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Almost 40
Raj Pander
Frequency: 1 episode/13d. Total Eps: 39
Who said you’ve got to have your shit together by a certain age?
Definitely not Raj Pander.
She's Almost a promising young woman (she got told she was too old for a job). Almost a wifey for lifey (she’s a divorcee - according to Indian Matchmaking/Sima Aunty that makes her “disadvantaged”). And she was almost 40 when she started this podcast.
Single. Living at home with her parents. Still watching TV shows made for teens. Still swearing on work calls. Still has an unhealthy obsession with pop culture. She’s getting older, but not necessarily wiser (s/o to Taylor Swift for relatable lyrics).
Raj celebrated a milestone birthday last year, so we've got a thing for milestones on this podcast - not just the ones we associate with age/patriarchal/societal norms though. On the Milestone episodes, Raj and her guests get into 3 milestones from their lives, discussing their expectations of them vs the reality. And on the Almost Assessments, guests take an almost medical assessment run by a “nurse” who asks the most annoying/offensive questions women get asked on a regular basis, leading to an unpredictable conversation based on their answers. On the solo episodes, Raj does a deep dive into a trending topic (eg women being pitted against each other at the Oscars a la Demi Moore and Mikey Madison) or something that's been on her mind (banning people from her funeral a la Shannon Doherty) with a little help from listeners and friends...
Email almost40thepodcast@gmail.com and follow us on socials @almost40pod @_rajpander
xoxo
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Almost Fell Off: Amber Rose Gill
Season 1 · Episode 22
samedi 14 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:02:16
Your favourite (solo?) Love Island winner, Reality TV Qween, Romance Author and Swimwear Designer, Amber Rose Gill gets into the expectations vs the reality of being twenty something, friendship break-ups and moving to London from Newcastle. Did she really have a quarter life crisis? Is life different after a friendship break up? And why did she hate London when she first moved there? And - Raj has f***** up her thyroid. Completely her own doing and now she's mad about it.
Has anyone tried malachite/moldavite?
Email almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow @almost40pod @_rajpander @amberrosegill
Get Amber's new book: One Summer In Miami: https://amzn.to/47uw3PV
Listen to Amazing Starts Here (SEASON ONE): https://omny.fm/shows/amazing-starts-here
xoxo
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Almost Famous: Rav (Panjabi Hit Squad)
Season 1 · Episode 21
dimanche 1 septembre 2024 • Duration 01:04:43
Producer, DJ and one half of Panjabi Hit Squad, Rav Patti gets into the PHS origin story, navigating grief in his teens, PHS becoming the first South Asians to be signed to Def Jam and BBC 1xtra and how lockdown changed his life's course. Oh and Raj is a bad judge of character and has one major lockdown regret.
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almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
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@almost40pod @_rajpander @panjabihitsquad
xoxo
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Almost Fine: Poorna Bell
Season 1 · Episode 12
vendredi 28 juin 2024 • Duration 58:12
Journalist, Author and Powerlifter, Poorna Bell gets into writing the South Asian representation she wants to see in her new novel This Is Fine, choosing not to have children and her thoughts on ultimatums in relationships. She talks through the expectations vs the reality of her life's biggest milestones including turning 40 and how she believed it would change her sense of style and why she thought no one would date her if she was single in her 40s (obviously, that didn't happen). Raj is embarrazzed about a car parking situation LOL.
Send me your hot takes on ANYTHING we discussed on the episode...
Email almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow @almost40pod @_rajpander @poornabell and check out This Is Fine
xoxo
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Almost At Goal Weight
Season 1 · Episode 11
vendredi 21 juin 2024 • Duration 01:23:23
Raj Pander and friends get into Bridget Jones... Is Bridge REALLY a problematic character? Surely the fuck not.
Aaaannnddd she gets into Bridget's and her own relationship with her weight... So she's decided to ask herself (and her people) what their weight has held them back from. If that wasn't enough, Raj has been enlightened by the Love Island Samantha/Joey/Grace scenario that she now backs the "if he wanted to he would" theory 100 percent. Does everyone else back it though?
Send over your hot takes on all of the above to almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow @almost40pod @_rajpander
xoxo
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Almost A Swiftie
Season 1 · Episode 10
jeudi 13 juin 2024 • Duration 01:07:35
This is a Taylor Swift Eras Tour SPECIAL baby!
Raj is off to see TayTay in Liverpool so she's having conversations based on some of her favourite ERAS. We get into what everyone is still doing now, that they once thought they would be too old to do (we're all still feeling 22 and Red), how life would be different if we were men (shout out to The Man), our thoughts on Karma (Midnights is my favourite) and cutting off friends when there's bad blood (1989).
Annnnddd there's more dating horror stories... ft. Pilar Nalwimba, Poppy Jay, Rav (Panjabi Hit Squad), Sara Orritt, Sheetal Parmar
xoxo
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Almost Assessment: Nikkita Beghi (Two Chickpeas In A Podcast)
Season 1 · Episode 9
vendredi 7 juin 2024 • Duration 01:07:30
Podcaster Nikkita Beghi (Two Chickpeas In A Podcast) checks in with Nurse for her Almost Asessment (a fake doctors assessment where women are asked THE MOST ANNOYING questions they get on a regular basis). Nikkita gets into why she thinks brown men are the best kissers, her first date stories and that Sex And The City theory either known as the taxi cab theory or the bus theory (we aren't sure). Raj shares some dating horror stories from Tiktok (her algorithm is messy) and she's watching Love Island again...
If you have thoughts on brown men being the best kissers, Joey Essex being on Love Island or anything else from the episode, email almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow: @almost40pod @_rajpander @twochickpeasinapodcast @nikkitab
xoxo
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Almost Sweet: Kirat Assi (Sweet Bobby)
Season 1 · Episode 8
vendredi 24 mai 2024 • Duration 01:28:28
Radio Presenter, West London's Kris Jenner/Marketing Extraordinaire, Kirat Assi talks us through her expectations vs the reality of turning 40, celebrating surviving the "Sweet Bobby" era and why watching Neighbours is her self care ritual. She gets into some Southall history and how she handles other people's perceptions of herself. Raj has lost her voice, again. This is becoming a pattern eh?
DAILY MAIL LINKS AS PROMISED:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10146435/British-radio-presenter-seduced-online-duped-decade-man-female-cousin.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10362619/Woman-duped-DECADE-female-cousin-says-catfishing-criminal-offence.html
xoxo
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Almost Older & Wiser
Season 1 · Episode 7
vendredi 17 mai 2024 • Duration 54:54
Raj Pander is phuckin 40 and she's lost her voice. It turns out that even though she wanted to do nothing for her 40th, her friends had other plans...
Raj gets into the representation of women in their late 30s/early 40s in film as according to the internet, Anne Hathaway is "too hot" to play a 40 year old in The Idea Of You, even though she's 41. And apparently, being 40 means she shouldn't be wearing "shoulder bearing" dresses. Has anyone ever see Moonstruck? There 's some Met Gala tea. Raj tries to figure out why she didn't want to do anything for her 40th, so she's asked her friends how they plan to celebrate theirs and what they thought 40 would look like vs what it actually will look like...
Send over your hot takes on The Idea Of You, how you're celebrating your milestone birthdays and if the ending of Desperate Housewives make sense to you
Email almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow @almost40pod @_rajpander
xoxo
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Almost Assessment: Letitia Becher
Season 1 · Episode 6
vendredi 10 mai 2024 • Duration 01:13:25
Celebrity Social Media Strategist, Letitia Becher heads into the surgery to take on Nurse and the Almost Assessment (a questionnaire made up of THE MOST ANNOYING questions women get asked on a regular basis). Letitia gets into unsolicited baby making advice, chess players cheating via vibrators where the sun don't shine, her worst dating stories and Raya vs Hinge. Raj finally gets the tea on botox and fillers and the girls reveal their old obsession with TikTok tarot...
If you are crushing on emotionally unavailable men, have questions you want added to the next Almost Assessment or think you know the celebrity Letitia works for email Almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow @almost40pod @_rajpander @letitiawolf
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Almost Perfect: Nicole Ocran (Mixed Up Podcast)
Season 1 · Episode 5
vendredi 3 mai 2024 • Duration 01:02:57
Podcaster, Author and Fashion Gworl, Nicole Ocran gets into why she was convinced she was going to be with her high school boyfriend forever, wanting to lose her virginity at 18 and the expectations vs the reality of becoming a wife. She talks us through her biggest milestones, including starting Mixed Up pod with Emma Slade Edmondson. The girls reflect on why they have considered dating women. Raj is all about New York right now... xoxo
Email almost40thepodcast@gmail.com
Follow @almost40pod @_rajpander `@nicoleocran @mixedup.podcast
Pre order Nicole's new book, The Half Of It: https://lnkfi.re/nf0upC
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