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00:01 - Introduction
08:03 - Faber ad
11:04 - Normal People
24:57 - Subscriber letters
27:13 - Bombay Begums
42:54 - Subscriber letters
49:44 - Honest Government ad
51:34 - PayTM ad
53:43 - Levis ads
56:54 - MTV ad
58:41 - Subscriber letters
1:02:35 - Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
While talking about the Faber dishwasher ad:
Rajyasree: Next time, when you’re having those interviews you have every Sunday, where you interview girls [to] get married to? You just ask, “Do you like cooking?” Then she’ll say, “Yes, yes, I make samosa, shepherd’s pie..." You’ll say, “But will you wash the dishes?”
Abhinandan: Do you like washing dishes?...That toh she will, but do you like?
Rajyasree: That toh she will?!
Abhinandan: Because you don’t want to force anyone.
Rajyasree: What is “that toh she will”? Tell me. That’s what you have to do if she gets married to you? Khaana de...wo saaf karo! You’re quite an emancipated man, I must say.
Abhinandan: So, if I don’t get married, I’m getting a Faber washing machine.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the web series Bombay Begums and Normal People; Oprah Winfrey’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle; advertisements for International Women’s Day, and more.
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00:01 - Introduction
02:12 - Subscriber mails
07:11 - Kappela
16:56 - Allen v Farrow
24:55 - Subscriber letters
27:42 - Call My Agent
32:41 - Subscriber letters
39:19 - Prince Harry’s appearance with James Corden
43:25 - Dove ad
49:55 - Redbull ad
53:41 - Subscriber letters
While reading a letter from a subscriber about the song Ei Raat Tomar Amar:
Abhinandan: You know, Rajyasree often does this. If I say something about anything like, you know, “This is a dhol".
"It was invented in Bengal!”
Rajyasree: But most of the things are...your speakers are.
Abhinandan: I’ll say sarso ka saag...
"It was invented in Bengal."
Rajyasree: Sarso was invented in Bengal.
Abhinandan: Or if I were to say this is how Sikhs tie their turbans.
“They learned it from Bengal.”
Rajyasree: The cloth came from Bengal.
Abhinandan: But you [subscriber] have actually sent a video clip showing that the original is a Bengali. So you get 10/10.
Rajyasree: Proof! Proof!He’s given proof.
Abhinandan: Rajyasree, the thing is that you claim everything came from Bengal and you’ve never given me any proof.
Rajyasree: Because you don’t need to show proof for the obvious, na? This is like saying do you know the moon is round when it is a full moon.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the film Kappela; Season 4 of web series Call My Agent!; HBO docu series Allen v Farrow, controversies, and commercials.
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00:01 - Introduction
02:23 - Subscriber mails
03:37 - Yeh Nayan Dare Dare by Amruta Fadnavis
07:15 - Hustlers
13:49 - I Care a Lot
21:50 - Subscriber letters
30:24 - Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
40:01 - Subscriber letters
43:10 - The Girlfriend Experience
47:06 - NHS vaccine ad
51:38 - Subscriber letters
While talking about the docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel:
Rajyasree: All that this documentary showed me was that people on the internet have a lot of time...
Abhinandan: Really?
Rajyasree: To band together...
Abhinandan: Are you getting the irony of you saying this?...Have a lot of time to watch two shit films...See the metaness of this! So, this four-part series, 50 minutes each, the only thing that demonstrates to you is that people have a lot of time. So, 50×4, 200 minutes you spent in figuring out people on the internet for a long time, while watching on the internet for 200 minutes. Uff, the irony would make Shakespeare proud.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the films I Care a Lot and Hustlers; the docuseries Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel;the web series The Girlfriend Experience; Amruta Fadnavis’ song Yeh Nayan Dare Dare,and a lot more.
Song: Gabru Ta Vairi Nu Vi Mitha Bolda & Bhabi
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00:01 - Introduction
03:38 - Framing Britney Spears
21;05 - Subscriber letters
30:04 - Soulmates
41:21 - Super Bowl
46:00 - Subscriber letters
53:29 - Mia Khalifa
1:02:02 - Christopher Plummer and Rajiv Kapoor
While talking about Super Bowl commercials:
Abhinandan: When the public pays, the public is served, so we don’t want anyone else to bankroll Newslaundry.
Rajyasree: But they can at least outfit all of you.
Abhinandan: Why, what’s wrong with my outfit?
Rajyasree: Nothing. I don’t want to say. Foriegn things you’re wearing. Oh Doon school!
Abhinandan: Dude you know, you always make fun of my clothes. She says I’m not a snob. “Nikku, you wear the same clothes every day...”
Rajyasree: No, nowadays I’ve said you started dressing up.
Abhinandan: “...you have no new clothes, you look like you got out of bed.”
Rajyasree: I never say. I say, “Nikku, you’re looking so handsome. I can’t concentrate on the podcast.”
Abhinandan: You’re always commenting on “you only have three shirts, you only wear the same shoes. You only have the...”
Rajyasree: Do you not wear the top three shirts?
Abhinandan: I will wear the same clothes everyday in my life. What goes off anyone’s mother?
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss The New York Times documentary Framing Britney Spears; the web series Soulmates; the lives of Rajiv Kapoor and Christopher Plummer; Super Bowl commercials and more.
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00:01 - Introduction
01:45 - Letters from listeners
03:44 - The Dig
10:33 - Letters from listeners
14:12 - Snowpiercer Season 2
21:09 - Letters from listeners
25:12 - Servant Season 2
33:21 - Letters from listeners
35:13 - Losing Alice
43:27 - Letters from listeners
48:18 - The Wonder Years
52:08 - Rihanna’s tweet on farmer protests
While talking about the movie The Dig:
Rajyasree: It’s about hope, understanding, accepting death because she has an 11-year-old son...
Abhinandan: Raju, are you feeling well? You’re saying these things – hope, understanding – I mean, these are not things that you should be...
Rajyasree: I’m very romantic.
Abhinandan: You can be romantic but you’re a nasty human being.
Rajyasree: No.
Abhinandan: I mean, these are such positive, empathetic things you’re saying. Menu thodi tension si ho rahi hai. Did you fall?
Rajyasree: That’s why you should not leave Delhi and go, I’ve become very mellow when you’re not here.
Abhinandan: Tussi dig toh nahi pe? Tuada sir hit one of the tractors, eh?
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the film The Dig; the web series Losing Alice, Season 2 of Snowpiercer and Servant,and a lot more.
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00:01 - Introduction
03:11 - The White Tiger
18:02 - Subscriber mails
24:06 - One Night in Miami
37:26 - Subscriber mails
40:58 - Apollo Tyres ad
47:08 - Godzilla vs Kong trailer
50:22 - Subscriber mails
51:26 - If the World Was Ending by JP Saxe ft. Julia Michaels
While talking about the song If The World Was Ending by JP Saxe featuring Julia Michaels:
Abhinandan: Have you checked what this generation is called? It is called Gen Z, I was right.
Rajyasree: No no, it’s incorrect. [reading out] “Gen Z, colloquially known as Zoomers, is the demographic succeeding millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.” That’s why I’m looking confused. I’m not understanding these words. “Researchers use the mid to late 1990s..." – no, no, we were not mid to late 1990s – “as starting birth years and the early 2010s as..."Okay, you’re correct!
Abhinandan: Oh my God! How am I correct?
Rajyasree: I don’t know, you must’ve cheated and looked at it, that’s why.
Abhinandan: Like every other time? Must be that.
Rajyasree: But notice how I said you’re correct?
Abhinandan: And I saw how it took everything out of you to say that.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the films The White Tiger and One Night in Miami; the trailer of Godzilla vs Kong; the Apollo Tyres commercial, and more.
Song: Kalla Sohna Nai
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00:01 - Introduction
03:12 - Tribhanga
15:16 - Tandav
26:14 - Letters from listeners
30:50 - Tiger
51:43 - Letters from listeners
54:27 - Tandav and Mirzapur controversy
While talking about the Tiger Woods documentary:
Rajyasree: It’s a two-part documentary so it’s not that long. I think each part is one and a half hours or so. And...
Abhinandan: It’s not about the Panthera tigris?
Rajyasree: Why? You did Google just now and found Panthera tigris?
Abhinandan: No. I know that’s what the biological name for a tiger is. Just like the biological name of a frog is Rana tigrina. Did you know that?
Rajyasree: You’re very well-informed. You’re a biologist? A naturalist?
Abhinandan: No, I remember all of this.
Rajyasree: You’re a natural pain, that’s what you are.
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the film Tribhanga - Tedhi Medhi Crazy; Amazon web series Tandav; HBO’s Tiger Woods documentary Tiger;and more.
Song: Duji Vaar Pyar
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00:01 - Introduction
03:58 - Tour de Pharmacy
13:24 - Nail Polish
23:49 - Is Love Enough? Sir
42:24 - Amul ad
47:14 - Freakonomics
51:21 - Letter from a listener
53:44 - Arnold Schwarzenegger’s message
While talking about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s video message:
Abhinandan: When I was a child, inside a cupboard I had a full collage of Arnie...which explains my body also.
Rajyasree: That’s why you look like Arnie!
Abhinandan: My body is, yeah.
Rajyasree: You know, when I turn around and I’m hanging around with Abhinandan, I turn, just for a second I think (gasp), Arnie! Then I realise oh, it’s just Abhinandan. Idiot...
Abhinandan: Yeah. At least I don’t say, ‘Oh my God, I’ve worked out for one hour, I think I’m looking like Cindy Crawford.’ Who said that, Rajyasree Sen?
Rajyasree: I don’t know, Abhinandan. Who are these people you know?
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the films Is Love Enough? Sir and Nail Polish; 2017 mockumentary Tour de Pharmacy; Amul's greeting for new parents Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma; the Freakonomics Radio podcast Does Advertising Actually Work?,and Anold Schwarzenegger’s video message condemning the attack on the US Capitol.
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00:01 - Introduction
01:29 - AK vs AK
12:36 - The Midnight Sky
24:31 - Subscriber letters
34:14 - Criminal Justice
40:27 - CRED ad
43:33 - Subscriber letters
48:36 - Trailer of Madam Chief Minister
54:05 - Death to 2020
1:06:27 - Subscriber letters
While talking about The Midnight Sky:
Rajyasree: George Clooney has...I was going to say directorial debut, but it’s not. He’s directed Midnight Sky which is...
Abhinandan: But you can say it’s a debut. How does it matter? I don’t think you let facts get in the way of your sentences.
Rajyasree: (mocks Abhinandan laughing) That’s you, not me. Idiot! Huh...What is your new year resolution? You have to be nice to me for half an hour at a stretch everyday. Can you manage that?
Abhinandan: That means I have to deal with you for half an hour everyday?
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the films AK vs AK and The Midnight Sky; the British mockumentary Death to 2020; web series Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors; the trailer of Madam Chief Minister; and CRED advertisement featuring Jackie Shroff.
Song: Jatt 24 Carat Da
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Timestamps
00:01 - Introduction
01:29 - A Call to Spy
12:10 - Mank
28:50 - Letters from listeners
37:28 - The Wilds
47:46 - Letters from listeners
51:09 - Swipe
56:25 - Letters from listeners
1:01:27 - Smiths City ad
Talking about Noor Inayat Khan, played by Radhika Apte in A Call to Spy:
Rajyasree: One of her parents was Indian andshe was a pacifist. So all those things...
Abhinandan: She was a what?
Rajyasree: A pacifist. She doesn’t believe in… a, like a baby pacifier, but a pacifist.
Abhinandan: Ok, who believes in Pacific Ocean?
Rajyasree: Haa like she used to swim in the Pacific Ocean, so she was a pacifist.
Abhinandan: She was deep. I’m more of an Atlantist.
Rajyasree: Yeah, I’m also someone known as an Atlantist you know.
Abhinandan: You’re a bloody Hoogliest. Which is dirty and full of fish!
Rajyasree and Abhinandan burst out laughing.
This and a whole lot of other stuff awful and awesome as Abhinandan Sekhri and Rajyasree Sen discuss the historical drama A Call to Spy; David Fincher’s Mank; Amazon series The Wilds; Pakistani animated short film Swipe; and Smiths City’s whiteware commercial.
Song: Vanjhali Waja
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