Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon & Terrace Martin

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

"The Big Sick" has been out in theaters for a while, and already it's getting a lot of buzz. Critics rated it 97% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley) and Emily Gordon are married and co-wrote the movie, which tells the true story of their courting years. Plus, Terrace Martin! The hip-hop producer and jazz musician who's worked with YG, Herbie Hancock, Snoop and Kendrick goes in depth with Jesse about growing up in South Central LA, California's jazz community and how you make a track that'll rattle car doors all over America.

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0:00.0	Yo, yo, everybody, it's Stretch Armstrong.
0:02.3	And my name is Bob B2C-A-K, Cool Bob Love.
0:04.8	If you love this podcast you were listening to,
0:07.7	you should check out our new show, What's Good with Stretch and Bob B2.
0:11.0	This is not your average interview show.
0:12.5	We're going to be telling stories that you're not going to hear anywhere else.
0:15.6	Find it on Apple Podcasts, the NPR1 app,
0:18.2	or however you find your podcast.
0:20.7	It's What's Good.
0:24.8	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org
0:28.9	and is distributed by NPR.
0:36.4	It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:39.0	So it's obviously it's kind of a cliche.
0:41.9	It's what every writer who's starting out gets told a thousand times in every class,
0:47.4	write what you know.
0:49.3	Good writers sort of mix up the made up stuff with autobiography all the time.
0:55.4	That's basically what Judd Apatow said to Camille Nongiani and Emily Gordon.
0:59.8	And it's pretty much what they did.
1:02.4	They wrote a movie about the early days of their relationship.
1:05.9	Now they're married.
1:07.1	They call it the big sick.
1:09.2	And one more thing that they learned when you write about your life,
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