Bad Asians

Southern boy turned NYC writer, actor, and improvisor, Donald Chang, joins the most inconsistent podcast. This week we discuss growing up in Florida, catching the acting bug, the premier variety show Asian AF and Asian Masculinity. Enjoy! #badasians

Donald hosts/produces the monthly variety show Asian AF and is currently on house team Din Din at UCBNY. You can see him soon in TV Land's "Younger", upcoming feature film “Happy Cleaners” as well as season 3 of the webseries “[Blank] My Life”. He stars in the recently completed pilot “Ghost Girl”, which featured at NYTVF 2018. He’s written and performed pieces for Swamp Radio down in St. Augustine, Florida and his pilot script “Sitting” earned semi-finalist in WeScreenplay’s Diverse Voices 2017.

Follow Donald on IG: @donaldkchang

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

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Fulbright scholar and Pitbull super fan Janesh Rahlan joins the most inconsistent podcast. This week we discuss Mr. Worldwide, assimilating into your own culture, the impact of Slumdog Millionaire, Desi wedding, working on Obama's campaign and Andrew Yang's being too Asian to win. Enjoy! #badasians

Janesh Rahlan is a 2014 graduate of Northwestern University with degrees in Economics and Political Science and a former Fulbright Scholar in Turkey. He's an avid NBA fan, travel junkie and loves to write all forms of comedy. He hopes to one day work in economic development and gang violence reduction.

Follow Janesh on IG: @janeshrahlan

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

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Vietnamese Austrailian, Kyall Mai joins the world's most inconsistent podcast this week. We sit down and discuss the Vietnamese diaspora, stories of gold and pirates, being a third culture kid, and more! Please like and subscribe. #badasians

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

We talk about The Farewell, the need to tell stories, Esther's path to being a writer, politics within the Asian community, what it's like to work for Jezebel and more! Enjoy!

Esther is a New York City-based writer who covers social movements, immigrant communities, and the intersection of culture and politics.

In 2016, she was an Emerging Writers fellow at BuzzFeed. In 2013, she was an Open City Creative Non-Fiction Fellow with the Asian American Writers Workshop.

Follow more of Esther's writing athttp://www.estherwang.com/ and https://kinja.com/estherxlwang?

Twitter: @estherxlwang

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

The world’s most inconsistent podcast is joined with the hosts of the Red Dot Collective - Eva Woolridge and Sage Youngblood! We sit down to discuss their multi-ethnic background, sex education, the Red Dot Campaign, sex parties, and more! Enjoy! #badasians

Focusing on the period—a natural, beautiful part of female biology that can become a monthly nightmare for some—their initiative became the Red Dot Campaign. Working in collaboration with over 15 organizations at the University of Maryland, College Park, Jewel Addy and Eva Woolridge surpassed their goal of collecting 10,000 menstrual health products for women experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C.

Follow Eva and Sage on IG: @ewphotos1 and @sageyoungblood

Support the Red Dot Campaign at https://linktr.ee/reddotcampaign

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

Do today’s Asian Americans still care about their family’s honor? The worlds most inconsistent podcast invites Stephen Ku (Komedio Comedy) to give his take the current state of Asian Americans. We then get into a spoiler heavy review of the new Spiderman movie: Far From Home.

Stephen Ku is a Bay Area native, stand-up comedian, and founder of the nerd-comedy network Komedio. As an avid fan of comics, tabletop board games, and Star Wars, he says his nerdiness has been a major influence on his comedy. "My favorite place to perform is where I can do my nerdy material," said the Berkeley resident. He isn't alone in this, either. "There's so much nerdy comedy in the Bay," he said, but "not a lot of it is getting pushed."

Follow Stephen on Twitter: @theSuperKu and IG: KomedioComedy

Support his pateron: https://www.patreon.com/komedio

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

The world's most inconsistent podcast returns with another accomplished guest. We welcome Diep Tran @diepthought where we discuss who runs Asian culture, growing up as the baby of the family, the problematic world of the theater, which plays are worth the money, and the future of Vietnam. Enjoy! #badasians

Diep Tran is a journalist based in New York City. She is currently the senior editor at American Theatre magazine. She also freelances, and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, CNN, Hello Giggles, Playbill, Time Out New York, Backstage, Salon and other publications. She is also the host of the Token Theatre Friends podcast and video series. She specializes in arts and entertainment reporting, with a focus on diversity and the ethics of representation.

Follow Diep on IG: @dieptimes and Twitter: @diepthought her website: https://www.dieptran.com/

Follow her podcast Token Theater Friends: @TokenTFriends

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

The world's most inconsistent podcast is back with another accomplished guest. This week we have the co-found of the Desi Comedy Festival and the Setup, Abhay Nadkarni. We discuss his move to the US from India, breakdown the confusions Desi people have living in America, and South Asians in comedy. Enjoy!

Desi Comedy Fest is the largest South Asian comedy festival in America. Desi, pronounced as “They- See”, is a loose term for the cultures and products of South Asia and their diaspora, derived from the Ancient Sanskrit देश (deśá or deshi), meaning Land or Country. "Desi" countries include Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Follow Abhayabhayoi on IG: @abhayoi webside:

Find out more about Desi Comedy Fest at www.desicomedyfest.com and IG/Twitter: @desicomedyfest

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

Only the most accomplished guests on the world's most inconsistent podcast. This week our hosts welcome Diana Kris Navarro, who was part of the first class of Girls Who Code. We discuss why Jeremy Lin's NBA championship means nothing, Diana's growing up in two communities and having to code switch, being a part of Girls Who Code, spills the tea on working in Tech, and more!

Diana is 23y/o NYC based Filipina engineer and activist. She was part of the first class of Girls Who Code and since then she's worked at Gilt Groupe, Qualcomm, Adobe, has coded at Tumblr.

Follow Diana on IG: @dianakris and Twitter: @_dianakris her webside: http://www.dianakris.com/

Find out more about Girls Who Code at https://girlswhocode.com/ IG and Twitter: @girlswhocode

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

The world's most inconsistent podcast returns with special guest Ed Pokropski (@epopski). We sit down with the multi-faceted comedian to talk about being adopted, growing up in Philadelphia, and being empathetic. We then get into a review of the Netflix rom-com Always Be My Maybe starring Ali Wong and Randall Park.

Ed Pokropski is a producer at NBCUniversal and is the host of Unwashed Comedy: Night Market - an all Asian variety talk show featuring the country’s top Asian American comics, actors, musicians and headline makers.

Follow Ed on IG: @epopski and @unwashedcomedy

The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents