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Half Past Chai — 163 episodes

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10 Things About Quitting Your Job Nobody Warns You About

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"It Was Either Her or My Family..."

3

The Expensive Truth About Quitting Your Job For Content

4

How to Do a Mid-Year Reflection

5

"I Took Her to India to Meet My Family"

6

Training for a Marathon Together Is Either Going to Bond Us or Break Us

7

We Answered Your Most Unhinged Questions

8

Should We Move To NYC?

9

Is This Normal? (Couple Edition)

10

My Own People Say I'm Not Indian Enough

11

Why We're Still Choosing Each Other After 11 Years (The Real Reasons)

12

Q&A: Interracial Couple Answers Your Juiciest Questions

13

Here’s What We Earn as Content Creators

14

Should I Feel Guilty for Living My Own Life?

15

Everything We Did Wrong In India

16

You’re Making Chai Wrong in America (Malwa Chai’s Fix)

17

Indian & White Couple Answer Relationship Questions | Q&A

18

How to Travel to India in 2026

19

Indian vs American Family Habits

20

What My Life Would Look Like If I Never Moved to America

21

The Routines That Actually Changed Our Lives

22

Money, Marriage & Red Flags: Your Questions Answered

23

Reacting to Your Anonymous Confessions

24

What Our Parents’ Marriages Taught Us

25

We Let a Financial Expert Audit Our Entire Life

26

How to stop being a people pleaser in 2026

27

Is It Normal to Regret Only Dating One Person?

28

5 Secrets to a Thriving Long Term Relationship

29

Why are Indian Weddings So Expensive? (American vs Indian Weddings)

30

Unpopular Desi Opinions | Parents, Weddings & Mental Health

31

Getting Married Young & Why It Benefited Us

32

He Won’t Tell His Parents About Me… Should I Leave? | Q&A

33

The Reality of Med School: What No One Tells You

34

What It’s Really Like Running the NYC Marathon

35

Why It’s So Hard to Talk to Indian Parents About Feelings

36

What 10 Years Together Taught Us

37

Interracial Marriage in 2025: What No One Tells You (ft. Brook & Harjot)

38

We Spent $12,000 This Month… Are We Going Broke?

39

He Turned Down JPMorgan to Build a Luxury Airbnb Empire

40

Do Interracial Couples Fight? Reacting to Your Wildest Assumptions

41

10 Lessons My Wife Taught Me That Changed My Life

42

When Your Parents Say No | Love, Religion & Life’s Toughest Questions

43

Why Your Mental Health Matters

44

Marriage Myths Debunked: What No One Talks About

45

What No One Tells You About Quitting Your 9-5

46

We Read the WILDEST Reddit Marriage Posts (Cheating, In-Laws, and Indian Wedding Drama?!

47

Friendship Breakups, Interracial Love, and Strict Indian Parents | Answering Your Questions

48

Men vs. Women: Why We Don’t Understand Each Other

49

How We Quit Our Jobs at 26 & 27 | Q2 Financial Review

50

Why We Quit Our Jobs, Are We Moving & Navigating Interracial Hate | Q&A

51

Why Stress Turns Us Into Roommates

52

What Happens After A Breakup

53

How We Make It Work with Opposite Routines (Fitness, Food, Sleep)

54

What Makes Us Cry

55

How to Be Yourself in a World That Wants You to Fit In

56

How Our Cultural Identities Shaped Our Relationship

57

The Best & Worst Advice We Got from Our Parents

58

What We Spend as a Couple Living in Indiana

59

23 Years of Marriage vs 3 | What We’ve Learned

60

I Don't Want To Be An Engineer (ft. Varun Rana)

61

Lessons My Husband Has Taught Me (from a mans perspective)

62

Texts That Ended Our Relationship

63

Why Am I Addicted to My Phone?

64

Unwritten Rules of Relationships (2025 edition)

65

My Wife And I Are Complete Opposites

66

How To Handle Burnout In A Relationship

67

Answering Questions About India (Ft. The OG Patels)

68

How I Cook For My Indian Husband

69

How Much We Spent in 2024

70

How To Travel To India 101

71

What Even Happened In 2024?

72

“My Indian Parents Won’t Accept My Girlfriend”

73

Growing Up Indian In The Midwest

74

HPC News: Hawk Tuah, UHC CEO Theory & Brain Rot

75

Our 10 Essentials We Can’t Live Without

76

Why You Should Invest In Yourself & Your Community (ft. Iman Tucker)

77

How to Get a Girlfriend 101, Wildest Dreams & Getting Stares in Public | Answering Your Questions

78

We Actually Hate Each Other…

79

Avoid These Mistakes! What We Wish We Knew in Our 20s

80

Getting To Know Each Other

81

Money Matters For Couples

82

Why We Make Our Relationship Our Entire Identity

83

My Indian Husband Has Mommy Issues

84

Why You Should Take A Break

85

We’re So Freakin’ Pissed

86

How To Make An Interfaith Relationship Work

87

How To Get Out Of The Friend Zone

88

Why Does My Wife Yell At Me?

89

I'm Not Indian Enough and I'm Not American Enough

90

Why Are Indians So Cheap?

91

Why I HAD To Lie To My Indian Parents

92

How Do I Date Someone Who’s Not Indian? | Answering YOUR Questions

93

Indian vs American: Is Sex Taboo? What Is The Kamasutra?

94

Why Don’t Indians Eat Beef?

95

Why Are There So Many Indians?

96

Indian Families VS White Families

97

Moving to NYC, Getting Divorced, & Milkman?

98

Pivotal Moments In Our Lives That Made Us Who We Are Today

99

10 Surprising Ways To Make Your Relationship Even Better

100

Addressing Assumptions About Us

101

Annoying Couple Traits We Couldn't Avoid: Funny Relationship Habits

102

ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS: Embracing Indian Culture In America, Family Hates My Partner, & MIL's

103

Asking My Wife Questions Men Are Too Afraid To Ask

104

The Truth About Being An Interracial Couple

105

Asking My Husband Questions Women Are Too Afraid To Ask

106

I Met My Future Wife On Bumble (ft. Jonah & Marissa)

107

QUESTIONS OF THE WEEK: Raising Kids, Our Fitness Routines, Dealing With Anxiety

108

10 Signs You’re Insecure In Your Relationship

109

Why Your Role In Your Relationship Matters

110

Hot Takes, FMK List, & Our Most Embarrassing Stories (ft. Alex & Katie)

111

We Went To Area 51 (ft. Our Favorite Conspiracy Theories)

112

ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS: Why We Don’t Have A Prenup, Ending Toxic Friendships & Wedding Planning

113

My American Wife’s First Trip To India

114

My Husband Spent $50,000 In One Month | Financial Audit

115

My Wife Has Been Lying To Me

116

Marrying Your First Love & Being An Interracial Couple (ft. Drew & Jade)

117

ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS: Interfaith Relationships, Racist Stereotypes, & Immigrant Parents

118

Controversial Relationship Advice + The 1-Year Anniversary Of Our Podcast

119

My Wife Won't Stop Spending Money | Financial Audit

120

This Relationship Quiz Told Us To Get Divorced

121

Marriage Expectations vs. Reality

122

How To Talk About Finances With Your Partner

123

Dating To Marry, Med School, & Never Using Social Media (ft. Micah Prickett)

124

Santa Spilled The Chai

125

Gender Roles In Asian Culture

126

How To Go Viral (Ft. Liam Pineiro )

127

Reading Hate Comments

128

How My Desi Parents Messed Me Up

129

Working With Your Spouse

130

My Partner Doesn’t Listen

131

In My Seasonal Depression Era

132

Answering YOUR Questions: Hate Comments, Secret Relationships, & Social Anxiety

133

I’m Not Compatible With My Partner

134

Being In A Toxic Relationship

135

Flirting, Icks, & Relationship Etiquette

136

HOW TO SURVIVE COLLEGE

137

Why We Broke Up

138

What We've Learned From Being Married

139

Why I Married A White Woman

140

Couple Goals (ft. Ronak and Arushi)

141

Getting Too Comfortable In Your Relationship

142

Our Horoscopes Told Us To Get Married?

143

What's Your Love Language?

144

Hallie Patel: Why’d you marry an Indian Guy?

145

How We Handle Arguments Together

146

What’s YOUR biggest ick? Content creation, hot takes, and balancing life

147

Am I Going Through A Quarter Life Crisis?

148

Beyond Borders: A Tale of our Travels

149

Life Update: Our Vacation, Burnout, and Taco Bell

150

Navigating an Interracial Relationship (ft. Alex & Katie)

151

Suketu Patel: Video making guru, finance man, and entrepreneur

152

Questions of the Week: Career Goals, Alcohol, Religion and MORE

153

What Works And What Doesn’t Work In a Relationship/Marriage

154

How To Make Friends After College

155

Is it really possible to have a work life balance?

156

Had a Bad Day?

157

The Vacation Bliss: How We Got Back Into The Honeymoon Stage

158

In Sickness And In Health: Coming Back To America

159

I Took My American Wife To India

160

Preparing to take my WIFE to India

161

Roses Are Red, Violets are Blue, Here's A Mini Episode Just For You

162

Fusing Cultures: Our American and Indian Wedding Experience

163

Navigating the First Year of Marriage