joke. Do you know what I mean? You've got strong views and you're bringing up your child a certain way. And your mother-in-law isn't respecting that. I think she's out of order.
16:07 Speaker 00 It is.
16:07 Speaker 01 I think she's really out of order.
16:08 Speaker 00 No.
16:09 Speaker 01 I don't agree with that either. For mum to not agree.
16:11 Speaker 00 Yeah.
16:12 Speaker 01 Fucking wild, you know? So, you know, Jordy, good luck with that. And with regards to um vegetal, plant-based dishes, my, so one of our kids, so none of our kids are vegetarian. One of my kids went vegetarian for about uh a year and a half and then stopped. Um but we try and include as many vegetables as we can sort of when we're eating at home so that they kind of don't see it as a sometimes people see vegetables as kind of a dirty accompaniment, do you know what I mean? But we try and incorporate as much as we possibly can. And the kids know the reasons that I'm vegan and how I feel about it. And so maybe in the future, they'll choose to go that way. But I feel like me personally, I don't want to enforce that on them.
16:54 Speaker 01 So if they choose to do that, fair enough. If they don't, then I respect that equally, you know? But what I don't respect is your mother-in-law's policy on feeding your child meat. She's bang out of fucking order.
17:06 Speaker 01 Don't you think, Mum?
17:07 Speaker 00 Yes.
17:09 Speaker 01 Down the barrel of the camera, just if you're talking to mother-in-law.
17:11 Speaker 00 Uh, my dear mother-in-law, stay away from that. Don't feed the child meat. He's going to grow, he's a healthy man. So please help your daughter-in-law to do that. So stay away from that.
17:27 Speaker 01 Yeah.
17:27 Speaker 00 Please.
17:27 Speaker 01 Stop it!
17:28 Speaker 00 Stop it, yeah.
17:29 Speaker 01 Yeah, okay. Thank you, Geordie. Ben, what are you doing that face for?
17:33 Speaker 02 What is the difference between that? And let's say you don't want your kids to eat lots of ice cream and a lot of, or lots of sweet things. And then your, the grandparents end up doing that despite you expressly saying not like.
17:47 Speaker 01 Well, the dif- the main difference is, is that analogy doesn't work.
17:50 Speaker 02 Got you.
17:51 Speaker 01 Um, what you're saying is if that you don't want to eat a lot of ice cream. If you don't want your kid to eat a lot of ice cream and then they feed them more ice cream than you want them to. I think that's a bit of a grey area. If you send your parents, your kids around and you say, I don't want to eat any ice cream. And they give them ice cream, then I think that's also a red flag. Also, the other thing is, I'm adding a bit of context into the fact that Geordie feels super strongly about this. This is not a preference thing. This is like, this is part of her life's philosophy. She's come to a compromise with her husband to, to be vegetarian. And Geordie won't be that happy about, I imagine, with her child, but she's come to that compromise. That's what they've got to.
18:33 Speaker 01 And then, you know, who knows how many conversations they've had as a couple, as a family, about how they're going to bring up their child. And then the mother-in-law's disrespecting that. I think that's, I think it's really bad.
18:43 Speaker 00 Hmm.
18:43 Speaker 01 So the answer to your question is a big difference and you probably shouldn't have brought that up as an example.
18:47 Speaker 02 Great question.
18:48 Speaker 01 Shall we have our next question?
18:50 Speaker 02 Yes.
18:51 Speaker 01 And in future, if you want to ask a question like that, put your hand up.
18:53 Speaker 02 Yeah, sorry, I forgot that term.
18:55 Speaker 09 Hi, Romesh and Shanthi Aunty. Like everyone else calling in, I am a massive fan of your podcast. I'm completely in love with all the chaos and laughter on set. Um, I used to actually listen to your podcasts when I would go out for a run or a walk. And I actually had to stop doing that because I looked like a completely batshit insane person for just laughing on the street by myself. Um. Anyway, Shanthi Aanti, you remind me so much of my mother, especially the way you end sentences sometimes with da or ma, so it's very heartwarming. Anyway, my question for both of you today is, uh, my mom has gotten a lot more superstitious, um, the older she gets, and a lot more religious.
19:35 Speaker 09 Um, for example, one of the many superstitions she believes in is that you're not supposed to start
19:43 Speaker 09 um, anything new on a Tuesday. So if you're signing a business contract for the first time, or a proposal, or just anything important, um, or like booking flight tickets, you're not supposed to do it on a Tuesday, because it'll end up, like it won't be successful, or it'll just end up really bad. So I'd love to hear from both of you, um, are both of you getting more religious or superstitious as you get older, um, and are there any superstitions that you believe in, even if you feel like it's irrational? I'd love to hear from both of you. Thank you so much. Sending love from Vancouver.
20:20 Speaker 01 Thank you, Lakshmi Vancouver. Vancouver, baby, we're internacional. That's pretty sick, isn't it? Uh, Mum, superstitions?
20:29 Speaker 00 Superstitions, yeah, I am. Number thirteen. Um, I had experience, I, I will never start anything on number thirteen.
20:39 Speaker 01 On the thirteenth of the day of the month?
20:41 Speaker 00 My house was number thirteen. I didn't like to buy that house, but Dad said, I don't have time to run around and look for another house, because I, because we got the school and everything, number thirteen. And I wasn't happy. I wasn't driving, so I moved it. Then he went and, uh, got the uh, office, remember the office, number thirteen. Then he died on number thirteen.
21:13 Speaker 00 So after that, I hate that number. Um, yeah, Tuesdays, because it's for the uh goddess. So you don't, you respect that you become vegetarian that day and pray for it. Yeah, I am. I am very careful which day I start doing things and Thursdays, you mustn't wear any new clothes.
21:36 Speaker 01 No.
21:37 Speaker 00 Uh, that's what we believe. But here in England, you buy your clothes, the children want to wear, I won't stop them.
21:45 Speaker 01 Yeah. Um, I don't really have any superstitions.
21:49 Speaker 00 I know that, I know.
21:51 Speaker 01 I don't like to visit relatives on a day that ends with a Y. But apart from that, I don't think I have any superstitions, really.
22:00 Speaker 00 You are going to regret that Y disappears for good.
22:05 Speaker 01 The Y? She's da. Yeah, I'm gonna go see Mama Sata dah.
22:11 Speaker 01 Or maybe Thanda.
22:14 Speaker 01 If I forget about the weekend, I might just pop in on Monday. What are you talking about?
22:22 Speaker 00 Yeah, I, I, sometimes you surprise me.
22:25 Speaker 01 In what way?
22:26 Speaker 00 How he does- doesn't call me or talk to me and he stays for mu- weeks and weeks.
22:31 Speaker 01 What do you mean? Just want me to call you a lot.
22:33 Speaker 00 No.
22:35 Speaker 01 I text a lot.
22:36 Speaker 00 Domesch.
22:37 Speaker 01 I text a bit.
22:38 Speaker 00 God will punish you.
22:39 Speaker 01 You don't call, Mum, you don't call me a lot either.
22:42 Speaker 00 Shall I get my bloody phone and show you how many times I call?
22:44 Speaker 01 Mum, why do you talk about this all the time?
22:47 Speaker 00 Okay. Uh, there you are. You get worked up.
22:49 Speaker 01 I don't get worked up. You're the one that's worked up. I'm responding to your level of energy.
22:54 Speaker 00 Just check whether I'm still alive.
22:56 Speaker 01 Okay, fine, alright.
22:57 Speaker 00 Text me. Morning, I have sent you some spiritual things, last three days. Did you check it? The tick mark is, I, you haven't even opened it.
23:06 Speaker 01 I've removed that.
23:07 Speaker 00 It's black, isn't it?
23:09 Speaker 01 What's black?
23:10 Speaker 00 You haven't checked it, Domesch.
23:11 Speaker 01 Why am I watching all these videos that you send? It's like.
23:15 Speaker 00 How to pray, how to correct yourself.
23:17 Speaker 01 Yeah, there's a cat that can talk.
23:20 Speaker 00 It's, it's important, isn't it? Uh, there you are.
23:23 Speaker 01 Uh, okay, but, but anyway, look.
23:25 Speaker 00 Anyway, anyway, I'm not fighting with you. I want, I want to be happy.
23:28 Speaker 01 Every episode you start this fight, every episode.
23:30 Speaker 00 Oh yeah, because it hurts.
23:32 Speaker 01 Do you think you get more superstitious? Have you got more superstitious as you've got older?
23:37 Speaker 00 It's true, it's true. Because you know why? You have got so much time to think about it, like because you are retired. So read a book.
23:46 Speaker 01 You what, sorry?
23:48 Speaker 00 I'm retired.
23:48 Speaker 01 Oh, sorry.
23:49 Speaker 00 What did you think?
23:50 Speaker 01 Nothing.
23:51 Speaker 00 I'm retired.
23:54 Speaker 01 I didn't hear what you s-
23:56 Speaker 00 That's what you do here.
23:57 Speaker 01 No, I didn't hear what you said. Sailing close to the wind. I didn't hear what you said.
24:07 Speaker 00 Anyway.
24:07 Speaker 01 Yeah.
24:08 Speaker 00 So we, we do, you know, just bring everything out and think about, oh, I shouldn't do this. I said, oh, I better go into temple and pray because you've got time to kill. So that's why you become uh religious and things like that. And you get frightened as well. How many more years you have on earth? Getting closer to fly off. So be good, go to the temple and pray. You shouldn't fall sick. And that's why, that's why, yeah, yeah. Try to get to go closer and some, you want some protection, that's all. Yeah, yeah. Only person who could look after you is God, isn't it? The power, whoever. Romesh, I don't know whether he believes.
24:50 Speaker 00 My grandfather gave me a gun for the little, uh, to me, to me. So I gave it to him.
24:55 Speaker 01 A little Ganesh, sorry.
24:56 Speaker 00 Ganesh, Ganesh.
24:57 Speaker 01 Alright.
24:58 Speaker 00 I gave it to him. I hope he hasn't left it in any of the hotels.
25:02 Speaker 01 No.
25:02 Speaker 00 You used to carry, I sure.
25:04 Speaker 01 It's in my bedroom.
25:05 Speaker 00 Okay.
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