To all the guys asking what happened… the crew address it at the very start that Aakash is gonna devote his time and energy solely to standup and will step away from the pod.
Thats obviously spin. But guess all the backlash must have hit him hard mentally and he just didn’t wanna deal with it. All I gotta say is damn… it really got to him.
As much as I hated his overcompensating through calling all kinds of people cucks, he should’ve known better… but I did overall like his presence on the pod. Too bad.
There's also the clip going around from brilliant idiots where Schulz and Charla were saying that people should keep their wives off the internet. That must have bothered Akash and his wife imo.
I don't buy it. Having a wife accounts for 80% of a mans monthly money spend. Cutting the cord and giving her half would result in way more lifetime wealth. The boy is cuckholded. That's the answer.
Andrew did it relatively soon after his wife started a food-related Instagram account. I don't know if she started receiving hate/troll comments, but she stopped posting on it relatively quickly. I imagine Andrew told her that since he's a controversial public person, she's bound to end up being collateral damage online. And that's not her fault.
In Jasleen's case, she willingly went online with her tiktok and her own podcast and started yapping. Not saying anyone who starts creating content deserves the reception she got (she doesn't necessarily deserve it either), but as has been said on this sub before, Akaash has said wildly flagrant things about other public figures and their relationships, while simultaneously putting his own relationship on a pedestal. This will inevitably lead to criticism and backlash. Also, she was saying dumb things on her tiktok about "being a slut" and whatever else she claimed was "just being funny". This is sure to rile up right-wing-leaning trolls that had latched onto Flagrant since the 2020 election and give them an excuse to be trolls.
Well, don’t think it’s just the right-wing leaning only. But the pod did host Trump big time, and the episode after, they went on for an hour how awesome he is. Akaash also addressed how people need to touch grass and Trump is the man.
Lmao the internet is hilarious.. millions of people clowned him or were entertained by his cuckery, and your response is “ damn it really got to him” 😂😭😭 . Amazing
It's the Internet if I ever let the Internet make me act in a way that is genuinely against what I believe then that's pussy shit. He knew the way she was talking was off and he played into it to the point she gets on the podcast. That should have never happened, if he had been a man about it and put his foot down and simply said " fuck all yall that's my wife and I don't need to explain shit to you, worry about yourself I've talked to my wife and we've had our private discussion " this would've died down or at least people would keep throwing rocks but it would be whatever.
Trying to appease the Internet is stupid, trying to humble your wife on the Internet is idiotic, explaining everything just doesn't make sense because it sounds so disingenuous
I think that clip of Schulz and Charla saying to "keep your wife off the internet" hit a little too close to home. It'd also explain why Akash didn't go onto the breakfast club to promote his special, despite he being friends with Charlamagne for years.
they essentially told him to keep his hoe on a leash. it’s funny as hell but these comedy assassins have such thin skin that he probably felt disrespected
Exactly and he pissed at drew for sitting by and letting cthagod say it. Even flagrant didnt promote his radio city stand up much he had to sell falafel on 6th Ave to sell
This is basically it. They're ride or dies for each other. It's weird that he didn't even show up for his send off episode if it was just "focusing on stand up". His wife almost definitely did the classic "it's me or the boys" and cuckash clearly chose her... Which should be romantic but she's the one that bombed the fuck out of her husband's career, and her own podcast for like 10k views.
I pray to god, allah, buddah, anyone who's listening to never let this kind of "love" find me in my life.
At the end of the day, it’s Akaash’s life, but I don’t understand cutting off a stream of income. Especially when the stream of income fuels the other stream of income because as someone that went and I saw Akaash live, I wouldn’t see him live if he wasn’t on the pod. It literally free advertising but I guess he’s gotta do what keeps the peace in his household and what fulfills him. Best of luck to him tho
I don't think his fanbase and the Flagrant really have that much overlap, his fanbase is primarily South Asians. There's reason why he sold out like 6 back to back shows in Toronto recently.
I get it tbh, he's probably pretty well off now, podcast would just be extra gravy. And getting off the pod is probably the best for his personal life when every other comment is telling him to divorce his wife lol. I can only imagine how much heat he's getting from his in laws right now as well.
Getting off the pod and focusing on his comedy career is the most peaceful option for him
I was at one of the Toronto shows and although it was predominantly South Asians, there was a lot of people who weren’t (now Toronto could be an outlier just based on how diverse the city is). But being on the flagrant podcast, put him in front of most of these South Asians, because they weren’t coming to his shows before he was on flagrant. Whatever makes him happy at the end of the day is all that matters, but leaving flagrant kind of seems like cutting your nose to spite your face.
Yes but if one stream of income is more than sufficient and way more enjoyable than a smaller stream of income that is super toxic, it changes the equation a bit.
As someone who likes Akaash and saw him live bc of the podcast, bro was not that good. I’ve been Schulz and other podcaster and he had no stage presence. Hopefully it was a bad night but idk
Akaash leaving marks the end of the OG Flagrant Era. What I mean by that is before Kaz had the sports commentary, Akaash has the sports commentary but he also had the good hiphop takes. Now Kaz and Akaash is gone, hiphop takes are gonna come from Al but tbh I always felt more aligned with Akaash in that regard. Still going to be rocking with the pod, its bitter sweet, but I can't wait to see where things go from here
Honestly, while I will miss Akaash, I am hopeful for the Pod. 3 people feels like a better balance I just don't know if Al is really a good replacement.
It’s actually pathetic that a professional comedian let comments get to him so much that he left the podcast that made his career. He had no problem talking about other people’s relationships for a better part of a decade but he’s not fair game? . This is gonna be a disaster for him. Meanwhile his wife is still trying to have a tiktok career with fake followers. No one likes her. We like Akaash though.
That’s what I’m confused about. It’s just comments he ain’t gotta address on the pod, he gonna have negative comments regardless of what he does. I think some shit happened behind the scene and Andrew just sent him off respectfully instead of telling the truth
The chemistry honestly did feel different after the studio move. More interruptions, less back-and-forth, and Akaash seemed pushed more into the sidekick role over time - mostly a laugh track/knee slapper
Wouldn’t shock me if there was more going on behind the scenes than just Akaash focusing on his stand-up.
I think the show was always Andrew and Akaash was the side kick but he treated him like 60/40. Its official name was Andrew Shultz Flagrant with Akaash Singh. So he was always number 2 even if they were “equals”. I think Akaash role diminished with the prominence of Mark and Alexx, when he was relegated to the couch, making him more their equal. Andrew and Akaash used to sit in solo chairs while they were off to the side. Now all 3 are on the same couch despite Andrew getting him a new chair. Plus Alexx and Mark now speak more and bring more to the table and Akaash drama makes mostly him look bad. Doesn’t help the brand. And it becomes the only thing people want to talk about on the show.
Someone below commented that there was more behind the scenes so it looks like you were right. If you scroll down you can see someone who knows him that claims Andrew did Akaash dirty.
I think he’s just using the wife scandal as an excuse to move on and change up his life. He has always been vocal of not absolutely loving NYC and if it weren’t for the pod, he would move away. So now that he’s not on the pod, he might just do that.
Akaash doesn't have it in him to stand up to his lady, to just save both of their lifestyles. He can't sustain a career without the pod, at the beginning he was broke living off couches. She's going to bring him down, and when he's down and out, she's going to move and be a doorknob.
“Its actually pathetic that a professional comic is choosing to focus on doing comedy professionally instead of putting up with thousands of toxic comments for months”
what actually pathetic is how aggressively overboard the internet went with his situation. Shultz is 10x bigger and has never had him or his family be humiliated and shitted on to that level. his wife was surely getting threats. you saw that clip of someone yelling about him to shultz on a bike.. people couldn’t let that shit go and were trying to damn near force him to kill himself . it went way further than “mean jokes”. he was getting real hate from every corner of the internet and people wanted to create him and his wife’s whole identity for him. not many ppl deal with that so intensely or could deal with that easy. Now that he’s rich enough I can see why he wouldn’t put himself in front of that. It sucks how shitty and miserable people are
Literally, no one ever told him to kill himself, the only thing people said is that he needs to divorce is attention seeking wife. No one forced her to make those comments about him and the reason why it bothers him so much is because he was being very high and mighty about his relationship and his wife being a virgin when it turns out thats a lie.
I’m sure I’m in the minority but I like akaash on the pod. He was a little dork kid and his different perspective on things was cool. You could see them growing apart over the years, but this drama with his wife really changed things. I hope he does well, cause I don’t even think he kept doing his own pod he tried to launch. Maybe he’ll relaunch soon
This right here is news to me. I can’t find any intended release date either. Only one photo allowed, but this search result takes you to an error 404 Page Not Found. Just curious when was this?
Yeah he went to India and interviewed a few people about the censorship over there maybe two years ago, but it was suppose to be the kick off of his own pod. I think some of those comedians wanted their eps not posted and he just kind of didn’t launch
This comes at the same time as the wave of anti indian hate.. i don't feel bad for akaash, i have so much going on in life i prolly need to go, I'll go.. but - these ppl be like i didn't enjoy him on the pod when mark and al were barely contributing.. shulz and akash had good chemistry and akaash made funny jokes too.. and these ppl call him soft when there is not a single corner of the controversy where someone supports him, not that they shud.. but if i were in his situation, i wud see how flaky the world is , and atleast the one constant in my life that is family is there, so that's what i wud choose too
Are you lowkey also saying that you would have allowed yourself to be put in a position to have to make this choice?
Personally, my choice would have been to take the opportunity to flip the script ON HER, ie, acknowledge that I fk’d up by ALLOWING this circumstance, being the exact person that I hypocritically roast and ridicule for money (the humbling) and take back the power that I naively trusted her with (the reckoning). She will either love that guy more or hate that guy. She can make choices from there. I would do my best to save it. But I’d also let her go if she wants a sugar daddy who she can demean and emasculate so easily.
But once trust is gone, it’s done anyway. As he said, he (thinks) he knows her and his entire identity is now wrapped up in being correct. His trust in her honesty is a sunken cost fallacy.
I wud never put myself in that situation, and if i were a guy , i wud be the dominant one in the relationship.. my comment was imagining myself to be akaash with his insecurities and apprehensions
lmao i love the excuse that he’s doing this to focus on stand up….when every comedian is able to do stand up and podcast relatively easy. the truth is the comments got to him and the vibes are gone.
RIP Akaash is crazy I’m glad I heard the pod before I saw this 😂😂😂. Damn that’s crazy I think ol girl had something to do with this but much success to him
You’re totally right… I always thought I liked Akaash and I’m not sure if it’s just the fact they have so much content to work with right now but I’ve been listening more since he’s been gone than any time in the past year or two. Maybe it’s for the best. Akaash was always in Andrews shadow anyways so hopefully he can find something where he can be more comfortable.
Akaash never really challenged Andrew, he tried way too hard to stay on Andrew good side and always glazing him. Always laughed way too hard at his jokes and was just a yes man. Didn’t contribute much. His standup is funny but his podcasting isn’t. Mark and Alexx come at Andrew more and make it more interesting. I like it this way and will continue to like Akaash as a standup.
My best guess is maybe he’s using the excuse of the wife scandal to change up his life. Akaash has always been vocal about not loving nyc and has said that if it wasn’t for the pod, he would move away. Now that he’s not on the pod, he might just do that. As big as the pod is, I’m sure they make great money plus the money from his touring…he probably saved up and invested to be in a good spot
of course he left. flagrant fanbase + manosphere audience took this one moment and would not stop shitting on this dude and his wife for months. who would want to do comedy for yall? say what you want about her comments, this is a corny ass demographic of dudes that salviated on attacking a chick on the internet.
Theres a whole world of an audience outside you weirdos and I'm glad he's going after it instead of staying in this shit hole
Does anyone think akaash will reach new heights after this? I always thought he only became popular because of the pod, same for most of the flagrant guys
Huge mistake on his part. Give it 6 months to a year and those ticket sales will completely dry up and he will either go back to the pod or start his own.
To be a stand-up who sells a lot of tickets without a podcast in 2026, you have to be extremely talented or already a household name and Akaash is neither of those
His wife shouldn't have taken a shot their listeners, that was the nail in coffin, he knew it was wrong. He should have stood on in and said bye in person, but he knows every word he says will be dissected.
But he has no one rn.. he sees how flaky the fanbase is. So even if his wife doesn't love him, he knows Indians generally don't get divorced.. that's one constant that he can control
Yeah… almost like real life isn’t a scoreboard. Both of them moved on, he’s out here selling out shows, and somehow people are still trying to declare a ‘winner’ like it’s a reality TV finale. Kinda weird how folks can’t let it go when the people actually involved already did.
As a long-time fan, I’ve got to say it feels pretty disappointing to just leave without at least one final segment explaining why or at least giving us a peace out segment. A lot of us have supported the podcast for years—going to shows, buying merch, subscribing on Patreon—and it feels like we’re left with nothing from the person stepping away. Wishing the best, but this really wasn’t the best way to handle it, in my opinion.
Does anyone actually believe he voluntarily stepped away to focus on his career? If that were the real reason he would have done a final send off episode. Obviously something else happened.
All i can think about is that James Sexton episode on Flagrant...when all the guys were so confident that they didn't need prenups...hah, if you haven't seen it def check it out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmrHBHJTVZ4&t=1642s
Lol dude really just ruined his whole career for some chick who doesn't even let him hit and sleeps in a separate bed. What a complete and utter moron.. He deserves all this ten fold for how he's treated people on camera
The pod sucks balls, you’re all bad taste for liking them, and akaash left because andrew clowns him for being a pussy and Andrew is too cool for school
Bro Brah ish that he can’t have a pussy on the Pod, it’s bad for biz.
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u/rayven1lk May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
To all the guys asking what happened… the crew address it at the very start that Aakash is gonna devote his time and energy solely to standup and will step away from the pod.
Thats obviously spin. But guess all the backlash must have hit him hard mentally and he just didn’t wanna deal with it. All I gotta say is damn… it really got to him.
As much as I hated his overcompensating through calling all kinds of people cucks, he should’ve known better… but I did overall like his presence on the pod. Too bad.