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South Asian / Desi dads in their 40s stumble through fatherhood, midlife, and cultural chaos — with laughs along the way.
Welcome to NaanSense! 🎙️ A podcast where dads in their 40s share the funny, messy, and real side of parenting, culture, and aging.
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I've had your I've had your chicken tikka. Very good. Really good. Have you had his chicken tikka? How'd it taste? It was wonderful. It was wonderful.
Hello everyone. My name is Ahmed Mirza. Welcome to NaanSense!. I am your host. Think of this show as as a way where dads talk freely and openly uh about what it means to be a dad. I'll be joined by Twiddle D and Twiddle Dumb here, Sajid and Emad. And expect to have like a South Asian flavor on things. So uh we'll generally overthink uh overshare and uh try to make each other laugh occasionally. Okay. Main topic for today is how have your eating habits changed? We're going to talk about food. Everything related to sort of how you grew up with food. uh especially in a DIY household and how that's changed to what it is uh today. So I want to learn more. Um night and day man. Yeah. Night and why do you say that? Well, I mean growing up DY household uh I think we probably all grew up on uh alugos. Salon aloo go all that good stuff. So delicious. And then looking at what is aloo for some of our discerning viewers? Oh I don't know you you describe it. It's like a potato stew. That's a such such a poor painful under diminishing potato potato stew. You're not going to eat it. Yeah, it's not stew. You're not going to eat it by yourself. You have to eat it with like roti, right? Just go just go look for it somewhere. Don't trust this guy's thing about you. But I had alugos. I had biryani pulao. Uh my mom did make a good amount of like pasta dishes and things that were a little bit more uh dy adjacent closer to western style but I mean if you look at the the lineup now very intentionally is very different right way left in terms of carbs that's for sure you know uh my father-in-law always jokes that like uh they like will take one carb and then like pick up another carb with it and then like stuff her face with it you know so I Like didn't co change your habits a lot? Like CO was like a big like game changer for I've like I noticed like Chinese food people weren't eating a lot of Chinese food. So we kind of started supporting Chinese food unlike IMAD. I I don't think CO changed my uh eating habits. I think getting married did uh for sure. Uh early on I think similar I grew up in a very you know I'd say shelteredish back, you know, upbringing, you know, had very tasty heavy foods. So like aloo go aloo goi um juk jukand go which is uh beet uh like beets and uh really meat. Yeah. Um every day? Not every day. My mom cooked my Yeah. My mom cooked daisy food every day pretty much. Was that too spicy for you guys? Like as a kid, you don't remember like this is too spicy, I can't eat this stuff, dude. I I lucked out. Or maybe I didn't, but my dad didn't love spicy food. So, we didn't have very spicy food in the house. If anything, that's been like a a big barrier for me to connect with, you know, your mud uh being able to hang hang with our uh our outings at this restaurant. I I can't do it. So, what do you guys think about this auntie system? Have you guys tried that? You know, we tried looking for an auntie once. It just never worked out. It was just like too much work and effort. What's funny is I was at my parents home this past weekend and my dad opens up these dishes and he starts serving it to me and I'm like, "Where did this come from?" And he's like, "There's this woman that makes food and she delivers." And he's like, "I'll give you all the details." So, this this auntie makes food. She even delivers it if you get, I don't know, over $75, $80 worth of food. I tried it. It's delicious. But it comes back to the same thing. The reason we're eating so differently now is because, you know, diet profile has changed, right? And like the type of things I want to like put in my body, even if it's like homemade, is different than like if uh um you know, it's quinoa or something or brown rice instead of white rice, right? Um, so that's that's where uh at least I have a lot of issues with, you know, finding food that like consistently will be good for me versus, you know, just like eating whatever. What do you guys have in your fridge right now? What's in my fridge right now? We did like burgers today, so I guess today is not maybe the best example. Yeah. But like, you know, homemade burgers. But we do a lot of like brown rice, quinoa combo with like shawarma or like chicken, lean meat, that type of stuff. What's interesting is my taste profile has changed a lot. These things that I probably didn't like too much a few years ago. Now I'm like, "Yeah, it's beautiful." What did you like in your 30s? I I love, you know, a burger, a steak, uh probably more red meat, and now it's a it's more than anything, it's it's more thoughtful than it was before. Now, yeah, I have to be thoughtful, right? Like, I feel it immediately, you know, as soon as I eat something that's heavy, like, you know, like I never thought I'd be somebody that gets heartburn, have Tums in my in my medicine cabinet, you know? I never had that. Dude, you're you're saying you have Tums. I was at Costco recently and I was like, you know what? We're we're running low on Tums. So, I I bought a giant jumbo version of Tums. A Costco version of It is It is laughably large. I brought it home and my wife looked at me and just started laughing. That's how that's how large it is. I think I didn't really even know what Tums were for like prior to age 37. Now, it's like an after after dinner dessert. It's funny how your body changes on what you can eat. So, I grew up in the LA area, right? So, In-N-Out for me is like a a big part of like major milestones in life, you know, like Yeah. since I was a kid, high school, college, all the way through to when I met my wife, like In-N-Out was always a thing. And in the last couple years, I have In-N-Out. And I'm like, "Oh, shoot." Dude, the quality of In-N-Out has gone down, though. Like, it's not the same. I would like to believe that's the issue. I think that's exactly what's happened. I've I I feel the exact same way and I'm pretty sure it's not the same. I relate to this story because I had my nephew come over, not nephew, my brother-in-law come over uh and he took the difference between a nephew and a brother-in-law because this guy acts like a 12-year-old, but he's like, "We have to go to Fogo Decha." Have you guys been to Fog Chao? Yes. Yes. That place is also in Beverly Hills. Nice. Good. Humble brag. you know, cra crazy crazy crazy place. So, this he's trying to convince me to go to Foga. I have no interest at this point in my life. I'm like, I will never go back to Fogia. There's nothing. And for those of you who've not been, uh, Eric, it is a place where they keep bringing out meat. Eric's been in this. Eric, Eric's been They will keep bringing out steak after steak after steak and you until until you decide to stop. So, I hadn't been to this place since since like 15 years ago. And I have the next day morning I was signed up for a run. So, I'm like, "All right, let me go with you." We get there at like 9:30, 30 minutes before they're about to close. And man, they started bringing up one steak after the other with like a gap of maybe like 35 seconds, no more. By the fourth or fifth steak, I couldn't tell the difference between chicken and meat and like beef. Like, it was all the same. I was like, "This is the worst." Yeah. But you kept eating and I kept eating. Well, that's the thing. That's the problem. No, I'll tell you. You know where the term house always wins? I understood that term in that moment. The house always win. You will never they eat whatever you like. No. No. No. Winning. House always wins. Then the indigestion that happened the day after like that's where I needed those thumbs. So this is the other day. Go for it. Go ahead. No, no, no. Please, please go. I hope we keep all of this man. This is really good podcasting right here. The the way that it's like flowing between us. Conversation is beautiful. So anyhow, um, so my kids favorite cuisine is of all things in the world is sushi, right? And yeah, you know, most expensive cuisine you could pick uh for the amount of food you get. And uh also I don't really know how to make great sushi. So we we go out and eat sushi a lot. The other thing they like a lot is f. So they can eat f any day of the week. And the other day we go to f. And I'm like, you know, I've I've had enough f recently. So I I get something different. And I don't think it's any fault of the the restaurant is what I'm gonna say out loud. That night we hang out. Actually I'm we hung out that night. Later that night, I had like indigestion and stuff. And then I'm like throwing up. I'm throwing up like at 3:00 in the morning. And I I haven't thrown up in I honestly can't remember, but it was painful. And I'm thinking, dude, this is just like my body rejecting processed food, food from outside. Uh that was intense, dude. I was That's Sorry. Uh sorry that happened to you. My my favorite restaurant is actually uh a restaurant called uh Bundu Khan. It's a Pakistani barbecue restaurant. Uh one of my favorites say that name in front of me like that that they have every type of kebab. They have chicken fine establishment. The only issue is is that it's like 45 50 miles away from where we live. Uh but man, I used to eat this stuff like growing up and it was no issue. And my issue now is that whenever I go and have it, I need to have Tums in the night otherwise. Yeah. What did you do last time we went to Bandukhan? Before we went to Bandukhan, what did you do? What did I do? I I don't know. Remind me. Remind me. What did I do? This guy we're planning to go and he just sends me this message. I'm I'm I'm pre-imming.
You kind of need to. You kind of need to. I love that. So, okay. There's there's some new relatively new health science, but I think it's been popular in eastern cultures that if you walk like steadily for 20 to 30 minutes before your meal, it actually speeds up digestion and makes it easier for your stomach after work. So, little sense like you know back in the day like we people go hunting and like that would take some effort. Yeah. By the time you like kill your food and eat it, it makes a lot of sense. I mean, food accessibility is just way too easy, right? I mean, it's way too easy. I mean, you don't even have to move. 45 minutes is a long drive, though. I think 45 minutes drive does that for you. You know, you're driving. Are you Are you running there? I'm mentally moving. I'm getting the mental readiness. Salivating like, oh, it's going to be so delicious. No, but this place though is is a problem for me. Like, I remember when it first opened up, uh my wife would like, hey, we need to go back to Pakistan. I'm like, "For what? We don't need to. Like, the food's right here." And we literally didn't go to go back home for like three more years after. I know you guys have like this really nostalgic experience with Bundukan. Uh, but I think it's overrated. I know. Super unpopular opinion. I might with my wife one time like at 11 p.m. at night. Yeah. And I just like left, drove to Bundan, had an amazing meal, came back super happy. That just goes to show that it's overrated. Like I think it's more of a therapy nostalgia thing for you than I don't know, man. If that place shut down, I'll be very sad. What's the food you guys can eat every day? Like in theory, I would love to have biryani every day. You know, beautiful. Wow. But but it'll kill me, right? Like it's just too much. That's a good question. I I don't know. Uh I would like to think it's something I'm used to. So like for me, I always say my favorite food is dal jawal, right? So, lentil rice. No way. That's That is That is a crap answer. But I think I think I can eat that. I I think I can eat that every day. Wow. I ate that every day growing up. Like I have I I despise that the dish so much because literally every single day that was the lunch I had at from like age 5 to like 12, like every day. Wow. Did your Did your mom make it for you or uh Yeah. Yeah, I was I used to live in a like a family where it was my my family, my uncle's family in a big house. So, every day that was like the fixed meal and man, I have PTSD from eating that. But think about how good that was in some ways. Like the constant planning we have to do now. I just thought we were just poor. We're like, hey, like that's the that's the only thing we can afford. I think I think everyone has pallet add. I think we all have pallet ad. That's true. Come on. That just means I feel like people like to try different things. Yeah. So I feel like this is a struggle and it's created like such a hardship on all of us trying to figure out every single meal. Oh, it needs to be different, you know. And now like I used to Okay. growing up my mom would make something and I would eat that for like, you know, as leftovers for, you know, two days, whatever, for a couple days, whatever it is. Now my kid is like, "Oh, we just had that last night. I don't want to eat that again. I'm like, what? Why is that a thing? Do you guys experience that? Yeah, kids are really hard. It's I have no idea how to like But how come we didn't put up a fight? You know, like I was really I was really I wish I wish I could say like, you know, I'm I was so much better than my kids. But I was a like I think I I went through like a few phases as a kid. Super picky eater, pain in the butt for my mom. Went to college, you know, survival mode, right? just started eating everything and totally was good. Somewhere in my like late 20s, 30s like thought I had a refined you got the taste of the bacon in college, huh? The bacon nay. That is not allowed. Please, no bacon. So, uh, and then you have kids. Uh, so you kind of like are in this like crazy mode again, survivalist, right? And now I'm back into I don't think I have like a lot of choice necessarily because a lot of the food is dictated by the by my kids. But I am a pain in the butt because like I want I want food that's like clean, you know? It's not like heavy and all that kind of stuff. So I feel like you just like every five to seven years you take kind of what's your food that you can eat every day? I can do tacos like street tacos style like almost every day. Yeah. And you're and you wouldn't get wrecked. and Mediterranean. Like if I could just swap, you know, every day between those two, like shawarma and tacos. Tacos, you could have a lot of variety. So like that's Dude, you're you're talking about not getting wrecked and you're you bring up tacos. How are you not going to get wrecked from tacos? Talking about Taco Bell. Yeah, I'm not with [ __ ] tacos. What's wrong with tacos? You're No, tacos are great. I love tacos. I just can't have them every day cuz I'm going to get What part of the taco are you thinking? I'm not having the cheese. So that's another thing. I don't do dairy anymore as of last. So there's no cheese. Why is that? What? Why? Why is that? Why aren't you doing dairy? What do you got against the cows? You know, I feel like big cow has just been ramming us with, you know, got milk. But the reason I don't do it, could you even call it could you even call it a taco if there's no cheese? Isn't that like effectively like an empanada? You may as well just be eating like a fatties or something. you uh or ignorant American buffoon thinking only from the Taco Bell lens. I think you could do salsa, fish. Like I could see that if you want and you dress it up with the right salsa. Yeah. The right vegetables and stuff and you can get quite but that's like saying you know like I think like there are some people who might be offended by your like choice because it's like saying like oh I could eat curry every day but like curry that's like a salon could be like 50 different kinds of salon. Okay. You want a specific? Okay. Chicken chicken tacos. I can eat chicken tacos every day. Every day with salsa with no cheese or any any other little bit of guacamole on top. I mean, this is like one of those like pharmaceutical commercials where like no, you know, may cause blah blah blah blah blah blah, you know, at the end all these there are a lot of things happening. So, you know, the side effects are real. What about you, Emman? What about you? I I you know I've already tested this you guys probably right is Dalcha. No no no no no don't say that obviously Bundukhan would be great but I think that's bad but I think the one I've tested is air fried chicken wings. I eat that every day. Air fried chicken wings. Oh interesting. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'll have to try just by itself. You going you're going to No, no. I I put like I put buffalo sauce. Buffalo sauce. though. Yeah. Every day you could have that. You have that every day. That's amazing. Messy though, dude. That's my problem with chicken wings. It's messy. I don't know. Why you two hand? I have just one hand. Just one hand. I do. I do one hand. Okay. You like getting into the bones, huh? Wait, which hand? Right hand, left hand. Which one? Oh, right. You don't use the left hand. That's the L hand. Yeah. I'm not going to use my L hand, dude. Although like with the Muslim shower, I always use my right hand. So I don't know. Yeah. I don't know. Like it just like the side it's installed on, right? Like you're not going to have like you hold it with the right hand. I love this. I love this active demonstration. No, but I mean it's kind of kind of related. Take us back to the Take this one offline, guys. Let's take this one. It's kind of related. I mean what food, you know, is the input and then there is some output, right? So like it's it's related. It's like similar lines. Okay. I have another question. I'm going to I'm going to take it to like you what do you what about restaurants? It's very hard to get like good clean healthy food at restaurants. You be really picky. Like I feel like this is where I'm a pain for my for my wife. I think I just in general I think our food supply is tainted. I think we don't have good quality food that is nutritious or the same high high value. There's stuff in our food that we don't even know. Yeah, for sure. I think I think on fixing I think it makes it problematic. I think it makes it problematic going to like restaurants and stuff. It's really difficult. Yeah. Um it's hard to find good clean restaurants that are using clean meats, clean ingredients, things of that sort cuz everyone's cutting corners and that's the issue. It's hard. And then like you have to like find that like my my wife only eats halal. So like I gota on top of that. That's great. Find places that are halal. I feel like I'm I'm the oddball out. Even my wife will call me out on this. She's like, "Here, we should share." But I'm like, "The chef designed this meal with like one person in mind. Feel like doing a little bit of You're going to Michelin star restaurant on the regular. I'm just going down the street, bro. Like good stuff. to like In-N-Out. Are you saying In-N-Out Burger? Ain't no chef back there, my guy. Are you being more empathetic? Are you being more caring for the chef than your wife? No, I'm just trying to be more caring for my wife. I want to have her a full meal. I don't want to leave anybody leaving half hungry. Do you guys Okay, so this is interesting. Do you feel like your eating habits have started mirroring some way what you saw your parents doing? because I feel like that's something like I would see a parent doing a dad doing h how how so can you can you expand on that okay so here's an example this not exactly a eating habit but the finances and and the the numbers around it so we we'll get eggs and like we'll have for breakfast the other day uh after we all had eggs there's five of us in the family I looked at the carton I told my We went through seven eggs and you have to mortgage your you have that's like mortgaging your house now. Seven eggs in one breakfast. And you know honestly I was very happy. I was like alhamdulillah we went through seven eggs. This was like a a happy moment for me. But you know my wife is looking at me thinking like you like dude like she's like you and counting eggs like what's your problem? And I'm like, "No, no, no, no. I'm not like I'm not like being tripped up about this because I think externally it looks like that's what I am and I'm becoming my dad. But internally, I'm just I'm just doing research. I'm just collecting data, right? Is that is that what you're doing? You're just research." And and I'm thinking like from the outside I'm like embodying a lot of like traits that probably my dad, you know, he just is like in the in genetically built in, you know, like being an uncle. Yeah. me and uncle. But no, no, no. I'm just like trying to understand like okay, seven eggs every sitting that that's great, you know, and like that means that you know, just try. How many days do we go before we have to refill this? I know is literally two days if I'm not, you know, I'm not great at math, but it's less than two days.
the the constant nature of refilling the refrigerator with stuff is just like a the cost associated and b the actual task of doing it is just it it's mindboggling. No, but Costco is awesome. Like we go and we get like three billion eggs every time we go. Yeah. Or three billion tons straight. Or three billion tons. Yeah. So who's Okay. Who's in charge? Who's in charge of that? uh in charge of like managing the food in your household. Is it you? Is it your wife? Is it someone else? It's not someone else. Uh definitely. And my eight-year-old does a great job. Excellent inventory manager. Um no, I mean my wife takes lead on that. I I try to support Look, look at this guy. Takes the lead. What a what a PC executive answer. Yeah, I don't do I don't do jack drag [ __ ] is basically. But you don't even go like I at least like for me for us we have I have the Costco membership. Zurf does not have the Costco membership. Oh, which means that's very traditional. Are you a Mormon? Why? Why do you have it? Because do you not believe in women's rights? No. No. Are you against Are you against women suffrage to Costco? No, she's against it. He's like, I don't want to go to Costco. you should do it. So, I end up being but I have now built a really awesome relationship with Costco. I'm an executive lifetime member or whatever their like high honorary membership is. Been a member since 2009 or something like that. Um I don't know what any of these things are. You've never been to a Costco? No. No. I've been to a Costco, but all this like elite membership and stuff that you're talking about, never heard of it. It's the best. the samples. They give out samples. Nonsense. So good. Uh I hate going to Costco. So really, my wife used to like going, but now I think she it's just too big of a project uh to go there, kids, everything. So we if we're getting Costco, we get it delivered because it's just the the energy required because it takes like a solid three three and a half hours to do a Costco run in person. No, it does not. For us, it does dislike. It is literally like a 45 minute. You put an audio book on. No, like this is like This is the place like chores is when I do audio books. What Costco are you going to? It takes me 20 minutes at least to get to Costco. 20 25 minutes. You're there like a bon. So that doesn't make sense. No, I mean, you know, it's uh it's a little off. It's an investment. It's a time investment. It's a diamond investment. I hate shopping. I hate going through the aisles and like there's a lot of Look at this. Look at this elitist. Look at this elitist. This is No, nothing. I've always been When I was poor as dirt, I was like this, too. I just like Yeah. Like, no. No. I'm sorry. Pan to me. Pan to me. Right here. Right here. Right here. Tell me. How do you get a delivery? Delivery is so expensive. This is what happens when you're in your 40s and you reach the get off my lawn phase where you don't want to interact with anyone. You don't want to see anyone. This is what happens right here. Sajid is living example of this. Is Costco available virtually? Like if they talk to me like this, I'm happy to interact with them. S's like, I'm all in. I will do a podcast with you guys. Zoom. Zoom. Costco. Oh yeah. Put me on the podcast. I'm there. I'm sure there'll be a day where there's like a robot running around and you you'll be like the eyes of the robot looking around like, "Yeah, dude. I I totally I totally think I know. It seems like a lot of time looking through a robot's eyes. I rather just have somebody else do it." But don't you Okay, speaking of robots, don't you think that's going to happen to like Instacart stuff in the future? Like it'll just be a robot shopping around getting your groceries? Yeah, I think it's coming. It's kind of scary for sure. And then like what are you going to leave a review like? Oh, the robot didn't pick the bananas correctly. Like what are you going to do? Robot's going to come hunt you down. Well, different. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, last question on this topic. So, how do you how do you deal with food or your situations with food when like you're traveling or you know family gatherings? So like okay for example I was in New York visiting my family recently and you know my mom like remembers cooking food up until the age of you know 18 right like basically when I left home. Um and you know she remembers like cooking all this desi food and the hardest thing was like she cooked like this buffet like she cooked biryani she cooked this chicken dish this beef dish she had like paratha like the whole night delicious I'm getting hungry. It sounds amazing. It looked amazing, but like didn't taste good. I was like, no. I was like, "Mom, I can't eat this. Like, I'm going to get wrecked." Right. And look at me. I I had it. I had it. I had a little bit and then like I was done. Yeah. And was she offended? Yeah. She No, but like just the I guess I guess what I'm trying to get at is the pressure of like trying to please your parents and being like, "Oh, well, you're not you're not eating anything, you know?" And I'm like, "I'm trying. I just got to be like, "Okay, pack it all up. Let's take it. We're going to fight over there. I can't I can't eat it all." And, you know, she made all this stuff, you know, with all this effort. And uh it's just hard. H you guys deal with that ever? Well, I mean, the parent factor is a whole different variable. But travel itself, I think, yeah, it always throws everything off because, you know, you're eating at airports, airport food is obviously just Yeah. trash. I remember You know how they give you meals on an airplane sometimes? Um, I took that meal and I was not hungry. I saved it and I tried to have it later later on. That that's that was the worst. I was like, how do people even eat this? But like same food at 30,000 ft tastes great. But you know, if you fly the airlines in like domestic land, Pakistan, food is so good. So good. Like the plane seems like it might not land at its destination because all wobbly and [ __ ] But the food they come in, they come in tight, man. Dude, food food on international airways is just amazing. Like I I've flown Turkish, Emirates, cafe, Singapore. There's something about being in a metal tube at like that altitude and you're like, "Oh, you're getting first served a nice warm meal." You're like, "What is happening? Where how how am I even alive right now?" I love that stuff. I love I love that little Yeah, that dropped the sirloin in my face. Yeah, drop it. I don't know, bro. That's something different. Good stuff. Good stuff. We would be remiss if we didn't talk about naan. Emma, yeah, naan. What's your favorite What's your naan type, dude? Dude, my my naan type uh I'm I like a traditional naan, but I I want a very large naan, not this like the BS triangular types that you get these days from, you know, the frozen section. Um I want a fresh Is that shrinkflation of some sort? Where that Yeah. What is that? Yeah. Healthy triangles. I mean, never made triangles. Never. I've never seen a triangle naan until I got it from the frozen section at Trader Joe's. So, I'm going to blame Trader Joe's. Is it a bungalow thing? I don't know. I don't think they have none there yet. I'm just checking. I don't want to offend anyone by my anti- triangle naan. I do feel like there's something about Bengali that like there I like I I come home and like I'm I'm usually pretty hungry after work and guess what? Like I just like my wife's like, "Okay, bua Bengali is here again." And it's like that's pretty offensive, you know? Like I don't know like I That is offensive. That is offensive, you know. Okay. Is that fair or like I don't know. You're the Bengali I know best. So I I think it's fair. Okay. So my wife and I are also different, you know, ethnic groups from South Asia, right? Do you guys have that? Like do you guys get uh crap for I get my whole race gets judged. I feel like every day it's not fair.
No, I'm I'm a purebred. Uh 100% alignment on my side. Both you and you and your wife both are the same. Yeah, same. Wow. Are you cousins?
This is a legitimate question. You could be distant relatives. Uh your wife is related to a lot of people. She's related to everyone. A few weeks ago, she found out she's related to me and I'm not your friend. Yeah, there's no way. How is that? How's that possible? It's through marriage or something. Ask your wife. Don't ask me. I have no idea. That's crazy. Crazy. The reason I bring it up is um like the foods are different, you know, between like what my mom cooked versus what my wife's mom cooked. And uh it's like it's interesting how there's all these nuances. Do you pro do you like what your wife's uh mom cooks? Do you like the food that comes from your Okay. What is the thing you do? You look at the camera. I mean, I love the food. No, I do. She's she's I mean my my in-law is actually my father-in-law too. Great cook and uh thoroughly enjoy it. Okay. Oh, I didn't ask this earlier. So, okay. Um, I think Sajid, you said you don't take the lead on food in your house, but do you know how to cook? Yeah, I know how to cook. I'm more like a sue chef. I'll be in that kitchen like following ingredients and um, you know, I'll push things out, but I'm not the guy that's like throwing the masala in ally willy without, you know, a recipe book. Uh, but I I like cooking. I can't do it very fast. So if I'm cooking, it's less frequently. It takes more time, but I I do I enjoy it. So um my wife is a real chef and I come in I come in do what you know breakfast and barbecue like every day. Yeah, I breakfast. I mean I do more than barbecue. That seems like maybe just you. Okay. How about How about you emods? Oh, I can Yeah, I can do breakfast. I can do boiled eggs. Those are really good. could do. It's like saying you could put together some cereal like with Yeah, for sure. For sure. Actually, boiling an egg, there's so many different stages. I like boiled to get it right. It needs to be 8 minutes and if you're off, it's not right. But I can do like chicken tikka or like good bihari kebab. Like that's stuff. I've had your I've had your chicken tikka. Very good. Really good. Have you had fun? But how'd it taste? It was wonderful. That was wonderful. What about his kebab? How was his kebab? Dihari kebab or sea kebab. Bangali kebab. As long as it's not chi kebab. Funny. Um, okay. I learned so much through food about you both and your families. Thank you so much for engaging a very entertaining conversation. I want to get to our next segment. What are we What are we raging and ranting about? What what annoyed you guys this week? God, this is not a this week thing, but let's talk a little bit about k like and can you can you clarify k means or ka means dog and sometimes people use it in a derogatory way to talk about people or they refer to animals. This is our friend Eric. Eric uh clarifying ka means dog. Uh, you know, you go any place and I feel like dogs have more rights in society than do definitely kids. You have to get out of the way when a dog is walking in the park. My kids are like psych cycling or walking and you know, it doesn't matter. Like the dogs can do whatever they want. They can come up and sniff you and whatever. And especially in uh restaurants, man, like the whole dog culture is driving me crazy. I'm like just trying to have a meal and dogs outside the restaurant, dogs inside the restaurant. You know, we grew up in this whole like culture of not a lot of k and the the the spit of the dog and everything, right? And I'm like, oh shoot, like I touch the dog, uh if I pet the dog, then I have to be really careful uh not to have got any tukru on it. and it's just like a hot mess. Cool. All right. Well, good stuff. Thanks everyone for joining. What a awesome conversation. We're everywhere now. Uh we're on Instagram. We're on YouTube, Facebook, Apple, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. Nonsense show. Find us. Follow, like, and subscribe. It helps us. It helps the algorithm. And leave a review and tell us how awesome we are. Especially the host.