The Celebrity Impressions Challenge

Romesh Ranganathan (0:00)

So apparently, if I swear it de-monetizes the YouTube, what is that? What are the rules about that?

SPEAKER_2 (0:06)

It depends how badly you swear. And when you swear really badly, we do a little noise to make sure that you don't get trouble for it.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:14)

Is that true?

SPEAKER_2 (0:15)

That's true.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:16)

It's Maximus.

SPEAKER_2 (0:18)

That'll be one.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:18)

It's time for the Thursday edition of The Romesh Ranganathan Show.

I'm here, mum's here, the team is still here, and you pricks are here. What's up everybody? Hope you're good. What do you think of that as a little?

Shanthi (0:31)

It's lovely.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:32)

Yeah?

SPEAKER_4 (0:32)

I like it, yeah.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:33)

Lovely is the word.

Shanthi (0:34)

I like that. I like that.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:35)

Yeah. I want to go high energy. Mum?

Shanthi (0:39)

Yes?

Romesh Ranganathan (0:39)

How are you today?

Shanthi (0:40)

I'm fine. Thank you, Mum.

SPEAKER_6 (0:42)

You feeling good? Feeling good.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:44)

Out of 10, how are you feeling today?

Shanthi (0:46)

Out of 10, 10 out of 10

SPEAKER_6 (0:48)

10 out of 10?

Shanthi (0:48)

10 out of 10 Seeing you. Because I don't see you most often. So this is a special day for me.

Romesh Ranganathan (0:58)

What was your morning routine today?

Shanthi (1:00)

Morning routine, I went to the garden. I touched grass.

Not touch the grass. Why am I not that mad?

Romesh Ranganathan (1:07)

No, but that's what you...

SPEAKER_6 (1:07)

Walking, walking.

Romesh Ranganathan (1:08)

Yeah, on the grass.

SPEAKER_6 (1:09)

Walking on the barefoot.

Romesh Ranganathan (1:10)

Well, what I've said was exactly what you did.

Shanthi (1:12)

Then I took the dead head.

Romesh Ranganathan (1:14)

You did exactly what I said you did.

Shanthi (1:17)

I took the dead head.

SPEAKER_6 (1:19)

You took the dead head? From the flowers, yeah. From the flowers, okay. You've done that this morning? Yeah. Okay.

Shanthi (1:23)

I got up at five.

Romesh Ranganathan (1:25)

Shit.

Shanthi (1:25)

What do you mean, shit?

Romesh Ranganathan (1:27)

Like, holy shit, that's early. What time do you normally get up? Five.

You get up at five every day?

Shanthi (1:32)

Yeah, every day, every day. Then I work in the garden for two hours. Therapeutic, therapeutic. Sometimes, the sadness set in in my heart. Oh my God, I haven't seen my son.

So I got Ganpati, the elephant god, in my garden. So I go and pray to him.

Romesh Ranganathan (1:54)

What did he say?

Shanthi (1:55)

Please, God, let me see my first son more often than usual. So it works.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:02)

Please, God, let me have a lucrative podcast opportunity to see my son. And Ganpati said, you're welcome.

Shanthi (2:10)

Yes, you're welcome.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:11)

Because we're smashing it in the fricking face.

Shanthi (2:15)

I'm burning this agarbati every day.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:18)

What's that?

Shanthi (2:20)

A sad thing that the Hindu temples, they burn that incense sticks.

SPEAKER_6 (2:23)

Incense, yeah.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:25)

You're burning incense sticks. What flavor?

Shanthi (2:28)

Sandalwood.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:29)

Sandalwood incense sticks?

Shanthi (2:30)

Incense.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:31)

Do you burn that every day?

Shanthi (2:32)

I haven't every day. I haven't, I am worried.

I think I only started this year. My neighbor might find it, the smell comes. Maybe she's smoking drugs.

That worries me.

SPEAKER_6 (2:47)

Yeah. Because she's not-

Romesh Ranganathan (2:48)

Why would you think you're smoking drugs?

Shanthi (2:50)

The smell of this incense.

Romesh Ranganathan (2:53)

Right. Does it smell like drugs?

Shanthi (2:55)

It doesn't, for me, soothing. Sandalwood is soothing. But for some other people, they won't like it.

Romesh Ranganathan (3:00)

After you've been burning them for a while, do you have an intense craving to open a tub of Pringles?

Shanthi (3:06)

No, I don't. I don't.

Romesh Ranganathan (3:08)

I think you're right.

Shanthi (3:08)

That's not a drug, is it?

Romesh Ranganathan (3:10)

What, Pringles?

Shanthi (3:11)

No, incense.

Romesh Ranganathan (3:12)

Incense, no. You've smoked weed-

Shanthi (3:14)

Calm yourself down.

Romesh Ranganathan (3:15)

You've smoked weed in the past, haven't you?

Shanthi (3:17)

Only once at the, what's that show?

Romesh Ranganathan (3:20)

Just Another Immigrant. Great show. Another great-

Shanthi (3:23)

Great show. Yeah, lovely.

Romesh Ranganathan (3:24)

Ben's first contribution to compliment something he was involved in.

Shanthi (3:29)

Yeah. Yeah.

Romesh Ranganathan (3:31)

Well done for nailing your character on this. What did you think of it, Mum, when we actually had pens, didn't we? Like vapes. We did vapes, didn't we? We didn't actually-

Shanthi (3:43)

I was a bit nervous.