Rishi Keish-Hirwe
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148 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. I'm very excited to be here.
I'm feeling a little stressed right away, but excited still.
I feel like part of my stress is definitely because of the topic of this podcast.
I think that I've been conditioned to be stressed out by gossip from birth. My family's Indian, and my mom had a real sort of what would the community think aspect to, I don't know, the way that she raised my sister and myself.
You know, just making sure that you don't give any fodder to this sort of... vague idea of an outside world so that they might have something bad to say about you. You also don't want to be too showy or look too good because you don't want people to give you the evil eye. But you just need to ride a sort of somewhere in the high middle where people will talk about
Oh, how good you are at school and where you ended up going to college, but not so much that people will give you the evil eye and not so badly that people will be like, did you hear about their daughter?
You know, I don't even think that the term gossip was really used. It was just the way that people talked about each other. But sometimes that information would be good and sometimes that information would be negative.
And I was just deathly afraid of anybody saying anything negative about me in a way that I find, you know, like I can joke about it a little bit, but I actually think that it had serious kind of crippling ramifications for me as an adult and for me as like a professional and creative person.
Yeah. I mean, and especially I think as a musician, as a songwriter, it's really hard.
I've only recently kind of come to appreciate how much distance I feel between the world of like punk rock and rock and roll and this kind of like, who cares, you know, middle finger to the air kind of attitude that is, I think represents so much of what people love about that kind of music and where that music comes from.
And to try and take this kind of, I'm just trying to be a good boy in school, nobody say anything bad about me and turn that into like some kind of musical persona that is exciting for people to listen to. Yeah, exactly.
Okay. Yeah. Like, I think that's when you're talking about somebody. Yeah, matchmaking. Exactly. That is the best kind of gossip because you're doing it with the aim of benefiting all the parties involved.
Exactly. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. And so I will be quiet for the rest of you.
Welcome to Kelsey's monologue.
Well, I was thinking about my love of matchmaking and where that might have come from. Yeah. And there's a very obvious answer, I think, which is that my parents had an arranged marriage.
And that's kind of, you know, the ultimate blind date. Yes. You know, they had went on one date and got married.
Exactly. You know, it worked out for them. They were married for 49 years. My mom passed away a few years ago, but they were married for 49 years. They had a wonderful, strange marriage that that was my certainly like primary understanding of what a family looks like. But it all started with with an arranged marriage. And so I love the idea that somebody put them together.
You know, like there's somebody out there who I've never met.
And I was asking my dad recently to fill in some of the details like I knew that they had been. I kind of know the story from when they first met that like first meeting, but I didn't really know how they got there.
And so does this count as a gossip story?
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