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He Didn’t Expect This Question | Know Your Host - Gurasis Singh [New Segment]
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What happens when podcast roles reverse and the host becomes the subject of questions? Our newest segment "Know Your Host" creates an intimate space where guests get to ask whatever they're curious about – and the results are surprisingly profound.
The first question cuts straight to emotional vulnerability: "When was the last time you cried?" This opens a candid reflection on a challenging year filled with self-doubt, health struggles, and professional setbacks. Through honest sharing about reaching emotional saturation points and developing new coping mechanisms, we witness the real person behind the microphone navigating life's difficulties with the same uncertainties we all face.
The conversation takes a fascinating turn with a thought-provoking hypothetical: "If you could time travel to witness three moments in history without interfering, which would you choose?" Rather than selecting famous historical events, the responses reveal deeply personal curiosities – seeing parents in their youth to understand their formative experiences, witnessing the establishment of Sikhi by Guru Nanak Dev Ji, and experiencing the collective hope and excitement at the turn of the millennium. These choices illuminate how our interests in the past often connect directly to our present identities and values.
Have you ever wondered what you would ask if you could know the person behind your favorite podcast voice? What moments in time would you choose to witness if given the chance? Join us for this uniquely revealing conversation that transforms conventional podcast dynamics and reminds us of the power of asking unexpected questions.
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okay, so before we get into the final segment, I've added this new segment in this season. I call it know your host, where I give my guests an opportunity to ask me any question you might have.
Rafael:So go ahead so I can. It should be quick questions or can be more philosophical questions, whatever you feel like, you know, okay, and how many?
Rafael:one or two, or
Gurasis:well, okay, I'll let you choose.
Rafael:Let's just say two okay, okay, I would be one very easy, another more deep. When was the last time you cried?
Gurasis:oh wow, it is a deep question, um, so I'll tell you honestly, my last year, 2024, was such a roller coaster of emotions. I think the first quarter, the first four months of 2024, were like it was testing everything I have learned in the previous years of my life. You know my patience, my skills or my abilities, everything I have questioned and I think that have led to a lot of self-doubt and crying. And then, I think in the middle of the year 2024, I got a little better. But my year ended on a very weird and sad note as well, because I was sick. I was not able to excel in my job, I lost my job as well, so it really made me question a lot of things and and I was getting sick also back to back.
Gurasis:So that was my last year a full roller coaster of emotions, and I've cried multiple times throughout that year. But this year I actually made a promise to myself for more of like, a again, like a reminder to myself that things gonna be fine, and I have avoided or sort of like uh, try to somehow not cry at each and every moment, like that's what I have done that this year, but I think I did have this uh moment where it was the saturation you know there was. There was like a back-to-back multiple things were happening and it was. I reached a saturation point and I I didn't cry cry, but I did sit and I took a deep breath and I I just like felt that I'm on the verge of it and it was I believe it was, uh, a week and a half ago. That's where it happened, but it wasn't to the extent how it was last year I'm so glad it's not to that extent but it was just like a pent-up emotions of multiple things back to back and that's where, um, it happened.
Rafael:So okay, okay, perfect okay and the second one. It will be very easy, but it's very curious if you could go back on time to witness, to watch any event of the world, of the history of the universe okay and you could choose three.
Rafael:I'll give you three so you can go, be there just to watch and see, and you cannot interfere in the timeline. Just go see and come back, which will be the three happenings or three situations that you could go back and see that you would like to witness that's a very thought-provoking question.
Gurasis:You know, it's uh, I don't know about historical moment, but I think I would love to go back and see my, my parents, when they were younger okay because I feel like my father has a certain stance which is very like affirmative and keeping his emotions to himself and not expressing.
Gurasis:I just want to see my father. How was he when he was younger? And it might not be the historic even, but that's something I've always thought about, like I now I think I have come to that uh, uh, sort of like a report with my father, where I questioned him about everything you know, maybe I have come at a certain age but and he tells me about the stories and the times of his upbringing and his formative years and everything, and and I feel very fascinated by it. So I would love to see that, how he was able to handle all that and how he was able to do that okay, that's one yeah, that's the one I'm able to think you have two more
Gurasis:give me a moment, I'll think about it. Okay, this is actually a religious one, okay, so so many of the first gurus, guru nanak devji he was basically established and formed this religion of mine, which is, you know, sikhi, and I have heard a lot of stories of his time where he has got again gotten against the system. He has questioned a lot of things and he was born in a certain family and his parents weren't approving of his ideologies and what he was trying to achieve. So I'd love to see that, like, how did that actually was shaped and it turned into this today, where all of us seeks follow, which is, you know, the Sikhi. So I would love to see that you know how that was sort of transitioned and became into this religion sort of, or the way of life we follow.
Rafael:Okay so.
Gurasis:I'd love to see that. Yeah, that would be a very fascinating time. I never thought about it, but thanks for that, yeah.
Rafael:And the last one.
Gurasis:And the third one. Let me think about it again. I think this one time I remember my cousins and my sisters and everybody tells me that the time when this 21st century started, you know the transition that happened from that when 2000 came, that was like a big event and a that happened from that when 2000 came, that was like a big event and a lot happened at that time. It was like a certain excitement of it. I would love to witness that. Maybe, if I can, you know when that transition happened towards, when it was 12 and the new year started, the new century started. There was certain sort of excitement and the hope that was there in people. That's what I have heard. You know, I would love to witness that, that. How did that?
Rafael:yeah, pan out.
Gurasis:You know, live that moment getting into the future like that hopeless exactly like you know, so I'd love to experience that, if I can, yeah okay, that's very nice.
Rafael:That's my question. Was my questions to you.
Gurasis:Oh my God, I love that no. I would have never thought about this and I love how these questions provoke me and encourage me to kind of like, reflect and see. You know what I can say. So I love that. Very, very unique questions, Absolutely love that.
Rafael:Yeah, I love your answers also, thank you.