Episode 90: You Can’t Be Serious With Kal Penn
It's a reunion!
Twenty years after being his production assistant on a film set in Austin, TX, Kal Penn and I get a chance to sit down and catch up about it all.
Kal is an American #actor, #author, #academiclecturer and former #whitehouse staff member in the Barack Obama administration. You may know him from television shows such as #House, #DesignatedSurvivor, #Sunnyside, and #HowIMetYourMother. He is also recognized for his performance in the film #TheNamesake and of course the #HaroldandKumar series (I personally still love Taj Mahal Badalandabad). Penn has taught at the University of Pennsylvania in the Cinema Studies Program as a visiting lecturer
We talk about it all from our first impressions, to those fantastic middle school years, to his job as a farmhand right before he went to UCLA. He talks about the meaning behind the Brown Catch-22, his journey with stereotyping in Hollywood, his experience going to India with President Barack Obama, and why he needed a mini-fridge in the White House.
We of course bust out with some #Gujarati (our native Indian language) which Kal definitely schools me on.
His new memoir, #YouCantBeSerious, is out and it’s a fantastic read!
There was so much to catch up on, next time we'll have to give a shout out to all the uncles and aunties we loved growing up.....