Staying In with Emily & Kumail

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In this podcast — whose profits go to charities helping those affected by Coronavirus — Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani are uniquely qualified to lead you through this forced quarantine situation. They are both writers who work from home. Emily was a therapist and currently is a chronically sick person (see: The Big Sick) who often has to quarantine herself, and Kumail is her main caretaker. Plus, we both just like being at home. Let us advise you on how to stay calm and avoid cabin fever. Let us give you entertainment recommendations. Let us give you constant updates on the squirrel vs. bird war happening right outside our window. Let us not talk about the C word at all. And most of all, let us take all of the proceeds from this podcast and spread it amongst charities that are helping those who are hit hardest by this quarantine. 100% of the Net Revenue* from the podcast will be donated in equal portions to the following charities to support their efforts to assist those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic: https://www.restaurantworkerscf.org/ https://disasterphilanthropy.org/ https://www.feedingamerica.org/ *"Net Revenue” is defined as the “Advertising Gross Revenue” received by Hyperobject Podcast and Three Uncanny Four less agency fees and actual costs incurred to produce, distribute, and promote the Podcast. “Advertising Gross Revenue” is calculated by the (cost per thousand) rate times the total impressions delivered.

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  • Infini19A0
    Slice of (COVID) life
    I hope this goes in the Library of Congress because it is that important. I wish to never forget how this podcast helped me during a very, very difficult time. Four years later I continue to think about these precious episodes.
  • galloping goldfish
    Thank you
    I still think about how this podcast helped me and I cannot express how grateful I am for you two.
  • MarionElaine
    Still think about this show
    Miss you two and would definitely listen if you ever decided to make another podcast!
  • Latislo
    Please continue this podcast
    Quarantine may be over (maybe) but that doesn’t mean your podcast should be too! Loved listening to the two of you discussing fun random topics. So sweet, we need more of this! Huzzah!
  • italy buckets
    why
    why would you leeeeeeeeeave
  • dr whitty
    Dang I miss this pod!!
    Essentially a year later and I wonder why this pod stopped. It was just so sweet, validating, and fun. It’s still the weirds! Come back!! 😫
  • mateo0o0o
    It’s the weirds, baby
    My favorite podcast series of all time. I listen to an episode on long runs, and the ritual got me through the early days of the pandemic. Now relistening and it’s just as good the second time. Please make another season! 💞
  • Ms.HarleyQuinn
    Miss you!
    Missing this podcast...please revisit with you tube maybe? Hope you are doing well and staying safe❣️❣️❣️
  • jennychinch
    COVID isn’t over so why are you!?
    Loved this podcast so much and wish there were new episodes. The balance of Emily’s mental health background and Kumail’s humor and sensitivity made this one of my favorite podcasts. Ugh, I wish there were new episodes.
  • Wackyzingoz45
    Best thing to listen to
    Here I am listening to this podcast again from the start a cool 7 months after the last one was uploaded. You know the world is scary when you want to be nostalgic of the start of a pandemic :-) Still the best podcast I’ve ever listened too! Thank you Emily & Kumail for these gems!
  • CaptainMB26
    Please come back
    Please Emily and Kumail: ten months later and we still need you!
  • Oblio11
    Loved This
    Love, love, loved this. Short but sweet series.
  • Sophie 1936
    The best!
    This is such a great show! Kumail and Emily are both so funny and delightful. 10/10! Two thumbs up!
  • Erjibet
    Thank you!
    Discovered this show after it had ended and I wish it was longer! It’s funny, insightful, kind and much like spending time with a friend. (Plus movie recommendations...) Thanks Emily and Kumail for “keeping me company” in the latter part of 2020.
  • Ali Schu
    Thank you Kumail for teaching me how to my hands.
    I use to wash my hands like you, Emily! Ali Schuback
  • megsie 360
    Re-Listening
    It’s so-o nice, I wanna hear that podcast twice. Muah!
  • hmm chips
    Love it
    This podcast srsly got me through the first weeks of quarantine. Kumail & Emily are so funny, smart, in touch with their emotions, and their relationship is super cute. Not gonna lie, as second waves of covid starting happening, part of me thought “maybe the podcast will be back??” Love and miss this podcast for sure! Update 12/03/20: Please come back!!!🙏🥺🙏🥺
  • BayJay
    Just found this podcast and I want more!
    Guys, I need this. For my mental health, please make more. Do this for your old pal, Bailey. 🙏🏼
  • BKWeimmom
    Mental health
    I would so love some more episodes. I'm listening to the last episodes sooo slowly because I don't want them to be over. I enjoy your relationship and the talk about the mourning doves, too, as we have a few that repeatedly nest in a planter outside our window. Anyway, think about a comeback. Do it for the sanity of the planet. Much love.
  • jessmercaldi
    One more song
    I miss this podcast so much and I mean since we are still staying in..... one more season???
  • sarahjsmith84
    Please do more :)
    I loved this podcast so much. I’m so sad I don’t have anymore episodes to look forward too!! I really hope they do more together soon.
  • Nomercita
    Give us MORE!!!
    I will stay in as you ask Kumail, if you give us more episodes.
  • ViolinistEngineer
    Please give us a season 2!
    Emily and Kumail my only complaint is that this was a limited series podcast, can you please bring it back? 😅😂☺️
  • Jacqueline lovely
    Just adorable...
    You two talking is like listening to a sweet Ella Fitzgerald jazzy love song. You’re just so sweet to each other and have the best wit. Thank you for this podcast. It was so uplifting and charming during a tough time. Please continue doing a podcast. Don’t make this the end!!!
  • Kendra_26
    Love, love, love.
    I could listen to these two talk on a regular basis! They have great banter, and their witty humor was very entertaining. They have a great take on the mundane and the not so mundane while remaining very relatable. I’d be super pleased if they decided to continue to the show.
  • kg2006
    Thanks, Emily + Kumail!!
    Much like Kumail mourning the end of a good food after the first bite, I hated the fact that this was a limited podcast (and that I didn’t start listening to it until September!). Such lovely, relatable people. And man, did I laugh. Enjoyed every moment, wish they would continue the podcast.
  • reachingforareference
    Boring
    Gave this a big pass. Liked Nanjiani’s comedy so I checked this out. This was very disappointing.
  • IdahoBelle22
    A warm hug with a hefty side of hilarious
    I am from a rural area where, in general, people do not take this pandemic very seriously, regardless of the number of positive cases we have seen. I have felt pretty alone in my convictions of mask wearing, social distancing, etc. This podcast helped me a lot to know that I am not alone and that there are people in the world who are wrestling through and dealing with “the weirds” and life post Hanks-Wilson, in the same ways that I am. The effortless humor and obvious love between Emily and Kumail is inspiring. You guys are awesome:) Thanks for this podcast!
  • cturk66
    Reason and Humor
    I miss this podcast so much. It was the only Covid related podcast that felt comforting. Funny, real, and I’m helpful. Like talking to a good friend.
  • Poopdollar cheese master
    Come back!
    Great podcast to keep you company during The Weirds.
  • mernaschneider
    Great podcast
    Kamil and Emily are absolutely my favorite couple. Somehow this program makes some kind of sense out of the quarantine. It’s hard to be calm and this program is very helpful to me. It’s a limited episode program but very engaging. I highly recommend it
  • Aspiring marathoner
    Please make more!!!
    Please please make more! I love listening to Emily and Kumail!! Your chemistry is so sweet. Listening to you makes me feel like I have two new friends :) I also appreciate how serious they are taking the current situation in terms of social distancing and mental health and anxiety. Keep the episodes coming, love you guys :)
  • CincyDani
    Make more PLEASE
    I just completed the last episode of your Staying in podcast...I few months late. I’m new to podcast and found then very entertaining. The banter between Emily and Kumail made me instantly comfortable and the tips and special guest were helpful too. With more time at home, I’ve also appreciated the movie and series recommendations. Please make more!
  • ToucheyFeeley
    LOVE IN A PODCAST
    This podcast is like a warm blanket or a hug from someone you love! Very grateful to Emily & Kumail for providing something so loving during such a challenge time.
  • Joel Johnny
    Yaaaas
    I love this podcast. It has helped entertain and make me happy in these new times! Can this just be a regular thing? Please?!
  • RJ19887
    Needs to be "renewed"
    This lovely couple really helped me cope with the current climate when it first started.
  • A_Meadow_Parrott
    Give it a listen
    I’ve never felt so warm and fuzzy from a podcast. Perfect timing, this is just what was needed.
  • geri e.
    Immunobuddies!!!
    I have finished my second re–listening to this glorious limited series of a podcast. It’s honestly been one of the top things to keep me sane through The Weirds. We have had to keep it real strict with the self isolating in our house (due to the whole double lung transplant my husband received almost 8 yrs ago). The stress/anxiety/crazy range of emotions of this is... bonkers. I cannot begin to tell you how refreshing, how reassuring, it was to hear from someone else in the same boat—nah, dingy, a boat sounds like we’ve got more actual space than we actually have up in here. Everyone. Together. Day in day out! All of this is simply to say: I love you. and I miss you. and “Baby come back!”
  • hippyvixen
    We still need you
    Come back, please!
  • mellie_melly
    OBSESSED
    Binged in a single weekend. Wish my cat and I could spend quarantine in the Gordon/Nanjiani/Bagel household 😭😻💗
  • ARLiles
    New favorite podcast
    And I have refined taste, if I do say so myself 💁🏼‍♀️ Seriously though! So funny and exactly what we all needed!
  • EDT1978
    New Podcast. Same great hosts.
    So happy for the success of Emily and Kumail but bummed it meant the end of the Indoor Kids. Great to know that they’re the same people I loved listening to for so many years. Listened to only one episode so far but glad to have this batch of new content to enjoy.
  • moonstruckpalms
    Everyone needs a good bedtime story...
    Especially now. And this podcast is it! So comforting and hilarious. And I really appreciate the lists at the end of the episodes so I don’t have to scramble to take notes!
  • PennyLane0610
    Love this podcast!
    Emily and Kumail are the best, seriously comforting during the weirds. Speaking of, the weirds aren’t over so please come back! It’s actually just getting weirder😂
  • fairytern
    Great show!
    You guys are great—a really fun and entertaining show. But hey—you should know that the woman with her mouth agape watching Janis Joplin at the Monterey Pop festival in 1968 is Mama Cass of the Mamas and the Papas! I was listening to your last show on the treadmill and shouting at my phone—it’s Mama Cass!! It’s not just some random woman! Anyway love you guys! Hope you come back with more shows!
  • stephaniekida
    The weirds wouldn’t have been the same without you.
    Thank you so much for making me feel like a friend in your living room during the weirds, laughing while you two riffed on matters big and small. You hosted great guests, too. I always felt a little better while listening to you while I tried to work out at home in my husband’s band practice space that’s currently not being used. Amps make good props for hamstring lifts. We are still in the weirds (in Austin we can’t seem to get out of the weirds), and I already miss your show so much, though I knew it had to end. You’re both so smart and funny and down to earth. Thanks for the memories!
  • AnotherEmily...1
    This is absolutely fantastic.
    First review ever here but must voice that Emily and Kumail are a GD delight. Just confirmed this will in fact come to an end (I’m on episode two) and I’m already sad about it. Come back!!
  • SuzenM
    Please come back!
    We’re still in the weirds! I miss you; please come back!
  • AShearer
    Serendipity
    This podcast is the silver lining you’ve been looking for.
  • ausfwerks
    Thank you
    Thank you for a perfect podcast to help us through the weirds. I listened to it as I was walking my dog when I was stuck at home and I listened to it on my way to work at a rehabilitation hospital. It was great for giving me watching ideas and conversation starters and I felt like I was hanging out with two cool friends. You helped with both the emotional coping piece and the avoidance coping, with giving me great distractions. Thanks so much!
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