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What do Snoop Dogg, Girl Gaga, James Brown and Mikhail Gorbachev have in widespread?
They’ve all been interviewed by Nardwuar the Human Napkin.
The Canadian character has been interviewing — and typically ambushing — musicians, politicians, celebrities and extra for over three many years in his signature, very foolish, high-energy fashion.
“I am scared about somebody phoning in will say, ‘that is boring,’ ” he tells World Cafe. “So wherever I’m doing an interview, I feel ‘somebody’s gonna suppose it is boring, somebody’s gonna suppose it is boring!’ I haven’t got time to fret about being nervous.”
Nardwuar has garnered hundreds of thousands of views for his YouTube interviews, the place he’ll typically current sudden, completely researched items that depart his company dumbfounded. His enthusiasm has made him a little bit of a folks hero each within the U.S. and in his native Canada, the place he is additionally hosted a Friday afternoon present at CITR 101.9FM in British Columbia since 1987.
On this session, Nardwuar talks about how he bought his begin, making his personal music with The Evaporators, and the artists on the prime of his interview bucket record.
This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and reserving coordinator is Chelsea Johnson and our line producer is Will Loftus.