Kumail Nanjiani
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR
4.7 • 990 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This message comes from Bayer. Science is a rigorous process that requires questions, testing, transparency, and results that can be proven. This approach is integral to every breakthrough Bayer brings forward. Innovations that save lives and feed the world. Science Delivers.com. How big of a role does fear play in your life? |
| 0:21.6 | Big. |
| 0:22.5 | Big? |
| 0:28.6 | My relationship to fear has changed, or I'm trying to actively change it. |
| 0:34.8 | Fear used to be something I were trying to avoid, and now fear is something I court. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wild Card, the show where cards control the conversation. |
| 0:48.8 | Each week, my guest answers questions about their life, questions pulled from a deck of cards. |
| 0:52.5 | They're allowed to skip one question and to flip one question back on me. |
| 0:54.3 | My guest this week is Camille Nanjiani. |
| 1:00.5 | It took me a while to understand that I am very, very sensitive and that that's okay. |
| 1:04.8 | Like having big feelings that make me feel alive. |
| 1:05.5 | It's the goal. |
| 1:06.8 | It's not something to avoid. |
| 1:09.4 | Here's my theory about Camille Nanjiani. |
| 1:11.6 | He is not a person who's afraid of his feelings. I think he's actually the opposite of that kind of person. |
| 1:14.6 | Kamail has made his emotional life part of his comedy, |
| 1:17.6 | whether it's his deep and abiding love for his wife, as told in the hit movie The Big Sick, |
| 1:22.6 | his obsession with his cat or the anxiety that grips him in the middle of the night. |
| 1:26.6 | Camel's brand of comedy is often about how we feel our way through life. session with his cat or the anxiety that grips him in the middle of the night. |
| 1:31.9 | Camille's brand of comedy is often about how we feel our way through living. |
| 1:35.8 | His new stand-up special is on Hulu, and it is called Night Thoughts. |
| 1:39.8 | It is very funny, and I am so happy to welcome Kamel Nangiani to Wildcard. |
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