Handling Awkward Questions from Children

Do you know what I'm gonna to do? G on. I'm actually gonna to do this in a nice tone I'm actually going to be a bit more sedate seriously. ike more low energy. Not low energy, but just like yeah, actually that's whats the dateans isn't it? I mean like I'm doing a TV show.ike daytim. Yeah, like daytime Hello and welcome to the Romish Rang and Aathan Show, the Thursday edition Every Thursday we chat about Monday's episode and answer your questions and dilemmas, whatever they may be. And I'm here with this legend, Shany Ranganathan How are you today, M? I'm fine, Eric. Yeah than you. Thanks for asking. That so sweet. No problem at all. Okay. Mama, I noticice you're wearing the little Prayer beds. Yeah. You got that idea for me, didn't you Definitely yes, yes. I was waiting for you to buy a that thing that Yeah. But do you know what's happened? I've lost mine H I'm devastated. I don't know. was out and then I woke up in the morning. one hundred and eight beats here Yeah, I don't I know I know all the mantras So you can explain for the listeners and viewers Yeah what a month r is, please Ob explain what it is, not give one. You want to calm yourself down You can say that for one hundred and eight times. Yeah. So the beads are to help you count the number of times a say. How many times the bead in If bead is in my hand, I can take that off Yeah. And I count them early morning I do Yeah soon after I have a bath and everything Yeah uh to Keep my heart happy. There's another mantra my grandfather told me. I say the hundred eight times.. thenen the other one I read it's Hanuman Chelly sir. Yeah. to protect Everyone I know in this world So He will look after them. Very nice. And how is life treating you? Life is I can't complain. I'm happy. I'm happot to ten, how happy are you? one hundred percent, I'm one hundred percent. Yes out of ten Yes, I'm happy. I used to be ten out of ten. Yes cir. Yeah ye U When Ranga passed away, your dad. Yeah. I was upset. I didn't know what to do. how to Occupy mars alban Gradually, I started to learn to be happy I was very worried about you after dad passed away for obvious reasons, but also you started to become you became a bit of a shut in. Yeah. They weren't going out very much. No. Now pilates, the gym, coffee morning. Mornings, lunch, lunch dinner. All ladies no men. All ladies, no men. Yeah. So Any chance that I can go for coffee, I'll go and have a lary chat Luffler and maybe I'm a mother. Maybe you're my mother. good point So They invite me? I don't know. Yeah. I really don't know. I think I would go as far to say and I don't want to overstate them m Definitely you're my mother Met me, Shanty Okay, on Monday's E We had Kiwi actor and comedian Jermaine Clemment on. He starred in movies and TV shows and was promoting a brilliant new show called Alice and Steve, where he gets together with a grown up daughter of his best friend Yeah, you are my best friend No I don't e it So Alice and Steve Steve gets together with Alice's daughter So they're both kind of my age. All right. Late forties, early fifties. She's got a twenty six year old daughter. Okay and Steve, her friend ends up sleeping with the daughter and they start a relationship. What do you think of that? I don't like it Why I you find somebody else? That's what she says, That's what Alice says. It is a great show though. Mum, It's time for We need a better name for this to what audience interaction And Let's workshop it now. Okay. U Any suggestions? There's no bad ideas. Audience dilemmas I mean, it's better than all it is in. Voice of the people. U Santy's Postbox Inspire you. inside Chan' postbox. postbox is fine There we go, we've got one. I don'tine wr. I think audience interaction is fun. And we're live on Match Day as Doug reaches for a buffalo wing. He's got it. Oh and he's gone for a can of Pepsy too. What a finish. There's no doubt about it. It just tastes better. Match Days deserve Pepsi Thank you for all your messages and voice notes. You can send us a text or voice note tozero seven seven three one six two three three five five or email at podcast at h. com. And don't forget if you haven't already, please like and subscribe wherever you get your podcast, any platform. It won be it Facebook or Instagram. Yeah, TikTok. Yeah. any of guys. What's that other one? St Stap ch. Yeah, any of those We're on all of those platforms now I hope they're checking out. Oh cheheck, please do check Our first message is an email from Lindseay. I'll read it out for you. Yeah. Hello, I love the show. My message is for Shanty. I have a daughter who's now twelve who has a similar eye conditioned to Romish How did you raise him to be confident? My daughter is very funny I can't I can see I start to get annoyed and not being like everyone else and not being symmetrical. Also, I mean this is a roller coaster of an email. Also, do you have a go to recipe for Malad dorsa? Is that she? Aadly. We ha mo to Sri Lanka, but we travel around India for six months. We loveved the food in Kerala where we discovered Dorssa Thank you, Lindseay. Lindseay, I would just a little thing Just stick to one topic on this What I mean, how we going do this on? this is that to bring up your daught This is Saladosa U Mum, how did you navigate my eye situation from growing up? Ie situation hest to go I realize and when you went for a checku Listen It wasn't that bad No, you cly you had this Rumy Yeah I'm missing And, uh, Auntie Rebecca said you have to Please stop doing that Um I cheake up and everything. Yeah. And then only I start a noty When you were Love one ten love one you didn't care have these d. When you are a baby, you didn't have this This is this is ridiculous. Anw weere g on, sor Yeah, suddenly it's to come You went for there into doing it. When I was ten or eleven, I did have this You did have Yeah But why the doctors when do you went for eye checkup? schoolchool you go. They never I remember when I was a kid, Opticians were always talking about it. So why didn't they do something? Wh didn't they call me and advise me? What kind of obpticians are they Well, we don' know your son I never heard them saying to me, your son got this condition. and we can Correct it And you do this I never heard anything from anybody. Okay ignor. Okay. so enough about the ignorant doctors did How did you deal with I feel sad in a way. I mean you are a good looking boy Why he got this? and But it's getting better now I think so. This is what I'm telling you I don't know whether you are joking Wh I don't think it's getting better I think in the next couple years, won't be able to sell Um I don't know if you're all that equipped to deal with this question, M. because What Lindsey's saying is is that she's worried about her daughter and her M The way that my mom brought me up was to not really talk about it. you know, she kind of You know, we we We didn't really talk about it M would just always go in such handsome ways, But I did get shit at school. I did. And so then You know, I used I remember when I went particularly when I got to secondary school, I got absolutely like I don't, I'm not trying put the frighteners at me but I did I think children have changed now. I sort of look at my kids You know, I've got children around that the age of your daughter. and I don't think kids would be like that now. I listen to what they say and. It was a bit different when I was like back when I was a kid I used to get shit about it. but actually one of the things I've said multiple times is that I wouldn't have been a comedian if I didn't have this eye because I feel like it's sort of I end up trying to So come up with a self defense mechanism of humor And it's almost like my skills got sharpened up. And I think that's part of it. But I'm not saying that's a good reason But I think what you have to do is, in my opinion is make your daughter feel loved Make a realize actually in reality, this is not a huge deal. You can live you're very lucky to be able to live a normal life And actually it doesn't affect you. The only reason it affects you is because of your perception of what people think about you But if somebody is going to judge you because of your eye, then I don't think those people should be in your life. Do what I mean? peopleeople that are actually worth caring about and worth your time sort of don't care about those sort of things. So Well I don't want to make you think that nobody's ever going to make your daughter feel funny about her eyes. She will have moments where because you know, we're so she's about to enter the age where you sort of feel so self conscious about your identity and how you look and all of those things And there'll be times when she wishes she doesn't have an eye like that, but I I love it P part of me now I' always been a part of me. But you know, it's totally fine. And she will be, you know, she'll be how you bring her up to be. So try not to worry too much Masaladora How can I say G the recipe over the phone? Is that we're not on the phone are it? No, no, sorry. on the podcast It's a bit prep Okay, just give me the bullet points The recipe Just One cup of Uurida Oh it done? Two cups of rice. Right this st Linding, ye. two cups of rice. One tablespoon of U Fenagrreeic seed. Fenerreeic seeds? Yeah, soak them overnight. Soak them overnight. Grind it. Grind it. Full after a soak. What are you using to grind it, mum Liquidizer. liquidizer. So liquidizer. Gind did and Because it's a cold country, you have to keep it in the air in cubard So Comment Yeah right for him. It will come up Right B, b up. Yeahah. Yeah in the morning you mix it up at salt Then you've got your Wter Ready Make a cocan Chy I don't have to give you a recipe. you can find out on Yeah. I mean, you can Google all of this, but of course ye And then you find the round mean pan like I can't use my because you gave me a lovely kiten with the induction Oh So you have to have a special pan. But if you're a gas cooker, put that flat pan Sorry for giving an int sesame oil on that top for the bed properly and it'll come off. You can use thing is you can use the back of a ladle tpe ladle to make it into a round There you go. Duser and eyes Dumb U Next up, we've got a voice notighte from Tom Pama, Shanti and the team. I love listening to podcast every week, Monday and especially Thursday because I love shanting Ment at rubbish if you're not se her realough And but a quick question to Rames Romish, if you was to go back fifty or so years to when you was ten. What advice would your current self sccream at that ten year old boy. And the question to Shamfy is what do you miss about ten year old Rommmish Thank you Sorry, Tom. Are you under the impression that fifty years ago I'd have been ten I'm wait for an answer. Thirty eight years ago Pudon? Yes, very good U I would have been minus two, brother because I'm forty eight. Bessty is behind me ready to quit But U what would I say to my ten year old Just wait. another twenty years you're gonna lose your virginity Actually, do you know what? based on what actually happened in my life, I know you think things are smooth now aboutout to get real fucked up Muckle up and settle in For about a decade of turmil That's probably about I say to my ten year old s And I'd be more encouraging than that What was Tom's question to Mum? And the question to Shampfy is what do you miss about ten year old Rammish? What do you miss about ten old? What about U The ten year old boy he used to hang around with me all the time, everything, mum, mum, m, mum Can you makeake this mom? Can you buy this mom then when you reach fifteen year old and he came and said U give us the cash mum will buy our own clothes. That's a big itit for me Hit meant Like I was shocked that gradually He started to Change likely become independent So that's also nice But the little boy who used to hang around with me all the time, I miss him so much. I do Yeah sad thank you, Tom How old do you think Tom is based on his voice note by the way? Oh, let's have a go, shall we? Dirty one? bodcast every week, Monday and especially Thursday because I love Chant the moment at Robash if you're not seeing her enough I early twenties. Yeah early Yeah. I was I was in mid twenties I He sound super young Really, ye. Okay, soall go to the next one me This episode is brought to you by Wimbledon. There's something about summer that we all look forward to is the smell of freshly cut grass, the taste of strawberries and cream, or the rhythm of the rally being played on Centre Court. It's Wimbledon. because Wimbledon is more than a tournament It's a moment where world class sports meets years of tradition whereere thousands of people quite remarkably keep perfectly quiet on queue. There's no denying that Wimwardon is a unique tournament, whether it's the inccredible tennis, the grass courts, combined with the timeless tradition and the natural beauty. The elite competition The celebs wearing their special outfits for the tournament, there's something unique about everything that comes together to make Wimbledon Wimbledon. I've watched it from when I was a kid and every year it comes round, you can't help getting caught up in the spirit of it, regardless of whether you're a hardcore tennis fan or a casual. You can watch the championships live from the twenty ninth of june to the twelfth of July Or visit Wilmledon. com to get all the latest news and updates This is voice note from Dan in Nottingham Hi, Rumen Chanty, It's Dan from Nottingham I love you both. So my question is what would you have done in this situation? So I took my daughter to a screening of Spider Man homeomecoming, which we both love by the way, great But there's a scene in it where Ned Spiner Man's friend is in a computer room trying to help him out by looking things up and a teacher walks in and says, what are you doing? And rather than say helping Spider Man, in a moment, he says, watching porn which obviously got quite a big laugh in the cinema Not however, as big a laugh as my daughter at the top of her lungs saying What's porn daddy And then when that got a bigger laugh than the original joke, this that became louder. and My daughter ever the little performer then increasingly asked this over and over again, louder and louder and louder. So the point of a man a few rose down and said, You better tell us something, mate So in I think I said something along the lines of they're films for mummies and daddies, and when that didn't work, I gave them my popcorn So yeah, I just wondered what you guys would have done in that situation Lo you both. Thank you. Love you too, Dan. I would say describing porn as films for mummies and daddies is interesting description Um, that's difficult Porn I will tell her the truth ould I'd love dghter. Okay. so can I s U what's Pot I'm going to be the kid Yeah can't w it Can you drop us into a cinema, Will? Yeah. Okay Mom, Mumy What's porn N said porn what's porn? You don't need to know that now In three years time, I will explain everything to you. So That's a horrible word. You don't want to know. What is porn though Pul is How people make love . Okay What he make? What's making love Making babies What's that? Do you know how to make babies? No, no. How do you do it? That's the porn. So what's porn? T get into get into mood It's a m. put the porn to get take the babies. What is how do you make the babies That I can't explain we have to wait for another three years to find out. What's porn Pn Por is porn, my dea. Yeah, what is that Get people into mood How How mummy. What do you mean? P you shut up What is it though? What is it? That's all the information I can give you at the moment. Let me be patient in a three years time I dealy everything. Okay E seane, next seane Three years later Mummy Three years ago, you said to me, you'd explain what porn is. So what is it The mad dad the Vina. that easable The man what get the vaga. The man gets into the vagina. China. Yeah Por one is when a man gets into the vagina. What el It tos to It seems to So the magg gets the maggot gets into the vagina and goes the vagina. H dick. Yeah Dick gets into the vagina Mom. okay, insene. Mum What the fuck Because what is to Yeah, I'm playing the kid. You say U Dan, I how the hell does Dan deal with this think she screamed, everybody's pawn. Well he just said she did Oh he if he doesn'st all her to know You misuus it, my dear is a call Do it fake So you want you want her to believe that Ned said I'm watching cororn I think that's not bad It think that's bad It happened to me when I went to buy Christmas tree Christmas tree. you will justify any. I think She wants a satisfied answer. Yeah No, he's talking about coal. She's doing shut up. I c on the cbboard. By the way, I think doesn't the child want they want So firstly, everyone else has understood a joke that they didn't get Is there like they want to know what's f. it Not in a nasty way that girl asked Englidity Yeah. That's a very silly thing to watch cororn. Yeah. Oh yeah. yeah. ye. So that's the joke Yeah, which would you work in comedy. You work in comedy, right? Yeah, I know I'm not saying I think that as a gag. I'm saying you didn' impro like that would that I think that's good. I think it's like you've got the kid wants the like at least a kind of The like salacious thing that feels naughty's like, what's the nauy thing everyone's laughing? And you could literally say like it's photos of boobies and they'd be like, o right, you're fair enough. Not a bad shot depends how old your daughter is. J. How did you learn how to do it Do what whatever How did I learn how to do it? You watch porn movies, isn't it? Well you hitting on a bigger problem here because a lot of young people are learning how to have sex from watching porn It's a big problem. but we haven't got you know we're just dealing with Dan's Notham voice notes. You know the guys who's Um You This is not the podcast to engage with that. That's a big conversation.ould have to give an up? I think look my inclination would be I actually I think I think the corn thing isn't bad, but I think I would make up something. I think John, your closes you say it's like a I don't know, a rude or it's a, you know, it it's a thing that he shouldn't be watching. It's like a rude film that he shouldn't be watching and then don't go into any further details. Part of the problem is Oh If you say corn, then what you don't want is her to then use porn and corn like You know, interchange those words. She's clearly she's clearly heard him say porn and asked repeatedly paorn, right And they're laughing And so now then you go what what's corn? You go then you go it's corn. Yeah. And Linda you were saying Corn. But what's he saying then, Ben? Al feels like gaslighting your child? Yeah I think that's a slippery slope We should have got off from finding porwn But I think I think that's you're getting yourself into a whole load of shit there Which can also happen in pawnn But I think you vague, being vague is probably the solution I would go the other way and I'd go look, here's a VPN It's difficult to access it now You don't want to have to take a photo of your driving license just to fucking rub on out So pretend you're in Canada and watch some porn. But that's just me. This is an email from Lupin. It might be Lupin These an email are from Lupan Dearommish, please say happy birthday to my friend Yeah. Please say H happy birthday to my friend Monk We might have to put that up on the screen. Yeah. Dear Romish, please say happppy birthday to my friend Monk He is thirty two years old today and a big fan of your show like you is a vegan. However, sometimes he sucks on sausages to get the flavour. But then his wife, who is not a vegan will eat them We've tried to explain this is not vegan practice, but he says it's because he doesn't actually eat any of the sausage Please can advise if this is Well, I don't know if it's true if he doest actually e of the sausage. Many thanks, Lupin. What do you think, Mum? month is sucking on sausages and then passing them to his wife I can't believe I'm saying these words out loud. Whush she suck up the sausage? What? Monk is vegan. Yeah sucking on a sausage and passing them to his wife who then ats them And he's saying that's vegan friendly I don't like this question Okay. so I skip it. Yeah that's good. You know what Whenever you want to skip, that's great for the podcast just saying I Uh Monk, what the fuck are you doing, bro? Yeah Y' you are you are taking on bo meat particles. Wasash he didn't give it to her. okay? He's not sucking it to clean it. You're allowed to smell it, aren't you? You're still taking in particles Yeah. I would argue smelling a sausage Jeep it hands over your nose if No, if I'm around sausages, I'm not going to hold my nose, but I'm also not going to do a line of it Jit made Do you like the smell Well I did used to. when I first went veggian vegan I did like the smell of like meat cooking, but I don't know what's happened, but now as it's gone on longer and longer Now I don't really like it at all Ill tell you the one exception to that, bacon Would you ever lick bacon? Would ever lick bacon? or suck it like bacon? No, I like the smell the smell of bon is quite tempting Yeah But I wouldn'ate it But would I I would suck on it and pass it to Lasa No If you do that R me John are my son. Oh C If I sucked on bacon a bit Sucking you didn't giveing you to Lisa. I will just get up and walk off. Okay. Do you want to come around this weekend U mononth I don't think you should be doing that. But it's up to you. I mean if you want to if you and your wife don't mind you sucking off sausages and then passing them to your wife, that's fine, but it's not vegan practice. But if you want to do that, if that's something you guys enjoy then feel free to do it. He can buy the flavour of So' it Sausage, flavor Put it on the plate and lick it Why you Sack the sausage You can get all those kind of saources and flavourors It's a bloody sausage. Oh know, it's like inuendo bingo this's good veggie sausages now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that's true. But they don't taste the same do they Um Yeah, it's not vegan practice, monk Lupan, thank you so much for your email. I found it a bit ough Yeah, I think we did. he has no table menace Learn that. Yeah, learen that m. Len that table manners. you don't suck anything. In the table? No. You go under the table for that C That's the way people d it though, isn't it? They'll like they'll just have like a bit of something I taste it and then ye ye. I think dieting is different to veganism, though. There's a lad down the road for me when we grew up and he would always get a chocolate bar and then just like suck on it but not actually sord it and he'd spit it out and then he'd take off another cube and do the same.. Weird guy. Why is that Just to enjoy chocolate without eating it. I need to start doing that with Percy. When I went to have lunch Monday. Yeah. I didn't read public Kish Kish. Yeah. and while I was eating I put bacon slices inside We' not I need't only to make a fast friendont of the lady and she's eating the same came home, I fellt sick so badly and I was so guilty I hate that I mean with some pieces I hated that smell. M K me. Did Jolly Hog sent you an entire pig and you ate that Why Why is a couple of bits of biking in a cich maj you fellow? They Holly What' Hollyhog? Hollyhog. Jolly Hog Jollolly Hog Whatever, whatever they are Jolly Good looking man I Okay, what about That smell different Right I Beautifully made I loved it. Okay.. But the bits of bacon in the kitch may. I don't know what kind of bac I really like it atine al right It's very difficult to predict what your reaction is going to be. Thank you so much for your emails and messages. We'll be back on Monday with another exciting guest. Don't miss it. And if you haven't already, please like and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, whether that be email? or What's the Instagram? Yeah Facebook Yeah, whether that's email or Instagram or Facebook. send email is easier for us. Yeah, okay. Yeah. We definitely subscribe byia email Yeah lease It'll be easier for us to keep track of who has liked to subscribbe So podcast at rangaby. com just email like or subscribe. and we will get that sorted out for you. Thank you so much for listening to the episode. It's goodbye for me From Shanti as well. loveove y allall. Tick it G su a sausage you bitches. Oh he' a really nice start to the episode this time. Oh yeah, so Thank you so much for joining us We will see you next time The Rm is tryang I and shy. with Shanty Rangenaton. Fuck ye Thank you so much for watching and listening to this episode before you go. If you've enjoyed this episode and you've not subscribed,'s decision. crazy behaviour. Follow and subscribe to the Romish Wang andaththan Show wherever you listen. It helps me reallyally like really helps me, helps the team And it costs you absolutely nothing. We drop episodes every Monday and Thursday. Mondays I'm joined by great guests. Thursdays, my Mum Shardy joins me to answer your questions and family dilemmas We'll see you Monday with another great guest and back here with Mum on Thursday. 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