The Drawing Room Experts
If actual drawing room conversations were recorded, the result wouldn’t be too far off from what we deliver through this podcast. Join the ”drawingroomers” as they discuss everything under the sun and provide an honest opinion as Pakistani expats living in North America, the likes of which is hardly heard in the current podcast/media space. (Languages: English/Urdu)
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Episodes
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Monday Jun 29, 2020
Zaib reconvenes an ongoing discussion on Racism from a 'Desi' POV with 2nd Gen American, Nabil Ahmad, born and bred in the US, someone who has seen, studied, and experienced racism in this country.
Zaib and Nabil have a quiet meaningful discussion on the psyche of immigrants from the subcontinent, their involvement (or lack thereof) in local politics and issues, racism within our communities, and using the Islam and racism argument.
Nabil also shares his perspective on #BlackLivesMatter, listening to and empowering the African American community to become leaders.
Enjoy this deep and riveting discussion!
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
After doing a series of topical discussions about anything and everything, the boys just slow it down... just... relax a bit.. sometimes the drawing-room is just there to chill and talk random shit. And we have (finally) just the right man for the job! Enter Mustafa Baloch to display his undying love for Cricket and his underappreciated efforts to revive the game in Northern California and the US of A in general.
We talk about how much Mustafa missed cricket and vice versa, how did the first net session go with the cricket group delivering an emotional roller coaster turn of events in great detail! We also talk about the upcoming revival of Cricket games in England, change of laws & Pakistani squad for the tour along with a bright idea of a future episode!
This episode is just slowing the pace of the podcast down, display a shitton of banter and laughs that go along with it!
Have fun!
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Navaid and guest co-host Ben Gallego share their thoughts on the recent PlayStation 5 reveal event and the line-up of the games showcased during the stream. They cover every game trailer shared during the stream one by one and share their thoughts about them.
Some really big games were announced and there were a few big surprises too. At the end of the episode, they briefly discuss the reviews of the much-awaited The Last of Us Part 2.
Enjoy this must-listen episode on the future of gaming on the PlayStation 5!
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Zaib takes about 15 minutes to get into this episode and has been cursing himself for wasting a good episode's worth content.
However, it builds into a fantastic top 10 episode where Zaib takes the listeners through his most favorite WWE entrance music/themes based on the impact they had on the fans and the atmosphere/moment it created when that music hit those arenas. This was not a top 10 favorite theme music with regards to music alone but a little bit more than that.
Enjoy!
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Thursday Jun 04, 2020
Zaib talks about the ongoing political and social crisis in the United States from an immigrant perspective discussing lack of 'desi' interest in 'local political/social' developments and looking at everything from a prism of 'what's good for |insert home country name here| arising from the crisis here in the US' all the while eating, sleeping, drinking and living it up on the same land.
Zaib also talks about the how this is a time for action but also introspect, acknowledge and remove racist tendencies and 'tokenism' within our own communities ALONG with standing up for the oppressed and avoid invoking 'whataboutism' everywhere.
This is a time to be an ally to the African American community and that means to stand-up with them, under them and most importantly, LISTEN!
#Blacklivesmatter
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Monday Jun 01, 2020
Zaib goes through an 'extrospection' over the weekend and decides to log in another episode.
Talking about the highs and absolute lows of human potential and achievements triggered by the monumental Spacex/NASA expedition.
As Bono says in 'Red Hill Mining Town': 'You scorch the earth, send fire to the skies.. You stoop so low to reach so high..'
Maybe should have just sang and left it at that...
Sunday May 24, 2020
Sunday May 24, 2020
Zaib gets together with his besties, Osama (QQ) & Aizaz (Azzi) to talk about being an aspiring guitarists from their O'Levels/A Level days and how (and why) guys tend to adapt that art form.
They talk about their influences, how they learnt to play, what songs and bands inspired them and why, plus a bunch of other random stuff that 3 beaconite's talk about whenever they meet!
Eid Mubarak everyone!
Check out and subscribe to QQ's Youtube channel and learn how to play guitar from scratch: Osama Qureshi - Guitar Tutorials
http://shorturl.at/flFUX
Check out Azzi's 'The 3rd Surface' and follow him on his Instagram handle @maizazkhn :https://www.instagram.com/maizazkhn/?hl=en
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Another "Zaib" episode is back with the classic weather discussion to kick it off because nothing says time filler material like a good monologue about the weather!!
In this episode, Zaib talks about the frustrations caused by the snowflake movement of taking offense to anything that moves or is formed after the movement of one's lips, an 'urta teer __ main lena', to put in more poetic terms. He talks about the difference between hate & free speech and how the lines are blurred by the 'flakes out there who mix 'compassion' with actually having an opinion. 2 different things that can go together.
In short, keep your opinions. Support other people's right to have and keep theirs as well without actually having to agree with it!
Cheers
Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
Zaib, Sahir & Farrukh are back with another cricket heavy episode and this time it is a handful! Loaded episode with sh** ton of stats and 'untim' khuari by yours truly (It's Zaib. you don't know who writes this) to put it together
We discuss teams out of Pakistan, India, South Africa, England & Australia who has fared the best in foreign conditions away from home and made themselves a tough opposition to face even for the home side. Also throw in New Zealand and West Indies all on the house right at the end to see a complete picture
Again, this is for real cricket fans and not the Yayha Hussaini brigadiers
Sorry I meant to say that please Subscribe to the show :)
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Zaib's back rambling through his mic trying to make some point nobody is asking for. This time he talks about the trials and tribulation of supporting Liverpool F.C. and how similar it is to supporting the Pakistan Cricket Team. In addition to the parallels of being a fan of both teams, Zaib adds a hot take that should piss off 90% of the Pakistan Cricket "fans".
With the excruciating pain that he's been through supporting Liverpool, Zaib feels there are certain learning points that real fans of Pakistan Cricket can use to calm down and support the team that they love!
Episode fact-check:
Liverpool was bought by FSG for £300 million (not 500 mentioned in the ep.) in 2010
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