The Brown Burndown: An Indian American Pop Culture Pod

About The Brown Burndown: An Indian American Pop Culture Pod

Two very unqualified Desi college friends and self described haters discuss Indians (and Indian Americans) in Pop Culture.

Publisher

Rabs and Tars

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Dec 2018

Latest episode

17 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 47 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Brown Burndown: Netflix’s "Best of the Best" featuring Our Interview with Director Lena Khan!

   Hosts discuss Netflix's "Best of the Best" and interview director Lena Khan about the film's exploration of South Asian-American college life.

2. 

   11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Brown Burndown Episode 33: South Asians in Sports, Off Campus, & James Bond

   Hosts Rohan and Preeti explore South Asian representation in sports, the viral hit "Off Campus," and the latest James Bond news in this interview.

3. 

   20 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Brown Burndown Episode 32: Olympic Bindis, Wuthering Heights, and More

   March is here, and we are coming in hot with our THIRD episode of 2026! Tune in for a discussions on the triumphs, tragedies, and (most importantly) questionable fashion choices at the Olympics (spoiler: we saw a bindi in the wild out there), Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (which we have admittedly not read since the mid aughts), and of course, #NickYanka2k26 (duh). As always, send us your thoughts at thebrownburndown@gmail.com :)

Inside a recent episode

The Brown Burndown: Netflix’s "Best of the Best" featuring Our Interview with Director Lena Khan!

Published 17 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so if you We wanted to make USC, for instance, a force. We weren't going to play it too cool for school. It was cool. They are ridiculously cool, but we're going to build a mountain. So they dance on top of an actual built mountain on stage. Like for that, if we were going to go big, it was like go big or go home. If it was in genuine service to the feeling the story was supposed to have at that time. And then our choreography was so good about like making sure we're changing something every like, you know, 15 seconds, making sure there's different things. And I wanted to make sure we always we had different types of dance. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

42 ratings

Spotify

4.5 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

11

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

81