Unwinding With The Kondabolu Brothers
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2018
⏱️ 27 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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| 0:49.6 | Life can be hectic between deadlines and all of that stuff to do that's horrible and all those other things to do that are really hard. |
| 0:55.6 | Everyone has to manage intense workloads, even scientists and poets and astronauts and adventurers. |
| 1:01.9 | So we want to know how to successful, inspiring people set themselves up for success in an exhausting world. |
| 1:08.4 | This week, we're talking with brothers Harry and Ashok Kandabolu, or as I like to call them, the Kandibolu bros. |
| 1:10.6 | Hurry is a stand-up comedian. |
| 1:14.7 | Last year, he put out a movie called The Problem with Apu, and he has a new stand-up special on Netflix. |
| 1:15.8 | And Ashok is a TV producer and former member of the rap group, Doss Racist. |
| 1:24.5 | I'm at the pizza hut. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm at the combination pizza hut and Taco Bell. The bros also co-host a podcast called Kandibolu brothers, which is recorded live and includes bro-on-brough debate segments like overrated, underrated. |
| 1:38.1 | Therapy, therapy. Therapy is underrated. |
| 1:46.6 | It is unbelievable. |
| 1:50.5 | I'm a much better person than I was before I went to therapy. |
| 1:52.8 | I feel like it's somebody you can, |
| 2:01.0 | it feels like a mix of like confession and talking to a really good friend and a doctor. |
| 2:04.1 | For me, personally, the therapy, hated it. |
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