Episode 298 - Aparna Nancherla

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Arts, Food, Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Today we've got Aparna Nancherla at the table. She and Tom talk about the difficult experience that sometimes is living life, the things that bring them joy, the foods of their youth, and of course, Aparna's new special, Hopeful Potato, out now on Dropout. Enjoy! Thanks to Monarch! Use code PAPA at monarch.com in your browser for half off your first year. That’s 50% off your first year at monarch.com with code PAPA. And thanks to Butcher Box! As an exclusive offer, our listeners can get free steak in every box for a year, PLUS $20 off your first box when you go to ButcherBox.com/papa Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.2	What's the most viral thing you had?
1:02.3	Oh my gosh.
1:03.6	What was the numbers on it?
1:06.0	I felt like immediate dread when you said viral.
1:11.5	I don't look at the numbers on anything.
1:14.4	How do you not?
1:15.2	Like when he, if you open up Instagram, doesn't it show you the little number?
1:18.2	I don't scroll.
1:19.1	I post and I get out.
1:20.4	I'm so scared at this point of the algorithm.
1:24.0	And like I just feel like it, I don't know when I got so scared of it I think maybe during the
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