Kareem Rahma Wants an Emmy, Not Another Webby Nomination – The Hollywood Reporter

“I used to love arguing as a child and as a young man; I always found that to be my happy place,” Kareem Rahma says with a slightly mischievous smile over Zoom. “I can sit in the middle of an argument and have a conversation about something that I don’t care about for multiple hours simply because it’s fun.” That’s essentially what Rahma’s been doing for the past three years as creator and host of the viral series Subway Takes, in which everyday people — and, increasingly, well-known figures — share their most controversial opinions on everything from social issues to Botox and fillers during a train ride with the Brooklyn resident, who holds a New York City MetroCard clipped to a tiny mic up to their mouths. Before chatting with THR late on a Friday afternoon, he’d filmed 15 episodes earlier in the day with guests who ranged from an independent musician and a podcaster to a climate activist and “an old guy that I met.”  “There’s no [criteria] like, ‘Oh, they have this many followers.’ ‘They’re working on this movie.’ ‘You should meet them because of this thing,’ ” Rahma say of booking guests, which he does personally.
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