"I took up this job primarily for the fun aspect of it"

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In this interview from 2024, Ranveer Allahbadia revealed how he preps for podcasts and draws inspiration from every conversation.

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00:00I don't smoke or drink or do anything naughty.

00:03My high comes from other human beings.

00:06Podcasts for me were a passion project.

00:08I used to watch a lot of Karan Johar back in the day

00:11because I feel like Coffee with Karan's early seasons

00:14used to be very controversial and very spicy.

00:19You get the guests to your studio.

00:21I've noticed that, you know, you don't go out there.

00:26Is it difficult to get people onto the studio?

00:28Do they like throw tantrums?

00:32It does happen.

00:33Often I've had to have a conversation with people

00:35and tell them about the process that we have.

00:38Like it is a bit of a creative process in terms of

00:40I want to actually chill with my guests before the shoot.

00:45Like I remember even when you had come over,

00:47you know, I think we'd had a cup of tea or something.

00:48Yeah.

00:49We just spoke randomly for a bit.

00:52I don't do that.

00:53I've noticed that my kind of guests

00:56they're slightly different from the profile of you get.

00:59If I had the conversation with them beforehand,

01:02then on air, they don't speak

01:04because they feel we have already said this.

01:07But you have a different process.

01:08Yeah, I think I took up this job primarily

01:13for the fun aspect of it.

01:15I'm talking about podcasting, not content creation.

01:17Content creation I took for my career,

01:19but podcasts for me were a passion project

01:22and it's become what it's become.

01:24I don't smoke or drink or do anything naughty.

01:28My high comes from other human beings.

01:31So like, I really enjoy meeting new people.

01:34My social battery does get drained out after a week's work,

01:38but I'm ready to go again on Monday

01:40because I really enjoy speaking to all kinds of people

01:42and I'm getting to meet the best of the best

01:44of different industries.

01:45So, you know, I have astro-scientists on the show.

01:49I have military men on the show.

01:50I have actors, supermodels, entrepreneurs.

01:54Everyone you can think of, cricketers.

01:56It's a very, very fulfilling life experience.

01:59This is probably the most fulfilling thing I've done

02:01in my whole life, honestly.

02:03This has been like a great phase

02:04and I'm just maximizing this great phase

02:06by also turning it into my profession.

02:09And what about celebrity interviews?

02:11Like for interviewers, for example,

02:13with Karan Johar getting the creme de la creme

02:16of the film industry on his show.

02:18Do you feel that it's this insider conversation?

02:22Then there's Kapil Sharma.

02:23Again, it's like an insider

02:25where they all know each other.

02:27It's from a same milieu that they're talking.

02:31Do you feel that that is great content?

02:34I'm personally not very into the film world.

02:38I learn about it for the sake of the podcast that I do.

02:41I used to watch a lot of Karan Johar back in the day

02:44because I feel like Coffee with Karan's early seasons

02:47used to be very controversial and very spicy.

02:50And it's a bit of a psychology exercise.

02:51You can go back to the early seasons,

02:54see what people said about one another

02:55and see how people's career tracked after that.

02:58A very interesting exercise for me.

02:59I have seen all the early seasons inside out

03:03but I think as my own life went about,

03:06I lost interest a little bit in the film industry.

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