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1:22Romesh Ranganathan:Required compatibility and availability varies 18+. And we're live from the living room as Doug eyes up the match day spread. He's reaching for the Buffalo wing. Perfect. Hang on, what's this? Oh, he's going for a can of Pepsi too. Incredible. What a finish. Sensational combination. Look at the delight on his face. There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Match days deserve Pepsi. Food deserves Pepsi. Grab a pack of Pepsi Zero Sugar for today's match. It's poetry in motion. Welcome back to the Thursday edition of the Romesh Rang and Nathan Show. I'm here with my mum, Shanthi. Every Thursday we sit down, chat about Monday's episode, read your stories, trying to have a massive row.

2:05Romesh Ranganathan:We love hearing from you. Remember to send us your questions on dilemmas via text or WhatsApp as a voice note. We love those, don't we, mum? The number is 07731 623 355. That's 07731 623 355. and the email is podcast at Rangaby.com. That's podcast at Rangaby.com. What's wrong? Why are you saying Rangaby? Rangaby.com. Rangaby.com. It just makes people remember, doesn't it? Mum, your nails have been getting a lot of love from the viewers and listeners. Can we see what you've got this week for us? Lovely. What do you call that? Christmassy. What is the... There's yellow and there's red on the middle finger.

2:49Middle Christmas.

2:53Romesh Ranganathan:It's my fault, isn't it? And then what are the outer two colours there? It's calmness. That's calmness. Just calm you. Yeah. And this is keep you happy. Yeah, but what are the colours? What is it? All right, yellow. Yellow, yeah. Yellow and red. Glitter. Okay, that's the one I was after. Red, glitter, yellow. Yeah. Okay, great. Okay. Good.

3:20It's the Romance, Rangai, Nathan Show. With me, Shanti.

3:29Romesh Ranganathan:On Monday, Mum, we had Stephen Merchant on the show. Yeah. Were you a fan of The Office? Can I see the picture? Yeah, we can show you a picture of Stephen Merchant. Yeah? Ah, yes, yes, yeah. I have seen his programme, yeah. It's very tall. He comes in with that other comedian, doesn't he? Ricky Gervais. Yeah. Yeah. Do you like The Office? I enjoyed The Office. It's good, isn't it? Yeah, it's good, yeah. What's your favourite sitcom of all time, Mum, would you say? Sitcom... yours. Come on, let's be real. That's not even my favourite sitcom. What's your favourite sitcom?

4:06I thoroughly enjoyed... What's the... The Lady Comes in the...

4:13Romesh Ranganathan:Birds of a Feather? No, Birds of a Feather. I liked it. I like the other one. Richard! Oh, keeping up appearances. Bouquet residence. Bouquet residence. Richard! Richard! Richard! Come quickly. I'm pulling. I love that. I wish I could do that for your dad. Ranga! Come here.

4:46Romesh Ranganathan:You love that show. I forgot I actually love that. And you like, some others do have them as well, didn't you? Yeah, some others. Betsy. Betsy.

4:59Romesh Ranganathan:I mean, a few problems. I enjoyed it. I got a little bit confused with my others. My all-togethers. You love that show, don't you? Blackadder was good as well, wasn't it? Do you remember Blackadder? Blackadder. Yeah, the words are a bit too difficult for me to understand. What words? In Blackadder? Blackadder. Right, right. Friends? Friends, I love it. The other one, what's the other one? The film, can I tell about film? Please, yeah, I'd love to, yeah. You know that Richard, is that the one you have on? Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor. They were lecturing. Can you do that for me? some of my patients so they she's talking about seeing over here and then

5:50Romesh Ranganathan:Richard Pryor's character he's blind this character right he's blind and the other guy is deaf yeah and so they pretend to be doctors doctors for elderly patients and it's like how do you stay some of my patients this is the bit he pretends to be some of my patients they like running some of my patients they like walking but most of my patients they like fucking you know punta punta punta what's that word punta punta punta that's a Tamil word it's a what can I say vagina punta why lord we we

6:41Romesh Ranganathan:we played I played for a Sri Lankan cricket team when I was younger and there was one black guy on the team and he asked what the name of one of the other guys was and we told him his name was Prunda I get the same Prunda You're into bath. If this motherfucker calls me Punde one more time. So funny. Anyway. Don't put this on the podcast. Why? It's horrible. Sri Lankan won't like it. Oh, right. You'll be thinking that they're calling their wives... Okay. First of all, can I just say, the origin story of this whole Punde chat is you. You asked me to do the impression. Then you raise the fact that what the word means.

7:35Romesh Ranganathan:And then suddenly, why are we doing this talk? Because of you. Okay. You did it. Okay. You did it. Okay. Time to hear for some Pundits of the Public.

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8:22Romesh Ranganathan:We've got some family and relationship dilemmas, Mum. Are you ready to offer some real help? Why? All this time, what did I give them? No, but I'm just saying, it's not just about looking for jokes and being... You know, we've actually got to really help people. Yeah, and actually some real heartfelt advice. Depends on what they are going to ask me. Okay, well, let's hear from Daniel. Okay. Hi, Anty Shanti and Ramesh. My name is Daniel, and I've got a bit of a situation. I just got off the phone with my mum, who would like my wife and I to move back to Australia. But my wife wants to continue living in the UK.

8:58Romesh Ranganathan:And they've told me that I have to decide. What should I do? You want to go first? No, you go first. If you love your mother, you should move to Australia. And your wife should follow you. She fell in love with you. She knows you are an Australian. I don't feel sorry for her. She has to follow you. And have a wonderful life in Australia. Fucking hell. Yeah. Daniel, don't do that. OK? Don't do that. OK? That is... Am I... This is a first example. I couldn't disagree more with that advice. I think, look, first of all, Daniel, in my opinion, this decision should not be put in your lap like this. Secondly, I understand your mum wants you to move back to Australia, but if your wife doesn't want to move back to Australia, then don't move to Australia.

9:55Romesh Ranganathan:You stay in the UK. You've got a duty to your wife. It's not all about your mum. What? Well, it's not, is it? His wife's got to move all the way to Australia, even though she doesn't want to. That's not fair, is it? So they can live six months there, six months here? I don't think that's viable. No? No. OK. Do you disagree? I feel sorry for him in a way. Yeah. Maybe his mother is not well or father is not well. We don't know that. We've not been given that. He wants to move there. I think they just missed them. But as a wife, she should support him. Yeah. I mean, listen, I think that's perfect advice from somebody that moved from Sri Lanka to the UK with their husband when they were in their late teens.

10:33My mother didn't mind.

10:35Romesh Ranganathan:Okay, but if your mum had said to go back, would you have gone back? No.

10:48Romesh Ranganathan:Daniel, I think we have your answer.

10:53Romesh Ranganathan:Do as she says, not as she does, Daniel. Okay, the next dilemma is from Chloe, who, fun fact, is the first person first and only person to email into the podcast. That's exciting, isn't it? Thank you, Chloe. We appreciate you. Mum, do you do emailing? No, I'm not good at it. As much as I love to. Yeah. Yeah, I tried. Yeah. Hi, Ramesh and Shanti. Love the podcast. You two always crack me up. I need you to settle an argument in my house. My partner thinks it's absolutely vile that I put ketchup on my mac and cheese. Personally, I think it elevates the dish. So please, who's right here? Me or them?

11:30Romesh Ranganathan:And while we're at it, do either of you have any unusual food combos you secretly love? Thanks, Chloe. Chloe, thank you so much for emailing in. Mum? I put chilli sauce in porridge. I love it, the hot chilli sauce, because I don't like the sweetness. Right. So when I add the chilli sauce, it gives me some sort of energy. Yeah, gas. No, that's for you. What made you decide to first put chilli sauce in porridge? I wanted something hot in the morning. Got you. Yeah. Porridge can be served savoury or sweet. Savour? It makes sense. That's it. I thoroughly enjoy. Yeah. Good. What do you think about putting ketchup on mac and cheese?

12:12I will love it. It will taste nice.

12:15Romesh Ranganathan:I think ketchup on anything is pretty good. I mean, I put hot sauce on absolutely everything, Chloe. There you are. And in fact, I've recently discovered, Ben will know about this, you're a foodie. You know the crunchy chili oil? Crunchy chili. Oh, my God. That is the best. That is the shit. It's so good, man. I could eat it just by a jar just on its own. Lao Gan Ma crispy chili. This stuff is, I know we're not being sponsored by them, but holy shit, it's like crack. That's the jar. Show me this shit. Oh, my God. It's unbelievable. Genuinely, I put it on ice cream. in a heartbeat. It's unbelievable.

13:01Romesh Ranganathan:It's great. It's really good. So, Chloe... Can I have one for Christmas? Yeah, that can be your Christmas present. It's about three quidditch a year. I think you're making it... Everything is the English way of turkey. Yeah. So I'm making a devil aubergine. Deviled aubergine. That's a side dish because I don't want to upset your wife. Why would it upset my wife? By the way, can I just say, luckily Lisa doesn't listen to this because you do a lot of sort of dragonising of her. Not dragonising of her. Yeah. I just say, if you were going strictly... I met her recently. Yeah, you went for coffee. Yeah, she said she won't...

13:38Romesh Ranganathan:Oh, by the way, can we do an update here? Because very frequently, there's a lot of shots fired from you. Yeah. Do you recall, Will, John and Ben, that a while ago my mum said, you don't get in touch enough and I'd like to see you and when you're not there, I'd like to see Lisa. Yeah. Do you remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Okay. So then I said, why don't you text her? Right? I don't know why. She's going to ignore it. Mom, do you want to tell the guys what happened? Yeah, I text her. I got the arms straight away. And you must have told her. I didn't tell her anything. Mommy's going to take her back.

14:14Anyway, she came to see. We had a good chat. That's great, isn't it? It is great. So there you are, the podcast. Do a lot of good things as well. Well, one good thing. One good thing.

14:27Romesh Ranganathan:But you and Lisa hung out or you spoke on the phone? No, they had a coffee together. Coffee together and we had a lovely chat. I think Lisa had a tea cake, she told me. I had tea cake. So both of us had the same thing. So they both broke tea cakes together. And she bought it. She paid for it, which means I did. We had a wonderful job.

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15:58Romesh Ranganathan:Question three is from Sylvia. Are you ready? Yeah. Let's go. Hi, Ramesh and Shanti. My name is Sylvia and I have a bit of a weird question, but I would love to hear your thoughts. I'm British Indian and all my family are in India, except my siblings, my parents and me. and I have a good relationship with them but I'm really really worried about how they're going to react when I tell them that I'm gay and I've been dating a girl for the past four years I'm not so worried about my parents and my siblings but very much so about my aunties and uncles and also my cousins so any advice on how I should go about telling them or if I should that's all thank you um thank you so much silver for your uh your message do you want me to go first yes please uh sylvia um it's quite a complicated question with regards to whether uh you should tell them or not that is so circumstance dependent you know like where you know if you think it's going to if you're not seeing these people very often then you shouldn't feel in under any obligation to tell them what you are or what you're not but we've got let's assume that you do want to tell them all um i understand it's difficult but the truth is uh sylvia is that you are who you are and they should love you regardless of what you are and in my opinion any family member that decides that they don't want to accept you because you're gay is not a family member that's worth your time their love for you should you know and i know that the reason you're unsure about it is because they might hold certain views or whatever but in my opinion you know look look for for mum and myself it's not a point of contention at all but i understand that for some people it can be um because of whatever views or whatever but i think that you know your family love you and they should support you and if they don't then they don't deserve to have you in their lives that's that's how I feel so I think that you know I I think it's difficult and in an ideal world it shouldn't be a thing where you have to have the conversation has to be difficult it doesn't even have to be it shouldn't really ideally be a thing that you even have to discuss it just is who you are uh but unfortunately you know you're in a situation me for you do have to it's nobody's right to know your sexuality I mean it's your own business it's nobody else's business so if you choose to keep that to yourself then that is totally your prerogative but if you do my I would say to you that you know it's easy for me to say because I'm not in your situation but my personal feeling is is you tell people and you tell them like you don't tell them like you're hoping they're going to accept it you tell them like this is who you are and they just have to deal with it.

18:52Romesh Ranganathan:Do you know what I mean? If they've got a problem, then they don't deserve to be around. That's my advice. What do you think? Life is very short. I want you to let them know. Whoever accepts you as you are, enjoy life with them. If they hate you, if they start telling things against the gay relationship, just ignore them. Get on with your life. Be happy. That's most important. OK? Love you so much. Sylvia, it sounds like a difficult situation, but good luck. I hope that it all goes all right for you. It's time for a special segment called The Naughty List, brought to you by EE, who have both the UK's best mobile network and broadband technology.

19:35Romesh Ranganathan:The holidays are coming, and that means awkward small talk, burnt potatoes, and maybe even the one guest you're dreading. Today we're ranking some of the worst kinds of guests there are, putting them in order from mildly annoying to absolute Christmas ruining. Number one, the Wi-Fi hogger. They walk through the door. They don't just say hello. Just immediately ask, what's the Wi-Fi password? Next thing you know, they're downloading a full box set in 4K and tanking everyone else's connection. Mum, mildly annoying or Christmas ruining? I have written it in a big letter because I always prepare. Alex will come and ask me, what's your Wi-Fi password, Grandma?

20:13So I told him. Second time he came, and he remembered where the, so he went and got it. Yeah, it's all the younger generation that they are going to ask. It's become a fashion as well.

20:25Romesh Ranganathan:Yeah. It is. It's become a fashion? Wi-Fi? It is, or Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi password. Wi-Fi, yeah. Yeah, and you dress up and go there. You dress up and go to the Wi-Fi password. Yeah. I know what you mean. I know exactly what you mean. Otherwise, they can't play any games. Yeah. What's the point getting dressed up? That's it. Okay, so mildly annoying or Christmas ruining? I think we think it's mildly annoying. It's mildly annoying. Okay, great. Number two, the loud Bluetooth DJ. They decide they're in charge of Christmas music. Before you know it, they've hijacked your Bluetooth speaker and the house has listened to a rogue playlist called Vabes.

21:00Romesh Ranganathan:Fire emoji, fire emoji, fire emoji. What do you think of that? I didn't like it. Somebody takes over the music? Takes over the music. Depends on how much I love the music. so what if it's like straight up like UK rap I like that as well yeah I will enjoy okay fine so you don't even find it mildly annoying no no you're doing us a favour I find it Christmas ruining why not give them a chance but if they hog it though it's annoying isn't it yeah that's annoying yeah number three the serial scroller they come round to sit in your living room and scroll their phone on full volume cackling at videos you can't see haven't joined a conversation since 2018.

21:41Romesh Ranganathan:Christmas ruining or mildly annoying? Mildly annoying. When somebody just comes in and starts scrolling on their phone. Like you? Always on the phone. No, I'm not. Yeah, you used to. Actually, mum, I've deleted all my apps. Did you? Spend time with the family? Yeah. What about your work? Work? Work related. I don't do that on my phone. I'll crack open the laptop. That's fine. It's love. Okay. Why are you smiling like that? What do you mean? How is this? I'm just smiling at you. That's not the real smile. What?

22:25Let's see. When you greet me, how will you smile? Hi, Mum. God.