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Off The Record: Go Watch "Hot Mess Holiday" (ft. Ritesh Rajan)

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0:00 [Music] and welcome back to another episode of the careful boys we got tesh over here y'all hey what's up what's up fellas how you doing man i'm good how's everybody very good man heard something i heard something through the grapevine about a new movie oh yeah new movie december 11th oh we got promo let's go comedy central coming up hot mess holiday hot best holidays this was going so perfect i forgot what time it's at but if i had to guess well look it up if i had to guess it's comedy central hot mess hot if i had to guess either like 9 8 central 10 9 central that's good everyone's just dvr it watch it all right that's it one all right guys hot mess holiday saturday december 11th at 7 00 p.m pacific or

0:51 eastern or 9 p.m double showing even better you love it watch it twice is it is it diwali that's correct what's diwali i heard it before it's the festival of lights it's the uh hindu celebration of good overcoming evil is that when you do throw the fire firecracker that's holy oh yeah that's like more of like a spring harvest celebration uh this is more uh lots of firecrackers and what character you play in there the indian guy i play an indian guy there's many indian people in this movie a lot of great give us a spoiler give us one spoiler that's like not gonna spoil it but it's a spoiler it's the funniest movie you'll ever see really maybe you're going to watch it find out you got to watch it you're going to watch it i know you want to make sure to watch it twice it says a finance executive is dumped by her

1:41 cheating fiance during the diwali holidays her best friend is now determined to help her have a wild holiday yeah maybe are you the best friend are you the male best friend that's friend zoned and then has to like spend the entire movie like showing her i wish i could tell you oh you just gotta watch and find out don't you like all my showbiz sayings don't you like dude my old hollywood i've been trained well by the commercial machine i'm sorry to tell you but you guys got a zero on rotten tomatoes what that movie hasn't come out yet i know that's probably why i was like did you rate it right now that's a zero yeah give it give it a rate yeah congrats man melanie chandra serena jindal cowpen oh ████ have you have you seen the like the final cut i have not

2:31 oh i've not i haven't seen this i've seen a promo for this i just realized that i got i think i got a buddy in it his name can all do that oh yeah yeah i know can all real canal and i are in another movie called definition please directed by sujata day hopefully he'll be out very soon oh you got a lot coming out a lot of secrets the funniest movie you'll ever see the second funniest movie you'll ever see it's that's a dramedy so that's why you know there's some sad things in there is this more just like a pure comedy a hot mess holiday yeah it's it's like it's a straight uh late night buddy comedy so you guys have a good time no uh stereotypical tropes is it like an indian uh bridesmaids kind of situation like that kind of comedy with no stereotypical tropes i would say it's very much against that machine very much against that machine i'm not

3:22 gonna watch it it'll be the worst movie if there's no indian stuff that's like don't worry you you're not you're not going to see anyone getting arranged marriage like anything like that i don't think there's any doctors in the climax is there like a bollywood scene at the end in the credits is there a huge like major festival performance i have normal indian friends i can watch i want to go to the movies and watch a pretend fake indian thing you want to watch indian people getting scolded by the war does that make would that make you feel better that's a feel-good movie right you know the super buff 12-pack indian dudes in movies oh my god i love those guys it's my favorite genre they're all oily

4:12 but bollywood's crazy man they ████ fly on elephants and stuff like that have you guys have ever if any of you guys seen a bollywood movie yeah actually do you remember you guys dance right so like yeah have you i've seen the indian dance films which i love yeah i actually really like it yeah i like indian action movies yeah those are the ones i've seen just the crazy ones they're kind of crazy they're fast and the furious sometimes they're way crazier way crazier i don't i don't know any of the titles to any of these movies but i'm sure you guys have seen like the youtube clips whatever the dude's like on the horse and he like yeah he's like he's like slides underneath an 18 wheeler like just straight up mario kart slice i love those dude i like anything with prabhu diva in it probably deva yeah yeah he's like the michael jackson of india yeah that's amazing uh like george clooney of india there's

5:02 like a super like well so the shah rukh khan yeah yeah mortal kombat he said george clooney of mortal kombat he's the george clooney he's he's one of the most him amitabh bachchan uh they're the heartthrobs they're like the uh they're like you know sort of the man's man tom cruise and like you know robert de niro meet the button's an older generation but sharokina is the the top dog in terms of like world fame if i if you had is your family super traditional or not no not at all because my homie growing up my best friend his grandma would always show me her midriff did you guys do that or none of that like yeah no like really here's the thing it's really funny this is it's so funny because like the the the tsar yeah like and so they're wearing the top and so you can she's like 85 yeah so and she

5:52 comes out like this i always wanted this as a kid and i never had this conversation all the time but they're like your grandma's kind of ████ aunties they'll just like their stomach will hang out but if you're like a fit 25 year old and you show your belly it's over it's like oh it's like you know you better run someone's you're gonna get slapped before you leave the house because the grandma the grandma would do it the mom would do it the sister never did it exactly so it's got she's got something you have to just like get to a certain she might she i guess if it's like once it's like oh this is no longer i mean i don't want you you are no longer desirable in that way like then you start showing it i guess when it's you know when you're no longer a young lady and maybe a more mature woman or maybe i don't know it should be opposite you cover it up when you're old and saggy and then you leave it up and when you're young and there's something like everybody let it rock i think let it all rock it's not fair all

6:42 fair in love and war dude yeah dude let him rock well i'll say this i have a lot of uh in my parents house we have a lot of indian artwork lots of statues of naked women just standards just normal right just like ancient art and my friends going up they'll be like yo dude you got you got like naked titties like in your house and i'm like can we come over yeah bro it's a wooden statue like can i borrow it i was like i have a question do you not have the internet like what's going on like that's 3d though is your family not in the midriffs my mom doesn't really wear like sarees at home but not really is it like an event thing yeah like at formal events weddings parties you know if she comes to work events she'll wear indian stuff like that my great grandma still wore kimono every day

7:32 yeah but that was the last ████ samurai generation that was the end of it yeah cruise generation the end of the last samurai dude and my dad uh he still he still wears uh something called a lungi which is like kind of like a south asian kilt oh but but you wear it it's like just like a kind of like sweatpants because it's obviously in india it's hot and humid so it's just like a cloth kind of toga you tied around and lungi is that what you call it l-u-n-g-i and you usually have underwear under that too you i would i would assume traditionally you don't but like probably now keep tradition alive yeah let it rock in america yeah i think i'd commando if i lived in india except if maybe if i was in the himalayas it'd be too cold too cold otherwise but then like if you're in a

8:22 tropical place the way i think about it is like when i'm in hawaii i'll just wear my board shorts and ████ and i'm not gonna wear underwear it makes my balls too soft so this is how he like ties it up swinging around he ties it up and just picks it up otherwise it'll drape to the ground it's like a lungi that's kind of tight that's comfortable that's what looks like business from the waist up and spa from the waist down dude this guy's ready to party yeah he's ready to do it he's not this man is on a mission that was like damn dude relaxing from the waist down he's like cia at the spa from the last like two years of like the pandemic did you were able to pick up a bunch of gigs that's why you have all these movies like coming out or kind of i think the industry itself obviously is just bouncing back obviously the vaccines helped a lot with that people are able to just get back to work safely so you are seeing an influx of projects that are starting to hit the market and also you know

9:12 if you're lucky enough and you have the opportunity you're able to to write or create during the pandemic if you have the resources you know a lot of animation happened a lot of video games uh just because a lot of uh recording from home you know i did a lot of recording for for barbie uh during pandemic yeah just because yeah just because we were you you know how to do a barbie voice i'm the voice of can dude no way you're ken yeah that's ████ i thought we spoke netflix barbie uh barbie dream house adventures there's like multiple spin-offs that's kind of the title of the show but it's on netflix we have a bunch of movies a bunch of series some new stuff coming out uh this might be a dumb question but you voicing a white ken oh yeah baby that's what is that that's appropriation my friend that's

10:02 kind of ████ up bro taking it back i'm taking that ████ back you're taking white man's jobs bruh that's crazy this is like the tech industry in the silicon valley all the ceos are indians so you know the whitest boy in america dude ronald reagan or something you run ████ google you could be ken dude imagine ronald reagan with this guy's voice is it you could do it you could do it bart or jfk that'd be tight today's video is brought to you by hello fresh with hellofresh you get fresh pre-portioned food delivered right to your door so skip the trips to the grocery store make cooking fun with hello fresh america's number one meal kit what's cool is hellofresh offers 50 menu and market items and you can choose from every week including vegetarian calorie smart and gourmet options so you have plenty of variety that's actually

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12:36 it's like we need to balance this just in case anybody complains about it barbie's played by someone named america and you recorded it at home uh yeah recorded home i actually the first episode that i did or the first job that i did during the pandemic um i recorded an episode of barbie out of my mom's sorry closet which she just was like she like converted my brother's old closet into just like she just put it all here because it's all soundproof just like all the indian clothes it has all the fabric so like literally just playing and so it's just like a small little closet that i could see i could put a chair in can you can you give us one line in the ken voice yeah yeah hey jk news what's going on guys how's everyone doing today oh you're such a blonde white boy how's the blonde white guy i thought you were going to come out it was your eyes and replay that or just watch the show on netflix

13:29 i saw you in a red corvette too i was imagining a convertible yeah he was driving what um is there when you're doing like voice acting is there things that are different than when you're like acting like they could see your face uh you know i think sort of for me as an a as approaching the characters as an actor it's voice over because they're not seeing the physicality of of uh visually of what you're bringing to the character you really do have to kind of um express that in in the vocal range yeah so sometimes it feels like oh maybe i'm doing too much right maybe you wouldn't do that if it was live action because when you're watching live action you're seeing the whole thing you're hearing and you're seeing right uh but when it's voice over you're you're giving your energy to something else and so you have to convey that so that

14:20 helps the animators that may help the writers down the road when they're when they're writing for the character um also because it is a cartoon you can do you know weird ████ happens in cartoons it's not real life so you can get away with a lot more so as a result sometimes you can be a little bit more uh i don't want to say overacting but i'd rather say just more expressive uh you can you can paint with a little bit more bolder colors just because it's that's the world that you live in it's a world of a cartoon you know it's a little bit more imagination i could picture you saying that during like a voice actors convention and someone in the audience there is a voice acting dubber for hentai porn yo i'm gonna moan harder [Laughter] yo bro i'll tell you this man there you go there you go like you gotta make it

15:10 believable you know that's true because some of those dubs just take me out of the world and man i'm like i can't jack up to this why can't you talk like ken the boys aren't squeaky enough huh but there's an episode where ken teaches barbie bungara because we were talking about bungara yeah because they let me do it that's dope that's so cool wait so you you they did they videotape me dancing and then ken was that's copy that they just did uh like motion capture so white ken was teaching barbie oh yeah oh that's cool i want to see them get cancelled for this they're like why is this white man teaching them bhangra wait wait wait wait wait wait the voice actor is indian named america young wait ████ the other one we need the indian guy damn that's cool that's very interesting voice acting that's cool try to you know bring a little culture to the table and get give give ken a little love what

16:01 else is ken t did you teach like martial arts and ████ not yet maybe let's see maybe in the next season what did they do do they like because i mean i never knew what barbie and ken what their mission was they never ████ what's their mission statement they're best friends man yeah but joe got like a villain right like what's going on like in every story you need g.i joe gi joe's a soldier yeah i don't know so i mean like what do barbie and can do like what's their thing what do 18 year olds do in california oh yeah but they're passionate they're surfing all the time yeah ken ken loves like what's the stereo what's the story line you know like even i mean i i i'm when i'm watching full house i don't expect them to ████ fight crime but like you think dj dj yeah there's a villain there jesse con what's jesse consopolis

16:52 yeah there's jane there's something that happens right so like in a barbie ken show like well ever it's a children's cartoon so there's obviously like a story line they should buy crime a little bit well they do they like sometimes there's episodes where they solve mysteries they you know i know there's one episode uh where ken is trying out to be the school mascot you know okay so they got goals oh yeah yeah i like that i like that they have their summer vacation episodes oh let's go get i got my job at the at the the water park or we're we're going on vacation or are there a cooper's birthday it's very much will day won't day so the show actually does a really great job and there's some really beautiful moments of these kind of tender loving like embarrassing real life moments they've really uh done a great job the cast and creative really done a great

17:43 job of sort of pushing barbie into the modern world so it's it's it's actually it's if you know for kids and parents it's great to watch together she's kind of like paris hilton in what way uh keep going with that i'm going to stay quiet on this one well i think paris hilton jack barbie to be honest like barbie came first the original billionaire but then paris like went ████ with it barbie's still like wholesome because she didn't age barbie's got 48 phds in every profession oh yeah she does she's like every job yeah yeah but did the simple life does she have does she have a dog in a small bag does she does barbie carry so the family in the cartoon the family has has the dogs they have all the dogs well barbie comes from a family yeah so you meet barbies

18:36 i know she was an independent woman and she was old enough to buy her own things no no she's 18 she lives at home with her parents it's like she's in high school oh she's giving her a backstory her mom is i forget what they do they're just all genius is her mom fine mom's hot barbie's mom's i don't know that much about barbara i feel like the barbie world is just full of fine ass people dad's played uh by uh on another asian actor fellow asian actress right yeah greg chun i don't know if you guys greg chun chun yeah double check me that please double check don't check said greg doesn't kill me barbie's dad yeah is also an asian dude yes he does a lot of voices how come i don't want to see him i don't know his resume as well as mine so i can't but he's very accomplished does that mean barbie's getting scolded a lot and tell her her s.a.t scores weren't as high as ken's that's

19:26 basically what happens and like so ken is there really just because he's able to get barbie a free kumon uh subscription he's a tutor there yeah that's the season two because the new the new bugs bunny is a filipino guy yeah he does and he does a lot of he does a lot of characters he washes it he does a lot is he like what's up duck do you want the mcdonald's like that yeah okay i thought he was a filipino bugs bunny like he's just like backyard ████ you know filipino american in the uh yeah he's the new bugs bunny that'd be so sick if if it was fox bunny pockets bonnie damn yeah we should we got we got you know why's everything gotta be so normal

20:16 like why can't we making little my races yeah we need to restore the balance in the world a little bit you know it's a little fun making everything all normal and ████ you look hot as ████ right here let me see that camera let me see no it's just for me so the show's out now yeah on netflix yeah i've got a bunch of seasons a bunch of movies i'm about to watch barbie fall wow oh dude that's my ████ you got his picture like that for cause it's hot as ████ what yeah why would you save a friend's picture like that because he likes looking at me man what's wrong with that no i mean like on your screensaver though what's wrong with that are you are you jealous what's the ████ paris hilton over here yeah airdrop us airshot watch next time you come all the way

21:06 back it's just gonna be a picture of me this is just so sweet of you guys we know this guy bro yeah he's ken in barbie he's candy and he's not white at all when i tell people they're always there it's always a double take they're like excuse me and they don't want to be rude what was the craziest reaction you got when you told somebody that you're gonna be ken from barbie outrage they just punch you in the face someone spit in my face just a protest outside would pick a fence no it needs to be a white guy um oh it's cultural or when they told you you got the part did they say it like kind of gimmicky where they're like oh like you're going to be ken how about that my age he called me i had done a job from mattel before where i played um just like barbie's friend i think you say barbie's car i play barbie i play barbie yeah

21:58 i played barbie's friend he was just like an indian dude that lived down the street looked like me so i was just excited i was like oh this is cool yeah this is cool and so then they called me in they were like hey do you want to audition for ken and i was like okay like you know i mean like sure i'm not gonna that's funny you wanna be kidding me how do i sound now and so i was like all right i don't think it's going to go my way but this is a great opportunity i was trying to break into voiceover at the time yeah um i sent in a tape didn't hear for like a month just forgot about it it's always like that huh my agent calls me and he's like yo dude uh got some great news and i'm like oh ████ what did i book i'm thinking it's some cartoon or some video game

22:48 that i did last week he's like you're gonna be the next ken and i was like and it was just silent i was like what time that's pretty crazy that's a big ████ it was like i was like all right man if that's what they want to do i'm down then the rest is history and it's been a really really really great experience the the cast and crew uh we've done so much together so many stories and i think we've really kind of pushed the brand forward and the show is just a lot of it's just i wish you wanted it more man i'm disappointed with that story i wish it wasn't so dalat i wish you were like it's been my lifelong dream to be ████ ken though you wanted like people protesting i wanted you to no i wanted you to be like man as a little boy i saw ████ barbie and ken i was like i want to be him man he gets all the hot girls and you're

23:39 like and then i ████ became ken i exacted my revenge see that would have been a great story what are we protesting when we write the movie when you write the movie of the origin stories i'll do it that's how you have to start it you have to start it like that one indian man became a blonde white from the sl from the slums it's got to be some sort of bollywood music on top on top the ████ grandma ████ grandma's joining them yeah you guys can do like bloody grandma who wants to be a millionaire yeah exactly you guys can come in and just dance right across the screen your sister's playing with ████ barbie and cannon ████ and you're like a little boy you're like oh i want to be that one then my dad takes it and throws it in the fire and like i can't no you must be a doctor you can never be you can never do

24:30 anything other than stan i could be anything did you ever send in voice work for ken and you felt like they were trying to say make it less indian [Laughter] it's so funny but they said it in a different way you know it's a note they always give me and that i always find like can you turn it down a little bit they're always they're always like ah when we're having barbie and ken moments they're like that was that was too manly we need to like turn it down a little bit yeah that's the one note and that just kind of depends on my brother i went out the next that just depends on the time of morning it's like did i have a couple of beers last night that have more than a couple of beers last night like that's a good night you know and that's when they're like hey tash can you just light lighten it up a little

25:20 bit they're sounding a little manly [Music] you

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