Kumail Nanjiani Was a Cute Kid

So True with Caleb Hearon

Wave

Comedy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday’s! This week’s guest is the hilarious Kumail Nanjiani! Kumail and Caleb talk brand ambassadorship, Ice Cream College, his new special Night Thoughts streaming now on Hulu, a certain image that haunts one of their dreams, and much more! Join our Substack for ad free full episodes, early access to merch, our community chat, and more! https://calebsaysthings.substack.com/ Follow Kumail! @kumailn Follow the show! @sooootruepod Follow Caleb! @calebsaysthings Produced by Chance Nichols @chanceisloud SUPPORT THE SHOW: Get a free can of OLIPOP: Buy any 2 cans of Olipop in store, and Olipop will pay you back for one. Works on any flavor, any retailer, including the Yeti limited-edition cans! Visit drinkolipop.com/SOTRUE So True with Caleb Hearon is edited and engineered by Nicole Lyons. Our social media manager is Virginia Muller. All episodes are filmed in The SoTrudio at Legitimate Business World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York. A Wave series. wavesportsandentertainment.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Wave.
0:03.8	You know, and what you can joke about and not joke about
0:06.4	does change with the times, and I think rightly so.
0:09.2	Like, for instance, when I started doing stand-up back in, bleep this, 2002.
0:14.7	Holy shit.
0:15.9	Sorry.
0:17.6	I definitely bleep that What's up, dude? How you doing?
0:26.2	I'm great. How are you?
0:27.3	Good. Let's snap into podcasting mode.
0:29.2	What happened? What happened? It was so natural that suddenly everything's tight.
0:32.7	I am good. How is your day?
0:34.7	How are you? I love my projects and my job. What about you?
0:38.0	I like to promote them to the highest of my ability. You've been doing press all week. I don't even
0:43.1	like the projects. I just want to go talk to people about it. Yeah. Oh, what was my inspiration? For me,
0:49.4	the project is work. The reward is when I get to do 12 hours of back-to-back press. That's right.
0:54.4	People asking what my inspirations are,
0:56.2	cannot get enough.
0:59.6	Oh,
1:00.2	love talking about that. I couldn't
1:02.0	even tell you. It seems so
1:03.7	arrogant to be like, well, my inspirations
1:06.0	are, I don't, I don't fucking know.
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