The Brown Burndown: An Indian American Pop Culture Pod

We're back with a sort of relevant again episode from...APRIL. We discuss Princess Kate's cancer diagnosis, alllll the conspiracies, and what the royal family owes us before the convo takes a dark medical turn. Afterwards, we get into the incredibly relevant subjects of: Sex Education Season 4, love lives of billionaires, iPhone upgrades, Lessons in Chemistry, Mean Girls the Musical, and of course, #nickyankawatch2k24. They're still together and so are we! As always, send any questions/thoughts/concerns to [email protected]

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) LARRY (iykyk). Thanks to everyone for listening to us for 5 (!!!) years, and here's to more episodes over the next five :)

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/1632398105537544194)

C) Randomly, Velma and skinny Mindy Kaling

As always, send thoughts, questions, concerns, prayers for better work life balance to [email protected] or follow us on insta at thebrownburndown

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4) An episode we recorded in September and has extremely out of date takes on a) Mindy Kaling and b) Harry and Meghan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 with a hot take that hasn't aged particularly well.

We're sorry for the hiatus but promise we will be back super soon! Some resources below. xoxo

1. https://abortionfunds.org/need-abortion/ (find local fund through here)

2. https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/ (because duh)

3. https://www.midwestaccesscoalition.org/donate (helps people travel to states where their procedures are legal)

4. https://www.iwrising.org/ (helps support indigenous abortion seekers)

5. https://www.yellowhammerfund.org/ (serves Alabama, Mississippi, and deep south)

And for general ballot knowledge: https://www.ballotready.org/

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 going to release this anyway? Also yes! Will Mindy continue to only cast white could be frat boys as love interests? A thousand times yes!

Also, are Pchops and Nick on the rocks? Tune in to find out!

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 you all so much!

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 the mood for controversies that have been since overshadowed by the Delta variant/Olympics

BOY DO WE HAVE THE EPISODE FOR YOU! <3

PS Never Have I Ever ep coming soon! DM / email your thoughts if you want to be featured [email protected]

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://covid.giveindia.org/southasianstudents/

This week is NOT our Meghan Markle episode, but don't you worry, that's coming soon. Instead, we talk about Minari (<3), Bridgerton (:S) and the farmer protests in India (:/). We dive into Nick Jonas vaccine conspiracy theories, live listen to his new song (a big ????), and dream big about having a Patreon. Stay tuned for a before and after takes on the Meg + Harry interview, coming SOON! xoxo