Kumail Nanjiani

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2019

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick, Silicon Valley, Adventure Time) is a Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, podcast host, and writer. Kumail sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss his path to overcoming undiagnosed anger, he talks about the moment he realized his childhood cuteness had disappeared and he gives the backstory to why he stumbled in his SNL monologue. Dax wonders what it's like to be married to a relationship therapist and Kumail talks about his journey to gain 20 lbs of muscle in 5 months. The two debate whether feeling excluded is universal, Kumail talks about his complicated relationship with Pakistan and he teaches Dax the difference between Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic hamburgers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert. I'm Dan Shepard.
0:04.0	Unfortunately, I'm not with Emmy nominated miniature mouse right now because some unfortunate
0:09.7	news brought me to Detroit in a hurry where I'm at we're separated I apologize more
0:15.2	bad news it's also going to affect the fact check but we are going to record the
0:18.5	fact check for this episode when I return and then we will slap it on there. So if you miss it because I know I will you can kind of revisit it and hear what we had to say posthumously. So today we have, we've had a few guests that I have fallen head over heels
0:36.2	in love with that I didn't know before interviewing them. My guest today, Kumail Nancion,
0:41.5	oh my goodness, what a love connection.
0:43.7	I got to say if we were on that show, we would have gone on a second date.
0:47.6	He is here to talk about many, many things, but among them he has a new movie called Stuber it's out July 12th at a theater near you please
0:57.0	check that out and please enjoy Kumail Nangiani you two are gonna fall in love
1:02.0	with him.
1:02.6	Also, I love you and miss you, miniature Maximus Mouse.
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1:20.0	He's an I for, he's an option's bad.
1:24.0	He's an I'm sure it's bad. I wonder well
1:36.0	well Marin I guess we had Marin and we've also had Hardwick but I would imagine
1:41.0	other than those two folks,
1:43.2	we've not talked to somebody with more podcast time
1:46.4	under their belt than you.
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