Bad Asians

This week the boys talk about how much Imran will spend on his wedding, David looking for a roommate, Parasite revealing Asian's thirst for validation, Andrew Yang dropping out of the election and more! The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

Carolina Do joins us to celebrate the Lunar New Year. We discuss her namesake, her parent's immigrant story, secret families, the lunar new year, and Asian American representation. Enjoy! Carolina Do is a classically trained New York City-based actress who was born and raised in North Carolina. ​As a first generation Vietnamese American, she believes strongly in the power of weaving new narratives into the fabric of American history and culture. She is the co-founder of The Sống Collective. ​Support their crowdsource at bit.ly/SCtetcampaign2020 Follow her on IG: @carolinakaydo and twitter: @thecarolinado The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

First episode of 2020 and someone gets engaged! We spend the episode going over the big proposal, traveling around the Middle East and Europe, and give our take on Meg-xit. Enjoy!

This week the guys try to figure out the units of Desi Time, who is really behind the Bay Area car break ins, why Amazon deserves to avoid paying taxes, Brexit, and instilling confidence. Please like, leave a comment and subscribe!

This week David and Imran get into the pressure of proposing, the Parasite write up by Thessaly La Force in the NYT, Brenda Song not being Asian enough, Imran's support of brown women, and NDA's. Enjoy!

This week we sit down with journalist, video correspondent, and artist Dolly Li. We touch on what life in Hong Kong in 2019, how hard it is being an Asian woman, Dolly's path in Art, and learning new life skills. Enjoy! Dolly Li an award-winning independent video journalist, producer, and correspondent. She has played key roles in developing and launching several international digital publications, including Al Jazeera’s AJ+ English and AJ+ Español. In 2018, she co-founded the digital publication, Goldthread, and served as its content director, leading editorial, creative, and social media strategy. Dolly has experience reporting domestically throughout the U.S. and internationally from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. She navigates stories in Mandarin, Cantonese, and Spanish. Follower her work and subscribe to her newletter: www.dollyli.com Follow her on IG: @bydollyli and twitter: @dollyli The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

The world's most inconsistent podcast continues to live up to their tagline. David is back from Asia. He and Imran discuss being in white rich spaces, his travels, the cancelation of Fresh Off the Boat, and when is it okay to do yellowface. Enjoy!

Author, poet, and professor Jason Koo our podcast this week. He and David discuss growing up in the midwest, sports' influence on masculinity, not being a real doctor, and more! Named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture" by Brooklyn Magazine, Jason Koo was born in New York City and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: More Than Mere Light, America's Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island, winner of the De Novo Poetry Prize and the Asian American Writers' Workshop Members' Choice Award for the best Asian American book of 2009. Find his work at http://www.jasonykoo.com/ Follow him on IG: @jasonykoo The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG

This week we explore the upbringing of Filipino-American DJ, designer, and @bubble____t, Tito Vida. We discuss his youth in the Pacific Northwest. the club scene in NYC, the formation of the party collective Bubble T, and more! Enjoy! Tito is a DJ and co-founder of @bubble____t. He was featured on Scout:https://www.scoutmag.ph/culture/bubble-t-new-york-olivere-20190607 Follow him on IG: @tito_vida The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG www.thebadasiansshow.com

Movie and TV writer Karen Han sits down and talks about her upbringing in the mid west, art history, following your passion, and more. Karen is a writer based in New York City, and is currently Entertainment Reporter at Polygon. She studied art history at Bryn Mawr, and wrote her thesis on The Adventures of Tintin. She has written about film, TV, music, and video games for outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, VICE, and NYMag/Vulture, and served on the 2019 Documentary Feature Competition jury at SXSW. Find more of her work at www.KarenHan.org Twitter: @karenyhan The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG www.thebadasiansshow.com

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 Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG www.thebadasiansshow.com

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 Follow David and Imran: @davidnguyen and @ImrantheG www.thebadasiansshow.com

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

This week we have an all Vietnamese conversation as @davidnguyen sits down with the Verge's features editor Kevin Nguyen (@knguyen). We talk about taking Vietnamese classes, assimilating to America, working at GQ, and being Asian in white work spaces and more! Kevin is features editor, @verge. author of 'new waves' (march 2020 from one world). formerly: GQ, google, oyster, amazon. Check out his latest profile on Carly Rae Jepsen: https://www.gq.com/story/carly-rae-jepsen-profile/ Follow Kevin on IG and Twitter @knguyen The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

This week @davidnguyen and @imrantheg sit down with the founders of Banana Mag(@bananamag) Kathleen Tso and Vicki Ho. We discuss how they met, the release of their 5th issue, and the twitter controversy with Ayesha Curry and Constance Wu. Enjoy! The choice for the name Banana is meant to be an inside joke. For Birthed in Chinatown NYC, Banana strives to navigate through the blurred Eastern and Western boundaries and create a voice for contemporary Asian culture. We want to use the magazine as a platform to feature, celebrate, and join the conversation with Asian creatives in a journey to define our collective identity. Follow Banana Mag on IG @bananamag The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

This week @davidnguyen and @imrantheg sit down with NYC based writer and comedian, Diana Chan (@hidianachan). We discuss going viral, Beyonce's Homecoming, growing Asian in a Latin dominated community, creating a space for yourself, being a bad Asian, and representation in media. Enjoy! Diana Chan is a Brooklyn-based writer and comedian originally from Southern California. She is an editor at FLEXX, the first satire website made for and created by people of color. FLEXX's next live show is August 8th (lucky!) at Caveat in the Lower East Side. Her sketches have been featured at the PIT, Littlefield, WhoHaHa, and more. Like several other Asians, Diana is a graduate of UCLA. Follow Diana on Twitter @HiDianaChan and IG @dianamyte Check out Flexx at https://www.flexxmag.com/ and IG The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

This week @davidnguyen take a quarterly inventory of @imrantheg since he quit his job. They discuss the new Hulu series Ramy, Ali Wong and Randall Park's upcoming Netflix movie, Imran's MCU fatigue, automation, and tolerence for The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

This week Imran and David talk about robots replacing the sex industry, if the Lucky Lee controversy is really a controversy and if people really learn from punishment

This week @davidnguyen and @imrantheg sit down with NYC based Tessa Samberg, Head of Digital at Slant'd. We discuss her upbringing having been born in Hong Kong, raised in Northern California. We discuss being Asian while not being around a lot of Asians, horse girl energy, Asian Jesus, and her role at Slantd Magazine. Enjoy! Tessa Samberg is the Head of Digital at Slant’d, an independent media company that celebrates Asian American identity through personal storytelling. Through a print magazine, digital media, and community events, Slant’d provides a creative space that empowers us to untangle the complexity of being Asian American. Sgn up for their newsletter and buy the magazine on their website, https://slantd.media/ Follow Slant'd media IG @slantdmedia Follow Tessa IG @Tessa_who The Bad Asians podcast is recorded @canalstreetmarket and presented by @listeningpartypresents

This week Imran and David talk about Presidential candidate Andrew Yang, the college admissions scandal, The 737 Max crashes being robophobic and more!

This week Imran and David talk to DoctorSouls11 aka Sadra Azizi about immigrant parents and sneaker culture, cocaine fueled surgeons, if computers could replace GPs, doctor hierarchy and more!

@imrangtheg and @davidnguyen sit down with actor, comedian, director and writer Veronica Dang. She is the founder of NYC based Asian sketch group Model Majority. We talk about her upbringing, getting into the arts, and the difference between East Coast and West Coast Vietnamese people. Enjoy!

This week Imran and David talk to special guest Bryan Yang about being Hmong, having the same last name as a DNC candidate, pursuing your dreams and what it's like to write for Late Night TV and more. ENJOY!

@imrantheg and @davidnguyen host the world's most inconsistent podcast. This week, science lover and notoriously thrifty Imran G travels to Florida to attend the Harry Potter Land amusement park. David, looking to celebrate the Lunar New Year in NYC, ends up at lit party. They also discuss a couple who broke up because the bf did not offer enough money to the gf's parents. Enjoy!

This week Imran and David talk about polite racism, being a child of divorce, vices, the 5 love languages and Stephen learn a secret ENJOY!

This week David and Imran discuss an Indian woman cutting off her stalker's dick, a sexist Hindu temple, Louis CK rough comeback, China tracking students, and more!!

This week Imran and David talk about cherry-picking culture, how to revamp dowry, why sushi croissants aren't terrible and more

This week David and Imran talk about good Samaritan, Plantano Man, Trump deporting Vietnamese refugees, and Yahoo! 21 eye rolling questions to Asians - our 21 flagrant answers. Please Like, Comment, and Sub. Enjoy!

This week Imran and David talk about the arrogance of dictators, China and fake stuff, Beyonce at an Indian wedding and how Imran may get his mom arrested

This week Imran and David talk about Awkafina's new show, the Grindr competition, being offended and more! Please continue to support the podcast by rating us on itunes and subscribing. Thank you!

This week Dolce & Gabbana gets into hot water with China, Andrew Zimmern is the Batman of cuisine no one asked for, and David and Imran pontificate on the existence of white culture. Enjoy! Please continue to support the podcast by rating us on itunes and subscribing. Thank you!

On this week's podcast we discuss a high school banning luxury coats, China perfecting counterfeit diamonds, justice for war crimes, and getting caught up in hype. Enjoy!

This week Imran recaps his annual visit to a mosque! A Vietnamese woman wins Miss Earth so we figure out which pageant we'd like to see our future kids enter, and we pay tribute to Stan "the Man" Lee. Enjoy!

This week Imran and David talk about the Midterm elections, how babies have diminishing returns, Asian men dating hacks and more!

This week Imran and David talk about birthright, being too woke, selling babies and if they'd give up Royalty for love and more!

This week Imran and David argue if a racial cosign is enough, reverse fetish shaming, monkey attacks and more

This week David and Imran discuss the China release of Crazy Rich Asians, Asians with "blaccents", and how to navigate the #MeToo movement. Enjoy!

This week David and Imran discuss Magic vs Technology, Fantastic Beasts casting, Asian representation (again) and white fragility. Enjoy!

This week Imran and David talk about Cosby and apply math to his sentence, Cops and their HR departments, the perils of being a diversity model and more!

This week Imran and David talk about India finally legalizing gay marriage, the Nike and Colin saga, Naomi Osaka's win and Chloe Bennet drama. ENJOY!

This week Imran and David talk about the return of Louie CK, the fall of YouTuber Laura Lee, if Harvard is racist and China stealing it's own stuff back. PEEP THE CONVO

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This week Imran and David talk about SF scooters, Dad Drake, Ashad's effect on DJ Khaled and come to a solution for incels. PEEP THE CONVO

This week Imran and David talk about prostate exams, whether Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, whether Malala deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and wonder how villains honor accomplishments in the field of evil.