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Holding It Together (Kinda)

Holding It Together (Kinda)

Nesh Pillay: Be Kind To Little Man

Oct 15, 2026 · 1h 1m

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Send us Fan Mail A brain injury can steal your past without touching your personality, and that gap is where so many families get lost. I sit down with Nesh Pillay, known from Amazon Prime’s 50,000 First Dates, to talk about what amnesia and traumatic brain injury actually feel like from the inside, including the strange reality of knowing facts about your life while lacking the “video playback” most people assume memory is. We dig into Nesh’s “little man in the basement” analogy for memory ...