It’s not everyday you have Mumbai high court lawyers on your show. Aneesa & Ranjeev also happen to be my closest friends. Adding to the mix is a producer from Vice India, my good friend Aniket Dasgupta.
This episode talks about how overwhelming understanding the law is, how ignorance of it isn’t tolerated and what we can do to change our attitude towards it (or maybe we just pretend to). All of the guests (including me ) moved to Mumbai for our careers so there is a lot of millennial frustration of figuring out our lives while also getting used to the mega city that is Mumbai.
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0:00 – Introduction.
0:56 – Childhood friends.
1:36 – Difference between Lawyers and a Counsel.
3:57 – Life at Vice India.
5:04 – Audience asks the realities of being a lawyer in India.
8:07 – How Lawyers have to fight from getting jaded.
10:47 – Realities of any job in India.
13:42 – Hustle Culture.
18:09 – What happens when you get your dream job.
22-18 – Working at a Vice is a dream job.
26:25 – Moving to Mumbai.
30:23 – Practicing law in Mumbai High Court.
32:23 – I love working in Mumbai.
36:35 – I don’t want to keep working in Mumbai.
40:24 – Basic rights and laws everybody should be aware of.
46:15 – Having close friends as Lawyers.
50:11 – Improving Rental Agreements.
53:26 – Relooking at any contract you sign.
56:36 – Using the law to your advantage.
58:03 – Outro.
Simple Ken is hosted by Kenny Sebastian, A stand up comedian known for his observational humour and quirky stage presence.
A simple podcast about tackling the weekly conflicts of a comedian.
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I like how you guys killed Ayush's optimism about being a lawyer ❤️🤣
Need to know if y’all liked the cookies tho ?🤔🥹
Inttrow saung!!!!
Just awesome!!! So true. Nobody tells u the negatives of hustle culture.
I am a lawyer and had great fun listening this. Right amount of nuance and layman’s view. Call this cool duo again sometime 🙂
#simpleken
Hi Kenny,
I am a 26 years-old girl, financially independent and living in parents' house. I wish to marry a boy, but my father is dead against the idea. The boy's family is accepting but wants my parents to be on our side by next two months, otherwise he has to forget me. He is finding it difficult to stand up against their pressure. I have been trying to convince my father since a couple of months but every time, he just shouts at me, says I have cheated him (by not telling him from the beginning of our relationship that I am dating this guy and by meeting him outside of my father's knowledge). He is not really ready to comprehend all the reasons that I have to make. The boy has everything I wish for, in a partner. He has done so much for me. I would feel devastated if things don't go in our favour. He changed cities to stay closer (I live in Delhi; he shifted from Mumbai to Delhi), did not even look for career opportunities outside of Delhi even when he kinda got fired, was unemployed and in a tough phase financially. Please tell me what I should do to make my father agree to our union *sooner*. I cannot take my mother's help in this because my father kinda rules the house; he is kinda stubborn. At times, he becomes a little violent, so I want to bear all the brunt. People suggest involving "cool" relatives that the authority figure (my father, here) has a rapport with. However, I don't think that I have any such relative who will talk on my behalf or is rather cool about it. I don't know what I can do here. All I do is, bring up the topic every second day, hear an earful for five minutes and then I don't say anything further. I am not sure if I should keep the conversation going even after getting scolded because he does not seem to be in a mood to understand. He just scolds me, saying that I am being crazy to even think about it.
His concerns are superficial according to me.
1. Boy belongs to different caste
2. Not a decent salary
3. Lives in a rented house
4. Belongs to a different city – Bangalore (so how would he enquire about his whereabouts; I met the boy online)
5. We both plan to live to Bangalore in the long term.
My boyfriend actually earns enough to support himself and can even support me with it. Along with that, my father is not even considering that my earnings will also add up to the boy's. Basically, he is not welcoming of the idea that man and wife together can run a house, rather he is still stuck with the age-old idea of man being the sole bread earner. The boy lives in a rented house, but the monthly rent can be easily paid off. Again, the conventional idea of groom having a house of his own is a problem here. Usually, the grooms (in their 20s) live in their parents' house, which is considered as "apna ghar" at the time of marriage. My boyfriend's parents too have "apna ghar". My father is not open to the idea of living on rent – we (adult) children too never went outside of Delhi for career or education because the family was not open to it, and everything worked here too.
Sure, he cannot do a background-check since the boy is from miles away, but I know him from five years; I wonder if a background check is really required.
What would you suggest to people like me, who are fighting against a mindset? In the process, it makes us hate the person on the other side a lot, when this is actually a war of two different types of opinions only. I plan on taking revenge on my father by not having a love life only and never getting married, if I lose this boy. This is bad for both me and my father, personally, but it will be my way of standing up to my freedom – if you don't let me live, I will not live. (Do I sound crazy? I am being very open because I just feel so comfortable.)
Do you have anything to say to me, so that I don't lose the love of my life?
PS – I am sorry for making this so long and so personal.
Passion has always been over rated. Thank You for drawing a fine line between passion and earning a living for yourself. Lot's of Love Kenny ❤️
#simpleken
Hi Kenny sir! First, I wanna thank you for making those long recordings of you talking. They have helped me a lot during my stressful times. I don't want to make it really long so I will straightly come to the point. I am 19 and have been a very jolly person since I was a kid. I am very social and I like talking to people a lot. And I have always thought people liked me for that as well. I have also been quite popular in my school days for that reason. People and even my teachers have always told me that I have good communication skills. But one of my friends who also happens to be 3 years older than me thinks it in some other way. He calls me an attention seeker instead because as per his definitions, a girl who initiates conversations first with a guy/girl doesn't have a personality and is just merely seeking attention. But for a guy, it's not the same case he thinks. Guys have always been the ones to initiate but for a girl, he thinks she should bring some attitude to herself. I couldn't agree with what he said, it really hurt me and I have been obsessing over it. This was not the first time when somebody had said this, I have also heard a few people talk behind my back regarding the same thing in my past but getting it from him hit me a bit hard cause he was really a good friend to me. Also, he has not even seen me talking with people that much in real life. We were not from the same institution. He just gave his opinion based on what I have shared with him regarding my days or moments of communicating with a new group of people so far. For eg: I would tell him stuff like "I met this person today on my flight. He was seated beside me and we talked about this and that etc." And my friend would be like "Who initiated first? Must be you. Only you can lose your reputation in that way, what was the need?" And he would get started in this way. It really frustrates me cause I think he takes it in some other way. He's not a bad person though but in some cases like this one, he really gets on my nerves. What are your views on this? What does a friendly personality mean to you? Do you think it's wrong for a girl to initiate conversations? Your response would really mean so so much. Will be waiting!
Much love!
Do lawyers wear aprons?
@6:50 "He was pretty much older than me back then".
Well, unless there's some strange science fiction thing going on, time passes at the same rate for both of you. So, if he was older than you back then, he is equally older than you now as well.
Wow, the lawyer guy seems so emotionally mature and sorted! ❤️
OMG this episode is really making me THINK!
4 careers in a lifetime. Job as a means to achieve your lifelong hobbies, and how that ties back to the 4 careers in a lifetime!
This episode is something else! On another level! ❤️
Kenny , please do one with doctors ! ❤️
Damn the best episode for me so far .😁
Loveeeee this episode
In the entire episode I was looking at Aneesa 😅. Am I the only one please tell me, she's damn pretty.
My nanu expired like 10 days ago and i was having a really tough time dealing with that but soon after that my life took the most perfect turn that was discovering "kenneth sebastian" and his content ! Thank you so so much for helping me out of this ! the way you instantly put up a smile on people's face (particularly my face for sure) i swear no one else does ! So grateful to god to be finding your standups , podcasts and vlogs which i am genuinely so much emotionally invested in ! You have a really long way to go 🙂
AND , as long as best memory is concerned it's definitely about having a good time while watching you and your videos
LOVE,
ADITI <3
Such an insightful episode! ❤️
I work as a Graphic designer / Illustrator, and I can totally relate to Aniket!
I am working at a corporate company, I would like to experience the Animation and Game industry, before just retiring to a quieter place, and work as a freelancer, or on personal projects. 🙂
It's a job at the end of the day !!
The best episode so far ❤️
Aneesa is such a beauty,
Ranjeev is a lucky dude
Is that a linga Aneesh is wearing ?
Should have included a CA to the panel too. It would have been fun watching lawyers and CAs both sharing the screen.
If it takes 10 years to be in SNL or any other platforms, then how come people like Pete Davidson have done it at the age of 21?
He was into serious comedy for just 2-3 years.
Watching this in my first year of Law from National law school. It gives me idea that what life looks like after 5 years.
From when Rhea Chakraborty started talking about law 🤔
I haven't watched something so real and so good in a whileeeeeee
Loved it
I would love to listen more to Ranjeev. Seems like a very thoughtful, wise and geniune human being.