The Tea Kettle - DesiQuest After Show Podcast - Ep 8 with Jasmine Bhullar & Michael Schaubach *SNEAK PEAK*

When the kettle whistles and the tea is ready, it's time for the DesiQuest after-show—and what a show it is! Omar Najam and I, Sandeep Parikh, are all cozied up inside the teapot, steaming with excitement.  After every episode of DesiQuest is launched, we'll release another episode of the Tea Kettle with me and Omar and a very special guest, or guest from either behind or in front of the camera.

As the curtains draw close on a season sprinkled with laughter and insightful conversations, Omar and I, Sandeep, take you through a final stroll along the vibrant path of our creative journey in the Tea Kettle Finale. The air is thick with nostalgia as we recount the tears shed and the joyous moments that have shaped our adventure.  Michael Schaubach and Jasmine Bhullar join the fray, lending their seasoned insights to the conversation and encouraging everyone to keep the love alive at DesiQuest.com.

The finale episode of our Tea Kettle Podcast wraps with a cozy chat, hoodies and all, that playfully segues into a deeper reflection on generational wealth and mental health. Sharing the poignant moment when Omar unraveled the threads of generational trauma to his mother, he celebrates her journey into retirement and the resilience that binds their family.  Our ABCD podcast also gets a nod, as we eagerly await the next season exploring the American-born Desi experience. Jasmine Bhullar, wearing her showrunner's hat, shares an enlightening perspective on the transformative power of storytelling. As the episode winds down, we revel in the shared joy and the unifying spirit of 'play' that has invigorated our creative pursuits. Our Patreon family is in for an extra treat with 50 minutes of riveting, exclusive content that's simply too good to miss.

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Chapters

• 0:05 The Tea Kettle Introduction with Mikey in the Morning and Jazz!
• 3:25 Share DesiQuest with a Friend!
• 4:23 Thank you to Candela Obscura
• 5:10 It's the Hoodie episode!
• 6:04 Check out the ABCD Podcast here at EffinFunny
• 6:45 Jasmine's reflection on DesiQuest Season 1
• 10:18 "It all just starts with 'I want to play'
• 11:07 Go to patreon.com/desiquest to hear the rest of the show

Transcript

Omar Najam: 0:05

Hey, we're here and welcome back to The Tea Kettle. Yeah, oh my goodness, here we are. Oh my god, yes I'm not looking for my charger just give you a look like a location in a relationship and you just improvise the opening that was good.

Jasmine Bhullar: 0:23

That was amazing. Who's on the show?

Omar Najam: 0:26

traffic is a nightmare today, everybody on the 101 good morning, we're drinking coffee jasmine's drinking coffee. Who's? Got their coffee ray I don't raise your cups my coffee.

Sandeep Parikh: 0:40

this is why I'm a step behind I do not have my coffee.

Omar Najam: 0:42

It's Mikey In the morning, we got jazz up in Seattle.

Jasmine Bhullar: 0:47

Woo, bringing you news from the cold, rainy north. We've got a show for you today, fam, because today we're talking about the finale of Desi Quest, mikey what do we Have in store for the kids at home today?

Sandeep Parikh: 1:03

Oh my gosh. We got laughs, we got tears, we've got crafts, we've got beers raise your beers.

Jasmine Bhullar: 1:13

All of the things you've come to expect from mikey in the morning and at the end of the show we're going to preview our brand new coffee table book, mikey and jazz. You're're gonna want it. It's a focus on microphones and jazz for your coffee table.

Omar Najam: 1:31

That's right, folks. That's right as FCC mandated, though we do have to go to our newest segment. Bad News with Sandeep. Sandeep, take it away Bad news of the day. An earthquake has struck one specific house.

Sandeep Parikh: 1:50

Yeah, yeah, the carpenters, uh, that's tough ironic, frankly, uh all right you goofs.

Jasmine Bhullar: 1:59

I feel like omar's segment would be putting up pictures of pets and trying to guess which zodiac sign they are oh, I love that right like you'd be. Like this cat is clearly a pisces that's, yeah, that's, that's water right there.

Omar Najam: 2:14

Look at that, that's a water cat well, friends, we're doing it, we're doing it's clearly the punchy.

Sandeep Parikh: 2:22

Final episode of the Tea Kettle, the Desi Quest After Show podcast, exclusive to you, our Patreon backers. This whole endeavor couldn't be possible without you, dear listeners, without you, beauties. Thank you so much. I'm your host, it turns out, not these faux hosts that came in hot Mikey and Jazz. Mikey and Jazz, though I will.

Omar Najam: 2:45

Such a Leo, such a Leo.

Sandeep Parikh: 2:50

Such a Leo. I would watch or listen to a podcast that was about microphones, and then just the music, jazz music. The genre, it was a coffee table book.

Jasmine Bhullar: 3:00

It was going to be jazz artists and their microphones and their microphones and you put it on your coffee table.

Sandeep Parikh: 3:06

It's not going to be, or that was going to be. It is going to be. That is happening.

Omar Najam: 3:11

Wes Montgomery and his microphone. It's really quality content, folks.

Jasmine Bhullar: 3:15

Harper Collins call us.

Omar Najam: 3:18

You know, do it.

Sandeep Parikh: 3:20

I'm your host, sandeep, and then we also got my co-host, omar. Hello.

Jasmine Bhullar: 3:24

The illustrious.

Sandeep Parikh: 3:25

Omar, the sparkly Omar, who plays Murkha. I play Ash. Every episode of this, we launch with the show and then we get some very special guests, who you know as Mike and Jazz I mean, they need no introduction, let's be honest Our director, Michael Schaubach, and our heart and soul showrunner and DM Jasmine Bhullar, that bronze girl, yes, yes, thank you guys for coming in for this final episode. Before we dive into our dissection of this finale, this emotional finale, do that thing where you go and support us even more. Go to DesiQuest. com, hop on our mailing list, get a special discount on our merch that really helps us out and tell someone about us, brag about us. You guys have helped us get this far and we'll get even further with the larger community, so thank you so much for doing that.

Sandeep Parikh: 4:23

We've had a bunch of sponsors that took a big chance on us, you guys, uh, to make the show possible, and for each of these we're going to want to shout one of them out, and so today the honor goes to Candela Obscura and our friends at Darrington Press, um, cause they stepped in big time as we were trying to finish the show, and get it across that finish line and so please go out and support them. Candela Obscura is an ongoing horror drama that follows an esoteric order of investigators as they use centuries of knowledge to fight back a mysterious source of corruption and bleed. Leveraging improv and gaming as story mechanics, the series features the Candela Obscura game, which is run on the Illuminated World system, both created by Critical Role's publishing company Darrington Press. So go check them out.

Sandeep Parikh: 5:06

Anjali's in it as well so you know, it's good stuff, it's good stuff.

Jasmine Bhullar: 5:10

I like how we all decided to wear hoodies today and not tell Omar.

Omar Najam: 5:15

Oh, I see, I see.

Jasmine Bhullar: 5:18

Now you look like the bourgeoisie, like the rest of us, are working production people and you're the talent.

Omar Najam: 5:27

Please please accumulate capital for me as I sit back in my plaid. Please, please, contribute to my generational wealth, my children are going to live so easy.

Jasmine Bhullar: 5:42

Listen, Desi People don't have generational wealth. We have generational mental health problems.

Omar Najam: 5:52

We inherit and pass on explaining generational trauma to my mom uh has been oh my gosh.

Sandeep Parikh: 6:00

And speaking of talking to my mom, speaking of talking to my mom.

Omar Najam: 6:04

If you like our banter, check out the ABCD podcast that Sandeep, and I host on EffinFunny, which on two occasions has hosted, uh, my mother, uh, who is actually retiring today from her job at the day of recording. So congratulations to her. I'm very, very proud of her. Interesting, we chat about all things, uh, being american-born, chatty, creative and conclusive. Desis on it stuff like the news that we're confused about cultural identity stuff that we're working through. We always play a ridiculous game and then we pick a Desi of the week. Season 2 of ABCD starts on March 10th that's right, 10th. You can find over 30 episodes of the show on the EffinFunny YouTube and wherever podcasts can be found, folks.

Sandeep Parikh: 6:44

Yes.

Sandeep Parikh: 6:45

But that show is on pause. To get this show, uh, uh, to its completion. Um, we're gonna be back in action right on March 10th, but without further ado. The tea kettle is a callin, so we're gonna spill some chai about the finale episode 108, and then we got some. We also got some viewer questions, um, for, for, for michael and bronze. as well, which I've collected, I can't wait, and we'll be hitting those up as well, but obviously this was a huge, huge episode. I mean, let's just start with how we're feeling about this finale, about the show coming to a close. We'll start with you, Jasmine. Just take us through where, where, where you're at after watching this, uh, the, uh, the show come to, or the season, the season, this first season come to an end it's weird.

Jasmine Bhullar: 7:35

I I think this is the first time, uh, for me, that I've been involved in a production like on this level, like from the pitching process all the way to like a delivery and and you know, um it's. It's weird because when I started I definitely didn't think that I was gonna occupy these types of roles. I was kind of just like a writer that wanted to like tell stories and and wanted a platform to do it. And now it's like I like you, like even here, even hearing you, and even on set, when Schaubach told me like oh, you're a showrunner, I was like what? I'm a dork. Hell, yeah, um, you know, like, how is this gonna?

Jasmine Bhullar: 8:21

work mutually exclusive but it was like uh, it was like a very thanos moment, like you know fine, I'll do it myself, type of thing, you know like I wanted to see this show made and I I self I started out selfishly wanting to do it for me.

Jasmine Bhullar: 8:40

Right, like if even if you go back and look at all of the our initial kickstarter pitches, it's all like I want to play at a table of other desi people. I got to play with anjali (bhimani) one time and we both talked about how. And I got to play with janina (Gavankar) one time and we just always talked about how. That was a unique experience and I want to do that more and I want it was always I and I think, like, seeing the finale, I was like it wasn't just about me, you know, and that's weird to sort of come to terms with like oh, this was like, this is a big project. It first hit me on set when I saw how many people we had in that building.

Jasmine Bhullar: 9:23

And then, when I saw the finalized version of our intro, our sort of intro video, which I think is the coolest I've ever seen on any TTRPG show getting to see those people as the credits roll and as you're coming into a show and being like all of these people came together in this room to make this thing because I selfishly wanted to play at a table with a bunch of Indian people and that's like now changed people's lives in a lot of ways, cause seeing people's reaction to it and I think that's why I had an emotional breakdown at the end of it Cause I was like God, this is so weird, you know, like a stray idea, you know, cut through my brain like a soft cheese and now it's become something that you can watch and enjoy and connect with. It's crazy. I don't know if it's a poetic answer, but it's just. It's weird. No, it's a great answer. Being at the end of it is weird.

Sandeep Parikh: 10:18

I love that it just all starts with I want to play.

Jasmine Bhullar: 10:21

Like it just starts with this simple.

Sandeep Parikh: 10:24

And it turns out you know, because I got this little kiddo and I think about it a lot like he just wants to play, and then if someone wants to play enough and has a vision about what they want to play, then a bunch of people are like, fuck, that sounds cool, I want to play.

Sandeep Parikh: 10:37

I want to play with you, that sounds fun and I think that's it feels like that was the energy that, like pretty much everybody who came on board, that's where they, that's where it came from. Um, it wasn't, you know, uh, you know it wasn't for themselves or it wasn't for, it wasn't for the money, that's for sure. Because we were, you know everybody's coming on because they were just like. They just were like hands up, like I want to get in on this game. Hey, so sorry to interrupt, but the rest of this episode is for our Patreon subscribers only. So if you'd like to hear the rest of this juicy conversation, let me tell you it gets juicy. There's another 50 minutes 50, five zero of this conversation over at patreoncom slash daisy quest. Thank you so much for supporting the show.