We actually do—this is my
favorite part of the show— it’s time to do a Q&A. And you guys submitted questions before
the show and I’m gonna answer them. So. Wait, are you Shadow’s sibling? Dude, I was freaking out during the show. Shadow is our audience coordinator. And I’m like, reading, I’m like, “Student loan debt is a huge
problem—why is Shadow…?” Like in my mind I was like,
maybe Shadow’s like, “Dude, I gotta learn about Navient man. Like, I know I had to
load these guys in, but...” Man, a lot of people
know about Shadow? [Various audience members]
(Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.) [Various audience members]
(We all met him. We all know him.) Oh, you guys all met him personally? (We were as shocked as you were.) About him? [Various audience members]
(That’s Sky. Yeah! His name is Sky.) Wait, wait, wait, you guys have
had a whole conversation? Wait, what’s happening? (His name is Sky and—) But how do you know this? What? (We saw him, Joyelle did it.) Joyelle did this whole crowd work thing? Oh, ok. Joyelle did crowd work and was like, “You look like Shadow!” (Yes, exactly.) Man, you guys weren’t being helpful. Sky, you’re the first question! Oh, man. “How awesome is Shadow,
in Onset Productions, at providing an audience
for your show? —Sky.” That’s a good look, man. That’s a major, major move. Uhh, Shadow is great. He’s one of my favorite
employees at the show. It’s a true honor and privilege to work with Shadow at
onsetproductions.com. Shadow, hey! I was just giving you—I was just
giving my testimonial to camera. This is Shadow, you guys. (We met) You guys have met? I know. “What would a South
Asian 'Get Out' look like?” That’s hilarious. Ok, so in the South
Asian version of 'Get Out', I’m dating Dinesh
D’Souza’s daughter, right? And, I go to their house. And then he’s the whatever,
he’s the psychotherapist. And he’s like, “Hey, come sit down.” And then he has, like, a chai cup. And he just starts
stirring it and he’s like, “You know, we need to
dismantle affirmative action.” And I’d be like, “Dinesh, why?” “Because the Democrats started slavery.” And I’d be like, “Noooooo!” Ajay Kothari’s there, it’d be great. “Were you popular in high school?
If yes, why should we trust you?” Uh, this is from Ayesha. Is this from, like, my sister,
did my sister submit this? No, uh, obviously not, I wasn’t. Wasn’t popular in high school. “What student loan payment plan are you
on, and what’s your expected end date?” You know what, I was
actually very lucky. This is from Julianne. Is that you? (That’s me!) What student loan program
are you on? Are you on Navient? (Osla—I’m gonna owe, like, $200,000.) You owe $200,000? (I will by the end of my education.) Oh, my god. Where do you go to school? (I’m At Columbia.) You’re paying—and it’s $200,000? (Well, I’m in, like, a
dual-degree program,) (So it’s Social Work and
Public Health combined.) Ok. (So, it’s like, a lot of money.) Are you doing the public student
loan forgiveness program? (Yeah.) Does this whole headline,
like, terrify you? (I’m already dead inside, it’s fine.) I know, that’s the way, like, a lot
of people are. They’re just like, “It’s at two hundred. Let’s just—” Like, they treat it the way like
our fiscal deficit is in the country where they’re like, “We owe $2 trillion—” $450? (Yeah.) But you’re gonna be
like, a doctor, right? (I’m gonna be at dental school.) You’re a dentist, it’s fine. You’re like, “It’s dental. The
work-life balance is better!” $200K for social
work. That’s crazy. (I hang out in the law
school so that I can) (find a nice law school
boy to pay off my loans.) You hang out in the law— that’s hilarious. That’s your Instagram discover page. It’s just the law school library. Like, “Yeah, what are you a
first year or a third year? What’s your deal?” I’m not mad at that.
I’m not mad at that. Do your thing. Do your thing. Is anyone here in law school? Anyone here a lawyer? I’m lucky, I lived at
home during college, so... (Woo!) Cost was super low. Woo? It wasn’t woo. It was so sad. It was so sad. But, my tuition
was only nine grand. So like, in hindsight, like, I think, I don’t know, maybe
not having a social life… (UC Davis!) Yeah, UC Davis. Yeah. I went to UC Davis. It was nine grand. It was crazy. Yeah. But, I wish I had cool memories from college. but my bedroom upstairs was great.
fuuuuck dinesh d'souza man
Don’t like his views but I like the attention he’s getting repping us
the 'get out' question is pretty legit. overall, i feel like any desi voices that are even slightly left-of-center on this reddit get drowned out by model minority wannabe sorts, but i know that's not actually representative of younger desis. all the younger desis i've met give me massive amounts of hope. while i think voices like hasan minhaj, himanshu suri, aamer rahman, hari kondabolu, and others help a great deal with the sort of reinforcement that representation can lend, i believe fully that younger desis have a firm grasp of how things are in america. i feel that they understand fully what our position is, what we're being offered, and what we actually deserve.
there's a great deal of allyship to be carried out in the interim but one day, the setting of desi 'get out' tackles questions of who the first slaves were to the americas (hint: it's us, along with africans, resulting in rastafarianism and reggae as well as many culinary and other cultural contributions.) it deals with the boston tea party and precisely whose tea they were throwing overboard and what it means to not even be a footnote in this prominent display of our stolen resources wasted meaninglessly. we've been present here for a long time, and our status has always been analogous to that of other minorities, no matter how it seems now. there are paths to be a dinesh d-souza or an ajit pai, but we're definitely capable of thinking bigger than individual success.
Some of his views are stupid and patriot act does have some weak episodes, but it’s nice to have some representation .
He is gonna get the Nav treatment