GMM 1246.4: Good Cup, Bad Cup Ft. Kunal Nayyar

(playful theme music) – Hello, old friend. – We’re back with Kunal Nayyar. How you doin’, Kunal? – I’m doing very well, how are you doing? – Good, do you like conveyor belts? – Yeah, not particularly. (Rhett laughs) – I love being this close to a conveyor belt. I feel like anything can move at any moment. It’s exciting. – Well, the conveyor belt could definitely move, because we’re about to play Good Cup, Bad Cup. – Okay, the thing that we’ve observed in legit interviews is that usually, there’s something that the interviewer and interviewee can drink from. Let’s call that a cup. – Yeah, let’s call it a cup. – We have mugs at our desk. Why should it be any different on a conveyor belt for this legit interview? The only difference is these cups are gonna be conveyed in. And there’s gonna be a good cup, another good cup, and a bad cup. We don’t know who’s got the bad cup, but as we’re conducting this conversation, and I will ask a question, you’ll answer it, and then we’ll all drink from the cup. And I don’t know, see what happens. See who’s got the bad thing. – Yes, Link, you think we should bring the cups in? – Let’s convey them. – Convey them! – Convey them! (conveyor belt hums) – Ooh, there’s some drama involved in this. – Not really, it’s kinda slow. (Kunal laughs) – Oh, here it comes. (Link imitates suspenseful music) – Is that top speed? (Rhett and Kunal laugh) – Here we go. – That’s all we got? – All right, now, just with a click, quick glance, and a click glance, I can tell that just looks like coffee to me, so nothing to worry about. – Okay. – Sure. – Or is there? We did some homework, Kunal, and in terms of who you follow on Twitter, one of your accounts is called WeRateDogs. Do you know you follow WeRateDogs? – I do know now who to fire, who runs my Twitter account. (All laugh) No, no, I’m joking, I think the person who runs my Twitter account really likes dogs. – Oh. (laughs) – She does, yeah, she does. – Since they’re not here, but you are, we’re gonna ask, can you rate these dogs? (Kunal gasps) Which one do you think is better? – [Kunal] That’s an unfair question. – [Rhett] You gotta pick one. Okay, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna go with 13 out of 10, and 10 out of 10. – Wh, what? – [Kunal] It’s got a cone on it! – But that’s cute! – It’s sad. – It’s sad, that’s cute. Look at the fancy hat. – Right. – Kunal, these are our dogs. (audience laughs) – You made a really good choice. This is Jade, she is very cute. – Well, okay, but why did you take a picture of, of, what’s the name of the dog? – Barbara. – Of Barbara with a safety cone? – Because it’s so cute. (scattered laughter) It makes you feel sorry for her. I was going for sympathy points. – I guess it’s a matter of opinion, huh? – Oh, I guess I… – All right, we should drink, aren’t you thirsty? – Okay, on three, one, two, three. – Ugh, it was me that got the bad one. (Rhett laughs) Mine’s just coffee. – It’s so s– – Mine’s coffee. – You put salt in my coffee, so much salt that I can’t open my eyes. (Rhett and Kunal laugh) Like, literally, I cannot get my eyes to open. Convey it! (conveyor belt hums) Convey it away, convey it in. – These look so harmless. – These look quite delicious, actually. – Yeah, I mean, somebody is gonna enjoy themselves. – One person’s gonna get a bad whatever this smoothie is. – Okay, well, Kunal, we actually kept looking at your Twitter. We had to put a, spent a lotta time looking at your Twitter. – Thank you. – You also follow an account, a user, loveskunalnayyer. – And I follow it. – Yes, you do. – We all need a little ego boost, it’s okay. – They’ve only tweeted once in the past two years, so what did you do wrong? – Uh, I don’t know, maybe I’m not as popular as I used to be. That other kid on Silicon Valley’s kinda taken over. (Rhett guffaws) (Link chuckles) – There can only be one? – There can only be one. – Okay. (Link laughs) All right, guys. – All right, one, two, three, drink. – Oh, me again! – Mine’s good. – What is that? – This is delicious. – Mine’s fruity and nice. – What is it? – [Woman] Link, it’s a tomato slushie. (Rhett laughs) – Ah! I couldn’t even identify it as something that is consumable. – This is just a slushie slushie. – This is yum! – Tomatoes, they would’ve liked tomatoes. – Sorry, Link. – Convey it! (conveyor belt hums) – Oh, here it comes. I have a bad feeling I’m gonna get a bad cup, right? Because I haven’t gotten one yet. – Neither have I, Link’s gotten both of ’em. – But I think, as a guest, I shouldn’t get a bad cup, right? – Of course, of course not. – Now, your book is called Yes, My Accent Is Real. Congratulations on a book. – Thank you very much. – I want you to give us an accent, and give us a Big Bang Theory classic Raj line. But I don’t want, I want you to give us a different accent. Like a… – Irish! – Irish, let’s go Irish. – Irish? – Yeah. – So this is a classic Raj, Big Bang Theory line. – Sorry… – Give us an Irish accent. – This is gonna be so bad. Sorry, all of Ireland for this. – (laughs) It’s a pre-apology. Sorry doesn’t make up for the fact that I had to cook chicken and rice with this vegan guy. (Link laughs) You know what vegan chicken and rice is? It’s rice. – Hey, just like I’m in the Highlands. – Yeah, it’s– (Rhett and Link laugh) What is that accent, what is that? – That was great. – That was terrible. – It made me thirsty though. – Oh God. – Boy, I’m so thirsty. – Cheers, cheers, gentlemen. – Dink it. – Oh! – Apple juice. – Yep, I got apple juice. – I didn’t even get to the liquid, there’s, is that spray paint, are you tryin’ to poison me? What is it? – It’s bitter apple. – Bitter apple? – I think that’s what keeps cats from peein’ on stuff. – It’s horrible. (Link chuckles) That was the bad cup. – All right. – Convey it away! – This is it, I, this is it, I have to get this bad cup. – Okay, Kunal, your Instagram page is filled with fantastic selfies like this one. – Yeah. – Whoa. – Can you please explain everything that is happening in this, and also finish the poem that you started? – Okay, on Big Bang Theory, they flat-iron my hair to make it straight. – How long does that take? – It takes about 35 minutes. When I come home every night, my hair’s basic glued together, so I can do funny things with it, like that. And then, there’s this painting of a sad pug that I picked up at a flea market that’s been in my bathroom for six years. My wife hates it, so it’s in the bathroom. I don’t know why it’s there, but it always looking sad, and that’s why it’s the most anticlimactic story you ever heard in your whole life. (Rhett guffaws) – It’s just in the bathroom. – Hashtag poetry though, because you thought it sounded poetic? – No, I was just trying to be self-deprecating, ’cause you know, if you post anything of meaning, the internet hates you. – Right, that’s why we do this show. – Yes, exactly. (all laugh) Okay, oh, I know this is going to be… – [Link] This looks pink, – Cheers, everybody. – like Pepto or something. – Oh, what the, I don’t even need to drink it, it’s like glue! (audience laughs) – Your hand, they tryin’ to glue your hand. – You know, it’s funny, this is pink, I thought it was gonna be Pepto-Bismol. – (laughs) No. – Yeah. – ‘Cause that’s the drink of my people. – It’s actually very nice. – Yes, that’s actually delicious. Okay, cool, now I have to wash my hands. – (laughs) You’re welcome. – Convey away! – Was it nice? – It’s not bad. – Okay, rumor has it that you can recite Bart Simpson’s entire Deep Deep Trouble rap from The Simpsons. – It is true. – Will you please perform some of it for us? – Until we tell you to stop, ’cause it’s pretty long. – Yeah, sure, it’s pretty long, let me see. ♪ Let me start at the start, then take it away ♪ ♪ My name is Simpson, Bartholomew J. ♪ ♪ That’s Bart, with an art and a capital B ♪ ♪ Then Simp plus S-O-N, that’s me. ♪ ♪ Introductions aside, let’s move right along ♪ ♪ Can all sing along with the sound of the gong ♪ ♪ Once upon a time, about a week ago ♪ ♪ All of a sudden, trouble started to grow ♪ ♪ Alarm was buzzing… ♪ (Link guffaws) ♪ Snoozing, supposed to get up now, but I was refusin’ ♪ I could go on. (Link laughs) – Okay, stop, that was great. – Nice, nice, nice. – Oh, yeah, you know what that deserves? A little toast. – Here we go. – Thank you. – Whoo, that is nice. – Cheers. – Mmm, chocalatey. – Oh, gosh, no. Is that dog food? – [Woman] That’s a Happy Meal milkshake. – Oh, gosh. – Oh, it’s got a whole Happy Meal in it? – Yeah, and I can taste every bit of it, including the toy. – That sounds delicious. – Ah, it’s not. It doesn’t really work in this form. – Thanks, Kunal, for hangin’ out with us. – Yes, and thank you for liking, commenting, and subscribing. You say, “You know what time it is.” – You know what time it is? That’s disgusting! (all laugh) – I’m William from Arden Hills, Minnesota, and it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Careful, buddy. – Ninja! – Click the bottom link to watch this episode from the beginning. – And click the top link to watch us face off with John and Jen in the extreme cup-stacking challenge in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality is going to land.

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