Banterly
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Three Midterms and a Text Message
Three Midterms and a Text Message
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Banterly is a fun, conversational-style podcast that dissects contemporary films and TV shows to explore the many exciting, thought-provoking….and sometimes problematic elements of pop culture that many of us binge on a daily basis. Featuring two Gen Z co-hosts, this podcast is not just reviewing your next movie or TV show recommendation. We’re diving into them, discussing their nuances, and grappling with the trends of present-day media—all through a comedic lens. Executive Producer & Editorial Review: Saadia Khan Producer: Shei Yu Hosts: Aditi Misra and Aidan Taylor Content Writers: Michaela Strauther, Aditi Misra, Aidan Taylor Sound Design & Content Editor: Steve Martin Theme Music: Simon Hutchinson Other Music: Epidemic Sound Cover Art Design: Josephine Chai Follow us on IG @Immigrantlypod Twitter @Immigrantly_pod TikTok @Immigrantlypodcast Subscribe to our Patreon For advertising inquiries, please email at [email protected]
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- Three Midterms and a Text Message · 17 min · Odcinek 368It's Election Day, and Saadia Khan is going to vote. A few days ago, a text message told her she had voted in the last three midterms. It made her think about why she keeps…
- Electorally Ep. 3 | Mexico: An Election Built on Mistrust · 1 godz. 1 min · Odcinek 368In 1988, the vote count in Mexico stopped in the middle of the night, and when it started again the ruling party had won. Mexicans still call it the night the system crashed…
- Electorally Ep. 2 | Taiwan: Every Ballot, Out Loud · 47 min · Odcinek 367On January 13, 2024, Taiwan voted for a president. Polls closed at 4 p.m. Poll workers then took out every paper ballot, held it up for the room to see, and read the name out…
- Electorally Ep. 1 | Pakistan: The Winners Who Didn’t Win · 49 min · Odcinek 366On the morning of February 8, 2024, Pakistan went to vote, and the government switched off mobile phone service across the country. Weeks earlier, the Supreme Court had ruled…
- The Walkout and the Veto: Who Really Decides at the UN · 22 min · Odcinek 365At this year's UN General Assembly, whole delegations walked out as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium. Two days earlier, President Trump told the world he…
- Why Intuition Matters More Than You Think (Sept 2025) · 45 minThis is a rerun of Saadia's conversation with Mory Fontanez. Saadia found Mory on Instagram after Mory posted a video about her family in Iran during the June 2025 strikes. With…
- Can Art Rewire Your Brain? (March 2026) · 1 godz. 1 minThis week Saadia Khan brings back one of her favorite conversations of the year. Ramzi Fawaz has just relaunched his podcast, Nerd From the Future, for a second season, and the…
- 9/11 at 25: Salam Al-Marayati on the Patriot Act, CVE, and 38 Years of Muslim Advocacy · 46 min · Odcinek 364Three days before the 25th anniversary of September 11th, New York City released 170,000 pages of its own 9/11 records, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani made September 11th an official…
- 9/11 at 25: A Firefighter's Daughter on the Mamdani Petition, Guantánamo, and the Script of Grief · 57 min · Odcinek 363More than 95,000 people have signed a petition asking the organizers of the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero to reconsider whether Zohran Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor…
- 9/11 at 25: Guantánamo Never Closed. Now It Holds Immigrants · 57 min · Odcinek 355Twenty-five years after September 11th, Guantánamo Bay is still open. Fifteen men are still held there. Six have never been charged with anything at all. And on August 26, 2026…
- What Investors Say After Founders Leave the Room with Erika Lucas · 49 min · Odcinek 354Erika Lucas spent years inside private equity and venture capital, the rooms that decide who gets funded in America. Then she left to build what goes around them. In this…
- Feed Drop: Did You Know the Girl Scouts Was Led by a Pakistani American? Meet Noorain Khan (from Pehchaan) · 1 godz. 25 minThis week, we're sharing an episode from Pehchaan, hosted by Bilal Lakhani with co-host Ambreen Ali, a show about the Pakistani diaspora in the US, told by the people living it…
- Solo Episode: I Memorized the Civil War. Gettysburg Made Me Feel It · 19 min · Odcinek 353There's a question on the U.S. citizenship test, question 74, that asks you to name one cause of the Civil War. The Government accepts three answers: slavery, economic reasons…
- UNRWA USA CEO Mara Kronenfeld on Gaza, Genocide And Jewish Identity · 57 min · Odcinek 352UNRWA USA CEO Mara Kronenfeld is a Jewish American woman and the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor — and she leads the American nonprofit supporting the UN agency for…
- Feed Drop: Occupy! Episode 1: The Invitation (by Future Hindsight) · 40 minIn 2011, a handful of skeptical New Yorkers answer a call to Occupy Wall Street. What they find feels less like a protest and more like a glimpse of a different world—one where…
- My First Guest Returns: Sahar Saleem on Corporate Exits And Somatic Healing · 49 min · Odcinek 351Seven years ago, Sahar Saleem was the first-ever guest on Immigrantly, talking about her creative marketing career at PepsiCo. She's back, and everything has changed. In this…
- Darializa Avila Chevalier Refuses to Fit in Your Box · 47 min · Odcinek 350"No one fits into these types of boxes." Darializa Avila Chevalier has spent her whole life being asked to pick one: Black or Latina, Dominican or American, organizer or…
- Who Gets to Be American? A History of Birthright Citizenship on Trial (July 2025) · 46 minThe Supreme Court just upheld birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's executive order in a 6-3 ruling that leans directly on a case 130 years in the making. We're…
- Feed Drop: The Nikkah Loophole, from More Muslim · 37 minSharing a special episode this week from the More Muslim podcast. Reporter Tanita Rahmani realizes a small detail—blue ink instead of black on a marriage contract—means her…
- The Immigrant Vote Nobody Is Using · 11 min · Odcinek 350There's a voting bloc large enough to decide 126 congressional races and most of it isn't showing up. In this episode, Saadia Khan breaks down data on naturalized citizens…
- Too Foreign for Home, Too Foreign for Here (March 2025) · 40 minWhat does it really mean to belong, and what happens when belonging feels like betrayal? Beatriz Nour has lived this question. Born in France, raised between Brazil and Egypt…
- The One NYC Race That Could Change How $300 Billion Gets Spent · 48 min · Odcinek 349Saadia Khan sits down with Raj Goyle, whose parents came from India with a few dollars and a medical degree. His mom was the only female OB in Wichita shut out by the…
- The Dude Who's Winning Men Over to the Left · 48 min · Odcinek 348His Instagram bio says it all: "Just a dude working on political stuff." Charlie Goldensohn grew up in San Francisco's Mission District with a Marxist activist father and a…
- The Hate America Allowed · 16 min · Odcinek 347On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, host Saadia Khan reflects on the San Diego mosque shooting that killed three men during prayer — and the Instagram comment calling Islam a "bloody…
- Who Really Owns This Art? A Smithsonian Insider Gets Honest · 41 minYour favorite museum might be built on stolen goods. Nicole Dowd works inside the Smithsonian, and she's not here to defend it. Saadia Khan sits down with Nicole to break it all…
- The Promise of Queens · 39 min · Odcinek 345What does it look like when someone walks away from a prestigious career, on principle, and comes back fighting? Chuck Park did exactly that. A son of Korean immigrants who sold…
- Once You Leave, You're Never the Same · 50 min · Odcinek 344Immigrant life in New York City looks glamorous from the outside, but what happens when you arrive in January with snow up to your knees, no work permit, and no roadmap for who…
- Hip Hop Into Your Raw Self with Zainab Hasnain FKA ZEEMUFFIN (Dec 2022) · 44 minApply for the Vilcek Foundation Creative Promise Awards in Culinary Arts to win $50,000 in unrestricted grant money. Click on Vilcek.org for more information. When we first…
- Praying in Secret: What It Really Costs to Be Muslim in America · 59 min · Odcinek 343Apply for the Vilcek Foundation Creative Promise Awards in Culinary Arts to win $50,000 in unrestricted grant money. Click on Vilcek.org for more information. What does it feel…
- The Stories We Don't Tell About Motherhood · 1 godz. 9 min · Odcinek 342Apply for the Vilcek Foundation Creative Promise Awards in Culinary Arts to win $50,000 in unrestricted grant money. Click on Vilcek.org for more information What do you do with…
- Giving With Strings Attached · 52 min · Odcinek 341What does it really mean to do good, and who gets to decide? Saadia sits down with Dr. Rhea Rahman, an anthropologist at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and the author of Racializing the…
- Food Is Never Just Food (June 2025) · 51 minWe love to romanticize food as a universal connector. But behind every plate is a story of power, privilege, and who gets to define what's "authentic." We're bringing this one…
- Thoughts On Celebrating Eid When the World Is on Fire · 15 min · Odcinek 340How do you let yourself celebrate Eid when the world feels like it's falling apart? In this solo episode, host Saadia Khan reflects on the guilt and tension that came up this Eid…
- Can Art Rewire Your Brain? · 1 godz. 3 min · Odcinek 339What if reading the right book or watching the right film could transform how you see the world, the same way psychedelics do? In this episode, Saadia Khan sits down with Ramzi…
- Jonnie Park: The Asian Kid Hip Hop Wasn't Ready For · 50 min · Odcinek 338Jonnie Park was born in Argentina to Korean parents, crossed the US-Mexico border undocumented at age three, carried by a mother with two toddlers and nothing but courage, and…
- Feed Drop: Central American Art and Resistance in 1980s LA (ReCurrent) · 29 minToday, we’re bringing you a special feed drop from ReCurrent, a podcast from the Getty that explores how art, history, and culture shape the world around us. In this episode of…
- Messy Is the New Perfect: Social Media, Iran, and Reinventing Yourself · 45 min · Odcinek 337Perfection is overrated. In this episode of Immigrantly, Saadia Khan sits down with Iranian-American podcaster Sheila Kazan (Small Talk with Sheila) to talk rom-com heroines…
- Bad Bunny and the Politics of Saying “I’m Puerto Rican” · 50 min · Odcinek 336When Bad Bunny takes the stage in Spanish, millions celebrate. But for many Puerto Ricans, it lands as something deeper: visibility, resistance, and a reminder of a history the…
- On Carrying a Migrant Heart · 49 min · Odcinek 335What does migration do to the heart, not just the body? In this deeply intimate conversation, award-winning writer Reyna Grande joins host Saadia Khan to discuss her latest book…
- Borderly Reflections: About the Line · 16 minThis coverage was made possible by a grant from URL Collective, a non-profit supporting local diverse media In this reflection episode of Borderly, host and journalist Mario…
- Borderly Part Four: Carrying the Line · 1 godz. 1 min · Odcinek 333In the final episode of Borderly, host Mario Carrillo turns to the people who carry the border’s weight long after headlines fade. From immigration law to community care, this…
- Borderly Part Three: Living the Line · 55 min · Odcinek 332In the first two episodes of Borderly, we explored the history, journalism, and lived realities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez. In Episode 3, we turn to art as memory, resistance…
- Borderly Part Two: After the Line · 60 minThis episode is about how a place learns to remember itself. Journalist Bob Moore has spent nearly four decades reporting from El Paso, witnessing the border's evolution through…
- Borderly Part One: Before the Line · 52 min · Odcinek 330This is Part One of Borderly, a limited series by Immigrantly exploring life on the U.S.–Mexico border through history, memory, and lived experience. Before walls, patrols, or…
- Belonging Without Imitation: A Year-End Reflection · 11 min · Odcinek 329As the year comes to a close, Immigrantly host Saadia Khan reflects on belonging, faith, and identity without assimilation. In this solo year-end episode, Saadia shares why she…
- Listening to Kashmir Through a Kashmiri Filmmaker · 52 min · Odcinek 328In this episode of Immigrantly, host Saadia Khan speaks with Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh, Director of Saffron Kingdom, about growing up in Kashmir, intergenerational trauma…
- A Daughter 's Search for Truth · 47 min · Odcinek 326In this powerful conversation, journalist and author Karin Jensen takes us inside the real-life story behind her memoir The Strength of Water. Her mother’s life stretched from a…
- Jokes That Go There: Lana Salah on Comedy Without Apology · 53 minIn this deeply human and sharply funny conversation, Palestinian American comedian Lana Salah joins Saadia in the studio for an unfiltered exploration of comedy, identity, loss…
- Flipping the Thanksgiving Script — Immigrant Style · 10 min · Odcinek 328Thanksgiving is marketed as a serene celebration of gratitude, family, and food, but Saadia’s immigrant household tells a different story. In this extended solo episode, she…
- Who Needs a Time Machine? I Changed Countries · 48 min · Odcinek 327What does it mean to belong in America without proving your worth? Why are immigrants still expected to be extraordinary just to be seen as enough? And what happens when we stop…
