Sureni's Odyssey: Near-Drowning Stories, Breaker-Box Beatdowns & a Homecoming to Sri Lanka" | Slumberpod Ep. 22 ft. Sureni Weerasekera
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Episode notes
Sureni Weerasekera joins the pod this week and things get deep fast — we start with childhood piano lessons and end up somewhere between a near-death river story and a full breakdown of Sri Lankan history. Danish tells the legend of the time his dad cut the power to the entire house to deliver a Nerf gun beatdown mid-Simpsons episode, we argue about which NYC jazz bar actually rules, and Sureni tells us about almost drowning at a beach party when she was 12 (and getting saved by a stranger). Then it turns into a real one — she just went back to Sri Lanka for the first time in a decade and tells us about accidentally dancing to the national anthem at a party. We also cover: would you do stand-up on a cruise ship, the Instagram account of a guy who just got out of prison and reviews movies now, and BB gun warfare as children. Go see them if you're ...