Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - ZARNA GARG Is A Modern Day Jack Tripper

Episode Date: September 16, 2025

This week on the pod, Zarna Garg joins Seth and Josh! She has them laughing the whole way through, telling them all about how she grew up in Mumbai, Chuck-E-Cheese outings in Ohio, food being a huge part of the culture in India, 3 hour breakfasts, the comedy in how Americans view weather, the impact of the TV show Three’s Company, her family podcast, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her Hulu special, Practical People Win, out now! Support our sponsors: Mint Mobile Quit stalling and start saving when you make the switch. Shop plans at MINTMOBILE.com/TRIPS. Upfront payment of $45 required (equivalent to $15/mo.). Limited time new customer offer for first 3 months only. Speeds may slow above 35GB on Unlimited plan. Taxes & fees extra. See MINT MOBILE for details. Delete Me Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindeleteme.com/trips and use promo code TRIPS at checkout. Fabric Join the thousands of parents who trust Fabric to help protect their family. Apply today in just minutes at meetfabric.com/trips. Policies issued by Western-Southern Life Assurance Company. Not available in certain states. Prices subject to underwriting and health questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Visit tropical smoothiecafe.com to find a cafe near you. Terms and conditions apply. Hey, buddy. Hey, Sufi. It's very nice to see you, but I just saw you. Yeah, I know. But we had our annual get together with our college friends. So much fun.

So tired. I slept so hard when I got home. And we had like a full day of travel. And we don't like go that hard. No, no, no. The last night we were up until like 12. 30 and that was by far our latest night. It was like every

day I was exhausted and I'd get into bed and it would be like 1145. It was we were doing, our activities were I would say mid-exertion level. Yeah. You know, I think

we went out of our way to make sure nobody was in the heart attack zone. Yeah. So we went for like a very flat bike ride. Mm-hmm. With e-bikes. So there was an Yeah, I really, yeah, I undersold how hard we were peddling. We played some golf.

We played what a lot of golf fans are not celebratory of. We played an 11-man scramble. I mean, it was six on five. We weren't playing one group. No, it was six on five. We were all playing the same time. Now, we were on a course that was. there was very little traffic,

so there was nobody stuck behind us while we were playing our 11-person scramble. We would have let them play through. We would have let them play through. Yeah. An 11-person scramble does not move as quickly as you might think. No. I think, I mean, one of my sort of lessons learned

is like if you have two groups and they're on opposite sides of the fairway or somebody's over in the rough and somebody's in the fairway, you don't have to let everyone from Team A hit before Team B can start hitting. I mean, again, the lessons learned are probably not applicable, because you might never be in another 11-man scramble.

But maybe, that's possible. And our listeners probably won't be there, so. Yeah. What was the other game we played with P-D-E-L? Pad-D-E-L, I think. Not pickleball. Not pickleball. But it was at the pickleball facility we were at.

And I liked it way more than pickleball. I mean, pickleball has swept the nation. I think every, like, you know, there are jokes about it in commercials. It's, uh, everyone's 65-year-old parents are playing pickle. It's already over. It's over. The soon as you play Padell, if that's how it's pronounced. Yeah.

Then you'll never want a pickle again. Now I should say. Pidale requires a little bit more of a build. Yeah, you're unlike this here. That is true. It's sort of glass walls. It has a little bit of racquetball to it. Yeah.

It's a soft surface. Yeah. Which I think is good for, you know, our adult male knees. Yeah. Like pickleball is like an ACL graveyard, right? Like, that's just where they go to... Yeah, yeah. And then, like, the New York Times yesterday

had an article about how Paddell is taking over Miami. Well, good riddance. But, yeah, that was great. That was a good... It was a good sweat. It was probably a good 90-minute session. I feel like I'm missing some other Was there another light lift

But I feel like maybe those were all the light lift Yeah, that could be There was the fantasy football draft It's like a two hour draft Yeah I mean Everyone I think Maybe some weirdo Of our friends

It's maybe their favorite thing But it's the worst part of the draft It's the worst part And also like it's the worst part Because you do have to pay attention To the draft so that when it's your turn to pick It doesn't slow everybody down And so it does kind of

freeze-up chit-chat. Yes, it does freeze-up chit-chat. I don't think you need to be paying attention that closely because I don't... Paying attention wouldn't help my technique because I don't know what's happening anyhow. Right. I think that we have, you know, let's be honest, we have like four friends who, if they're not paying, like, the closest attention are immediately lost. Yeah. So I encourage and celebrate when they pay attention.

But, yeah. I agree. It's the worst two hours. It's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's a necessary evil for a fantasy football. I think if our wives watched us play, like do the draft, they'd be like, oh, I don't know if you need to be gone all weekend. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is the draft? Yeah, there's an argument to be made that you would be more efficient if we just did it online. Yeah, but let's just, let's just keep that argument to ourselves, right?

Yeah. Pashi. Deal. There you go. But it was great, and it was awesome to see everybody. We've got the... You know, and again, my podcasting began with this group of guys. Yeah.

Yeah, there was Sufi. We have one of our friends, Doug Stradley, lives in Maine. His team is the Maine Mooses. And you and Stradley started a fantasy football podcast just for the people in our league. So 12 people max And it would show up It would show up on your podcast app

Yeah And the first one Again we did it during COVID Because You know We had time to start 12 person Not a 12 person podcast The podcast for 12 people

Really for 10 as well For 10 right because we're doing But I remember when the first one got delivered I said oh my God CBS Sportsline Because that's the app we use And they write these recaps They're AI bot, like Rice Recaps of the League.

Yeah. And I said, hey, it's so crazy. There's this new feature where it makes a podcast based on your league. And so everybody started listening thinking it was going to be like, this week, the main mooses defeated the guests. But instead it was us. And it was very, it was wonderful. And then our friend Jake, and again, this is the, I still can't get over how funny this joke was. So real, I mean, real quick, the title of the podcast became Sufi and the Moose Man.

Yes. And they would occasionally begin. Yes. So every now and then we would have Jake. Yeah, I mean, the best guests, when you first started, you would have the children of our friends would come on. Yeah. Like, so, you know, Leo Brinkley would come on and, you know, has a great deal of football knowledge.

And it was like a great way to have conversations with, you know, kids that I don't really know that well, these teenagers. And you hadn't done it in a couple years. You hadn't had a podcast in a couple years because, well, we have this podcast. Yeah, there's a lot of podcasts. I got a lot of podcasts going on, yeah. And the morning, some of us were arriving to the draft, or it was midnight maybe. Midnight, the night before people were going to be showing up, you dropped a new one, which I just, I couldn't believe.

I told you I almost started crying when I was walking downstairs at Mom's Dad's House. with one earbud in, just because I hadn't heard you guys do it in so long. So it's Sufi and the Moose. We recorded it at 10 p.m. on Labor Day night. That was said time. Yeah. But it was.

It was Sufi and the Moose Man. And then Jake popped in. Right. As our special guest, our friend Jake. So then Jake made T-shirts for the draft, but it was Sufi and the Moose Man T-shirts and with Jake. Yeah. And he just made three.

He just made three, one for him, and then one each for us. And it's me as me on a podcast mic. Yeah. But then the Moose Man is a Moose. And it's a really good podcast logo. Yeah. It's like one guy at a microphone and then Moose Man on the other one. And then Jake had one too.

And then Jake put his on. And I'd already looked at mine. I was like, this is really good. And on Jake's, I'm bald. Not bald bald. Like I've got like side hair. Yeah, you've got that like... I'm like principal balled.

Yeah. Yeah, principal balled. That's good. And I'm like, what? And to this, I'm like, what made you? And he just couldn't stop laughing. And I will say it is undeniably one of the funniest things. Yeah.

Yeah, I made one for you and Stradley. Yeah. The sort of official logo. And then he had one as well. Where I'm bald. With you bald, completely. Falled up top. Great bit.

He also made a t-shirt. Oh, we also, we did a Secret Santa at our draft. See, these are things you couldn't do if we did it all remotely. Yeah, that's true. So, yeah, we tell our wives, like, oh, okay, we'll just do a Secret Santa remote. Secret Santa again, we just have dumb ideas every year. This year was Secret Santa. We all got randomly signed each other's names.

And we have, I would say we're like split right down the middle of people in our college cohort who are huge fish fans and don't care much for the music of fish. all. And Kevin is a huge fish fan, and Jake is not. And Jake, for Secret Santa, got Kevin a fish shirt, which if you've ever seen, it's the shape of a fish, and the letters P-H-I-S-H are within the body of the fish. Yeah. So it looks like a fish t-shirt, but when you get up closely, it spells out trash.

And Kevin, like, I'm not a crazy, I'm not, I'm definitely not a fish fan. Kevin asked if I wanted it. And I was like, I don't like them and I make fun of them, but I wouldn't want to, like, wear something like that around. You don't want to insult their fan base. Yeah. Yeah. So, but he's like, yeah.

I feel like Jake's like, I wore it to a fish show. And it's like, oh, okay. Yeah, there you go. We got the great guest for you guys today, Zarnagarg. Zarnagar, a comedian who is so funny. She's got the goods. She's got the goods. Yeah, a lot of, a lot of,

mother-in-law humor. Yeah. And really, like, just such a great conversation. I'm already hoping I bump into Zarnah in real life again because I can't imagine having anything less than a wonderful time with her. So enjoy our chat with Zarda, and thanks for listening. Chips of the mind of his brother, here we go. Hello, hello.

Zarnah Garg is I live and breathe. How are you? So excited to be here. I'm so good. How are you guys? We're really great. Do you remember meeting Josh? I, did I, where did we meet?

Oh. Did we meet at the Beacon? No, not at the Beacon. I went to a Restless Leg show, Amy and Tina show, and you opened for them at the Yamava Casino. Oh, in L.A. Right, right, right, right. Okay, I knew it was related to the show.

Yeah, but man, you took that stage, and the length of time it takes for you to get an audience on your side is like a snap of a finger. You're so good. You're so good and so funny. And I was delighted to meet you that night and delighted to watch you perform and I'm delighted to get this opportunity

to chat with you today. And not an easy... By the way, like, you know, it's never easy. Warm-up comedians is such a skill. But when people are there to see Amy and Tina and, you know, obviously it's going to change as the years passed,

but a lot of them, I think, are laying eyes on you for the first time, Zarnah. And it is true, like how quickly people who are, I think, so antsy to see these two heroes of theirs. They're like, now who's this person? Oh, like that fast. Like, oh. Yeah.

Well, I hope Amy and Tina aren't in a rush to come out. It turns out that there's a huge market for somebody who trashes their mother-in-law. This is an evergreen topic. It crosses all ethnic, all financial strata. It actually even crosses generations because a lot of times I get teenagers. You know, I'm a TikToker, right? And teenagers tune in because they know the drama that their grandmother and mom are going through or whatever. Like, so they all, you would think, why would the kids care?

But they care. They get involved all the time. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like my mother-in-law who considers herself more of a mother-outlaw is what she prefers to be called. But she's more active on social media than I am. So I feel like if I started trashing her, she would just destroy me. The thing is, it never works that way because generally the mother-in-laws are good to their son-in-laws.

The tension is always the other way. The tension is always between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. I do this in my live shows. When we do crowdwork, I'll go around and ask about people's mother-in-laws. Invariably, all the men are like, my mother-in-law is great. But it's not a coincidence. It's always like that. It's always the women that are getting into little catty situations.

I also think my mother-in-law, who I often make jokes about, sees it as an act of love. She's very happy that I'm on stage choosing to use my time to discuss her. Yes. Whereas if Alexi was a stand-up doing material about mom, I think it would be a different. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that bounce would be a little different. Yeah.

All right, so, Zarnah, you grew up in Mumbai. Yeah. And how long, when did you leave Mumbai? How old were you? I was 16 when I came to America. Gotcha. Yeah. And so, siblings, what was your sibling situation?

So I have two brothers who live in India and who continue to live in India today and are very happy there. And I have one sister who moved to America when I was very young, when I was seven or eight years old. She got married and we are much, many years apart in age. So she's lived in America a long time And she still lives where she moved to And Akron, Ohio So Ohio has played a big role in my life Great

Was she sort of the North Star for you When you started thinking that you wanted to move to America Do you think you would have done it If she hadn't come first? Well, I couldn't have done it It's not even an option Because she helped me move here You know, we see the

When immigrants move Like especially the Indians They don't really know anything about it America. They just know something about the one place where their relative is living. So to us in India, America was Ohio at the time. Specifically, we were like, no, no, we know what goes on there. And like, we've seen the Walmart there. And like, we think we know America. So I couldn't have come if she wasn't living here. And she very, very graciously invited me to live with her while I was a student, which is how I moved to America as a student.

Gotcha. When you were younger and she had just moved, would the whole family come to visit her? Yes. So we did. And it was like a whole revelation because Ohio, as you can expect, is not New York and not L.A. And, you know, it was like any part of India is like New York or L.A. In terms of density of population, right? You see people everywhere in India.

You go to Ohio and suddenly you're like, where is everybody? You're like, there's no people. You're driving by acres and acres of land with nothing. And the year that I moved to Ohio in 1992, you know who was in the news? Jeffrey Dahmer. And he is from Akron, Ohio. Oh, yeah. So we were like, oh, my God, this is what people do in their big houses in America.

Was it, was that absence of people on, did that make you uneasy? Was it sort of a reverse claustrophobia? I think it made me nervous, yeah. Yeah. Because there's a comfort that you get when there's a lot of people around. It feels safer, even though we know it's not. Like, you know, if something happens, like things happen in the New York City subway and people just watch. That's a false sense of security.

People are not going to get involved. But you feel safer when there's, you. humanity around. So in the beginning years, and also not everybody that comes from abroad knows how to drive, right? So I remember being very stressed out about like immediately having to learn how to drive, which was also fine because I was young. That didn't rattle me. But the weather, it's like everywhere I went, it was like, be careful of black ice. And you can't see it, but it's there. A big part of living in that part of Ohio is like the weather. It's the northeast of the nor'easter is coming.

Yeah. See, India is so matter of fact that like a big hurricane will come and kill like thousands of people and people are like, well, it happened. Yeah. I mean, you can't fight the weather. Yeah, they're like, but in America, everybody is trying to protect against everything always. So I remember thinking, like, wow, they spend so much time on the news talking about the weather that we never, that's something we were never accustomed. all the graphs and charts they show you and they show you how the wind is going to move

and like, who cares? What are you going to do? What are you going to do about it? That's like pilots that tell you what the visibility is when we're in the sky. It's like, yeah, it makes no difference to me. I'm going to get on the ground

and I'm going to be able to see my hand in front of my face, aren't I? Like, yeah, then I'm good. I don't think I even knew anything about weather in India until that movie monsoon wedding, genuine. Or like, oh, it seems like this is a big deal in regards to wedding planning. Yes, and I was just there two, three weeks ago, I was in Mumbai and it is peak monsoon season

right now. You have to understand life goes on. It's like flooded. It is flooded. Seth, if you went from America, you would look out from your hotel and be like, I can't go anywhere. Like, you're looking out. It's like two feet of water. And yet people are like marching through it trying to get.

So do you have good, do you have good rain gear for monsoon season or you just, you're going to dry off eventually? I've become so American. I went with the whole thing. I went with my boots and, you know, I've lived here so long that I thought I'm going to beat the weather. And then in two minutes, everything stopped working. The umbrella folded over and the boots got flooded with the water. I was like, okay, this isn't going to work. Do your old friends see and you're like, oh, my God, Zarnie, you've changed with your boots.

and your umbrella. Well, they were making fun of me. Yes, absolutely. There were a lot of memes going around, let's just say. I want to get to your childhood, but just because you mentioned you just went back, what's on an average, how often do you go back to India? I go back once or twice a year, but now it's new because I perform there sometimes. I have a lot of resistance to performing there, but I have started doing it, and that has

changed how I traveled to India. What is the resistance? Where does it come from? Fear. See, in America, saying whatever you want is so normalized that you forget that that's not how the rest of the world lives. You know, you could very easily get in trouble because you made fun of a politician. And you know, you know comedy. Like crowdwork moments, you don't know what's going to pop up. And the Indian audience is very eager to get involved. And I do a lot of crowdwork in my shows.

Like, not for Tina and Amy, you wouldn't see that because that's not what that show is about. Yeah. But in my own shows, I do a lot of crowdwork. And in the U.S., I don't worry about it at all. I say and do whatever I want. Yeah. But in India, it's like the audience will deliberately poke you to see what you say about something controversial. And God forbid, you say something crazy.

It's like, now they're all going to come down on you. So I've been very hesitant to perform. form there because I know how angry the community can get. Right. And the government's like 85% mother-in-laws, right? It's really problematic for you. Exactly. They all are going to side with that wicket bench.

I get all the way. I mean, you know, Josh and I every now and then, you know, when you have to go back somewhere where you're the most known and do a show, it is far more stressful than, you know. going to Columbus, Ohio, where the joy is, they're excited that you've come, whereas these people are like, all right, we remember you. What's up? Yeah, yeah, of course. And they're eager to criticize, because it's so much easier to criticize than to create. So when you was bringing your three children, did you bring them back? Was that a big part of their upbringing

to go back to India at least once here? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And they went this time, too. No. No. Ever? No. No age. I'm being honest. I'm telling you, I would get flamed if I said this on an Indian podcast, but I'm going to tell you the truth. They do not want to go there. And they've been going for years. Your kids are 22, 19, and 13. Is that true? Yes. And they've been going their whole lives.

And every year, it's traumatic. It's kicking and screaming, dragging fights at the airport. And it's the amount of yelling I have to do to get them on that flight. It's like, and the bribing. Because as they got older, it was like, I couldn't even force them. Then it had to become like a negotiation. I'll get you this. I'll get you that.

I'll give you spending money. You know, when you come back, you can do this and that. Oh, my God, I have lost so much hair. And the thing is that my husband, we're both Indian, right? He's not particularly attached to India at all. He's like, I don't know why you're doing any of this. If they don't want to go, just let's not go. But I've taken it upon myself to be like, we're going to keep the culture, you know, whatever.

And my husband just sits back and watches the whole show because he thinks the whole fight is unnecessary. He's like, if we don't want to go, let's go to Italy. And I'm like, we're not going to Italy. We're Indian people. It's so funny. Do you have family there? Do you feel like, is it the culture, or is it also that you have family? Both our families live in India, and they still live in the homes that we grew up in.

And to me, it's important that we go and show our kids and be part of our world. But my husband, he is so American, he's like, let's go to Prague. I mean, why are we going to Prague? Does your, do you think your kids' hesitation to go is that they are just, they're so American now that the cultural shift is too hard? India trip is a very hard trip for anybody. It's a big trip. It's like you got to prepare. I mean, when they were little, there were all kinds of shots they had to take.

So that's how the trip starts. You need to take four extra shots. Right. So already a bad sign, right, for a kid. And also, kids famously not super down to get a bunch of shots. That's what I'm saying. Their friends are going to Disney and buying T-shirts and we're going to the pediatrician and, like, loading up on the shots.

Now you can understand why it's like the crying starts the minute they get wind of the idea that we're going. And it's a lot. It's like, it's not fun. There's nothing fun for them to do. They have to hang out with grandma and hang out with uncle and auntie. And Indian people, they're so full of love. They're so full of love.

Like, you go to India, Seth, if you and Josh went to India, and if I called my family and said, you know, my friends are coming to India, they don't know you at all, right? My mother-in-law barely speaks English, doesn't know much of English TV. Now she's learning, by the way. Yeah, yeah. She had by necessity. Yes. But if I told her, she would be like, oh, my God, let me host them for lunch.

Let me host them for dinner. They're very hospitality-oriented people like that. And to them, that's love. But to an American kid going from America, they're like, what activity are we going to do? And eating is not an activity in their world. Right. Were there truly no activities where they're not sort of, there's not a zoo or there's not a sort of, I don't know. No.

A museum that you'd go to? No, no Indian is going to a museum ever. No, my God, no. Indians come to America and then number one spot, number one stop is Costco. That's where they want to go. I'm being honest, like, if you're going to do anything that is remotely culture, you're going to get Disney. That's it. I remember once I recommended to a relative of mine, they were close to Arizona.

I was like, you should go see, you know, Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon, right? I'm like, oh, my God, you're almost there. And they went on my recommendation, and I was trolled for it so hard in the family group chat. This is like every street in Mumbai. Like, why did you send us here? This was like, this. People pay money to come here and look at this crater.

What is this? They couldn't understand. Is the purposes of a Costco trip to like buy in bulk and bring back home? No. It's like, it's a sociological experiment. It's like, what is this big giant thing? No one has seen a store that big. No one has seen like crates of water and yogurt that you could swim in this yogurt.

Yeah. So it's just, it's, so in a way that is their museum, is they just to see? To them, it's like they've seen some version of it on American TV or in a movie or something. And now they're going to see it in real life. Yeah. And then they all do get excited. invariably, and a relative from India will come to America and go back, and suddenly we will all get gifts of big, giant bottles of shampoo. Because when they were in Costco, they got excited and couldn't control themselves because we've all been there, but you're like, of course I need 20 of these.

Yeah. And then you shove them in your bags and you show up with them in India and you're like, what did I do? What am I going to do with all this? I don't even like this shampoo Hey, we're going to take a quick break And hear from some of our sponsors Support comes from Mint Mobile Do you struggle with Procrasta Saving, Pashi?

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My sister lived here, so we used to visit her all the time, which is why I was familiar with every sitcom. You go back to 1980. I'm familiar with all the sitcoms, all the TV shows, threes company, family ties, growing pains, I dream of genie. So you would come and it would just be a lot of sitting and watching American television and that was plenty. Yeah, no, and it was in the air. It's not that that's all I did, but it was there. Like, and all the game shows, the prices, right? I remember being mind-blown. Like, oh my God, everybody's going to be like, how much did that milk cost? That's a TV show. It is, I mean, it is the fun of a monoculture that if you came and visited America back then,

you only basically had to be here for a week and you knew everything that everybody was talking about. Like, there was no splintering. The thing is that TV was so new back then in India that anything on TV in India was miserable and sad. It was all news all the time. It was like, and then this earthquake happened in this part of India and all these people. And then you come to America and it's all this dazzling, slick, you know, black top shows where it's like, people are winning, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. You know, it's like people are winning money.

Jeopardy, I remember being obsessed with Jeopardy. I was like, people get paid to remember all this random nonsense. Like, what is this? So were you, when you were a kid and you were taking that family trip to visit your sister, was that something where is everybody excited to go to America? Yes, absolutely. That was the thing to do. It even today is.

No joke. Today you're in India, you're anywhere in Asia, and you're going to America, you're going somewhere. You're like, wow. You know, everybody wants to know what you're doing, what you're eating. How big is the food? That's a big thing. How big is the food? Because the portions are so huge. Not New York and L.A. as much, but like you go to Middle America. And it's like, it's not just a burger. The whole thing is going to fall off your plate, you know. The love for America is so real back home that it's actually. amusing to me as an immigrant here to see all the hate Americans feel for themselves. Right. Would you, on those trips to Akron, would there ever be outings, like group outings? Yeah. But you know, to wear crazy? Chucky cheese. Oh, I mean, that's great.

Yeah, I believe that's. How can you not? Like, I remember being a kid and then taking my kids. Even my kids, when they were little and we used to go back to Akron, my sister still lives there. the first day was always a Chuck E. Cheese, like, it's like at the shrine we had to visit. Because it was so nice, and the kids had such a blast, and, you know, like, you just could not do it. Yeah. My mother will sometimes cut out articles from the newspaper and just write a couple little words on them sometimes.

And she sent me, I got an envelope from her, and I opened it up, and there were two articles from the Boston Globe. And one of them was about how there was a local Chuckie Cheese. and Chuck E. Cheese was deciding to get rid of change their animatronic band. And all she wrote on it was, uh-oh. And then, like, three weeks later, there had been, like, rallying cries to, like, keep these animatronic bands. And they decided we're going to keep them. And then she sent me the follow-up article and said, great news. Yes.

It had been saved. Save the reprieve. Yeah. I mean, we've all had birthday parties. I don't know if you guys ever had birthday parties where the last. Like, the, you know, Chucky and his buddies came out and they did their little thing. Oh, of course. Yeah.

I mean, we grew up with it. My kids grew up with it. For many years, the deal, a couple of years, when they absolutely would not want to go to India, was that, okay, now we're going to spend the summer in Akron, Ohio then. Because if we absolutely couldn't do India, we went to visit my sister and, like, did that family thing. And that they didn't mind so much because there's a lot of sports in that. the Cleveland area. Yeah. A lot of baseball, basketball, any of it.

They wanted that. They wanted all that. They didn't actually care which the team was or whatever. They just wanted to go to an event and that was fun for them. The Indian Board of Tourism right now is saying, we're behind Akron? When you go to your sisters, do you guys roll in five people deep and you stay with her? Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah.

Five, sometimes even. even more. Sometimes, see, in the Indian way is a very community-based way of living, so it's not even five. I might have an Indian friend in New York whose kid wants to go because they're friends with my kid and they'll be like, well, just go her, your sister, my sister, it's all the same. So we would often have friends of my kids who would come with us or relatives of, you know, or people stop by road trips, as you know, a big deal in America, we would have people be like, we'll do a road trip, we'll go to Pennsylvania, we'll go to Akron, we'll do two, three things, and come back. So it was always, it was often more than just us five.

Yeah. How would you get to Akron and where are you coming from to get there? Usually New York. I mean, I've lived in New York for 26, 27 years now. So my life has been centered around Manhattan. And early days, we used to drive a lot, but that's a whole another miserable experience, you know, with the kids. Yeah. It was never the amount of time we thought it was going to take. And then all the crying and, oh, my God. And then every pit stop we had to make.

Who was more likely to lose their temper with the children? You or your husband? My husband, never, because he's the forever good cop. It's always me. My kids could eat candy till they exploded and you would be like, it's fine. It's their choice. They lived a great life. Yeah, I mean, he would be like, give it to me.

Let's all eat it, you know. I'm the one who has to always step in and be like, don't do this, don't do that. And he doesn't understand it even to this day. He's like, everybody, just do what you want. You know, he doesn't want to take an exam, whatever. Call his teacher and say it's not happening. You know, because he knows that I'm the hyper one in the background, like constantly making stuff happen. I was about to say shit, but

And now I'm saying safe, good save. So were your kids, were your kids Manhattan kids? Yes. Born and raised on this island, yes. Interesting, because I will say like, you know, I, because I feel like a trip to India, which I feel like my wife who like loves adventure and I think sees what maybe I perceive as chaos, she perceives as like an incredible adventure.

Yes. And so she's, like, drawn to it, whereas I'm like, ooh, I don't know if I'm cut out for it. I don't know if I could rise to the occasion. But even as Manhattan kids, your kids are like, no thanks. The thing is, it's not like they're intimidated by it. And just so everybody knows and to help my Indian tourism out, going to India from a logistics point of view is very easy

because everybody there speaks English. Right. Everything is laid out to assist. Like, there is a tremendous amount of luxury that you can get for a very little amount of money. Yeah. Where you are handled from door to door. Like, you, it's actually an extremely luxurious trip if you should choose to travel that way, which a lot of people from America choose, just because it makes everything easy. From the minute you land and the airport door opens, you are taken care of till the minute you get back on the airplane.

It's not that. It's that kids, Manhattan kids, and I'm sure it's true of all your kids, they want to do something when they are somewhere and not just look like my kids don't want to look at things they want to be active they want to play a sport they want to watch a sport they want to you know all that is very limited in it you can't do all that you go there you hang out you hang out with family you go with another family 90% of your trip in india is going to be about what you're going to eat and wear that's it food is a big part do you look forward to getting back in eating authentic Indian-made cuisine in India?

Or does New York cover it well enough that you don't feel like you miss it? New York covers it very well. And also, no, I don't look forward to it because honestly, I'm 50. I can't afford to eat like that. Yeah. So it's actually torture for me.

I can't afford to eat all the things I ate 30 years ago. You know, 30 years ago, we didn't even, we didn't know anything. We started our day with ice cream. We were so crazy. You go to it. Go to, if and when you go to India, you will see. And this is so crazy because every American person that goes, loses their mind over this.

A nice hotel, which is where you would stay, any nice hotel that you see in, breakfast is a big deal in India. Big deal. The breakfast buffet is like a wedding banquet. They will have Japanese food. They will have Chinese food. They will have Indian food. They will have like, you know, they're making fresh dumplings for breakfast. they're making rolling fresh sushi and then the full spread of Indian food and then of course for the

Americans continental American breakfast so people go and three hours they're eating breakfast they haven't left breakfast yet because it's even visually it's a lot to take in it's it's one of the things that every American person comments on they're like we can't believe and a lot of socializing and hanging out happens over breakfast so you meet the other people in the hotel it's very social. Those are like three of my favorite cuisines. I think I would have a very hard time eating all of that for breakfast. Now I just sold you an India trip, Seth Myers. Yeah, I'm so. Yeah. I want a multi-faceted breakfast buffet. When you were growing up, did you guys take any family vacations? Would you get out of Mumbai ever? Yes, all the time and I hated it as a kid. I remember. Where would you

go? Other than Akron. India has a India. India has a India. India. India has a India. itself has a very lovely beach town called Goa. Very pretty beach town. It's like, it's like Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket, like that kind of vibe. I mean, nowhere as luxurious and posh as that, but yet that vibe, beautiful beaches, my family would go when we were young, but oh my God, it was so miserable to go with my parents. I never wanted to go. Why?

What's wrong? No, because doing anything for the kids is not a thing in it. India. You know, here, you might ask your kids, what do you want to do? This is what you prefer. That is not how people live back home. The people back home are like, this is what we're doing and you're coming with us because you're not an adult yet. That's it. Right. So it was a lot of getting dragged around and doing things that I really didn't want to do or you're visiting people that I didn't really care about. A lot of it with my, when I was young, was going to the temple in Goa. You're in go literally it's a beach and what we would be doing is hunting for the nearest temple and now

what's a temple day like is it just to see what the inside of the temple is or is it about going services exactly there's like now you now you can't just go to the temple and take a photo now you got at the the priest and they're going to do this and it was always dragged out and my mom was a little religious so there was always that like let's see what a temple looks like and go it's always the same. It looks the same. But she would make, and that felt even worse. I was like, we got on an airplane. We can see the beach. But we cannot go to the beach because we're going this way to the temple. What are we doing? So you never, would you ever, was young Zarnah ever lying on the beach over the course of any of these trips? But Indians don't do that. That's just not a thing.

We don't do that. We don't do that here. If you go to the beaches in Connecticut and the Hamptons here, right? You will see the Indians start coming out around 6 p.m. We're not obsessed with the sun. We're running away from it. We're like, that's a new thing for us. We used to have a house in Connecticut for many years. And it had a beach. Westport is a beach town. Beautiful beach town, right? All my American friends would be like, the sun is out. Let's go. And it was a learning curve for me because I was like, why? I couldn't understand why they were going on. We would be counting. down to sundown and go just like just before the sun is going down for an hour take a walk on the beach that's it the idea of laying on a beach never occurred to any of us yeah so you wouldn't get in the ocean no no no no no no never no no no you sit on the beach you sit on the beach and you do your math homework you know of course i have a very viral video about this i'm going to send it to you guys. It's actually based on true story. No, look, we're Indian. We don't do fun. You should get that from me right now. We don't believe in fun. Goa, sir, I imagine since then,

I like, I know that it has, it's evolved. There's like, there's a real, like, dance culture there. Yes, yes. Was there, I mean, maybe you were too young and maybe it wasn't really going off like it has in the last maybe 20 years. No, I wasn't too young. My parents were too boring. Okay. So you would hear these parties going on? Yes. Yes. And I would be like, I want to go there. And my dad would be like, you have to study for this exam. And like literally his whole life was like, how can I torture her more? Gotcha. And not physically torture. It was a lot of like, oh my God, we have to prepare for this. It was prepare for that. That's how Indian people live. There was a dance culture. There still is. It's a very fun place. If you allow yourself to have fun.

Yeah. Yeah. And was there any of that sort of teenage rebellion? Would you or any of your siblings ever, like, sneak out to go do any of these things that you wanted to do, but that your parents would prevent you from doing? So by the time I became a teenager, I also then stopped. I lost interest. See, what happens is you become part of your family.

Like, you know, you become part of what world you grew up in. I didn't grow up in the culture that went out dancing and all. But we grew up in a very politically conscious. situation like my dad was a lawyer himself so it was a lot of like this is happening in the world that's happening and so by the time i was a teenager i was doing all kinds of like political things i was campaigning for people that that were my friends parents so those of us kids who were involved in the civic life what they call in india's the civic life we would like go and campaign we would go to exotic towns and villages because all these political people needed to campaign

and the parents of these would drag us kids around because it would be like something fun to do for, you know, everybody was always looking for ways to connect to the average American. Like here, when the politicians do their rounds, you see like the president shaking hands with people, right? In India, entire families will show up because they'll be like, get to know us, get to know us, get to trust us, you're going to see why you should vote for us. So I was caught up in that whole world when I was a teenager because by then I too had started learning all the things that could exist.

I mean, Three's Company, God bless Three's Company. I don't think the creators of Three's Company knew what effect they were having to women in India. Because for the first time, we realized not everybody has to get married to live together. Yeah. Yeah. Was Three's Company on over there at some point when you? No, bootleg copies, always. Oh, wow.

Yeah. Where would you get a bootleg copy? Would you go to like a market where they would have it out? So one person would come to America and record the show on their little recorder playing on their TV here and then come back and sell us copies of that. So we would watch it as if we're watching somebody else's TV. So it would be like a video camera shooting the screen of a television. Yeah. And it was very organized.

Like the entire season showed up somehow. How did your, were your, did your parents, were they okay with that when you were watching bootlegged? Okay, did you have to do it when they weren't paying attention? Yeah. But you know, so, you know what's crazy? I'll tell you guys something that you won't even believe. Today, women in the Middle East and Asia watch my comedy under the covers. There are so many women who are not allowed to watch my comedy.

Because I speak out again, what they call, I'm not. being a cultural person and I'm speaking out against the mother-in-laws. I have had this experience in New York City here in Manhattan, in Empire State Building actually, where I was invited to do the lighting or whatever they do. There's like some event they do where you light up the building. And I was there to do that. And this Indian celebrity was visiting with his wife. And the wife of the celebrity saw me and got so excited. She's like, oh my God, you're the lady who makes mother-in-law, jokes. Like, she was very enthusiastic and excited. And her husband, who's a celebrity, saw her and held her hand and said, you don't need to talk to her and walked away from us.

Oh, my goodness. Yeah, can you believe, see, you can't believe that in America because you're like, what is she doing? She's just making jokes. Yeah. But in that part of the world, a lot of women today are not allowed to watch me the same way I wasn't allowed to watch Three's company, because it was a show about two women and a man living together. You're a modern day Jack Tripper. I listen, I will take that honor. I loved him growing up.

Who didn't? Who didn't? Come come and knock on my door. The opening credit sequence to that show is just incredible as well. Like, and that the song was so long and it was just so goofy and them walking through the zoo. And they were so cute. 30% of the show was the opening.

And they were all. So cute. I remember when the landlady changed, I was so stressed out. When Mrs. Roper was a different Mrs. Roper, I was like, what happened? Well, yeah, because you had Mr. Furley and then you had the Roper's and yeah. Yeah, yeah. We went through a lot. It was a very traumatic time for people who were listening that did not have to engage in the way the landlords changed on three company. It was a lot. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Delete Me. Delete Me makes it easy, quick, and safe to remember. move your personal data online at a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough

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prices subject to underwriting and health questions. Did you, um, uh, so when you were in the States and actually, When did you start traveling around and seeing the rest of the country? Was that something you started doing as you hit your 20s? No, not for a long time. We had no desire. We were so happy in Akron.

Yeah. Right. Did you go to college in Akron? Yes. I graduated from the University of Akron. And then I went to law school in Cleveland, Case Western Reserve Law School, which is a small private university, but I have a law degree from there. So we would travel.

Like if somebody was visiting or there was a very well. getting or something happening we were. But it wasn't a priority. Truthfully, I have started seeing America now in the last four years, five years, as a touring comic. I have been to small towns, to big towns. Like I get booked wherever the managers and agents, God bless them, never get me good deals. They will find the tiniest town and be like, go see if you can get an audience there. And I have to go and like really just land at the airport. and figure out what I'm doing. But it's been amazing.

I'm such a fan of small town America. I love it so much. What are some of your favorite small towns that you've been to? I mean, I will tell you the town that blew my mind Bentonville, Arkansas. Oh, yeah. All right. I've been to Bentonville. It's mind-blowing.

Seth, are you being sarcastic? No, I went. First of all, they have it, I know you wouldn't go near it because you don't like museums, but there's that crystal bridges. Yes, yes. What's Crystal Bridges? It's like an incredible modern art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, and then they have like a, I mean, a gorgeous, like, town square that is the most, like, sort of picture postcard what you picture when you think of small town American.

You don't, you wouldn't imagine it. Like, when I got booked, I got booked in Fayetteville, Arkansas, which is a suburb of Bentonville. Yeah. And when I got booked, I was like, okay, you know, I, I was. I was like, I'm not really sure if anybody's going to show up for this. But, okay, let's try it. Sold out crowds. And it was so beautiful.

Bentonville was like, like, there, I think I went to three museums. It's a four-seven in my life. I went to three museums because they were so gorgeous. So Walton family has invested so much money in that town and created all these artistic buildings even, just buildings to walk by. People don't know. I've lived most of my life in New York, and a lot of business I do is in L.A.

So people assume that these are the two big towns, and yet there's so much life happening. The other town I went to, I remember landing in Indianapolis airport, had a basketball court in the airport. And nobody was worried when their flight was delayed. Like, everybody was dribbling a ball, and it was such a unique and great idea.

I was like, this is brilliant. We need more of this. Yeah. You know. So I've seen a lot of small town America now in five years, and I love it. Love it. Are you somebody, when you toured, you do a good job? I mean, it sounds like certainly in Bentonville, if you went and saw three museums.

Are you like, I'm not going to just waste my time in a hotel room. I'm going to get out. I'm going to see the town. No. Usually I'm sitting and I'm writing material. And actually, when I was too, right, it's too stressful. Yeah, it's too stressful. I happen to spend a few extra days in Bentonville for whatever reason.

I get too stressed out. I'm a nervous Nelly like that. I mean, I traveled so much with Tina and Amy, and they were always so sweet. They would be like, we're going here, we're going there. But I was like, I better open big tonight. I mean, you know, opening for Tina and Amy is not like a small job. So I was always like ironed my outfit, like make sure everything is dotted and crossed the way it needed to be.

And by the way, I know them very well. That was a test. If you had gone and hung out with them, they would have fired you on a spot. I knew it. I knew those white ladies had some agenda. Oh, yeah, you can't trust those white ladies. I say that would love. You cannot trust.

If there are any two white ladies, you cannot trust. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. It is really, I think, too, I think, you know, sometimes, you know, and again, it's a lot to do with the climate we're in. You forget that, like, there's literally no red state in this country that doesn't have some incredible little town where they support the arts and, you know, they want to have people from all over the country

and all political stripes show up to entertain them. It's really lovely. It's sad because the country has become so polarized that you're either good or bad. And it's not like that. Most people are like somewhere in the middle and it's very pretty. And it's like if your mind is open to it, like I have a lot of friends in New York who would never leave New York. You know, there's these diehard New York, L.A. people. They can't imagine life.

they don't know what they're missing. I tell people all the time, you have no idea what you're missing. You just convinced yourself that this tiny island is the beginning and the end of things and it's just not. Do your kids ever go in the road with you?

Or is that too stressful? All the time. Oh, they do? That's great. All the time, because they help me sell merch. Hello, we believe in child labor. It's great. Why do you think I gave birth to these people? Do you pay them a flat fee or do they get a percentage of...

Their life is the flat fee. Do you know how expensive they are? I'm kidding me? These organic, vegan-loving kids of mine, do you know how expensive these kids are? Do you have all three? Are all three vegans? Well, they're in and out of veganism or whatever is the new thing of the day. It's like, this isn't grown the way it should have been and nothing's ever good enough.

It's, I think the coffee we drink is more pampered than I was as a child. Yeah, it's like shade grown, flown in from Columbia. I'm like, it's a coffee bean. Could you relax? You know, but there's Manhattan kids that way. Like, no, they do not eat pizza, God forbid, because it's too many carbs. Yeah. So their life is their payment.

And I don't want to put any ideas out there. Do they like, do, if you, if you weren't in the room and they could not be judged for it, Do you think all three of them are fans of what you do on stage? Yes, very much. I do, too. Very much. And the thing is, you can't fake it because they really do support. They've been part of my business since day one.

I mean, I started in comedy because of my daughter. She's the one who said, you should try comedy. Yeah. I didn't think this was a job. What Indian ever dreams of becoming a comedian? Right. Never. But they've been there since day one.

I like to say that I run a family business. happened to be the face of it. Because they've been involved. I mean, now my daughter who just graduated Stanford is taking over my podcast. That's her job full time. So we're all believers in the world that we're creating. You know, we like what we're doing. And we're trying to build around around the idea that a grounded, nerdy, boring family

that spends most of its time studying also has a place in entertainment. Yeah. It's not all about this. tapes and, you know, whatever. Do your kids ever notice things that their grandmother, your mother-in-law does? Do they sort of say, hey, what, mom, what about this? All the time. And she's so wicked.

She's so manipulative. You don't understand. She knows exactly what to say to them. So they come running to me and they're like, well, you know, grandma was very nice. Oh. Oh, she was not nice. People, you're so dumb is what it is. You can't play it and you didn't even know it.

She knows. She will call them, this woman, God bless her, could not speak a word of English four years ago. I kid you not. Her birthday messages to me used to be like balloon emojis, not even words, right? She figured out how to like Venmo kids money on their birthday. She figured out how to write like long messages and Google translate. Like literally she'll be like, I miss you so much.

I wish your mother, blah, blah. She's completely manipulating them. They've forgotten all the years that I brought them kicking and screaming. And now it's all about like, oh, she's become so famous. And sometimes we feel left behind. And then my all American kids who trust anything anybody says, you know, they fall for it invariably. Oh, I'm sorry. You put all that work into making them smart kids.

And they're not. Just let you down. That should be the big message from this. Book smart. They're book smart. and mother-in-law's stupid. Yeah. And she knows what they love to eat, anything.

She'll mail them. My son, especially, it's not so much all three, it's the older son. She gets to him constantly. And he falls for it. Like, my daughter kind of knows what's going on, but my son will be like, oh, daddies, you know, daddy sent this to me in college. I mean, how did she figure out? None of my packages make it to his college.

because you know colleges have their own dorm and like male in this way and that how did she sitting in india figure this up but she did well she's an intrepid woman we have to give her credit for that zarna this has been a delight you have a fantastic hulu special practical people win it's out now you are just one of my favorite people to talk to but before we let you go josh is going to ask you some speed round questions okay and yes and set you are my favorite two. Second only to Josh. Yeah, understood. Once people meet them, that tends

to be how it breaks from me. All right, here we go, Zarnah. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Educational, always, Indian number one. What is your favorite means of transportation?

Subway, New York City subway. What a great answer, thank you. Yeah, because lots of material. It just writes itself. By the time you get in, you walk out with five new minutes. Yeah, yeah. And it is, you know, and not always, but when it runs the way it's supposed to

is still the fastest way to get around the city. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. I really, I'm so happy that you can now tap in and out. Like I used to be in New York just occasionally and to have to buy that metro card and, like, keep it in my wallet. And then it's like, oh, now it only has a dollar on it.

I've got to add money. It's, oh, boy, tapping is really, really good. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, what family would you like to take a vacation with? Look, this might get me framed, but I actually am obsessed with the Kardashians. Sure. I would go. I would go. I would be like, let me watch this live. I've been watching you guys 20 years yelling at each other. Is any of this real, I need to know?

Yeah, excellent. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My husband, because I would kill him and eat him. Done. Excellent and really fast answer. I was so surprised and then so delighted. I'm telling you, the only reason we would be in that situation is because of something dumb that he did. There's no way we're getting in that bad situation because of me.

Yeah. Great. Just great. You are from Mumbai. Would you recommend Mumbai as a vacation destination? Yes, 100%. Everybody should go. And it would be easy and it would be fun.

It's a heavy trip for different reasons, but the process itself is very easy. Great. Very easy. And it's like American people love it. It is that eat, pray, love thing is a real thing. It is a real thing. It changes your life in ways. If nothing else, if nothing else, any amount of money.

money you spend on therapy in America cannot compare with one trip to India where you see people who have nothing, but they're so happy. Yeah. All right. Yeah. There's a documentary happy, and it opens with a family who's, like, very poor, and the guy's just like, he's over-the-moon happy and, like, works his ass out in some field and then comes home to his kids, and it's just a dirt floor, and he's one of the happiest people you

ever encounter. That's a classic Indian person, and I recommend everybody to go witness it. themselves. You're not going to get anything in a museum that's going to compete with that. Yeah. Yeah. That sounds great. And then Seth has our final questions. I feel like maybe you hinted at it, but have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. It was a little disappointing to the Indians, including me. This feels like every creator in Mumbai.

I mean, my follow-up was it was worth it? And I just, I got the sense that you did not think it was worth it. And I celebrate you for you. I mean, I was happy I went because it is, you know, it is a wonder of the world or whatever. But the dam that was near it, I remember there's a dam near, that's driving distance from it. That man-made situation was mind-blowing to us. Yeah. The Hoover Dam, I believe. The Hoover Dam, yeah.

You like when you can see the work. You want to see some work that went into something. Not just like, imagine years of erosion. Yeah. I guess because also we see. a lot of that erosion in India every day. It's not feeling. We couldn't really understand

what, you know, what the fascination with it is. The Indians, that's not a place. They'll go to Niagara Falls. That's the second. Disney and Niagara Falls, those are the two things Indians like to do in America. You've always said the Grand Canyon is the

mother-in-law of craters. Maybe that should be, maybe that should be their little tourism tagline. Just lean into it. Certainly when they advertise on like Indian Facebook pages, they should call it that. Exactly. We love you, Zarna. This was just the best.

Thank you. Thank you so much, Seth. Thank you, Josh. I don't use the L word, but this was so fun. That's another thing Indians don't do. We don't fall in love. We don't stay in love. We just live.

Yeah. Well, you're doing great at it. And what a pleasure. Yeah, I certainly wouldn't, based on everything you said about your husband. I would never, never jump to the conclusion that you loved each other. Not in this lifetime. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much.

It was so fun. Bye, Zarna. Love your family. Thank you, Zarna. Congrats on the special. Thank you. Everyone back in India, they all want to know the exact same thing. When you're out at an American restaurant, just how much food do they bring? Because they've heard the tales of the Costco sales, and they like to drill down on those size details.

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