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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Kumail Nanjiani (Night Thoughts, Eternals, The Big Sick) is an actor, writer, and comedian. Kumail returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss working out his foot trauma, addressing the plastic surgery rumors, and why the Schwarzenegger pump is better than sex. Kumail and Dax talk about the benefit of going towards what we perceive to be our limits, why the gym is the only place many men feel comfortable being physically intimate with one another, and wrestling with if he contributes to the discourse around men’s bodies that affected him as a kid. Kumail explains why learning to like himself has been more important than anything else, his belief that taking yourself too seriously is the death of comedy, and how long it took him to realize how sensitive he is.
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| 0:16.1 | I'm Dan Rather and I'm joined by Monica Mous. |
| 0:18.4 | Hi. |
| 0:19.4 | Today we have a returning guest. |
| 0:21.2 | I think this is Camel's third appearance on the show. |
| 0:24.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:24.7 | He had a solo. |
| 0:25.4 | He had Rob. |
| 0:26.4 | He and Rob Men's Body episode. |
| 0:28.3 | Rob Mac, as you'll hear. |
| 0:30.5 | Which I still need to text him and find out of this. |
| 0:33.2 | I got to verify this claim. |
| 0:35.0 | Shit. |
| 0:35.5 | It's real. |
| 0:36.0 | I saw it online. |
| 0:37.3 | Oh, it claim. Shit. It should have been a part of it. I saw it online. Oh, it is. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.2 | Okay. |
| 0:38.8 | Kumal Nangiani is an actor, a stand-up comedian, and a screenwriter. |
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