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).
We hang out w our boy Kareem (@kareem) and talk about his movie with New York Nico, ancient Egyptians, Osho, Jinns, how to get a hairless cat, and how he doesn't care about things anymore. Subscribe …
In this episode the boys discuss Imran Khan’s ouster from power, cricket metaphors,getting defensive of our mother’s beating techniques, Adam’s half Indian upbringing in Jersey and the Midwest, his r…
This week we're joined by Sonali, a pole dancer who breaks down the pole life, her unorthodox Bengali family, blocking her parents on IG, overly supportive Indian uncles in her comments, her brother …
Our Patreon doomsday clock; hole: to show or not to show? Usama’s road gig on a Deep South plantation; hanging with MLK’s niece; Indian maternal justice in Telangana; eyeball achar; pepper punishment…
Usama and Pranav talk about Usama's time in Dubai, desi slaves in the Arab world, Indians having no respect for personal space, an Indian guy in Telangana who called the cops on his wife for not cook…
This week's episode is sponsored by Baked With Lori (@bakedwithloriny), providing the finest edibles in all of NYC, including Staten Island! This week we hang out with our boy Bassam Shawl, a Kashmir…
THIS IS A VERY ISLAMIC EPISODE!
Junglee Story: Usama gets pepper sprayed on the subway and lives through a three stooges moment; Our BoW is Tanya Joya, a former ISIS bride who had an affair with Isla…
We hang out with our good buddy Ismael Loutfi, a very funny comedian who has a special out on comedy central which you should all check out. We talk accents, how he's the Syrian Jeff Foxworthy (just …
Auntie keeps things sanitized: oh did I beat Pranav? Well, let me tell you both a time I protected him! We discuss her favorite profanities, and her denials, her career in espionage, her online stalk…
Don’t listen to this episode. Pranav’s mom, who he loves, is on it. Does she love Pranav? Yes. Does she like him? Not really. But she insists that he’s a good boy. She’s not having a great time. Neit…
This week we sit down with Divya Anantharaman of Gotham Taxidermy! Divya is an Indian goth maven who immortalizes the mortal forms of deceased animals not including humans, sadly :(. We talk about ho…
0:00 Lincoln was all gay
2:25 Patreon shout outs
3:09 Pranav is not smooth
9:58 bad advice/pee boner
10:55 BoW: Praganananda the King
17:49 Usama is a TV star!
We kick thing off with abe Lincoln's s…
The boys hangout with Bhaskar Shankara l, editor and founder of @jacobinmagazine about: Subhah Chandra Bose’s mixed legacy, Bhaskar’s Trinidadian-Indian origins , the state of the left in the US.
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0:00 start
2:35 Patreon love
3:40 A Sad Jamaican
9:50 BoW—Brahmdeo the Vax King
19:00 the state of covid today
27:00 Pranav deals with racism
32:00 shut up cable news idiots
Usama has a sad Jamaican…
This week we sat down with the incredible Dhaval Zota, a diamond dealer in NYC! A true Gujju badass, he gets into how to check if a diamond is high quality, what happens when customers try to rip him…
These week's episode we riff hard on the Taliban for some reason: Pranav has a book of their poems, destroying musical instruments and beheading mannequins; we talk about Usama's experience with a do…
Today we're joined by Pakistani- (American???) comedian Moe Yaqub (@moeyaqubcomedy). Moe tells us how he played the long game to sleep with a woman, and then didn't! Weird, Moe! He also has a weird m…
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 romanc…
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.…
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 Ind…