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00:00Hi, hi. Thanks for having me.
00:04Yeah. How's it going?
00:07Hi. So, cool bow-chai.
00:08Yeah.
00:09I read the bow-chai. Sick.
00:12Hi, Jenny. Jenny. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
00:15Nice to meet you, too.
00:16Nice to meet you, too. I'm Lyle Lex here.
00:18Lyle? Lovely to meet you.
00:20Thanks.
00:21Hi, I'm Lucas. Nice to meet you.
00:22Nice to meet you, Lucas.
00:23This is gonna be pretty fun. I'm feeling good about this.
00:25Yeah, it's gonna be it. I'm excited. I'm hyped.
00:27Me, too.
00:28I'm pumped. I'm pumped.
00:29Let's go.
00:30Are you crocheting something?
00:31Yes, I am. I'm currently crocheting a vest.
00:33That's so cool.
00:34Nice to meet you.
00:35What's your name?
00:36Juliana.
00:37Maitreyi. Nice to meet you.
00:38Maitreyi.
00:39Maitreyi.
00:40Maitreyi.
00:41Maitreyi.
00:42Maitreyi. What's your name?
00:43Conrad.
00:44Conrad? Nice to meet you.
00:45I know how to pronounce your name.
00:46Are you planning to burst anyone to Smash Bros?
00:49Whoa.
00:50You can put a wager down if you want.
00:51Whoa. Whoa. You seem really confident now.
00:54I know I'm good.
00:55I don't know. I don't know.
00:57I think we're ready to go.
00:58Yeah?
00:59Yeah. Let's start.
01:00Cool.
01:07Luca, are you ready to open up the show?
01:09Welcome to the Assembly. A collective of autistic and neurodivergent interviewers, we are very delighted to have you on the show. Our rules are no subjects are out of bounds, no questions are off the table, and all might happen.
01:33Didn't hear that last part.
01:37Would you mind telling us about yourself? Thank you.
01:42Well, hi. Hi, everyone. My name is Maitreyi Ramakrishnan. I'm 23 years old. I'm from Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario. That's where I still live. I am an actor. And, yeah. I don't know. I got a dog. I like video games. I was kind of looking forward to this because I feel like I'm going to get asked things that I haven't had the opportunity to talk about. I'm really excited to be here. So thank you guys for that.
02:00Thank you guys for having me. And you guys can ask me whatever you want. Yeah.
02:04Jenny.
02:05Okay.
02:06Okay.
02:07It's nice to meet you.
02:08Yeah.
02:09So my question is, when Mindy Kaling herself chose you out of the 15,000 applicants to play
02:12Debbie, you're the best.
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02:58and i'm like okay all right so i hold the phone mindy's like hi it's it's mindy kaylee
03:04we just wanted to congratulate you on the role of davie and i'm like oh okay cool thanks well
03:15at this point i realized i was being punked but my reaction was very chill because i just didn't
03:23realize like what was about to happen like how my life would change i didn't know what was to come
03:31so i didn't know how to react thank you thank you for answering
03:39all right bobby you're ready to go sorry
03:44do i stand right there yep just right on the yellow
03:46you got it hello i'm bobby now that people know who you are because of your netflix show
03:56do strangers approach you and does that scare you
04:01honestly sometimes it does there's been times where like people have like kind of followed me
04:09and that's really scary i do not like that super creepy guys super creepy like one time i had someone
04:16follow me in their car like i was driving to school this person saw me driving while they
04:24were driving the opposite way as i was continuing to drive like look in the rearview mirror and i
04:29saw that that car was now behind me i park get my bag i'm trying to get to class and then this car
04:36pulls up beside me and it's this guy being like you're davy right and it just pissed me off
04:45because i was like i don't care how big of a fan you are you've made me incredibly uncomfortable
04:51and i don't know why you think it's okay to follow someone through a parking garage
04:55if i was in your position i would feel violated i was yeah i was like angry about it and i think the
05:03thing that i was most angry about it after was that even after that interaction i kept asking myself
05:10was my tone too rude
05:17thank you for that question i appreciate that you're welcome yeah lyle is next
05:24oh hi matrea this is lyle lex here i just thought i would say hi to you do you speak any you know
05:34which foreign languages do you speak i don't speak any other languages fluently unfortunately i really
05:42wish i knew how to speak like my mother tongue fluently i'm going to say tamil yeah yeah i i wish
05:48i wish i could i speak what do you speak i speak french spanish german hebrew yiddish i like languages
05:55that's one of my big passions in life sorry i don't speak any tamil though you know maybe you can learn
06:00together and then add it to your long resume yeah that's right yeah what are your favorite plants do you
06:07like gardening at all my favorite plants i love my favorite flower is peony flowers so i usually buy
06:15plants and then i have them for a little while in my bedroom and then my grandma starts seeing them die
06:21i don't have a green thumb i have a green thumb like i have 22 house plants at my place and
06:27i could go for the next half hour talking about different plants i have but i won't do that
06:31luke is next um one of my favorite memories is going to see my favorite band kiss in concert
06:44can you tell us one of your favorite memories one of my favorite memories
06:49i was in my second season of never have i ever and i knew already that i was going to be
07:05like in time magazine i didn't realize that i was going to be the sole face on the cover
07:13and it was like the first moment in my career i actually felt proud of myself because i struggled
07:23to feel proud of myself i have the habit of okay accomplish this next and then like move on
07:32so time magazine being like i think the first tamil woman on the cover was awesome and me at 18 years
07:40old i was like signing it also drawing mustaches on my face um it was really great it was great
07:50um andrew you're up next
07:55who do you think would win in a battle between a gorilla and 100 able-bodied men okay thank you
08:01no like let's talk about this do the hundred humans are they just going in as humans they don't
08:06have any tools or anything with them just bare hands done gorilla done no 100 100 100 the gorilla's
08:16going to wipe out so many off the bat then psychologically the rest of those human men are
08:21going to be like just off their you know game about this day and age humans or we're talking
08:25about primitive humans no just in this day and age okay never mind never mind yeah humans they're
08:29gonna get out of there yeah i think we should see all animals as equal how much room is this area
08:34or we allow super there's too many logistics guys there's too many logistics thank you for this
08:40question i appreciate it all right next up is damon
08:48hello hello i am nervous i am going to slowly type out my question
09:18you are dedicated to charitable causes led a protest against cuts to education
09:40and are now studying human rights and equity
09:42i was denied access to a full education because i am non-speaking and use typing to communicate
09:52i had to battle my way out of a segregated classroom and was recently accepted to university
09:59i am wondering what sparked your interest and where will you focus your advocacy going forward
10:04well thank you for that question i'm so sorry that you weren't able to get access to full education
10:17that's so wrong so it's really awesome that you got accepted into uni that's so dope like round of
10:24applause for that that's so thin one of the earliest photos on my instagram is a picture of a protest that
10:36i did in 2019 which i appreciate that you took the time to like learn that because a lot of people i
10:43don't think i've ever been asked about that in a lot of my friends when i like became famous they asked me
10:48if i was going to take it down and i'm like hell no why would i take that down it's important and it
10:54happened and there's already a digital footprint of it so it wouldn't even matter anyway both my
11:01parents always taught my brother and i if you see an injustice you have to speak up like there's no other
11:08option with advocacy it's something that i never want to stop i know my parents would look at me and
11:16think what happened to their daughter if i stopped fighting for people's rights and all rights you
11:23can't care about bodily autonomy without also caring about access to education it's all intertwined
11:40thank you for your lovely efforts i did notice your insta post
11:44and was so grateful thank you so much thank you thank you thank you for taking the time
12:04luca you're up all right so i'm like a kind of like a cool kind of like
12:10um person who indulges in like a in like movies wants to join the movie industry nice what advice
12:20would you give for someone like me who wants to like be in the movie industry my advice because my
12:28career happened in a very unconventional way if i've learned anything never ever get down or hard on
12:35yourself because you're comparing to somebody else and if you believe in yourself you really don't
12:41need anyone else's belief well guess what i actually do believe in myself well let's go let's freaking
12:47go that's it that's not calling you to hear so you don't even need my advice yeah i was just asking
12:55just to make sure if you know what i mean julia is next go julia go you got this um um
13:07learning to love myself after my autism diagnosis was a little bit confusing um
13:24do you love yourself and what is the best part about being you
13:29do i love myself some days not all the days there's some days where i'm just fed up with myself
13:42you know which sucks but i have a really good friend of mine who always asks me to write down
13:49the things that i love about myself whenever i am feeling those you know unlovable days
13:55i love my ability to talk to anyone i think i'm really good at connecting with people and making
14:09space for everyone to feel safe that's like kind of my superpower so yeah i like that about me
14:19thank you for making space for all of us today thank you
14:25margot here we're at thank you margot with the cool jacket thank you i'm somebody that really
14:33benefits from receiving therapy i'm just wondering if that's something you find to be beneficial
14:41honestly i have never gone to therapy which is like awful i have gotten my friends into therapy like
14:50multiple of my friends into therapy i've been on their case about it
14:54and then they say so my tree when's your turn and i'm like oh get out of my car
15:01the car rides over get out which is terrible like i definitely should go to therapy like definitely and
15:07actually this year was the first year i was like i i can't keep ignoring this yeah i think this is the
15:15end of the year hopefully and if not this year there's always 2026. exactly you have time hey yo you
15:22know and maybe one day i'll tell my friends to not get out of the car and i'll say hey actually i got an
15:27appointment on thursday thank you for asking i appreciate it uh juliana
15:34thank you
15:40thank you
15:42take your time
15:50so growing up my parents who were still with me and all my grandparents who were no longer with me
16:01including my grandmother who just passed away five days ago i'm so sorry i couldn't answer this all of
16:06them instilled values of working hard and really loving and cherishing the time with your family as
16:12much as possible and as both your parents are sri lank and civil war refugees to canada
16:18what values were emphasized in your family growing up that you carry and have shaped your life
16:24my parents always taught me like always be respectful of everyone treat everyone with kindness the moment
16:36you treat everyone with kindness they'll treat you back with kindness as much as they possibly can
16:42i also grew up with my uh grandma and my great grandma so condolences about thank you
16:49your relatives it's really hard when you lose someone so close
16:54okay give you a hug please i can give you a hug it's okay i get it
17:09it's okay you're good i'll take a breath
17:13i get it my grandma still lives with me uh i already know she's like at home
17:18cooking something for me when i go to toronto i don't know what i'd do without my grandma no i was
17:23the same way growing up when i was in school like elementary school i had the habit of throwing out my
17:30lunch and my grandma decided i'm going to become a lunchroom supervisor at my tray's elementary school
17:40so i can watch and make sure that she's eating her lunch and you know what my grandma miss k as
17:47everyone calls her at school got a lot more pool party invites than i did so she was this popular but i get it
17:56thank you so much thank you
18:01my try we have a special surprise for you today mariah is going to get up
18:17all right thank you everybody could you have a seat my try we have a special surprise for you today
18:41mariah thank you well hello matre um i've been training in opera and um i've read in your bio that
18:52your favorite opera arias um omeo babino carl written by giacomo puccini okay the opera johnny skichi
19:00and it's one of my favorites so for a surprise and be happy to sing it for all of you oh whoa that's cool
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