Episode 257: Pallavi Gunalan

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We laugh our goddamned asses off with standup, writer, and biomedical engineer (yes, really!), Pallavi Gunalan, who wins Lauren over in the first sixty seconds by stating that she "would die for Pierro." Pallavi grew up in an Indian family in Utah, and only started coming to terms with her queerness in her late 20's ("I had just started wearing crop tops; I didn't know you could do that without a sari"). Pallavi made the bold choice to incorporate her newfound identity into her comedy almost immediately, and shares the exhilarating story of coming out live on stage to her cousins. (She also discusses the much less effusive reaction she got when she later told her parents...) Not only that; Pallavi provides us with a *phenomenal* pudding cup analogy, and we talk shame, adult goths, and the Tootsie Pops owl!

Follow Pallavi everywhere and on all the things at @PallaviGunalan. Share her stuff, come to her shows, and don't forget to keep an eye out for her in the comments under Pierro's pictures!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:07.7	Hey, y'all.
0:09.2	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:11.8	We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all marks of life.
0:15.8	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:20.6	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:23.0	Hey, y'all, we're here today with a Twitter friend of mine.
0:28.7	We know Lauren loves the Twitter.
0:31.5	Nicole doesn't love the Twitter.
0:34.8	Lauren loves the Twitter and makes friends on it.
0:37.3	But this is the first time
0:38.7	we're actually like having a conversation that's not in text. So that's very exciting. We are
0:45.3	here today with Paula Viganalan. Hello. Welcome. Hi. I'm so excited to see you. I know this is
0:52.7	very cool. I'm so excited to make Nicole. Hello. Yes. Yes. This is, I've already, we've only just been talking pre-recording and I'm already laughing at us. Yeah, we have very much looking forward to this conversation. I feel like you need to know I would die for Piero, uh, because Lauren posts so many pictures of him
1:11.8	and I'm like you're right
1:13.4	his paw is the cutest thing I've ever seen
1:16.2	His little turnout is
1:17.9	A little ballet dancer
1:20.0	His little turnout which is not cover
1:23.7	It's a pre-existing condition on his pet insurance
1:25.9	Oh my God
1:27.4	It's very cute but they're on his pet insurance. Oh my God.
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