I mostly felt helpless because I felt like I didn't have the proximity to help with the day-to-day things of just making my parents' lives easier.

And I didn't have the knowledge to offer any kind of solution.

So I mostly just stood by and hoped that things weren't getting worse.

This is death, sex, and money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

I need to talk about more.

I mean to see you.

Rishi Kesheirwe, host one of my favorite podcasts, Song Exploder.

You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishi Kesh,

Hirwei. Rishi Kesh is a musician, and Song Exploder brings me into that creative process in a way I love,

as it describes how a song is built track by track.

He does a similar thing, but with turning pantry stables into a meal on the podcast, Home Cooking,

a show he launched with chef and co-host Samin Nosrat in the early days of the pandemic.

We're still home cooking.

You know, when you order french fries from a fast food place and you eat all the French fries? Uh-huh. And then you look in the bag and there's still some French fries down at the bottom of the bag. And you're so excited. That's what this episode is. We're like the last two French fries and you're like, yeah. On that show, Rishi Keshe and Samin talked often about the food they grew up with.

And for Rishi Kesh, those touch points all came from his mom, Kanta.

If you picture the home that you grew up in and you flash on an image of your mother, what was she doing?

She was in the kitchen, cooking and probably talking on the phone at the same time.

There was, you know, a long cord.

We got, remember we got a longer cord for the phone so that she could walk around more easily,

you know, without being constrained by the shorter length of the,

the sort of spirally, twisty phone cord.

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