Kumail Nanjiani
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Podcast Appearances
I have never connected that.
I'm not sure.
I don't know how much of it comes from how I was raised or whatever.
I just have always been a huge fan of movies and TV, big fan of pop culture.
And I don't know when it happened, but
my entire life, as far as I can remember, I've always valued people revealing themselves through art.
It's always been something that I've really connected to.
So like, you know, I,
I just did Conan O'Brien's podcast and I was telling him this.
When I was a little, little kid, I liked silly stuff, but I really liked stuff that showed me who someone was, or got at some sort of truth about something.
I really always loved, like I fell in love with Bruce Springsteen.
And to me, his music is intensely personal, even though he's not, he's never been a blue collar.
Yeah, and he admits that, you know.
He talks about that.
Well, yeah, his one-man show on Broadway, which I watched, was phenomenal.
He talks about that.
He's like, I've been a fraud.
Yeah.
But very empathetic, right?
And getting at, presumably, at least what I perceive as some kind of truth about being a human being in this reality.