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Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

Episode 324 - Fahim Anwar

Breaking Bread with Tom Papa

All Things Comedy

Arts, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Food

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 68 minutes

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This week we welcome the magnificent Fahim Anwar  @FahimAnwar  to the show! He and Tom talk stand up, parental expectations, and cooking. Enjoy! Thanks to: Sheath! The underwear of legends. Go to https://www.sheath.com/PAPA and use code PAPA for 20% off. Monarch! Start your free trial and get 50% off your first year of total money clarity using link www.monarch.com/PAPA or code PAPA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

you have a very funny joke in the special about your father immigrant father like if you were to give

0:06.1

him a really nice car.

0:07.0

That would be yeah 2010 used Toyota Corolla with low miles would be like oh my god like if

0:12.8

I got him a BMW brandy he would be like I didn't raise you this way what are you doing you're wasting

0:16.7

money but if I got a really great deal on that used Corolla it'd'd be like, oh, my God, you shouldn't have. And then I keep tagging it. I'm like, Dad, it's the original owner. He's like, oh, original owner. I raised you right. It's breaking bread. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. This is fantastic. We wanted to make this happen for a long time.

0:38.5

Yeah, I'm so glad that we could finally do it.

0:40.1

I'm so glad that we wasted enough time and didn't put it together and it gave you time to come out with a new special.

0:47.2

Yeah, I actually have a reason to be on here instead of coming on and being like, just hanging.

0:51.6

Man, the world, huh?

0:53.0

You got anything to plug? I have some tweets. You want to pull those up? Yeah. Are you on an all red meat diet? Yeah, yeah. No, it's called Intrusive Thoughts. Yeah. It just came out on YouTube. It's on YouTube. It's exclusive. It's a... You are one of my favorite comedians. That means much you make me laugh bro i think i texted you

1:14.3

off of a tonight show yeah years ago and that meant so much to me because like you know you're a veteran

1:19.3

i love your stuff too and you do the tonight show in in this era you feel like nobody watches it

1:24.9

i mean i joke i was joking to neil brandon they're doing the tonight show now's very cool, but it feels like you're doing the magic castle. Like you're going to the magic castle. You put a suit on and you pretend that you're a famous comedian from the 80s, but then you wake up and it's no different whatsoever. It's so, it is wild. So it's this great artistic win that you always want,

1:45.4

and then sometimes you feel like, it means nothing. But then when you texted me, and I'm like,

1:49.2

oh, wow, Tom Pop actually watched it. And he actually liked my late night set. Yeah, it was so good.

1:54.8

It was really so good. You did that thing about people who get up, or get, get up too quickly on the airplane and they just.

2:04.0

Yeah, as soon as the wheels touch down,

2:05.4

they just pick up.

2:06.5

Under the overhead for like 40 minutes.

2:11.0

I could just wait.

2:12.5

It was so silly and perfect.

2:14.2

Thank you, man.

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