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Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon’s podcast looks at married life in quarantine
If you haven’t seen their story in the Oscar-nominated autobiographical dramedy “The Big Sick” (and what better time than now to seek it out on Amazon?), writer Emily V. Gordon and comedian Kumail Nanjiani are a couple who got married following the most extreme of adverse circumstances. During their early dating days, she became seriously …
If you haven’t seen their story in the Oscar-nominated autobiographical dramedy “The Big Sick” (and what better time than now to seek it out on Amazon?), writer Emily V. Gordon and comedian Kumail Nanjiani are a couple who got married following the most extreme of adverse circumstances. During their early dating days, she became seriously ill and had to be placed in a medically induced coma.
She survived, and they’re now one of the world’s most adorable married couples. They host the new podcast “Staying In With Emily & Kumail,” about how to live your best life during the coronavirus crisis. The hope, they say, is that it’s short-lived, but for the duration, they’re donating all revenue to various COVID-19 assistance charities.
Although they don’t aim to dwell on “the C-word” too much, they do discuss how being immunocompromised, as Gordon is, can heighten your anxiety during the pandemic. In the first episode, “Fumbling for Normalcy,” Nanjiani even chokes up as he talks about his fears for his wife’s safety every time she leaves the house without him. Mainly, though, it’s a comedy podcast, and the two banter so expertly, they could easily take this show on the road (once we’re all allowed to leave our houses again).
Everyone needs a little extra self-care these days, so it’s fitting that the queen of self-help is opening up her show’s archive for audio-only replays of some of her most memorable interviews. “The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast,” which debuted in early March, includes one fascinating episode from May 1990, “Truddi Chase: Multiple Personalities,” and another featuring what may be Dr. Phil’s first appearance of many on the show.
In similar archival entertainment, you don’t spend as long in rock as Alice Cooper without gaining an impressive circle of fellow musician pals. In “Alice Cooper’s Vintage Vault,” the veteran shock-rocker will showcase some of his favorite interviews from his long-running radio show “Nights With Alice Cooper.” The first three episodes feature Ozzy Osbourne, Slash and Brian May of Queen.
Celebrity chef Richard Blais (“Top Chef,” “Top Chef: All-Stars”) tackles some of the most passionate culinary debates, with tongue in cheek and food-world guests, on iHeartRadio’s “Food Court With Richard Blais.” Among the first few knock-down, drag-out discussions: whether pineapple is OK on pizza, blue cheese versus ranch, and bacon versus sausage. As every now-homebound cook knows, it’s all in the delicious details.
Dishing up high school angst is “Seth Rudetsky’s Back to School” (SiriusXM), in which the actor, writer and radio host invites celebrity friends to talk about how their teen years molded them as performers and as people. His first guest is Tina Fey, the queen of “Mean Girls” herself, followed by Vanessa Williams and Michael Urie of “Ugly Betty.”
