The Brown Burndown: An Indian American Pop Culture Pod

Happy 2024! To commemorate the new year, we're bringing you an episode...we recorded 5 months ago. And catch the first "lie we told" at the 30 second mark where we announce that it's going to be a "mini" one (spoiler, it's 50 minutes long). Chaos all around! Join us on this time traveling journey where we cover Barbenheimer, Nixon, Sophie Turner, Hasan Minhaj, and (most importantly

Happy #AAPI month! This one is delayed (duh) but hopefully worth it because....WE REUNITED!!! Three point five years later we bring you the third IRL recording in Brown Burndown history. We also get into: A) Elusive Taylor Swift concert tickets (this was recorded pre breakup so sry no takes there) B) #Nickyanka continuing to Nickyanka (see: https://twitter.com/mitchoo_oo/status/163

We reward your many month wait with: 1) Poor audio until the halfway point 2) In-depth discussion of the Queen's cause of death 3) Liz Truss (lol) 4) An episode we recorded in September and has extremely out of date takes on a) Mindy Kaling and b) Harry and Meghan 5) Also lots of good other stuff HOWEVER we are back and promise to provide a more timely episode soon xoxo

Oh hi....its us. and we are BACK with a SUPER BUMMER episode but one that is close to our hearts! First we talk about how we're not going to talk about frivolous things (before we spend 15 minutes talking about frivolous things like...Mindy's haircut (yay), and Bridgerton (....). Then we talk about the huge bummer that is the state of women's rights in the US currently! And end wit

This "mini" (maxi) episode opens like its sponsored content for Parachute oil but LOL no we wish nobody pays us to do this. This week we discuss: 1) Tropical breezes 2) New words we've learned 3) Our investment thesis re: crocs 4) The first 5 episodes of Mindy Kaling's new show "The Sex Lives of College Girls" Are the takes kinda outdated now that the full show is out? Yes! Are we

Fear not because we are BACK! We're happy to report that we are alive and well in our first ever mini-episode, where we'll catch you up on what we've been up to since the summer. Tune in for #nickyankawatch2k21 updates, a deep dive into BJ Novak's dating life, and the funniest thing PChops has ever said! #potatoes (iykyk) Come join us for this brief but wild ride -- we've missed yo

Welcome to the past! This episode has EVERYTHING. 1) Depressingly optimistic pandemic predictions from over a month ago Rabs and Tars 2) Thong pants 3) A whole bunch of hot takes about random things including (but not limited to): - Rihanna - The Queen - "Spotify podcasts that nobody listens to" - Federer - Crocs - In the Heights - Black Widow - "Religious" teas So if YOU are in th

This episode, is either A) supremely out of date (recorded 1.5 months ago 😬) or B) a nice distraction from everything awful going on (if you want to skip depressing stuff, start at 9:40). We discuss P Chops's restaurant (yeesh), Minari pre Oscar win for Youn Yuh‑jung (❤) and then a whooooole lot of meghan and harry (👀). Please donate to India COVID relief efforts: https:/

This week is NOT our Meghan Markle episode, but don't you worry, that's coming soon. Instead, we talk about Minari (

Happy 2021, dudes! New year...same problems. We're kicking off the year with a little bit of everything: Hilaria Baldwin, mask-less Nickyanka, and the jaggery of GBBO. We'll then dive into the new Wonder Woman film, which is just...yikes. Tl;dr racism is still out! Our apologies for the time lag in releasing this ep, but tune in for our LIVE reactions to the January 6th attack on t