Mango Bae

Informações:

Synopsis

Stand-up comedians and badmaashi boys Usama Siddiquee and Pranav Behari go way off the rails in this podcast about issues affecting the South Asian diaspora as well as immigrants in general. Rambunctious, irreverent, and incisive, Mango Bae is by desis but for everyone (even whites).

Episodes

  • Love is Bad | Mango Bae #155

    17/01/2022 Duration: 50min

    Pranav's nephew Sajel visits the pod briefly! Then quickly leaves. We make fun of Euphoria, which is definitely written by Christians. Usama gets detained by the TSA! Pranav shares his own TSA romance/drama. Some crypto talk! Delhi vs. Mumbai! Our Brown of the Week is Jaswant Singh Chail/Darth Jones who tried to kill Queen Elizabeth with a crossbow after announcing it on Snapchat. Usama discusses some romantic woes and the two unpack the tribulations of vulnerability in the arms of another. Love as a constant flux of power, never fully in balance, and feels super bad sometimes! Pranav keeps saying "love is a battlefield". FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @pranahaha

  • Mango Bae #154: Anti-Social Media

    10/01/2022 Duration: 50min

    Mango Bae goes viral! Our take on Vir Das set the internet ablaze - we talk some of the hilarious comments on both sides of the issue. Our Brown of the Week is the businessman Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani. He is connected romantically to the disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. She accuses him of being abusive - was he really or was he just a super Indian uncle? We then get into the main topic of social media - it is slowly crushing us as a society and we go off on it!!! Finally, we have a Mango Bae Fixes Your Life, where RG writes in and asks for advice on getting over his ex. Join that patreon for exclusive content! Patreon.com/mangobae

  • Mango Bae #153 "Permanent Outsider ft. Vishnu Vaka"

    03/01/2022 Duration: 45min

    Usama gets sexually harassed on the road! Our Brown of the Week is Parag Agarwal, the new Indian head of Twitter, and we discuss the racial backlash against Indians in positions of power. The new Indian twitter. We talk to comedian Vishnu Vaka about his transient upbringing and how being a permanent outside has influenced his comedy. Similarities between rural Andhra Pradesh and…West Virginia? How Apu on the Simpsons was a symbol of representation. In our advice portion for Patreon subscribers, we advise EM on how she can finally get a date!  Apu, The Simpsons, Parag Agarwal, twitter, hookup culture, shahrukh khan, Amitabh Bachchan

  • Mango Bae #152: “Indian Americans"

    27/12/2021 Duration: 43min

    This episode of Mango Bae starts off with a story about one of Usama’s crazy exes - was he in the wrong? Our Brown of the Week is Suraj Kumar, a man who killed his wife with a COBRA?!? Doesn’t get more Indian than that, people. Out topic: Indians vs. Indian-Americans. Desis of the diaspora and South Asians who live on the subcontinent are always squabbling over something! The ones who live in the countries we’re from always bristle when when we Americans weigh in on their issues and we in the U.S. of A. seem to think we have the right to! Who’s in the wrong? Mango Bae jokes it out as always!! Thanks for watching the ep and sticking with us - if you didn’t get your fill from this ep, don’t forget that we have hours of exclusive Mango content on the Patreon at Patreon.com/mangobae. Go be a Mangostani TODAY!

  • Mango Bae #151: “Talking Parents"

    20/12/2021 Duration: 39min

    This ep's Brown of the Week is Srikesh Kumar--a guy who came miraculously back to life after being hit by a motorcycle. We talk about Nargis and her evolving obsession with Mango Bae. Our topic: how our conversations with our immigrant parents evolved over the years. Were we just a form of labor? Probably! Then we talk about how the tension we felt with our parents ultimately helped us. Abuse, beatings, love--this episode has it all.

page 7 from 7