Lightning in a Bottle with Kunal Nayyar

Just we hit lightning out of the bottle.

I love it. Lightning out of the bottle. Is that even the same? Lightning out of the bottle. Lightning from the bottle? We are lightning in a bottle. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

I'm Oliver Trena here at the Young Hollywood Studio with Kunal Naya. How are you?

That's good. That was good. That was good. That's because we worked on it for 10 minutes. We we just had nine preparation for a while. Kunal Naya. That is it. I said it again.

How's your coffee?

That's good. It's it's okay. It's not the best, but

Not the best. We're working on it. It's my fault. I put too much sugar. We're trying to get better at that. Warming you up because you got your you got your little hat.

Oh this is just a fashion. It's not a real. This is not uh it's actually made of cotton to look like wool so I can wear it in the summer.

Oh, I love that.

When you live in Hollywood and you're trying to be like a cool hipster and young like a Young Hollywood hipster and then you got to wear a knit hat indoors. You have to adapt. You have to adapt. This is this is you know this it took me an hour to look this disheveled. Um and now moving from that to Big Bang Theory.

Yes.

It's great, isn't it? Oh yeah, uh so blessed, so thankful, so lucky to be uh to be working and then to be working with such a great family and to have this success on the show. You know, six years ago, you're you're auditioning and you're scratching and you're trying to survive and then six years later you're sitting on a white leather couch talking about the success of a show.

Just we hit lightning out of the bottle. I love it. Lightning out of the bottle. Is that even the same?

It is now. Lightning out of the bottle. Lightning from the bottle? We we are lightning in a bottle. I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

It's like hitting like when you like hit it out off the park. just it's all the American bit of it. You. It's like a British guy and an Indian guy trying to decipher. We should make a show about a British guy and an Indian guy who have no idea what they're saying and just keep saying it. It'll be like the New Jersey show.

It could be kind of my biopick. It'll be like your life.

Exactly. It'll be the Jersey show without the abs.

Exactly. And well, what are you trying to say?

Being from New Delhi, How's the how's the transition? Cuz you came here for college first, right?

Yeah. You know, I've I've said this a lot. It's not like I came off the boat and I was like, what you know like what is it? Like it wasn't like that but it was subtle things like Um, I never knew first of all, like in your grocery stores you have the most insane amounts of milk in America. like 2%, 1%. What's the difference? I don't even understand or like the different types of breads and oh, I never knew how to dress. Like I went to a college party and I wore like slacks and a shirt and people were in like flip-flops and shorts and doing keg stands and stuff. You know, I mean.

I read that you have a shoulder shimmy. Is that a dance move or is that something in cricket?

No, that's a that's a dance move. That is a dance move. You don't know what a shoulder shimmy is? It's that, isn't it? Yeah. But you got to do it like that. Oh, wow. That's pretty good, right? That just completely turned into that place. I know. I know. And I have a nice like I got a.

You have a great pair of. Yes. You can sense that. Yeah. Um well, as you play an astrophysicist on your TV show thing, you should in fact be smart and you've done business you've yeah. Okay. I'm going to fail miserably at this quiz.

All right. Let me rub my cotton slash wool hat for good luck.

Right. It's a memory game. You're going to stare at it for 30 seconds. Okay. And then it will go off and you have to remember.

before You have to stare at it for 30 seconds. And then you have to remember them, right?

The average person will get about seven. Don't how many questions are there? No. It's not a question. You you it's objects. Look, on the screen. You can have a quick look now turn back. Okay. Right. If you get below seven, that in fact makes you below average. But but seriously, this is a show about Young Hollywood. So is can we think is the lower the score slightly?

No. No. Even kids get. Even kids get? Okay. My from your show got ten. It's because she's a genius. She's a PhD. I think your time's up. Oh, there was a lock. A lock. Yeah. How much time do I have?

30 seconds.

30 seconds. Okay. Can I talk out loud? Say whatever you like. Flower, chair, pencil, rain ball, apple, light bulb, alarm clock, house. I've already lost. How much more time do I have?

15 seconds.

Cupcake. Plant. I'm already failing. Stop counting them like I'll you in the. That's it. Look look back now. Yeah. Rainbow, hammer, aeroplane, uh plant, alarm clock. Five. I've got five. A globe. No globe. Oh yeah, there was a globe. That's six. That's six. Come on. Don't cheat on me. You're nearly average. Carry on. Come on. I can get one more. Uh an ice cream cone. There was an ice cream cone. It had like it had yeah there was. It had like three scoops in it. Um. Okay. Um. That's it, right?

No, if you want to be average. There was a house. There was a chair. How many have we got? I've got nine. Nine. You're slightly above average. That's good.

That's cool. I love that. I can go to sleep without crying tonight. That's great.