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One Bad Mother

Episode 506: An Engineer, Filmmaker, Triathlete, and Comedian Walk Into A Bar, with Anu Vaidyanathan

One Bad Mother

Biz Ellis and Theresa Thorn

Moms, Kids & Family, Motherhood, Theresa Thorn, Comedy, Biz Ellis, Podcast, Parenting

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

She slices! She dices! She engineers! She comedies! It's Mom! How does she do it? With biting wit. Comedian, triathlete, engineer, and filmmaker Anu Vaidyanathan joins Biz to talk pressure cookers, passive aggression on the dance floor, and the long road to comedy.

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0:00.0

This is Biz, and if hosting One Bad Mother for over 10 years has taught me anything,

0:04.6

it's that parenting is hard and nobody gives a shit. So belly up to the low bar,

0:09.6

where fine is good enough and you'll never feel alone. This is One Bad Mother.

0:18.6

This week on One Bad Mother, an engineer, filmmaker, triathlete, and a comedian walked into a bar.

0:24.9

We talk to Anu Biodanathan about being all of these and more. Welcome, Anu.

0:34.0

Thank you for having me. I'm very, very excited and flattered.

0:37.0

Oh, yes.

0:37.9

It's all rare and few and far between, but it's...

0:42.4

Well, before we get into learning a better, I have questions about all the things

0:48.0

that I just listed there. Who lives in your house?

0:51.4

So, I live with two pressure cookers, actual pressure cookers, because South Indian women are

0:55.9

born to cook and reproduce and... Okay, I wasn't sure if we were referring to the pressure cooker being

1:03.6

a actual pressure cooker, your children or your uterus.

1:10.3

That's a good one. I didn't think about the uterus. These are literal pressure cookers,

1:14.1

you know, ones that cook rice until separately.

1:18.8

My husband and several dust mites, as we have it, yes, and we are very busy exterminating as we speak.

1:27.6

That is relaxing. That sounds relaxing on multiple levels.

1:35.6

You know, I'm Hindu, so I'm pagan, right? So I commune with animals and say some birds and

1:40.8

all human things, so... Well, I was going to say, I'm sure as a... as a

1:45.3

southerner raised with only superstitions. It either means somebody's coming to visit,

1:50.9

somebody's about to die, or your house is blessed. I don't know. Got to be one of those.

1:57.5

Yeah, absolutely. We are complete fatalists. I think the sunshine requires another kind of

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