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- My ideal guy is probably
like a soft, nerdy dad.
I'm always weary of people that are too attractive.
- I imagine sort of like sun-kissed skin.
Personally, I don't care too much about ethnicity or race,
but definitely a good personality,
and someone who wants to grow together,
go on experience new and different things.
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Your name is Ashley.
This is your story. (chuckles)
You are 25 years old.
For work, you're an artist or a creative,
or possibly a nurse.
Couldn't decide.
And your cultural, ethnic background is Caucasian.
- My name is Ellie.
I am 25.
For work, I am a creative, but I work in craft beer.
And I am indeed Caucasian.
Your name is Ravi,
and this is your story. (laughs)
You are 30 years old.
For work, you are a dentist.
And your cultural or ethnic background is Indian.
- My name is Abhay.
I will be 26 in a month.
(laughs)
For work, I am a film producer.
And my cultural, ethnic background is Indian.
- Mm. (laughs)
- Alright.
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I was born in New Delhi,
lived there for the first nine years of my life,
and then I moved to Virginia.
Growing up, my parents sort of expected me
to lead a very traditional Indian boy's lifestyle,
and I did.
I was very good at math,
I was very good at sciences,
I had participated in all the culture shows,
but I'm not just that.
I'm not gonna do this just because it's the expected path.
- My parents, they never really put any expectation on me.
My family isn't really motivated by money in any way,
so there's never been a push for me
to have a solid career path.
Saying that both of my parents have their master's
and are very successful in what they do.
Your favorite book of all time is East of Eden.
Adrien Brody would play you in the movie about your life.
(chuckles)
Your celebrity crush is Emma Watson.
And if you were going to nominate a celebrity
for president, you would pick Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Okay, okay.
My favorite book of all time,
I actually really like Aziz Ansari's book, Modern Romance.
Keanu Reeves, perhaps a younger Keanu Reeves would play me
in a movie about my life.
Emma Watson is a good one,
but I would actually go with Angelina Jolie.
And if I had to nominate a celebrity for president,
I would probably nominate Leonardo DiCaprio,
or George Clooney.
One of those two. (laughs) - Hm.
- Your favorite book of all time is Fifty Shades of Grey.
(breathes in sharply)
Zooey Deschanel would play you in a movie about your life.
Your celebrity crush is Chris Evans.
And if you were going to nominate a celebrity for president,
you would pick Tina Fey.
- My favorite book of all time is Breakfast of Champions.
- Okay.
- Zooey Deschanel would probably play me
in a movie about my life.
My celebrity crush
is Jason Segel.
And I would probably pick Susan Sarandon.
Why not? (laughs)
Fifty Shades of Grey?
- Okay--
- Come on!
- You see, that was just sort of my generic,
oh, what's a book girls like?
There's a 40% chance I'll hit it on the nail.
- 40?
- I think so. - That high?
- Yeah, I think it's pretty high.
I mean a lot of girls have told me,
oh, Fifty Shades of Grey, just, you know.
- But of all literature?
- Yeah.
Well, see if you had said that,
I would think you were a lot more of a shallow person.
- Right.
- Your answer was a lot better than I was expecting, so.
- Good. - Yeah.
- I think sometimes people think that I'm mean.
I default to being honest with people,
and if somebody asks me a question,
I'll give them my honest answer.
I also think sometimes people think
that I'm shy, or reserved.
Mostly because I think I wait
to get to know people to really open up.
- I think in many cases,
people assume that I'm much more
of a serious person than I am.
I've been told that I have a resting bitch face.
Like for example.
(palms slapping)
No, that's just how I look.
- Three things that you fear most
are snakes, heights, and crazy people.
When you feel fear, you react by fleeing.
And you are scared of dying.
- The three things that I fear the most
are crazy people, snakes, and I would hate to die young.
When I feel fear, I will probably (laughs) run away, yes.
I wouldn't say I'm scared of death,
but at the same time I would like to think
that I had lived my life before I died.
So I'm scared of say, dying in my 30s,
but then I'm not really scared of dying in my 60s or 70s,
'cause I feel like at that point, I did what I had to do.
Three things you fear the most
are spiders, getting your heart broken, and dying young.
I definitely put that in there
because that's a big fear of mine.
When you feel fear, you react by closing out other people.
And you are scared of dying.
- Three things that I fear most
are the dark.
- [Abhay] Oh.
- Open ocean,
and people that I care about turning on me suddenly.
When I feel fear, I react (laughs) by having a panic attack.
- Okay.
- And I am not scared of dying.
- Do you believe in the afterlife?
- I don't wanna say yes.
I was raised in a very spiritual mindset,
very Hindu attitudes.
- So was I, for what it's worth. (laughs)
- Right, so I think that those things
have echoed in my personal belief system.
- In Hinduism, it's like the goal is to be released
from this cycle of life.
So it's like I would like to think that once you've lived,
you've lived, and you can just sort of
be a part of the universe.
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So at the beginning I said that I would date you,
because you seem to know how to take care of yourself.
You're put together well.
And you seem like an artist,
like a creative, and I'm into that.
Now after having this conversation,
I would still date you.
Some of the things you said made me like you even more.
You're not exactly how you look, how you appear to be.
In many ways, you're a deeper and more spiritual person,
which is really cool.
- At the beginning, I said that I would date you,
because you're also very put together
and you have kind eyes.
After having this conversation,
I think that I would still date you.
(laughs)
You seem like you have
- Whew. - inner strength,
and you have a lot of self-worth,
and don't let people walk all over you.
- Mm hm.
Are you waiting for me to ask you out?
Is that? - (laughs) No.
- [Abhay] No?
Okay. (laughs)
- I think people make assumptions about other people
to compartmentalize them,
and it's definitely not the whole picture of a person.
- You wanna give me your number?
- Sure. - Okay.
- It could've easily gone the other way.
She seems like a nice, caring person.
In today's world, that's a wonderful thing. (laughs)
- Bye! (laughs)
♫ Soul Pancake
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