Kareem Rahma: How SubwayTakes Became the New Late Night

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Colin and Samir

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4.9 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Today on The Colin & Samir Show we sit down with the creator and host of SubwayTakes, Kareem Rahma. We dive into the origins and mechanics of what makes the show one of the most popular today on the internet. We also discuss the launch of his longform show Keep the Meter Running on YouTube. Kareem shares his pov on the future of attention and what it means to build a "show" in the modern media landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Our guest today is Karim Rama.
0:02.3	He's the creator and host of Subway Takes,
0:04.5	one of the most popular shows right now on the internet.
0:07.1	100% agree.
0:09.2	And he's just launched a new show on YouTube called Keep the Meter Running.
0:12.6	Now you've got a show where you talk to cab drivers.
0:15.6	I just have the most amazing conversation with the cabies.
0:18.3	Karim sits literally at the center of what's being called the new wave of late night.
0:22.0	He's responsible for redefining the talk show format and pioneering what it looks like to make unscripted television-style shows for YouTube.
0:29.6	So we sat down with Kareem in Brooklyn, New York to ask him about the success of these shows and where he thinks the future of media and attention is heading next.
0:38.3	All right.
0:39.3	Kareem, welcome to the show.
0:41.3	Hey.
0:42.3	What's up, man?
0:43.3	How you doing?
0:44.3	I'm great.
0:45.3	I'm great.
0:46.3	A few weeks ago, I texted you a picture of you with a bunch of other creators in Vanity Fair.
0:52.3	And the notion of it was the new late night.
0:55.9	Do you resonate with that as like, you're one of these new late night hosts?
1:00.7	You know, I'm very thankful to have been included in that list.
1:04.5	I think it would have been a glaring omission if I wasn't.
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