Verbal Masturbation with Ariel Kashanchi
The Perfect 10 Podcast w/Lahna Turner
All Things Comedy
4.4 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ariel isn't a mermaid but she is a funny comedian with great insights to share.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the Perfect 10. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm so happy as always to be here and sitting next to this woman even more so, because we haven't seen each other in a really long time. And I'm so glad to catch up. And I feel like the only time, because we're all so busy that we can catch up is if we're booked together on like a show or something like that. And I was like, I've got to see Ariel. Yeah, that's how that's how I see all my comic friends. We have to schedule like a show together. Something that's like mandatory. Right. So I'm like, you got to just come up here and do the podcast. And I want to, I want to introduce you properly, but I'm going to butcher your last name because I suck. |
| 0:38.1 | Give it a shot. |
| 0:39.1 | Ariel Cassanchi. |
| 0:39.9 | Close. |
| 0:37.5 | Ariel Cassanchi. Cassanchi. Causeanchi. Okay, I got it. Nobody ever wants to say Kashanchi. They always say Cassanchi. Because I think it's not American. So it's a Persian last name. so I think it's like it just sounds like it's like a sound that you don't make. |
| 0:39.3 | But in other cultures, |
| 0:40.0 | do they have a hard time? |
| 0:55.3 | They have hard time. It's a Persian last name. So I think it's like it just sounds like, it's like a sound that you don't make. |
| 0:50.9 | But in other cultures, so they have a hard time, they have a hard time saying like Smith. Yeah. It just is. Well, yeah. Like in my culture, they can't say Smith. Right. How does that come out? A smit. It's meat. Yeah. Like, it just wouldn't work. Right. Butcher everything. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | So what does your last name mean? |
| 1:10.9 | Coshan. Like, it just wouldn't work. Right. Butcher everything. Yeah. So. |
| 1:11.2 | What does your last name mean? |
| 1:14.4 | Um, Kashan is a city in Iran. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's after the city. |
| 1:21.4 | Is your family from that part of the country? |
| 1:23.6 | No. |
| 1:23.9 | No. |
| 1:24.2 | No. |
| 1:24.8 | My family, I think their last names have changed a bunch of times because we were Jewish in Iran. |
| 1:24.1 | Oh, so they had to change it. Yeah, you just have to take a non-Jewish, typically a non-Jewish last name. Well, my last name was different. My grandfather changed it because no one would hire a Toftapal. Have fun saying that. Tofstapal? |
| 1:24.7 | Tofstapal. |
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