Unwinding With The Kondabolu Brothers
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We brought brothers Hari and Ashok Kondabolu on Nerdette to talk about making time for self-care in what can be a grinding, freelance economy. Instead, they unpacked their relationship.
“Do you look up to me at all?” Hari asks his younger brother, with host Greta Johnsen listening in the wings.
“No, we have completely different lives,” Ashok immediately responds.
“This is not relaxing!” Hari says.
Well, we tried.
But Hari and Ashok DID give us some wonderful ideas about how to recharge your batteries by ignoring the phone, taking aimless walks, and selling your clothes.
About our guests: Hari’s a comedian with a new Netflix special, Warn Your Relatives, and Ashok’s a former member of the rap group Das Racist who’s now producing the show Hey, How Ya Doin? The pair also co-host Earwolf's Kondabolu Brothers podcast, where they debate current events, share odd stories, and further unpack their relationship.
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:13.6 | From W be easy Chicago I'm Greta Johnson and this is power up a new |
| 0:19.5 | project from Nurd Out podcast. |
| 0:21.5 | Life can be hectic between deadlines and all of that stuff to do that's horrible |
| 0:31.0 | and all those other things to do that are really hard. |
| 0:34.3 | Everyone has to manage intense workloads, even scientists and poets and astronauts and |
| 0:39.6 | adventurers. |
| 0:40.8 | So we want to know how do successful inspiring people set themselves up for success in an exhausting world. |
| 0:46.7 | This week we're talking with Brothers Hurry and Ashok Kondabolu, or as I like to call them the Kundabolu bros. |
| 0:53.0 | Hurry is a stand-up comedian. |
| 0:55.0 | Last year he put out a movie called The Problem with Apu |
| 0:58.0 | and he has a new stand-up special on Netflix. |
| 1:00.0 | And Ashok is a TV producer and former member of the rap group Doss Racist. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm at the Pizza Hut. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm at the Taco Bell. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm at the Commination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. The Bros also co-host a podcast called Kandabolu Brothers, which is recorded live and includes |
| 1:18.6 | Bro-on-bro debate segments like Overrated, underrated, therapy. |
| 1:24.0 | Therapy. |
| 1:25.0 | Therapy is underrated. |
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