Mango Bae

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 off (is it murder?!?!), and who really runs them diamond streets. Our Jungli story of the week: Pranav buys a cursed gemstone that ruins his life. Obviously his beautiful mom has to save him from destruction. This ep is a fast paced one full of jokes and gyaan -- enjoy! JOIN THAT PATREON ALREADY FOR THAT EXCLUSIVE CONTENT! FOLLOW US : @yourmangobae

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 doppleganger following him around the NY comedy club scene; our Brown of the Week is Gangaram the Crocodile (RIP); discussions around India's relationship to animals, their presence in the ten avatars of Hindusim, camels in Islam, and nature in religion; the problem of being too promiscuous, the energetic exchange and then drain, and the relationship between nymphomania (or satyriasis) and depression. FOLLOW US : @yourmangobae

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 mix of an Indian-Minnesota accent. How he didn't touch a woman until he came here. We do impressions of Usama and talk about his extra ass charm. Then Moe tells us about he gamed the bureaucracy to get his greencard! Take notes! We also discuss Veerappan, our favorite Indian bandit after Phoolan Devi. He kidnapped a film star(nice), did genocide on elephants (bad), and had a legendary mustache (we stan). FOLLOW US : @yourmangobae

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 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

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

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!

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.