Hello and this is a show for you if you're bored of

Francis Foster I'm Constantine Kitten and this is a show for you

if you're bored of people arguing on the internet over subjects they know nothing about.

At Trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.

We ask the experts.

Our brilliant guest this week is a former banker, policy advisor turned comedian Eshan Akbar.

Welcome to Trigonometry.

Hello, nice to be here.

It's great to have you man.

Thanks for coming on.

Thanks for coming on.

Listen, the first question we always ask people when we bring them on the show is how

are you where you are what's been your journey through life how did you come to the

point that that you're at now well immediately it was by train but the whole

thing you're not the first person just doesn't I

joke I promise you damn it you're the first comedian that's done that

that's true it was done by economists before you. Yeah. I was born in White Chapel in East London,

of my family called it Brown Mosque, you're welcome.

My mom came from a very wealthy Bangladeshi family. My grandiadette actually helped write the Constitution of

Bangladesh, made it a secular constitution,

making Bangladesh the only Muslim majority country

which has a secular constitution.

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