I, V, M. I work in advertising and I have a factory manufacturer things. Big but this is reminding me of our own day of various articles where you know the he talks about a product which says on the label manufactured from ingredient. So it's a good sign that is not good.
Manufactured on that joke on that note. I'll tell you a very sad joke. One of those old Kush one saying type books jokes. This is so an Indian and Europe and Englishman and American and a Frenchman.
They're sitting together discussing which country has better technological prowess. The Englishman comes out with a cylinder which is like 100th the breadth of diameter of a human hair and the Frenchman takes it and then he managed to drill a hole through it. The American takes it and he managed to fit an entire lead pipe or something through it. He goes to India and comes back without any ostensible change and then they ask what has been done.
He points to a small label under a microscope that says made in India. So this used to this used to clack me up when I was six. So this is funny. Nothing.
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So we're getting a podcast for the phone. We can, this, thankfully, you took us on the network. Otherwise, through some, we would have actually had to expose us to each other. You'll actually be sweating in the room because you're going to the air, so you're going to switch on the fan.
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So the reason why we have me, Thomas, on today is because we're going to discuss Arjay. I'm doing it. Yeah. I'm sorry.
Shucks excited face. It's more like he's scared. Shucks. I'm only scared of Arjay.
I think I should be. You shouldn't be. You guys are so smart. I'm so nervous here.
I'm so nervous. Okay. So, mate, tell us about Arjay. Tell us what you've done.
So far. Yeah. So far in life. So far in life.
So I knew that when I was young, I'm hard to somehow get into the media. I don't know how. And radio was, actually the first time I ever was on radio was my mother had won a competition when I was about eight or something. And I was in the Middle East in Qatar, Doha and QDS.
I call my alleys. I call my alleys. I'm such a cliché. I'm so ridiculous.
And Qatar Broadcasting Service, QBS radio, there was this woman who was named my common membership. I lost my mom. And she took me out of the radio and I was like eight years old. I was like my first radio experience.
And I think what really spawned the fact that I wanted to be on radio was the Bombay floods that had happened. And I remember my mom and I was supposed to go to Kerala and we got to a flight post one by three days and we weren't able to leave our house at all. I don't mean a lot of people weren't able to leave their house. Our election was in there.
TV wasn't working. No internet, nothing. And the only thing that worked was my mom's battery powered radio. And someone somewhere was broadcasting and sending messages out.
So I was like, oh, radio can survive the apocalypse. So I'm like maybe when, you know, you literally if you watch Terminator, okay, you will see that there are walkie talkies. Radio will survive. I will have some of the time.
And in the final Harry Potter movie. It was a radio. They didn't have ballpoint pens. They didn't have electricity, but they had a radio.
See, I'm telling you that the apocalypse hit. I'll still have a job. That's a lot of fun. Thank you.
All right. We need someone to present the show. Guys, welcome. Welcome to Armageddon.
We're so glad you're here. All three of you. The world has entered. We are radio has not.
We're still alive. It's great. Who wants my ping pong? So cut there.
Cut there. So then after that, I was um, but that was my sort of my moment where I was like, oh, radio is amazing. I would have great video. And I used to love so basically after boarding school, I decided to I didn't want to pursue radio.
I didn't think about it at that time. I actually went down the same avenue that you did. I did advertising for undergrad and I wanted to be a copywriter and I loved advertising and I still kind of do, but it's just I ended up doing journalism after that for my masters and I was working in my university as a journalist and we were just doing like students and I had a great time doing it. Which university was that?
I was in Cardiff University in Wales. So it was good fun. I really enjoyed myself. I speak Welsh.
I can. I know about four sentences in Welsh. I actually had a Welsh friend when I was moving to Cardiff. I don't know why in my head.
I was like, I'm not a lot of English. And so she taught me Maheem Buuglao, which means it's raining because it rained all the time in Wales. Then there was a Welsh nun that I met. Everyone who knew Welsh or just asked them, can you teach me some Welsh?
And his nun was like, Beeth your amsir, which is what's the time? Amsir te? Tea time. So there was a guy that was doing Welsh translations in this research center I was working at and he was leaving when I was joining.
So I asked him, can you teach me some Welsh? And he's like, can I teach you something dirty? And I was like, sure, why not? And he taught me Dween, Caddy, Beeth, then, which means I love cock and Welsh.
There you go. That is the extent of my watch. I've already been fascinated by the whole tree. I've already fascinated by how contrasting English and Welsh is.
Like, most languages across the region, they just flow, you know, one into another. Like, which is sound similar to Marathi. Telugu eventually becomes Tamil, Malayalam. Yeah, it's like general transitions.
Yeah, it's like general transitions. I mean, if you know Tamil, you reasonably understand Marayalam and things like that. But Welsh and English are like... Pause apart.
Pause apart. Sorry. Isn't that there are a Montipite episode on the really long Welsh name? Yeah, the longest name of a town is a Welsh town.
Yeah, it's a Welsh town. There was a bad ass news reporter who just... Who did it? Who did it?
Who did it? No, it's not the Stephen Fry. No, it's not the long name. It's a German Baroque composer.
Oh, yeah. It's a composer. It's a composer. Yeah.
Yeah. Who reads the entire name and then the guy reading what his name falls dead. One of my favorite funny plays in the episodes of all time. Anyway.
I still stuck around in Wales. I worked there for two years for this sweet little community radio station called New Port City Radio. And while I was there, I was working as a journalist and then became a news editor with this Scottish guy called Paul. And Paul and I were basically...
So he was a Scottish guy and I was an Indian woman and we both did Welsh news. In English? Yeah, in English. Which made no sense, which was so bizarre.
But I also started with nothing. Like, I have no contacts in Wales. But Paul and I really developed our contacts to the point where we knew Welsh assembly members and getting all these stories from them and they'd send us all these documents about what things were going on. And it was just...
Like, I had a really great time. But then my visa was running out and I also graduated when the recession happened. So it was really, really tough getting a job and then I came back. I was working in Chennai.
So in Chennai, I moved there and I was there to create a manager and I used to do like an English on the weekends. And I came back and I started working for N87 but that didn't last very long. And after that I went back to radio one. I was working for three years.
Did a weekend show, then an afternoon show and then I quit that and now I'm with IBM. I just freelanced for a year and then I joined IBM. Awesome. So what do you do?
So I'm not sure. I think I'm done. I think it's three years of arging that we are most interested in. What do you do?
What does an RJ do? So an RJ in any station basically, I think most people associate radio with music discovery. You always think about that. Radio presenter who played that awesome song.
And that's usually how it is. At least that's how it is right now. But I think there's so much more that we do. I mean, you have to be abreast of so many things that are going on in the world.
And that I think just comes naturally anyways, not just about the music but everything else. So yeah, so as a radio presenter you just end up going on here and be like, hey, what. It is primarily about music, isn't it? Mostly.
You have to know some music. Is the music curated by you? Not always. So I used to do the request shows.
It was supposed to be curated by everyone else. But the thing is we, every radio station has a music manager who basically adheres to the music policy of that station. So even when I was working at Radio One, the whole thing was that the music would be sort of start out in the morning with like 70s, 80s and 90s and move to like 80s, 90s and 2000s and then 2000s and like the most current hits. And so that's like how it would go.
So I would be in the middle of the afternoon show. But I was allowed to play different kinds of music. But for example, I couldn't play like death metal or something in the middle of the afternoon. So my music manager would just be like, shut up my house.
My death metal might not be a bad thing to wake up people after lunch actually. I know a lot of people in my office who could use a little bit of cannibal corpse or something. So just to throw them out of their every. And they were crying.
I don't think that's me. I don't think anyone cry. I don't think anyone cry except possibly neighbors. It's a great strategy for getting neighbors flat and discreet.
Oh. The other strategy is to get your son the drum sector. Is that what you've done? No means like secretly thought.
Your son doesn't listen to us. My voltage and does. He was the most alarmingly told. He heard my podcast.
I like it. And he very, you know, very sort of tactful silence. He didn't want to break the old man's heart. Can I tell you that is the coolest thing ever?
If I went, my dad is a podcast. Isn't that so cool? I would think so. Yeah.
My dad definitely does not do a podcast. Not that you know of. Anyway, we like this way to make it. I think it's been a while.
We should take a break. We have an RJ. So I think we should. I'm going to do an RJ thing.
Yeah. You've been listening to Chuck and Lorraine and I may and this is simplified and we were right back after this break. That was the coolest thing we've ever had. Coolness.
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My career. Yeah. My name is Arjing in general. I was watching.
So in the last segment you said radio stations music policy. What's that? So most, I mean it depends on, for example, there's certainly Hindi stations here that might play only retro. So that means that they will only play that kind of music or you might.
The problem with India that I find right now unlike abroad is that either you're Hindi or English. And even if you're a Bollywood, most of these stations are Bollywood stations, you're usually playing other retro, you're playing newer hits or just everything in between. There's no genre specific radio on FM at least. So you won't get like a folk radio station or only metal station.
And if they are like genre specific, then they're usually just online and they're not on FM. It's about hard. Probably not viable to run an extremely expensive to run a station. Just to, just the FM license costs crores and last for about, just recently they did phase three where they were basically putting up for auction new licenses.
And that was, I cannot even tell you, like there was one station that was bought for like 127 crores. And a lot of money. If you want to put out simply by FM, that's not going to happen anytime soon. And that's just the license fee for that frequency.
Then there's also like you're paying for the tower, like you're renting the tower in which you're broadcasting from. There's also the overheads for this to you. I've not even talked about the talent. Yeah.
All of that. Licensing the music. He's staggering. That's what people want.
I mean, people are trying to get into streaming radio versus like FM. FM is so easy because you can just, anyone anywhere can just like tune in. Yeah. Streaming is a little different.
You need a decent enough internet connection. And then offering speeds are just, India is just like just gone the worst internet. Yeah. But strangely the most smartphones don't have a built in radio.
At least the high end ones don't have a built in FM radio. Yeah. Some of the cheaper ones do. They need a different kind of chip.
So there's no space. You know, these motherboards are really, really crammed with stuff. There's just no room. I think that's one of the problems.
What you're saying is a smartphone is a good metaphor for Bombay life. Absolutely. Yeah. What's grounded stuff.
I've got to be on the bill. Your mother was crammed with stuff. Shri right? First in window.
So let's get back to ASEAN. Yeah. We're like the thing of a lot today. So how does one become an ASEAN?
I mean, selection person audition. You know, I just, I wanted to be on radio. And you, I didn't even know what to do. I just knew I wanted to talk and I knew I could.
And I knew it was relatively funny. And I, my first ever radio experience was not the eight year old. I'm talking when I'm really doing a show. I was doing a film show for my undergrad university.
It just started this radio studio called Tone Radio. And I was like, I can do a film show for you guys. I'm just a huge film geek. And I did.
And it was terrible. Like it was overly scripted. I was pretty much reading out for movies and paper. So it's super nervous.
But then you get used to it. You get used to like taking your script away and just being able to talk and being conversational and things like that. So that's how I started. But I know a lot of people actually do radio courses like voice modulation and things like that which really help them become an RJ.
But I think most people are just like what I was really shy or nervous. I think you can get out of that. You should, I mean, there is some relative amount of gift to the gab that you need. And yeah, I just think, I've realized that there's a huge difference between you and the media.
I mean, just looking at people in the media, I think radio presenters are far more laid back than TV presenters, you know, because all about the way you look, artists can sit in their chaddies and like do a show. And it's easy. Have you ever done that? How do you worry about that?
I have not. But I did scare someone once. Like I think I was on air with this guy who was a bit rookie. Like he was in the afternoon show when I was in Chennai.
And I just said, I think his name was Rowan and Rowan. I just said, you know, I think it's a really bad idea that you keep doing your show and your underwear. It's really scaring the women in this office. And then he literally likes to switch off my mic and put a song on.
Because I know what to say. And our sales, one of our salesmen was listening to the radio while he was on his bike and he crashed into a device. And he was just like, what's going on? And then he came because it took a glass like our studio area.
And he actually came and he was checking if he was actually wearing underwear. And I was like, you've actually took you seriously. But that's the power of radio rates all up here in your imagination. And I actually had like, I think one of the most fun times I've had is I took over at our morning presenter and Chen and I was on leave.
And so me and a sales girl, we basically decided to take over the morning show. And so because she always used to have like some giveaways all the time, we decided to do a contest and we forgot to know what kind of contest to do. And I was like, oh my God, I have to thank now. And it's seven o'clock in the morning.
And I said, why don't we say that the hamper is in basically between our left and your right hand. And it's a 50 50 chance to toss up a coin. So I basically just said, why don't we just tell people that which hamper is which hand is the hamper in? And she said, but that doesn't make any sense.
People don't know. And I'm like, exactly. So they get left to right. So I'm going to get a rate.
We're not giving them eight choices. I mean, did it. And we got the most interesting answers. We had a guy who was some sort of like doctor and he was talking about like automatic spinal reflex, which means he's a right handed.
This is going to prove my point. Even the simplest of question, if you ask Chennai people, it's amazing. So I had such a great time. So it was like, this is the power of radio enabled to just play with people's imaginations.
Very cool. So like, so like, most of what energy is associated with music the most, what else does an RJ get to do? Like, I can think of interviewing people. Yeah.
So I've actually had the opportunity to do some amazing things. Like, you know, I was talking about Newport. So I was a journalist there. And I remember there was those accounts that gave me this thing about there was a lot of like sea coast erosion happening in one area of like South Wales.
And there, basically the government weren't doing anything. A lot of this farmland was getting eroded into. So I actually, he told me there was a meeting happening at this farmhouse between the water department and some politicians in the local area. Why don't you go and crash that meeting?
So I was like, awesome. So went for that meeting. I sat there and all the politicians were really happy because they're obviously defending their constituency. But the water department, I had no idea there was going to be a media person there.
And he was like, I wasn't told this blah, blah, blah, blah. And I got thrown out of that meeting. Wow. I was in this farmhouse in the middle of like somewhere in Wales.
I called my radio manager because I didn't work. I had a call. I was going to pick me up because I got the route as a meeting. He said, how can you?
He didn't even know where I was. He didn't even know where I was. He didn't even know where I was. He was like, I was like, no, what's up or anything.
So I asked the receptionist to give him directions. And he came and picked me up like an hour later. Wow. I know.
I know. And I've also interviewed some amazing people, some musicians and politicians like I said before and artists and actors. And sometimes you get, you get interviews thrown into your lap that you least expect. A lot of the time PR people are like your biggest source of great interviews.
And I had a PR woman who just said, oh, there's this like chef, this Michelin star chef that's come down from New York. And you know, would you like to interview her? And I was like, sure, why not? And I had no idea who she was.
Her name was Odette Fada and she was Italian chef. And I did like a little bit of research on her. And I found out that for three years in a row, she basically did the Grammy and Oscar dinners. Wow.
Isn't that amazing? So I got to interview her and she was like, awesome. So that's something that's... She was born with the secret for you.
She did. I wish she did. But she came in the middle of the afternoon. Yeah, I just quickly did the interview.
And she was like, one hour and 40 minutes because she was so lovely. And she was telling me all these stories about cooking from Madonna and Johnny Depp and things like that. Yeah, those are unique anecdotes, man. You can be very interesting, right?
Exactly. And she was so great and so open and super chatty and like, yeah. But I asked her if she would have a gonna make me something, what would it be? And it was like some saffron risotto or something.
She was like, you must come to my house. And I'm like, are you weird? BGP likes this. All that note.
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I don't know why I made an English camera. No. Charge. So, yeah, me was regaling us with stories of English people.
Oh, yeah. She met a Safaran Italian. So, you know, that was... That was...
Yeah, yeah. What's the... English was in the split-end radio right now in India. In India.
Well, there aren't that many because I think people feel... See, because of how expensive it is to run a radio station, you feel that it's better to do something that's going to appeal to the masses. English is not necessarily... Especially English music is not necessarily the masses, right?
But they're also an audience that you can appeal to. We always were not told to say that it was niche because then it's harder to get advertising. Yeah. But the thing is, at the end of the day, there's still people who listen to English music who have money to spend.
Yeah. Therefore, you turn an advertise to them. So, yeah, and it's happened that the station I was working for was Radio 1 used to be Go, and it used to be one of the only English stations in Bombay. And they switched to Hindi and they switched back to English because now for some strange reason, it's...
You know, they've... They are literally the only English radio station. That's their USP. Sounds like the government's educational policy actually going to switch it from the English perspective.
Well, the thing is, I don't even know how some survive because, for example, at least we're in English station in Bombay and Delhi and they're across seven cities and they're in different languages under the cities. Bangalore's English station is only Radio Indigo and they're only in Bangalore and Goa. Chennai has an English radio station and it's just one station and one city. I'm like, I don't know how they're able to tide themselves over.
Delhi used to have two, which is hit FM in Radio 1 and now there's only one hit FM is just basically gone by where Bali would know. So most things just go Bali would. So it's kind of sad. How do these people even sort of verify that their music is relevant or interesting?
Like if you're a DJ in a pub or something, moment to see if the part Bali is stop shaking. You need to pump up some pung or stuff. When you're on RJ and you're responsible choosing the music, how do you know people are not... Yeah, you can hear people cheering from...
He said, my mom used to find me all the time. She always says, when PPS asks her what I did, she's a later presenter. She basically sits in our room talking to herself. That's our great way to describe what I do.
I know, right? So the thing is with music, you never really know. But because I thankfully did a request show, I had an idea. Like for example, One Direction, extremely popular.
So I end up in One Direction like once every hour practically. Then I got some really great requests, like some classic 90s songs like Butterfly by... God, what was that? That's name?
We can remember, do you remember Butterfly? What was the bad? I was already in Geneva in the name of the band. There was this classic 90s song.
You know, tears for fears, you know, that was heavily requested. So it doesn't matter if I'm in Bryan Adams, of course. Yeah, in the Bryan Adams. What if somebody requests like a really obscure song that I don't know you don't have?
It's happening before, so it's happening when people have requests. Forget obscure people. Might not have just requested, I don't know, like ever long by the Foo Fighters. I mean, you might not play that in the afternoon.
So all our music is put into categories. So there'll be like RK for rock or there'll be like IN for indie or NC for 90s or whatever it is, RP for retro pop, things like that. So it's categorized in a certain way. In certain categories we're allowed to play at certain times of the day.
So if we go request something like say, ever long by Foo Fighters, then I'd have to go out and ask him, you see magic for RK to play. Sometimes he'd be like, yeah, sometimes he'd be like, no one. This man called Cobod Mobegina and he was this highly eccentric Parsi man who has been in English radio, I think, for donkey's ears. Oh, wow.
So it was only his women fans who really knew. Isn't the whole process live though? Like if I go, yeah. So how do you go and ask him?
Well, it's always playing, right? I don't even have to be in the studio in this song. It's always like, Kobe, get to play this song. He'd be like, no, get back inside.
And so what if he says no? Then what happens to the listener? That's what happens to the person? I just don't play the song.
We get like, resilience amounts of requests and now it is we get requests not just by our request. Oh, the request on call in. Some are called in. Some are SMS.
Some are Twitter. Some are Facebook. Sometimes I just get friends who are listening to me while they're looking for some lunch and I like to play my song. And then I play faster.
I'm getting on the call now. I'm like, this guy is super mean. The only time I ever got a song place, so I'm also from Gelf. I was in the Ukraine.
So we had, the Korean we had. So we had neighbors. So we used to have radio. No, no, no, no.
No. I don't know. Oh no! I cannot believe it!
Like four people as if it's talking about me. Fifteen years in the girlfriend. I never thought of that one before. I never thought of that one before.
So the first thing I played was for a friend who both of us were into basketball. He was wanted to basketball at that time. I remember both of us were very namooded at space time at that point of time. Greatest anime movie ever.
Yes, just the greatest anime movie ever. I asked him to play Fly Like An Eagle by Seal. That's a great song. You know that it was originally sung by the Steve Miller band?
No idea. This is actually not in his original song. So Fly Like An Eagle was by this band from the 70s or 80s called the Steve Miller band. Okay, we have to take this way too many times.
Sorry, yes. How was Ajing in your mind evolved in India? Has it? So the thing is, I think, because I actually had to think about this question.
It was really interesting. I think in the oldies when you look at how RJ's were before, it was you had to have like a perfect diction, speak very clearly, and fluently, and very clearly. Yeah, I know we have a super posh accent. And I think, you know, I think radio in India is still discovering itself.
I think things have already happened abroad in the UK and the US far more in Australia as well. And I think it's there RJ's talk as they would talk conversationally. I mean, it's not like when you're on the radio, you don't go like, you're listening to the simplified here with Chuck and Ryan. It's not like you don't have a radio voice.
But then you are far more comfortable in. And I think now, I think people just assume that if you're on the radio, then you just have to have this like booming voice. You don't always have to happen. And I think, and the thing is the difference in India is that there's some people that have the ability to be like that conversational and chilled out.
But I also think that people want to have this, want to talk really quickly and really fast and get as much in there as they can. And because of the fact that as a radio presenter, you only have like one minute at every time before you play a three minute song and then you have like a 10 minute ad break. So that's the saddest of that. It makes me wonder, what is, I've never go swimming like that in real life.
All the time. Before you get this, this talking clearly reminded me of an anecdote. Okay, my dad has a hospital. So they, they just have a cooler and cooler.
So we had a sister that nurse, a woman, her name was Comalam. So one day one of my uncle's came and he had some problem with him. I had typed along and they were being looked at and the sister was asked to give him administer some medicine, some injection. So this guy asked the sister, what's her name?
So she says Comalam. So this guy doesn't get it. It says what? It says Comalam.
He still didn't get it. It says what? Comalam. It says my favorite clear speaking calendar.
Okay. Back to her name. I'm good at any of my children. Comalam.
Comalam. Yeah. Yeah. So after I was in the office, she was a semicolon.
No. That is the call that these jokes were so bad. Yeah. Very, very bad.
You said anything else about Arjaying that you would like to text? Well, you would actually send me a whole bunch of questions. Thanks. Making off as always.
It's not good at all. It's not about being scripted. It's being prepared. It's a difference.
It's very good to be prepared. I think one of the things that, this question I found really difficult, not difficult, but I really had to think about it. You asked me who my favorite Arjay was. Now that was, so I have certain, so that my favorite of all time is a guy called John Peel.
He was a really well-known radio presenter from BBC Radio 1, and he'd been there. I think he had the longest stint there. He joined them in 1967, and he was there until he passed away in 2004. And he had these things called the Peel Sessions, where he would get bands like these new and up and coming bands to come in and do four songs, and he literally launched these unsigned bands into the mainstream.
He's played music by Joy Division and these small bands. I think there was one story he talks about at that time. The BBC didn't want any punk to be played on the radio, and he basically was like, I'm not going to do what you tell me to. And he discovered the Ramones, and he played the Ramones.
People complained and said, yeah, you play this music on the radio. And he basically played it more to the point where the audience that is in the BBC went down by 10 years. So basically, you have this totally different audience in front of the music. You play it.
He was that guy that basically, again, music discovery, he brought new music, gave it that platform. And I would love to be the John Peel of India. I just love that. He also, I think he did silly things.
There was a song by this band called The Undertones called Teenage Kicks, and he liked it so much I was like, what if they are like special? He just came on and he was like, you know what, this guy kind of sounds like this other singer. So let's say that song again. Please again.
I'd say sometimes 15 seconds, I'd say two times one after the other and click it. I was like, I like to say it so much, I'm going to play it once more. That's just not nice. And I think there was one where you would ask me about funny incidents while I like RJ.
Yes. Yes. So I actually have three for him. I mean, not counting the one where you got kicked out of a strange following.
No, no, no, no. But I have three. Okay. So I'm going to tell you all three.
I was doing an interview actually about the same issue this eroding like the coastline. And I had a local counselor there. It was really young counselor. I, you see these counselors and they usually like 50 and older and grand and punching, whatever.
But this guy, his name was Anthony Parrot. He was really tall, really cute, but like a chef house. He was a massive guy. Like basically a lumberjack.
And I was like, here counselor, here's your kid to be a counselor. This is awesome. But I mean, he came for the interview was an hour long and then we finished the interview and then like I was like, thank you so much. And he left and I was doing like a film show straight after that.
So I didn't have time to like talk to anyone. Eventually, while I was doing the film show, I got a message from basically, I used to send all my guests and thank you so much for coming. And you know, it was great to meet you and if you ever need anything, do let me know. So I sent that standard message to Anthony.
He replied back saying, can I take you out for a date on Friday? And I was like, oh my God, he knew me for one hour and asked me out. I'm like, this is like, he's kicking ass. It was so great.
So that was my one awesome experience. Like that was kind of cool. And he was really cute. So I dated like a counselor for a little while.
Then I also, I don't know why, but all my, my finances were being in RJ is to a dating my dating life. So it was another time when I was here, there was an Irish fan that had come to, um, they were basically coming for St. Patrisian, India performing all across the country. You go by any chance?
Long night is better. So Jameson had brought them down. So I got them on the radio. So I'm one of their concerts.
I'm acquainted with that. I'm so glad. So they came down and eventually I got their number or whatever. And the bassist asked me out.
And he was really cute. He had like curly, curly ginger hair. It was so pretty. Yeah.
I mean, like you have a slightly trimly voice. So basically, you would have made a good couple of it. Sure. So the last one was actually, again, Jameson connection since Nadine here all about the Jameson.
This was an amazing experience for me. So through radio one, I actually got a chance to go to Dublin. Jameson was sending radio presenters from all over the world to Dublin for St. Patrick's Day to do an international broadcast.
I was representing Bombay and Delhi and there was another girl called Melody from Radio Indigo, the representing Bangalore. So we went there and I had the best time. So we were hosting this international broadcast for St. Patrick's Day in the Jameson distillery in Dublin.
It was so awesome. I met radio presenters from Argentina, from Mexico, from Japan, from everywhere you can think of. And the ones that we got along with the most was this, these two, where were they from? Zambia, there were two morning presenters from Zambia from this hip hop station.
Melody and I got along with you as well. The hip hop station from Zambia is not something that I expected. Really? But they were things.
But they were just amazing guys. They were really cute and super fun and Melody and I really enjoyed it because they were just funny guys. And eventually, I'm all having dinner, we were all having dinner, we were all having dinner, we were all having dinner, we were all having dinner, we were like, 10 tables. And we were one with these ambient guys.
And there's one Kenyan guy that represented Jameson. By the way, we were also smashed the whole time. We basically drinking Jameson all the time. We were like, hey, let's do a shot at Jameson.
And I don't know, I'm not a whiskey person, but Jameson is a beautiful whiskey that you can literally drink straight. And I was like, I was basically hammer the whole time. But this guy from Kenya came along, he was Brian and he represented Jameson. He was working, I don't know why, he had some connection to Jameson.
So he came over to us and he obviously saw Melody and I hanging out. And then he was like, you know what, I love Indian women, Indian women are so beautiful. We love hair, they're so lovely. And so he was talking about how like this, and it was really sweet and I'm like, oh, that's really nice.
And these Zambia and presenters were like, you know what? Because I was like, you know, if I ever go to Zambia, will you take me to all the cool places? And they're like, yeah, but you have to be careful and shave your head. They're like, because the women, they were shivers for you.