Plus[9]One | Desi Perspectives: Work, Life and Culture Across America and India Plus[9]One

In this episode, the boys end up nerding out over cars. It starts with Abhilaksh asking Kaza to teach him how to "rash drive", followed by a discussion about the emotional appeal of cars for the hosts, followed by Kaza and Shounak giving Abhilaksh a detailed breakdown of how the Formula One world works and the politics involved.

We round things off with Abhilaksh's story about how he tried to rent a Lamborghini once, and we then explain why Kaza's the man to call in the event your local Lambo rental store snubs you. 

Music is your special friend, until the end: in this episode, we open with Abhilaksh's plans to bring Euphoria Cartel back, the band that he created and subsequently abandoned in college. We then talk about another guitar player who left his band only to join it again ten years later, John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Then we discuss newer musicians like Tekashi 6ix9ine and the reasons for their fame, followed up by a conversation about our first forays into Western music and the men and women that introduced us to this world, some of whom are no longer with us (RIP Chester, Chris.)

In this episode, we open with our thoughts on our favourite enfant terrible who is now a presidential candidate, Kanye West. We then talk about the gulf between our expectations as Indian immigrant hopefuls,  and the reality of life in the United States, and fight over Kaza's hand for marriage. Finally, we go in-depth into the difficulties of teaching English speaking people how to pronounce our names, and all the aliases we have come up with to save ourselves from (unwarranted) embarassment. 

In our inaugural episode for the Plus[9]One podcast, we start off by discussing the lost first episode where Abhilaksh made blasphemous food-related statements (such as an ode to the superiority of frozen pizza from Kroger). We then dive into the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, girlfriend to infamous international pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. We also discuss the seemingly random appearance of fireworks at odd hours of the day across the United States, rounded out with some comments on the current global coronavirus and the number of time zones in Texas.