BHAVNEET: See, you can’t tell the difference. Which one was the snap? And which one was a snap? Did you hit your ear? That’s my version of snapping. Welcome back to Drive with Us. I’m Bhavneet
TARANJIT: If you’re confused this is the Drive with Us podcast.
BHAVNEET: Yes. And I can snap with my mouth. And she can snap like a boring person with her fingers.
TARANJIT: Except it hurts now because I snapped too much.
BHAVNEET: With each finger? I thought you were going down the line. Pointer finger. Middle finger. Ring finger.
TARANJIT: This one’s hard.
BHAVNEET: Pinky finger. What…can you do like both your thumbs together?
TARANJIT: No. Cause you have to apply pressure.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, apply high pressure to both your thumbs. Ow.
TARANJIT: Now it looks like you are thumb wrestling yourself.
BHAVNEET: Aggressive thumb wrestling.
TARANJIT: Some people snap like this.
BHAVNEET: With their ring?
TARANJIT: But this is the correct way to do it.
BHAVNEET: Oh yeah? Does it sound like it?
TARANJIT: Sounds like a car blinker.
BHAVNEET: But, some cars are fast. Like have you noticed? Is that what it sounds like on the inside though?
TARANJIT: Sounded like a rabbit for a second.
BHAVNEET: On the outside, you just see…Is that what it sounds like on the inside though?
TARANJIT: I was about to say probably not what is sounds like on the inside, but then you asked
BHAVNEET: Because normal blinking speed…And then…
TARANJIT: Some are fast.
BHAVNEET: Yeah.
TARANJIT: Like sounding too.
BHAVNEET: So I’m pretty sure you hear what it’s doing. Who decided the speed of blinkers?
TARANJIT: The company.
BHAVNEET: No. But like who decided what is the appropriate speed? Like this seems like a reasonable speed. And then another company is like no, I must like it must look like the light is on at all times. And do their blinker lights blow out faster because it’s like off on off on off on. Like faster.
TARANJIT: Good question.
BHAVNEET: Has anyone’s blinker light ever like blew out? I’ve never had that happen. It has to be possible.
TARANJIT: Yeah, the light can like stop working. But it’s probably still trying to like…it blinks. But you can’t see anything because a light blew out.
BHAVNEET: Yes. Has anyone ever had that happen?
TARANJIT: Yeah. I have seen numerous cars.
BHAVNEET: Really?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I’ve never.
TARANJIT: Especially when…
BHAVNEET: Cause it just to me looks like why didn’t you put your blinker on?
TARANJIT: No, no. Eespecially when I’ve noticed is when people have their emergency lights on. And only one side is blinking.
BHAVNEET: Yes.
TARANJIT: But then if you go you see the front. Both are blinking. You go the back and you’re like,
BHAVNEET: Oh that makes sense. Like why? Why you look like you’re pulling out but you’re not moving. Turning right. Wait.
TARANJIT: Speaking of the way you said it sounds like robotic turning right like a GPS. Turn right.
BHAVNEET: Turn right on. Wait.
TARANJIT: Only turn right when you say wait.
BHAVNEET: Yes. So someone has to push that crosswalk button. And it has to say wait, and then you can turn so that you know they’re waiting.
TARANJIT: I was gonna say something but then you made me forget.
BHAVNEET: Thinker face.
TARANJIT: Oh, the robotics thing. There was a radio commercial. For what I don’t remember. It was like this is your car speaking like it was. And then they were like, just kidding. Like, I forget how it went. But something like that. I’m like, Well, my car does have a voice. So that’s not my car speaking.
BHAVNEET: That’s not how my car sounds.
TARANJIT: My car is a lady’s…it’s a lady’s robotic voice I think.
BHAVNEET: Really?
TARANJIT: When you like when you’re trying to call someone is like a like Sorry, I didn’t understand or did you mean,
BHAVNEET: Oh. Right. I think mine’s a lady, too. But your car got named dude. So…
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: I never thought of it that way. Yeah, mine has a lady voice, too. I think they just put that in everything.
TARANJIT: But like normally like GPS and like robotic stuff tends to be female voices.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. But you have the option to choose in some GPSs is like what you want.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: There was one I can’t remember if it was like a car G like when the cars actually built them.
TARANJIT: When it was a Garmin GPS?
BHAVNEET: Or if it was like the actual standalone GPS, or if it was when like the car makers actually built them into the cars. There was oh yeah, it was a fancy car video our brother was watching. And this guy like reviews all these high profile cars or like Lamborghinis. And like all the fancy stuff. So he was in one. I don’t remember what it was. But he was like, look at his GPS, all these options. You could have some lady with this country accent or this different country accent then you could have male voices. And then there was one where there’s only one option. And he’s like, what is this?
TARANJIT: No, I remember for our Garmin GPS, you could like download any voice any character’s voice.
BHAVNEET: Bugs Bunny.
TARANJIT: And program it in like load it onto there, and it will speak directions in that character’s voice.
BHAVNEET: Whoa, why have we not done that?
TARANJIT: Too much effort.
BHAVNEET: But that would be so cool. I took directions from Danny Phantom. He took us on a couple of detours but cuz he’s old. But we made it.
TARANJIT: So for today’s episode, I was thinking we could start with another desi dilemma. Well, I don’t know if it’s considered desi dilemma, but desi-e type topic. We will categorize it in the dilemma category. But so this came to my mind when we were hanging out with our friends. And…
BHAVNEET: We have friends.
TARANJIT: Yes. So we have friends.
BHAVNEET: We don’t just sit in her room.
TARANJIT: And talk to ourselves. So I like when we first arrived to pick them up. I started thinking about like, how in our Indian culture, our greeting is to give a hug and say hello. So this is awkward, because like what do we do? Do you like…
BHAVNEET: Do you even get out?
TARANJIT: Do we get out? Do you like the wave hello? Do you like say hello? Do you go in for a hug? Do you shake hands? Like what is a proper etiquette?
BHAVNEET: We don’t know because we mainly interacted with other Indians. So it’s like when you see them you know, hug. Side hug. Hello? Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
TARANJIT: Literally say hello to every single person. Hug every person. But like, what do you do with quote unquote American friends?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, cuz I was driving. When I backed in, I was like, are we even supposed to like get out and like, wait for them to come down? Or what are we supposed to do? Because some people like you know, they just wait in the car. Hop in. You know? We’re like, okay, let’s just pop the trunk again. You know? Oh, yeah, we’re out if we need to be what? But…
TARANJIT: Yeah. But then it’s just like, hi?
BHAVNEET: All right. Get in. And let’s go.
TARANJIT: But it’s just like what are you supposed to? Do?
BHAVNEET: We have lots of friends. Can you tell? American. Yeah, so that was awkward. But I think the thing is, you just say hi and move on with your life.
TARANJIT: Yeah, but I just felt weird because I just get so used to like, Hello, hug.
BHAVNEET: Yeah,.
TARANJIT: And then I’m like hi. Wait, I shouldn’t do anything.
B; Yeah, I don’t really know you that well. One of you maybe. But yeah, that was a little weird.
TARANJIT: So speaking of Greetings, I want to talk about this whole how long this greeting process usually is for Indians. So like, you walk in, and obviously you either start saying hello and go for a hug, or you take off your shoes, and then go for the hug and say hello. And that’s like, if there’s multiple people, you’re literally like in a line.
BHAVNEET: You have to go in a line and say hello to everyone. Because if you miss someone, they might take that the wrong way. Like why didn’t you say hi to me? I was like, I didn’t see you in the mob of 50 people I just said hello to. Speaking of that happened to us. But you can’t keep track of everyone
TARANJIT: Sometimes it’s like, Did I just say hello to you twice?
BHAVNEET: Double hug. Like when we got like, what was it like three or four families together Indian families and we were like going on like a picnic trip. And we’re just like, they all came to our house so that we’re just like, Hello, hello. Hello. Hello. Did I say hello to you? No, I missed you. Oh, well, it’s okay. Hello from before.
TARANJIT: And if you miss someone, and it was like an adult adult, they’re literally going to talk about it forever.
BHAVNEET: Like they didn’t say hi to me.
TARANJIT: They’ll bring it up in every gathering.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So you must make sure that you say hello to every single person. And not just like a Hello. It’s a Hello, how are you?
How’s it going? What’s new? Keep going. Tell me about everything.
TARANJIT: And then obviously, for Indians, we take off our shoes. Right? So another dilemma type conflict situation I have is when I go to a friend’s house that’s not Indian. I’m always like, do I take off my shoes or do I leave them on?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, so I went to my friend’s house once we were doing a group project. And I started taking off my shoes, because that is what you do when you walk into a house. And she’s like, No, no, leave your shoes on. I’m like, let me tie this back up. One sec.
TARANJIT: That’s why I like go and then I’m like, awkwardly like waiting to see do they take off.
BHAVNEET: No, no, you guys go in first. I will follow you.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: It’s very weird. I feel uncomfortable walking on someone else’s floor. Like sometimes people even just walk on their carpet go upstairs and everything. I’m like, eww. Dirt is like all that stuff tracking on up there. Why do you do that?
TARANJIT: That’s the difference between cultures.
BHAVNEET: I think it’s like any Asian culture, maybe even like Middle Eastern. Anything not European American. I feel like. Because I know other people who are not Indian, but also like some other type of Asian or something. And they don’t take off their shoes. So it’s a thing.
TARANJIT: Yeah. But that’s what I usually those questions come to my mind when I’m going. And I’m like…
BHAVNEET: A lot of questions come. Like how am I supposed to do this? Because if we were in an Indian household, we do this but you guys probably do something completely different. So it’s like, Ah, you come to our house in or like any Indian houses like all right. drink something. Eat something. If you don’t, I’ll be offended.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Where like an American household. It’s like, just tell me if you want something. Or grab something if you want something. Whatevs. Do you want some water or anything? No. Okay, let’s go. Go to Indian household. What do you want to drink…
TARANJIT: Force them to drink something.
BHAVNEET: Not do you want something to drink? What do you want to drink?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Drink something.
TARANJIT: You have to drink.
BHAVNEET: That is also something that will be talked about forever and ever. Like they came to our house. And they didn’t eat anything. They didn’t drink anything.
TARANJIT: Yeah, that will be talked about forever. And every time we go back, it will be brought up.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, so might as well just even if you’re like stuffed, just take a sip of water. Or if…
TARANJIT: It’s just best to go empty stomach on an empty stomach because you’re going to be given so much food. So just don’t eat anything before you go.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, just starve yourself. Which is great.
TARANJIT: Well, it’s better than being so stuffed and forced to eat more food that you’re gonna throw up.
BHAVNEET: But I mean, as long as you eat like, anything, a bite of anything.
TARANJIT: No. Because it’s then like you didn’t eat anything. Take more. Plop. More food on plate.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. If you they know you a little bit more. Well, they won’t force you. But if you go to some random.
TARANJIT: Eh. Depends. Even those I know. Still. Sometimes.
BHAVNEET: They say it but they don’t be like, forcibly here.
TARANJIT: Eh.
BHAVNEET: No eh.
TARANJIT: Eh. So going back to food. Our guests. Indian guests have entered. We’ve greeted, taken off their shoes.
BHAVNEET: It’s been 20 minutes.
TARANJIT: Yeah. Okay, yes, they sit down. We immediately have to go the kitchen and start putting cha on the stove. And like, while that…
BHAVNEET: Chai. Cha.
TARANJIT: As the tea is being prepared, we’re filling up drinks, either bring drinks over, and then you’re preparing plates with snacks. So the argument that we always have is who’s bringing the drinks on the tray?
BHAVNEET: So hard.
TARANJIT: So we are always like you bring it. No, you bring it.
BHAVNEET: That’s the hardest thing carrying that many like cups of hot, like cha. Or even if it’s just because you have to give water juice whatever first, then you drink tea. And then you eat food and then you everything.
TARANJIT: So we always end up compromising. One person brings the first round of drinks, which sounds kind of like alcohol.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. And then the other person brings the main course. The second course is round of drinks.
TARANJIT: So one other question that always comes up. Well, I guess it’s put into like a branch of a couple of questions. When you’re bringing this tray of drinks…
BHAVNEET: Don’t drop it.
TARANJIT: First of all, you had to like, walk fast enough to bring it to them because you can’t take time. But you don’t want to walk too fast that you spell because then that would be a problem.
BHAVNEET: Here’s some juice. Oh, it’s all over you now.
TARANJIT: But that’s not the question that I was leading to. The question is, do you take this tray and pass, like, move it in front of each person and let them pick their drink? Do you hold it in one hand and put drinks in front of everyone? Or do you put the tray on the table and then put drinks in front of everyone?
BHAVNEET: Well, because in the beginning, you ask everyone, do you want water? Do you want juice? What do you want? So then you kind of have an idea. Like what I do for that. It’s like you just put it all in one tray and then go in front of them. And they take whatever they want from your assortment of drinks.
TARANJIT: What if they’re not paying attention? What do you do?
BHAVNEET: If you’re hovering in front of them, they’re paying attention.
TARANJIT: But there’s a situation where they’re just still talking…
BHAVNEET: Oh, yeah. That happened to me when I was bringing tea, but I put it down. Well, okay, so first, I was just carrying it around and giving to each adult because they’re the ones who drink the tea. So they all took it. And then I kind of stood in front of one person. And they were like, so engrossed in talking that they weren’t paying attention. But the person next to them realized, because I’m holding a tray full of tea. And he’s like, take your tea.
TARANJIT: And then obviously, when the tea you have to bring snacks, and…
BHAVNEET: You can’t drink anything without food.
TARANJIT: And we can’t just put snacks on a plate and bring it. No, we have to arrange it in a nice arrangement. Like it’s a fancy smancy restaurant. And we’re like a chef that’s giving…
BHAVNEET: Not like a five star where you only have two pieces and some random like ketchup whatever just smeared across the plate, but no. Make a pretty design.
TARANJIT: but it has to be presentable, like a nice display an art display of food, and then bring it because if you don’t, you’re gonna hear from our mom. Going back to the tea. What I find the most what’s the word?
BHAVNEET: Fun?
TARANJIT: No.
BHAVNEET: Hot?
TARANJIT: I don’t know what word. Insert word here once I remember word.
BHAVNEET: Okay.
TARANJIT: When you…
BHAVNEET: This is now a Madlib.
TARANJIT: When you literally like the guests just sat down, you literally just walked into the kitchen, and you put the water on the stove. And it takes time for the tea to boil. And, you know, for it to finish making itself?
BHAVNEET: It’s not fast enough.
TARANJIT: Exactly. And you’re always hearing, why aren’t you bringing it? Like bring it already. And it’s just like I did my part. The gas has to do his part now.
BHAVNEET: I can’t make it. Like I can encourage it. Go gas go. You can do it. Boil that water. This is a race. Hurry up. We’re losing.
TARANJIT: You like ended this so abruptly. So now you’ve greeted for 20 minutes, they sat down and like, hour, two hour however long…
BHAVNEET: Had two courses of drinks.
TARANJIT: And then obviously, if it’s like lunch or dinner time, you can start making food if they want it.
BHAVNEET: Which they want it.
TARANJIT: But then comes the leaving process. Which can take anywhere from a minimum of like 10 to 15 minutes to forever.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, because it’s every time it’s like okay, yeah, we should get going. It’s going to be late. Yeah, yeah. And then someone says, another story or something else.
TARANJIT: And then they start talking again. I love how it’s like, get up and then back down.
BHAVNEET: Get up.
TARANJIT: And then back down.
BHAVNEET: It’s like we are doing some interpretive dance. Whoo. Oh, yeah, we should go get up stretch. Start talking about something sit back down. And then finally, when everyone even stands, and like makes their way to the door. Another anywhere from 10 to
five hours.
TARANJIT: To forever.
BHAVNEET: Yep.
TARANJIT: The maximum. There is none. It can go to infinity and beyond.
BHAVNEET: Buzz Lightyear. You got it right.
TARANJIT: You know that the movie is coming out soon. Toy Story 4.
BHAVNEET: It did. Already. Didn’t it?
TARANJIT: Oh, yeah.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. It came out. Buzz Lightyear. You got it right. Your line is perfect for Indians. To infinity and beyond. How long it takes how long it takes for an Indian to leave your house. Yeah, to infinity and beyond.
TARANJIT: Yes. It applies.
BHAVNEET: Yes. Because you start saying bye. And then something else comes up. And then something else comes up. And then you start talking about the same topic, which is another thing. So you’ve talked, you’ve talked about one subject, and you’ve exhausted it to all end. But somehow they’re still repeating the same things over and over again, right? You just find different ways to say the same thing. And you just keep talking about it for like two hours. And then you’ll like, shad paare. What do we care. After you say all that. It’s like, what do we care? What does it matter? Move on. You did care.
TARANJIT: And you bring it back.
BHAVNEET: You did care for like the past three hours. So apparently you did. I love how it always ends with that. Shad paare.
TARANJIT: Not like we really care. But you do.
BHAVNEET: But you did.
TARANJIT: For the however long you….
BHAVNEET: I just listened to this whole conversation that happened on repeat.
TARANJIT: There’s…if you think you’re going to forget a conversation you’re not because it’s gonna be repeated to you so many times, that it’s going to be engraved in your head that there’s no way.
BHAVNEET: Gosh. It’s going to be engraved.
TARANJIT: You will be able to recite the entire conference.
BHAVNEET: So, if I saw your brain, I could see all these stories engraved…
TARANJIT: Yes.
BHAVNEET: Onto your head?
TARANJIT: Yes?
BHAVNEET: Oh, man.
T; It’s literally etched in there.
BHAVNEET: Wow, it must be a very tiny writing. Who did that calligraphy in there?
TARANJIT: All the Indians.
BHAVNEET: They just each personally, like, ee eee.
TARANJIT: As the words are coming out of their mouth it is just getting etched.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Wow. That’s fancy. You have some very special brain in there.
TARANJIT: Yep. Very unique.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know if they are very unique. They’re the same ones I have on my head. So.
TARANJIT: It’s unique to me, because they’ve only touched these ears.
BHAVNEET: I don’t know what if I switch them? And I’m wearing yours.
TARANJIT: Whatever.
BHAVNEET: Shad paare. What do we care? Mehnu ki. What do I care?
TARANJIT: Why do you care?
BHAVNEET: I don’t know. That’s the saying. So it’s like what you must say at the end of any conversation to be like, I don’t know what the word is for it.
TARANJIT: Should be like, wait, what was the word?
BHAVNEET: Even if you said something like rude about someone or you like set all this up. And it was like a shad paare. Whatever. Like, who cares? We don’t care, whatever. We don’t say that. Even though I just said all of that two minutes ago.
T; Yeah.
BHAVNEET: That’s how gossip ends, five hours of saying the same thing. And then shad paare. Okay.
TARANJIT: It will brought up the next time you get together. Back to that topic. Then they have five hours of that to repeat. Plus…
BHAVNEET: You got to keep adding on. That’s how you build up to the five hours and to infinity and beyond. Start out with minimum half an hour. And then you keep building on every time you meet, you repeat the same thing. So you are all caught up and at the same page, same point.
TARANJIT: No. Just making sure that you remember the story from last time. And then tack on more the next time, you had to make sure you remember both stories. And then it just keeps going in a circle. So at one point, it’s going to be a day’s long worth of story. And it will be there all day.
B; Yeah, pretty much if you could if they could be there longer. They probably would. But yeah, just listen to any Indian. I’m pretty sure it’s all Indians across the board, regardless of what part of India but yeah, just listen to a conversation and yeah, you’ll see what we mean. Lots of gossiping, but then we don’t gossip. All right, continue.
TARANJIT: Yeah, they’re very hypocritic.
BHAVNEET: Hippa a critic. This is my hip and it’s very critical.
TARANJIT: In critical condition?
BHAVNEET: Yep.
TARANJIT: Oh, man.
BHAVNEET: Hip a critical.
TARANJIT: Like the show we are watching and he needed a hip replacement.
BHAVNEET: Feel that grinding bone on bone.
TARANJIT: Oh, man. It’s that critical?
BHAVNEET: Hip a critical. Hip’s a critical.
TARANJIT: Hip’s a critical?
BHAVNEET: My hip’s a critical. Uh. Critical. Hip a critical. Like Brain a good. Hip a critical. It’s very critical about other people. Oh, man. That’s all it means. Not in critical condition. It’s very critical. Like, wow your hip’s not as good.
TARANJIT: Oh my gosh.
BHAVNEET: It’s very critical.
TARANJIT: Wow, you’re hips very judgy.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, apparently. But I’m not hypocritical.
TARANJIT: Apparently?
BHAVNEET: Oh my God, why is Lee back? He’s been hiding in this room all along. What is this? But yeah, I my hips not a critical. It’s everyone else who is hypocritical.
TARANJIT: Whose hips are critical?
BHAVNEET: You just said all the hips are critical.
TARANJIT: Oh, yeah.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. You diagnosed it.
TARANJIT: Well, I’m not a doctor,
BHAVNEET: You’re a…in training. You have a master’s. You’re, you’re a master of the hips a critical.
TARANJIT: Oh, I have the master file. Of everyone.
BHAVNEET: Of all the hips a critical.
TARANJIT: And I see everyone’s hips are critical. Well, you have a master, too. So what do you have a master of?
BHAVNEET: Uh. Shad paare. We’ll talk about that next time. Why do we care? Mehnu ki. So have you ever been in that situation with a non-Indian where you have done the same thing? Hip a critical. And talk about the same thing over and like gossip about something and then you’re like, aw…
TARANJIT: Are your greetings and leaving greetings? Or what’s the leaving word? Not leaving greetings.
BHAVNEET: What? Leaving greetings. Salutations. Salutations. Hello, hello. I’m walking out your door. Hello.
TARANJIT: Are your entrances and exit tes?
BHAVNEET: Exit tes?
TARANJIT: Exit tis.
BHAVNEET: Exit tents.
TARANJIT: Why am I trying to add an extra vowel, extra…
BHAVNEET: I just made a new word exittents.
TARANJIT: Are your entrances and exits equally as long as Indians? Or is it short and sweet to the point?
BHAVNEET: I feel like it is just like, Oh, I gotta leave. I gotta go do this thing. Okay, bye. Bye. Alright, see ya. Bye.
TARANJIT: You know what’s also is leaving for Indians? We literally follow them out the door.
BHAVNEET: You have to follow them out stand on your porch, or you follow them all into the car and just stand there and watch them until they leave and you can no longer see them and they can no longer see you.
TARANJIT: And then you go inside.
BHAVNEET: Because if you leave before they loo… before they loo.
TARANJIT: I thought you were going to say before they lose. They lose what?
BHAVNEET: They lose the game.
TARANJIT: They lose your hips. Aww.
BHAVNEET: Oh, what? I was gonna say they lose the game. But what? They lost their hips?
TARANJIT: Yeah, they’re in critical condition.
BHAVNEET: They’re very critical. No, but if you are not standing outside and you leave before they do…
TARANJIT: And it is literally the entire family that goes outside. Not just like one person from the house. You’re all standing out there and waving.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So if you leave before they your guests have left and can no longer see you. Then that’s kind of like, wow, that was rude. They didn’t even see us off. Like literally see us until they could no longer see us. And then when you’re backing up, even though they’re clearly staring at you, you have to honk and be like bye.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: And then everyone goes by from inside of the vehicle. Everyone waves. With both hands. And then everyone whose house you were at also waves with both hands.
TARANJIT: Like this? Your hands going inward towards your ear?
BHAVNEET: Yes, we’re exercising. Yup.
TARANJIT: Oh, man,
BHAVNEET: There’s another thing I can’t remember. I just had it.
TARANJIT: Well, re have it.
BHAVNEET: Oh, yeah. So this was really weird, uh, situation in Australia. So we were trying to find this house and our uncle got the wrong address. The numbers mixed up when he was getting the address. So we were driving around, and the number he had did not exist on this road. So we’re like, okay, something’s wrong. And so we were circling around, and he was like, look for houses that have shoes outside. Because that’s the Indian house. I was like, wow, I love how that is the stereotypical distinction, which I mean is accurate. I’m pretty sure other cultures do that too. But if you have people over because they were also other people going to that house, their shoes would be outside. So we’re like driving around like, oh, the house has shoes outside and then go knock on that door and be like, Do you know any Indian families that live here? And they were like no one’s like, no, and we are like oops. Embarrassment. Walk back. Hey. That one has shoes on it. Nah, that doesn’t look like an Indian house. We just got doing that for like at least 20 minutes. And then we were like, just call them, and be like, I got the wrong address. Please tell us your right address.
TARANJIT: Well, what also was bad was our mom went in a different vehicle, right. But we didn’t buy cell service for there. So like, we only worked…went off a Wi Fi and we couldn’t even contact our mom and be like…
BHAVNEET: And be like what’s the address? Ask someone.
TARANJIT: Yeah. So we’re like, who do we call because we had no one else’s number?
BHAVNEET: Yeah, and they did because…
TARANJIT: They just had one person number. They didn’t have everyone, right?
BHAVNEET: Yeah. They had the groom’s number. Yeah, but he wasn’t there. But he knew the people whose house were going to so he got their address really fast. And then he like, okay, called back, he’s standing outside, you can find him. That’s funny is that we drove by the house a couple of times, too. There were a couple of shoes outside.
TARANJIT: Most of them were inside.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, but there were some. So stereotypical thing about Indians. Check. Accurate, how did we not see it?
TARANJIT: Because we were like, in the state of mind, just like freaking out.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, We’re just like, what we literally were where we stopped and we’re like, what do we do was two houses away from the house, the house the two houses like behind us that we wanted to go to the we’re just sitting there…
TARANJIT: So at least we’re on the right road.
BHAVNEET: Which is the same thing when we’re going to a kind of like a service type thing. For someone who had bought a new house in Baltimore. We did not have a house number but they’re like oh, it’s on this road. And if you go from the church it’s like right…turn this way turn this way. It’s right there. And so we went that way and we literally were stopped at the intersection right next to their house and we’re like, where is this house? And they’re like, you’ll see it there’s a tent. We did not see any tent because the tent was in the backyard which is hidden by all the other houses and trees around it. So we’re like how in the world did you expect us to see that tent? So we were literally sitting next to the house for so long and then we saw other people go there. I’m like, Oh, that’s the house right there. Okay.
TARANJIT: At least we were like right there and not like we’re on some random…
BHAVNEET: Both times.
TARANJIT: …spot where we’re like in the middle of nowhere that we have no idea.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. We made it to the right road both times but both times we were like where’s the house and it’s right in front of us.
TARANJIT: It’s like when the GPS says your destination is on the left and you’re like…
BHAVNEET: There’s nothing there.
TARANJIT: Its saying that you’re literally right nearby just go one or two houses.
BHAVNEET: Just use your brain and figure out which one it is.
TARANJIT: I’ve brought you 99.9% of the way the last point one…
BHAVNEET: You could contribute some effort as well.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Am I supposed to do all the work that is what your GPS to say? Either that or it just turns off and be like hey, you’re on your own?
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: In the middle.
TARANJIT: And then…
BHAVNEET: I hope you previewed all the directions beforehand.
TARANJIT: And then at the end it’s like how was you know rate this trip or like rate your…
BHAVNEET: I got turned around and ended up back home. Very nice trip. Has anyone had that had da had da? I was gonna say…
TARANJIT: Was that even words?
BHAVNEET: It started out as words.
TARANJIT: And then it…
BHAVNEET: I was gonna say had, but then I accidently said have. So I said have the first time and then I’m like, oh wait, wrong tense. And then I was gonna say had but then I said have again. And then I’m like have the have the. And then, my brain just stopped like the GPS. It just turned off.
TARANJIT: Oh man.
BHAVNEET: So has anyone had…What? Yeah, that doesn’t even make any sense. Supposed to save have. Oh, has anyone ever had…Has anyone ever have had?
TARANJIT: Now you are thinking about it too hard. They are all gonna sound wrong.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. Has anyone ever had that hap…there you go. Has anyone ever had that happen to them? It is had. Had is such a weird word. Since I said it like 50 times already. Had. Had. Herh herh.
TARANJIT: Stop making my face hurt.
BHAVNEET: Look more face hurting. I don’t know how your face hurts. Like do you have like muscles in there?
TARANJIT: You have muscles here. Then how could you…
BHAVNEET: I know. I know. But like you have like more that yours hurts? I don’t feel anything. Were you laughing with your mouth wide open? So then why?
TARANJIT: See when I go like this…smile and laugh. It works so much. It hurts.
BHAVNEET: I have never done that. I guess I don’t I don’t laugh, right. Eh. Eh. Eh. You have to smile creepily with your mouth open and then laugh without closing your mouth. Heh. Heh. Heh.
TARANJIT: That is so weird. It’s like those ventriloquist and they’re puppets.
BHAVNEET: did you do it?
TARANJIT: No, I can’t.
BHAVNEET: I want to see what it looks like.
TARANJIT: Do it again. Let me see.
BHAVNEET: Heh. Heh. Heh.
TARANJIT: What are you even doing?
BHAVNEET: I am smiling with my mouth open. And then I’m laughing.
TARANJIT: Your nose is also going like this.
BHAVNEET: Cuz I was a weird laughing.
TARANJIT: I don’t know how to do that.
BHAVNEET: Okay, keep your mouth open and laugh. You have to keep your teeth apart. Heh. Heh. Heh.
TARANJIT: I can’t
BHAVNEET: You did the face expression and then just said, I can’t. But I can’t.
TARANJIT: Your nose is just like… I can’t.
BHAVNEET: I just can’t. What’s that accent?
TARANJIT: I don’t know.
BHAVNEET: I don’t either. It’s not supposed to be.
TARANJIT: It hurts.
BHAVNEET: Glad I made you hurt.
TARANJIT: All over. Here. And here.
BHAVNEET: What is here?
TARANJIT: The back of my head where my eyeballs are.
BHAVNEET: Oh, my gosh, your eyesight? It hurts. Oh, no. Heh. Heh. Heh. I meant for that to happen. Work them eye muscles, too.
TARANJIT: But my eyes don’t hurt. It just hurts back here.
BHAVNEET: In your eyesight. In the back of your brain where your eyesight is. Do you want me to that weird karate chop thing that someone just did on an Indian serial in the back of their neck? There just like…I have no idea why they did that. They just randomly zoomed in on the back of the guy’s head. And this lady was just like, hiya in the back of the neck. Karate chop.
TARANJIT: And then he felt unconscious.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So I don’t know what the point of that was. Because she was not a bad person.
TARANJIT: First, I don’t watch the show. So I have no idea what the storyline is what the plot is.
BHAVNEET: Speaking of Indian serials…
TARANJIT: Two, he was already kind of like half unconscious, and then she hit him in the back of the neck to fully knock him out.
BHAVNEET: Is that…was that her purpose?
TARANJIT: I think so.
BHAVNEET: That was her purpose?
TARANJIT: I think so. Instead of taking like an object from the room, she just used her hand.
BHAVNEET: You got a strong karate chop there.
TARANJIT: And another show that was on before that scene show came on. When there’s people that are kidnapped, they’re tied to a chair. They always put them in a room with a lot of stuff so they can just free themselves.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, that’s not how it works. And this guy was practically just standing up. He’s like, Oh, yeah, but I’m attached to a chair. And he’s just like walking around like, eh back into this. Back into this. Oh, look glass, how convenient. I’m just gonna knock it over and cut this rope.
TARANJIT: And his hands were like kind of practically in front of him for the most part so he could easily maneuver.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, Indians serials are an anomaly of their own. They are a enigmas. Has anyone ever seen an Indian serial? They are very. If you think soap operas are dramatic. You have not seen Indian serials.
TARANJIT: I feel like American soap operas are a little over the edge on their own.
BHAVNEET: They’re their own type of weird like…
TARANJIT: Like, I don’t think I could ever watch an American soap opera.
BHAVNEET: No.
TARANJIT: But Indian soap operas like I can watch.
BHAVNEET: We grew up watching them. So we’re used to it. I’m pretty sure if people grew up watching those, they are like, Oh, yeah, I love them soap operas.
TARANJIT: I can’t watch them.
BHAVNEET: I can’t either.
TARANJIT: They are like too…
BHAVNEET: What is that one Days of Our Lives or something like that? I think that’s what it’s called. I don’t know it just randomly it would see it on whatever channel like the game shows like the price is right or something would come on. And then later that weird soap opera would come on. And I like once saw it playing and I’m like, I’m gonna fall asleep now. What is this?
TARANJIT: It feels like so exaggerated over the top dramatic.
BHAVNEET: Is it their attempt to try and make it Indian serial? Because they don’t have the right elements. Okay.You don’t have first off all Indian serials, pretty much, you got to have a lead lady, heroine who’s going to be like the daughter-in-law. And she’s going to go through all this crazy stuff that is so realistic.
TARANJIT: Constantly put under tests.
BHAVNEET: Realistic, and totally doable, I guess. Yeah. Uh huh. All these crazy things just to like save her entire family.
TARANJIT: There’s always the set of threes…cameral angles like on the…
BHAVNEET: Do double takes?
TARANJIT: Yea. Three times.
BHAVNEET: The dramatic music. Duh duh duun. And then do when, when something like shocking happens or something like anything like that happens, they literally have to zoom in on each person’s face. And they each have to take turns making that expression. So it was like shocked. They each have to be like…oh my God. And then…how would that look when they’re actually recording? It’s like, all right, your turn. And then they’d be like, and then hold it for like five seconds. And then they go the next round your turn. And they’re like, hold it for like five seconds. And then everyone else is just watching them like calmly and then the next person Your turn. It must be really weird.
TARANJIT: Everyone gets a chance.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, you gotta hold it
TARANJIT: It probably takes forever to shoot those because it’s like in pieces. But like everyone has to react at a different time…
BHAVNEET: Exactly.
TARANJIT: …to something that happened a while ago.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So imagine what like, what would it be on their end? Like to actually record that? Because we see it just like, what? Okay, there’s 10 people saying that each person has to be shocked. All right, you’re not very good at being shocked. Wow, you’re over the top. And another thing that Indians serials love to do is if they need to have a plot twist, or they can’t think of anything else. One of the main people just loses their memory.
TARANJIT: Yes.
B; No matter what happens, they just lose their memory, any kind of medical thing, they lose their memory.
TARANJIT: So now you lost your memory. How do you get it back here?
BHAVNEET: See that is the question, then you’re going to spend two months.
TARANJIT: It’s…okay. It’s not just losing the memory. The other thing that’s common is them like going their separate ways. Then coming back. Then going their separate ways. Like they are done with each other.
BHAVNEET: Duh duh duhn.
TARANJIT: And then they’re like, Oh, I really missed you. So we’ll get back together. And then they’re done with each other.
BHAVNEET: Something else happens. Yeah. I hate you. You hate me. Misunderstanding, misunderstanding. And there’s always like an evil mother-in-law. Sister-in-law. Some evil lady in the house.
TARANJIT: Lady.
BHAVNEET: Yes. Always a lady. Evil lady in the house trying to screw everything up. Always. At least one. Sometimes they’re in a group. There’s multiple, but always at least one. Those are the main elements.
TARANJIT: There’s probably more, but I haven’t really seen a show in a while.
BHAVNEET: The American shows have brought me over to the land of un-overdramatic.
TARANJIT: To a land of English shows?
BHAVNEET: Yes. To the land of un-overdramatic and more higher quality effects. That too. I mean, Bollywood movies are getting there. But…
TARANJIT: So the one thing I’ve noticed is in real life, bringing them back to the front of our…
BHAVNEET: The front?
TARANJIT: The beginning of our episode.
BHAVNEET: It sounds like we’re in a war zone. We’re at the front.
TARANJIT: Bringing it back to the start. But in real life, our greetings, our entrances and exits.
BHAVNEET: Exit tis?
TARANJIT: Yes. Are really long. But in soap operas. They’re not.
BHAVNEET: Are they?
TARANJIT: Yeah, it’s just like, oh hi. Everyone just comes in. Oh, bye. Everyone just leaves.
BHAVNEET: I never really paid attention.
TARANJIT: No one takes off their shoes.
BHAVNEET: Yes. They are not doing it right. That is not accurate. They just all walk in with their fancy heels and like, oh, sit down, sit down. No. Take off shoes. You’re dragging all the dirt.
TARANJIT: Yeah. So it’s not completely right.
BHAVNEET: Obviously. I don’t think anyone does that overdramatic size everything. Okay, your turn to be shocked. Your turn to be shy.
Nobody else is allowed to make an expression until they have their turn.
TARANJIT: Until it is their turn.
BHAVNEET: Yeah, your turn. Oh, you messed up. Try again. Your turn.
TARANJIT: That’d be so weird if that was real life. It’s like something happens. But you can’t react until it’s your two seconds.
BHAVNEET: Someone just fell over. Oh my god. Hey, it’s not your turn. Put that back.
TARANJIT: You have to wait to be that genuine when it’s your turn.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. I mean, I should, Oh my God. Was that okay? Let me do that again. Reminds me of Trump, where he was letting a reporter follow him around for the day and they were like interviewing him. And they asked him a question. And then somebody coughed in the middle of his answer. And then he’s like, he was talking and then he’s like, let’s redo that because somebody coughed. If you’re going to cough, go take it outside. And then the guy was moving the camera to get the angle. He’s like I’m trying to…I’m just gonna move a change the angle and then Trump just staring at the camera the whole time, like with this angry expression, just like, well, his face. And then…I don’t remember what the point of that was. But yes.
TARANJIT: I don’t know. You brought it up. We were talking about you can’t say anything until it’s your turn.
BHAVNEET: Oh, yeah.
TARANJIT: If it was real life.
BHAVNEET: Yeah. So I mean, he totally did it. Like let me do another take. And then he like changed the way he said it. His delivery changed like three times.
TARANJIT: It’s like he is in a role acting role of a president. Not a real life president.
BHAVNEET: And then someone asked, Are we going to be in a war? I hope not. That’s a very reassuring answer. Thank you. I feel so much better now.
TARANJIT: Yeah, if you don’t know…
BHAVNEET: Who does?
TARANJIT: Oh, I don’t know. I hope not. But who knows what would happen.
BHAVNEET: Well, then how about we get someone over here that knows.
TARANJIT: That should be our job as like citizens to be like, I hope not. And then see what happens. Not who has the ability to to have a say in this decision.
BHAVNEET: A very big part. Very big indecisive. Apparently part. I hope not to thank you. So we will leave you with that uh kind of disturbing thought about are impeding doom. Yeah, so that’s it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And let us know how you greet slash farewell.
TARANJIT: That’s the word.
BHAVNEET: Farewell.
TARANJIT: Go back and insert
BHAVNEET: Insert into the madly…madly.
TARANJIT: I was doing a Mad Lib you know, blank insert word here.
BHAVNEET: Lame.
TARANJIT: Exit-es. Exit.
BHAVNEET: Exit-es. Oh my God. Now your person. You’re an exit-tist. I exit out of situation.
TARANJIT: Farewell.
BHAVNEET: Yes. So let us know how you greeting and farewell. If your greetings and farewells, last as long as ridiculously long.
TARANJIT: Or if they are as unique and different than a typical Hello.
BHAVNEET: What is typical?
TARANJIT: Hi. Bye.
BHAVNEET: Oh. Hi. Bye.
TARANJIT: Okay. Hi bye.
BHAVNEET: Hi bye.
TARANJIT: Yeah.
BHAVNEET: Huba huba huba. Back to the cias, which are chaos, apparently. Okay. Thoughts of chaos, impeding doom and farewells and hellos, which are also kind of chaos. You can connect with us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest. At Drive With Us podcast. And if you have any crazy, interesting, weird stories about your commute…Yes, I was gonna say commuse…commuse interesting interactions with people in terms of greetings and farewells. Cause that’s what we were talking about, and commutes as always crazy funny, weird, interesting. All of the above, none of the above. share them with us. And you could be on an upcoming episode of Drive With Us. Until next time, bye.
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