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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly series of intimate conversations with artists, authors, and politicians. Where people sound like people. Hosted by Sam Fragoso. New episodes every Sunday.

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Jason Sudeikis (‘Ted Lasso’) Still Believes 2026-10-18 · 96m
Author Michael Lewis (‘The Big Short’) Pulls Back the Curtain 2026-10-11 · 90m
Author Isabel Allende: A Life of Storytelling 2026-10-04 · 78m
The Christiane Amanpour Interview 2026-09-27 · 84m
Former Obama National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes: “It’s Time to Let the Illusions Die” 2026-09-20 · 90m
Can We Avoid AI Catastrophe? (with Tech Ethicist Tristan Harris) 2026-09-13 · 89m
It’s Time to Give Nick Offerman (‘Parks and Recreation’) His Flowers 2026-09-06 · 76m
Play It Again: Gloria Steinem 2026-09-04 · 63m
The Fall Movie Preview (with Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins of ‘The Big Picture’) 2026-08-30 · 118m
In ‘The Good Place’ with D’Arcy Carden 2026-08-23 · 79m
Novelist Colson Whitehead’s New York State of Mind 2026-08-16 · 66m
The ‘Past Lives’ of Actor Greta Lee 2026-08-09 · 73m
Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Cooks These ‘Good Things’ at Home 2026-08-02 · 84m
Comedian Mary Beth Barone’s Brilliant ‘Galaxy Brain’ 2026-07-26 · 77m
Actor Timothy Olyphant (‘Justified’) is Riding High 2026-07-19 · 79m
The Gilded Presidency of Donald Trump with NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman (‘Regime Change’) 2026-07-12 · 93m
Danny McBride’s Delusions of Grandeur 2026-07-05 · 72m
A New Generation Has Arrived in LA Politics. Is Nithya Raman Ready to Lead It? 2026-06-28 · 69m
Father’s Day with Tom Hanks 2026-06-21 · 60m
The Jagged Little Pieces of Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette 2026-06-14 · 72m
Sam Interviews Nathan Lane on ‘Fresh Air’ 2026-06-07 · 43m
Tony Nominee Christopher Abbott (‘Death of a Salesman’) Takes Center Stage 2026-05-31 · 76m
Is Josh Johnson (‘The Daily Show’) the 21st Century Comedian? 2026-05-24 · 61m
The Michelle Obama Interview 2026-05-17 · 84m
Mother’s Day with Julia Louis-Dreyfus 2026-05-10 · 53m
Actor Riz Ahmed Remakes the Leading Man 2026-05-03 · 81m
Showrunner Lee Sung Jin is Back with More ‘Beef’ 2026-04-26 · 89m
Play It Again: Actor Oscar Isaac 2026-04-19 · 52m
Are We Witnessing Podcaster Chris Ryan’s Apex Mountain? 2026-04-12 · 87m
Talk Easy Turns 10 (with Terry Gross) 2026-04-05 · 106m
The AI Conversation We Need to Have (with Tristan Harris) 2026-03-29 · 84m
Is Governor Josh Shapiro the Future of America? 2026-03-22 · 88m
Oscar Sunday with Filmmaker Joachim Trier (‘Sentimental Value’) 2026-03-15 · 65m
Play It Again: Actor Rose Byrne is a Woman on the Verge 2026-03-08 · 51m
Ryan Coogler Made the Movie of the Year. Now He’s Making Oscars History. 2026-03-01 · 54m
State of the Union with Journalist Jacob Soboroff 2026-02-22 · 77m
The Makings of Musician Anderson .Paak 2026-02-15 · 84m
This Is America with George Saunders 2026-02-08 · 83m
Play It Again: Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story 2026-02-01 · 49m
Is Will Arnett Nailing This Interview? 2026-01-25 · 66m
This is Patti Smith 2026-01-18 · 80m
The Return of Gwyneth Paltrow (‘Marty Supreme’) 2026-01-11 · 68m
Viola Davis: What If We’re Enough? 2026-01-04 · 70m
Is Comedian Robby Hoffman the Last American Dream? 2025-12-28 · 75m
Kate Winslet Is Home for the Holidays 2025-12-21 · 78m
The New Yorker at 100 (with David Remnick) 2025-12-14 · 98m
Renate Reinsve Delivers the Performance of the Year in ‘Sentimental Value’ 2025-12-07 · 55m
Filmmaker Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental’ Family Affair 2025-11-30 · 63m
The Noah Baumbach Retrospective 2025-11-23 · 74m
For the Holidays, Ina Garten (Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus) 2025-11-19 · 57m
Cook Alison Roman Creates ‘Something from Nothing’ 2025-11-16 · 63m
Judd Apatow’s Guide to Failure and Success (Fail Better with David Duchovny) 2025-11-12 · 51m
At the Movies with Director Edgar Wright (‘The Running Man’) 2025-11-09 · 75m
Novelist Salman Rushdie at ‘The Eleventh Hour’ 2025-11-02 · 86m
‘Before’ Director Richard Linklater 2025-10-29 · 78m
GQ’s Will Welch on the Future of Magazines (and Men) 2025-10-26 · 73m
Does Fashion Have a Future? Designer Gabriela Hearst is Threading the Needle. 2025-10-19 · 60m
Actor Rose Byrne: A Woman on the Verge 2025-10-12 · 51m
A Cup of Coffee with Director Benny Safdie (‘The Smashing Machine’) 2025-10-08 · 102m
Ta-Nehisi Coates Has a Message to Deliver. Can We Hear It? 2025-10-05 · 62m
And In Our Hour of Darkness, Writer Arundhati Roy 2025-09-28 · 65m
Director Francis Ford Coppola Keeps His Dream Alive 2025-09-21 · 61m
Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ Takes the Emmys 2025-09-15 · 69m
The Terry Gross Interview 2025-09-14 · 99m
Cook Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Returns with ‘Good Things’ 2025-09-07 · 73m
The Homecoming of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) 2025-08-31 · 60m
Laura Dern on Living Well (The Dan Buettner Podcast) 2025-08-28 · 87m
A Candid Conversation with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass 2025-08-24 · 68m
The Stories of Actor Josh Brolin (‘Weapons’) 2025-08-17 · 85m
Actor Julia Garner is Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’ 2025-08-10 · 50m
David Mamet Exits Stage Left 2025-08-03 · 79m
Director Celine Song on ‘Materialists’ (Death, Sex & Money) 2025-07-30 · 43m
Actor Patricia Clarkson (‘Sharp Objects’) Goes Her Own Way 2025-07-27 · 56m
Play It Again: Joaquin Phoenix 2025-07-23 · 64m
Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) Has Made an American Western for 2025 2025-07-20 · 56m
Lena Dunham is Never ‘Too Much’ 2025-07-16 · 75m
How ‘Big and Beautiful’ is Trump’s Bill? (with Jamelle Bouie of NYT) 2025-07-13 · 89m
Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach Returns to ‘The Bear’ 2025-07-06 · 52m
Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is Creating His Own Truman Show 2025-06-29 · 86m
Live From New York with Sam Rockwell (‘The White Lotus’) 2025-06-22 · 58m
Father’s Day with Seth Meyers 2025-06-15 · 61m
Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) is Creating a Language of Her Own 2025-06-08 · 60m
Writer Ocean Vuong’s Vision of the Future 2025-06-01 · 88m
Graduation Week with Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb 2025-05-25 · 75m
Play It Again: Sarah Silverman (‘PostMortem’) 2025-05-21 · 60m
Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett (‘James’) 2025-05-18 · 50m
Ira Glass on Three Decades of ‘This American Life’ Magic 2025-05-11 · 86m
Penn Badgley: Here’s Looking at ‘You’ 2025-05-04 · 68m
The Many Lives of Viola Davis 2025-04-27 · 70m
Elizabeth Warren Holds Onto Hope 2025-04-20 · 78m
Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (‘Dream Count’) Has Some Notes 2025-04-13 · 86m
Jenny Slate in 2025 2025-04-06 · 57m
Hollywood Plays Itself in Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ 2025-03-30 · 70m
Ezra Klein’s Call for ‘Abundance’ in America 2025-03-23 · 81m
Play It Again: Actor Amanda Seyfried 2025-03-16 · 48m
A Portrait of the Artist Tyler Mitchell 2025-03-09 · 83m
Actor Monica Barbaro (‘A Complete Unknown’) Takes the Stage as Joan Baez 2025-03-02 · 59m
Oscars Week with Jesse Eisenberg (‘A Real Pain’) 2025-02-26 · 60m
Director RaMell Ross (‘Nickel Boys’) is Redefining Cinema 2025-02-23 · 64m
Live From New York: 50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2025-02-20 · 46m
Are You Not Entertained? Host Chris Hayes (The Sirens’ Call) on the Attention Age 2025-02-16 · 71m
Mikey Madison (‘Anora’) Enters Her Golden Age 2025-02-09 · 53m
The Humanity of Actor Steven Yeun (‘Love Me’) 2025-02-02 · 74m
Director David Lynch Transcends 2025-01-26 · 41m
The Week That Changed Los Angeles 2025-01-19 · 62m
A Hopeful Climate Conversation with Richard Powers 2025-01-12 · 58m
A New Year with Writer Jia Tolentino (‘Trick Mirror’) 2025-01-05 · 80m
A ‘Babygirl’ Holiday with Harris Dickinson 2024-12-29 · 54m
Writer Hilton Als on Prince and ‘What Joan Didion Means’ 2024-12-22 · 52m
The Year of Actor Sebastian Stan (‘The Apprentice’) 2024-12-15 · 77m
Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni 2024-12-11 · 44m
Talk Easy in 2024: A Mixtape 2024-12-08 · 59m
Host Padma Lakshmi (‘Taste the Nation’) is Just Getting Started 2024-12-01 · 54m
Play It Again: Jeff Daniels 2024-11-27 · 73m
Jesse Eisenberg Steps Into His Past 2024-11-24 · 63m
Actor Josh Brolin: A Life in Vivid Color 2024-11-17 · 85m
What Can Be, Burdened By What Has Been (with Astead Herndon of NYT) 2024-11-10 · 69m
Ta-Nehisi Coates (‘The Message’) is Live in Los Angeles 2024-11-03 · 61m
Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art 2024-10-27 · 62m
This Conversation with Author Jason Reynolds is a Gift 2024-10-20 · 83m
Wesley Morris Returns with ‘The Wonder of Stevie’ 2024-10-16 · 85m
Director Jason Reitman’s Love Letter to ‘Saturday Night’ 2024-10-13 · 62m
Francis Ford Coppola Stays in the Picture 2024-10-06 · 64m
The Joaquin Phoenix Interview 2024-09-29 · 65m
Why Myha’la (‘Industry’) is Playing the Long Game 2024-09-25 · 57m
Actor Ken Leung (‘Industry’) Enters a New Season 2024-09-22 · 54m
Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam 2024-09-15 · 57m
The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform 2024-09-08 · 60m
Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light 2024-09-01 · 51m
Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene 2024-08-29 · 45m
We Are So Back (at the Movies) with Sean Fennessey (‘The Big Picture’) 2024-08-25 · 92m
A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date 2024-08-18 · 64m
Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024 2024-08-11 · 86m
The Vision of Novelist Zadie Smith (‘The Fraud’) 2024-08-04 · 68m
Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Her ‘Long Island Compromise’ 2024-07-28 · 71m
Tom Hanks: A Retrospective 2024-07-24 · 58m
Talk Easy Presents Author Isabel Allende on ‘Wiser Than Me’ 2024-07-21 · 77m
Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus 2024-07-14 · 56m
Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach (‘The Bear’) Returns to the Kitchen 2024-07-07 · 53m
A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville 2024-06-30 · 72m
How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer 2024-06-23 · 64m
A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke) 2024-06-16 · 73m
Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time 2024-06-09 · 80m
Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos 2024-06-02 · 62m
Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering 2024-05-26 · 60m
A Love Letter to Comedy with Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello (‘Hacks’) 2024-05-19 · 76m
A Mother’s Day Special with Pamela Adlon (‘Better Things’) 2024-05-12 · 66m
Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait 2024-05-05 · 85m
Nick Offerman (‘Civil War’) Brings a Message of Hope 2024-04-28 · 76m
Poet Rupi Kaur: 10 Years of 'Milk and Honey' 2024-04-21 · 62m
The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels 2024-04-14 · 75m
Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man 2024-04-07 · 62m
Director M. Night Shyamalan: A Talk from 'Development Hell' 2024-03-31 · 58m
Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’ 2024-03-24 · 84m
Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day 2024-03-20 · 48m
How Do We Think About the 2024 Election? 2024-03-17 · 75m
Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’) 2024-03-10 · 59m
From the Oscar Archives: Cate Blanchett 2024-03-06 · 55m
Dispatches from a Gaza Hospital (with Dr. Seema Jilani) 2024-03-03 · 57m
A Cup of Coffee with Actor Kyle MacLachlan (‘Twin Peaks’) 2024-02-25 · 62m
Lily Gladstone (‘Killers of the Flower Moon’) is Making History 2024-02-18 · 64m
Quinta Brunson: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Back in Session 2024-02-11 · 56m
Filmmaker Lulu Wang Creates In Between Two Worlds 2024-02-04 · 70m
Oscar Nominations with Wesley Morris (The New York Times) 2024-01-28 · 77m
Dan Levy (‘Schitt’s Creek’) Goes His Own Way 2024-01-21 · 62m
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework 2024-01-14 · 69m
Actor Michelle Williams Works from a ‘Place of Peace’ 2024-01-07 · 54m
Talk Easy’s 2023 Mixtape 2023-12-31 · 78m
Bradley Cooper as ‘Maestro’ from The New Yorker Radio Hour 2023-12-24 · 51m
The New Yorker Editor David Remnick: 'There's No Time to Despair' 2023-12-17 · 84m
The Transformations of Actor Willem Dafoe 2023-12-10 · 61m
Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Fights for the Protection of Journalists 2023-12-03 · 63m
Actor and Director Benny Safdie Does It All 2023-11-26 · 63m
The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling 2023-11-19 · 59m
The Ziwe Interview 2023-11-12 · 59m
Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain 2023-11-05 · 54m
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (with Writer Michael Lewis) 2023-10-29 · 68m
Singer-Songwriter Weyes Blood Gives Us ‘Something to Believe’ 2023-10-22 · 63m
A Human Conversation with Writer George Saunders 2023-10-15 · 56m
Author and Critic Hua Hsu (The New Yorker) ‘Stays True’ 2023-10-08 · 63m
The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith 2023-10-01 · 69m
Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World 2023-09-27 · 69m
Legend David Byrne (‘Stop Making Sense’) is Still Burning Down the House 2023-09-24 · 51m
The State of Hollywood with Matt Belloni (‘The Town’) 2023-09-17 · 72m
Jazz Singer Laufey is Bringing the Past to the Present 2023-09-10 · 57m
The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders) 2023-09-03 · 67m
Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim 2023-08-30 · 44m
The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim 2023-08-27 · 62m
Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own 2023-08-23 · 67m
Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’) Can Hear the Music 2023-08-20 · 59m
Beto O'Rourke and the Border 2023-08-13 · 85m
Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Threads History and the Afrofuture 2023-08-06 · 71m
The Revolution Will Be Televised (with 'The Bear' Writer Alex O'Keefe) 2023-07-30 · 67m
Photographer Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing 2023-07-23 · 95m
At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates 2023-07-19 · 53m
The Summer of Our Discontent with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times) 2023-07-16 · 63m
The Making of Tom Hanks 2023-07-09 · 61m
Every Second Counts with Actor Jon Bernthal (‘The Bear’) 2023-07-02 · 59m
The Era of Actor Michael Shannon 2023-06-25 · 56m
Model and Activist Geena Rocero Lives Her Story 2023-06-21 · 53m
A Father’s Day Special with Sarah Silverman 2023-06-18 · 61m
A Sunday Matinee with Actor Oscar Isaac 2023-06-11 · 53m
Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story 2023-06-04 · 60m
The Elements of Singer-Songwriter Arlo Parks 2023-05-31 · 48m
Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life 2023-05-28 · 43m
Bill Hader Says Goodbye to ‘Barry’ 2023-05-24 · 51m
Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’ 2023-05-21 · 45m
Mother’s Day with ‘Top Chef’ Padma Lakshmi 2023-05-14 · 57m
Introducing So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin 2023-05-10 · 11m
Jay Jordan Was Incarcerated At 18. Now, He’s Transforming the Criminal Justice System. 2023-05-07 · 89m
All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain 2023-04-30 · 54m
Carol Burnett Turns 90 2023-04-26 · 59m
Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking 2023-04-23 · 63m
A Portrait of Actor Michelle Williams 2023-04-16 · 54m
Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story 2023-04-09 · 74m
How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock 2023-04-02 · 54m
Actor Bob Odenkirk: The King of (Dark) Comedy 2023-03-26 · 68m
The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood 2023-03-22 · 51m
Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee 2023-03-19 · 55m
Oscar Sunday with Actor Ke Huy Quan 2023-03-12 · 52m
Actor Ram Charan and the RRRevolution 2023-03-08 · 52m
Actor and Director Natasha Lyonne Plays Her Hand 2023-03-05 · 63m
Mr. Frost Goes to Washington 2023-02-26 · 57m
The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal 2023-02-19 · 53m
The Makings of Writer Hilton Als 2023-02-12 · 52m
Actor and Activist Nazanin Nour Wants to Tell a New Story of Iran 2023-02-05 · 55m
Opening Night with Artist Kehinde Wiley 2023-01-29 · 41m
50 Years After Roe v. Wade: A Conversation With a Texas Abortion Provider 2023-01-22 · 53m
The Road to Actor Ke Huy Quan’s Second Act 2023-01-15 · 55m
Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved 2023-01-08 · 49m
The 2022 Talk Easy Holiday Special 2022-12-25 · 88m
Nobel Peace Prize Journalist Maria Ressa Holds the Line 2022-12-18 · 63m
Actor Lake Bell: 'The Voice is a Roadmap of Your History' 2022-12-14 · 53m
An Interlude with Musician Dev Hynes 2022-12-11 · 60m
Performer Kumail Nanjiani: A New Act 2022-12-04 · 58m
Actor Jonathan Majors: ‘Everything Happens To Me’ 2022-11-27 · 49m
An Afternoon at Judd Apatow’s Office 2022-11-20 · 61m
Journalist Kara Swisher Believes in the Future 2022-11-13 · 47m
Writer George Saunders, Moment by Moment 2022-11-06 · 57m
The Homecoming of Director James Gray 2022-10-30 · 44m
Comedian Nick Kroll is Going Through Changes 2022-10-26 · 46m
The Transformation of Actor Eddie Redmayne 2022-10-23 · 52m
How Congresswoman Cori Bush Reimagines Politics 2022-10-16 · 57m
Back to School with Quinta Brunson (‘Abbott Elementary’) 2022-10-09 · 54m
Writer Sandra Cisneros is a ‘Woman Without Shame’ 2022-10-02 · 69m
Understanding the Midterms with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times) 2022-09-28 · 52m
Comedian Billy Eichner, Street to Screen 2022-09-25 · 48m
Storytelling with ‘Atlanta’ Director Hiro Murai 2022-09-18 · 45m
The Aftermath of 9/11 2022-09-11 · 88m
The Airline Workers' Movement is Taking Off 2022-09-04 · 60m
‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates 2022-08-28 · 52m
Abbi Jacobson: A League of Her Own 2022-08-21 · 69m
A New Era of Musician Joey Bada$$ 2022-08-14 · 68m
Coming of Age with Lena Dunham 2022-08-07 · 75m
Ethan Hawke, Here and Then 2022-07-31 · 71m
At Home with Comedian John Early 2022-07-24 · 63m
Disaster is Not Our Destiny. Neither is Democracy. 2022-07-17 · 72m
Jenny Slate in 2022 2022-07-10 · 45m
Through the Woods with Nick Offerman 2022-07-03 · 54m
Margo Jefferson: We Must ‘Go On’ 2022-06-26 · 71m
The Supreme Court Conversation We’re Not Having 2022-06-19 · 50m
David Sedaris: A Life On and Off the Page 2022-06-12 · 57m
Actor Jon Bernthal: Leading Man 2022-06-05 · 60m
Performer Meg Stalter Heals Through Comedy 2022-06-01 · 52m
What Will It Take To Change? (with Stacey Abrams) 2022-05-29 · 55m
Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time 2022-05-22 · 61m
Pedro Pascal: A Life of Dreaming 2022-05-15 · 52m
Mother’s Day with Minnie Driver 2022-05-08 · 68m
Bill Hader Finds His Story 2022-05-01 · 51m
Poet Rupi Kaur is Here to Stay 2022-04-24 · 62m
Play It Again: Ocean Vuong 2022-04-20 · 54m
Love Songs with Syd (The Internet, Odd Future) 2022-04-17 · 56m
Let’s Talk About Sex (At the Movies) 2022-04-10 · 48m
Anita Hill is Getting Even. We Believe Her. 2022-04-03 · 57m
Oscar Sunday with Questlove 2022-03-27 · 54m
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present 2022-03-20 · 55m
The Pieces of David Byrne 2022-03-13 · 52m
Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions 2022-03-06 · 52m
Stacey Abrams’ Guide to Preserving Democracy 2022-02-27 · 53m
W. Kamau Bell: How Do We Talk About Cosby? 2022-02-23 · 40m
A Texas Principal Said Black Lives Matter. His Community Didn’t Agree. 2022-02-20 · 64m
How Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl) Gives Space 2022-02-16 · 42m
A Tea with Cate Blanchett 2022-02-13 · 55m
Questlove: A Celebration of Soul 2022-02-06 · 55m
Actor Tessa Thompson is Boundless 2022-01-30 · 45m
Ezra Klein (The New York Times) On The Year Ahead 2022-01-23 · 53m
Alana Haim: 13 Going on 30 2022-01-16 · 46m
Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham: How Did We Get Here? 2022-01-09 · 57m
Sunday on the Podcast with George Saunders 2022-01-02 · 59m
A Talk Easy Holiday Special 2021-12-19 · 90m
How We Continue (with Noam Chomsky) 2021-12-12 · 41m
Michael Tubbs: The Deeper the Roots 2021-12-05 · 67m
Play It Again: Author Jhumpa Lahiri 2021-11-28 · 56m
Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Path to Home 2021-11-21 · 53m
A Double Feature: Vicky Krieps and Melanie Lynskey 2021-11-14 · 62m
A Sunday Sermon with Janaya Future Khan 2021-11-07 · 64m
Comedian Jeff Garlin is Young at Heart 2021-10-31 · 54m
Nick Offerman: Out of the Woods 2021-10-24 · 57m
How to Reconnect to Earth (with Author Richard Powers) 2021-10-17 · 57m
Actor Noomi Rapace’s Homecoming 2021-10-10 · 40m
Poet Nikki Giovanni: Life is a Good Idea 2021-10-03 · 44m
Julie Delpy: Just Passing Through 2021-09-26 · 48m
A Portrait of Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola 2021-09-19 · 69m
The Aftermath of 9/11 2021-09-11 · 96m
Play It Again: Holland Taylor 2021-09-05 · 73m
Lorde: Through the Years 2021-08-29 · 47m
The Makings of Actor Poorna Jagannathan 2021-08-22 · 52m
Off the Court with Candace Parker 2021-08-15 · 44m
Dr. Jha on the State of the Pandemic 2021-08-08 · 35m
Director Brian De Palma: A Retrospective 2021-08-01 · 41m
A Zola Roundtable with Janicza Bravo and Joi McMillon 2021-07-25 · 64m
On Air with Larry Wilmore 2021-07-18 · 53m
Vince Staples by Vince Staples 2021-07-11 · 44m
Play It Again: Ts Madison 2021-07-04 · 57m
Steven Soderbergh: Making Movies 2021-06-27 · 47m
Uzo Aduba: The Road is Good 2021-06-20 · 37m
A Phone Call with Author Dave Eggers 2021-06-16 · 49m
Sleater-Kinney's Path of Wellness 2021-06-13 · 51m
On Earth with Ocean Vuong 2021-06-06 · 56m
One on One with CNN's Jake Tapper 2021-05-30 · 50m
Anna Sale: Death, Sex & Money 2021-05-23 · 50m
The Michael Lewis Story 2021-05-16 · 57m
Mother’s Day with Writer Jhumpa Lahiri 2021-05-09 · 58m
The Freedom Riders Turn 60 (with Dr. Bernard Lafayette) 2021-05-02 · 50m
Joel Meyerowitz: A Life in Photos 2021-04-25 · 98m
Kevin Abstract: New Light, New Machine 2021-04-21 · 46m
Songs For You 2021-04-18 · 4m
Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman 2021-04-15 · 50m
The Ts Madison Experience 2021-04-11 · 58m
We Turn Five 2021-04-04 · 63m
Nathaniel Rich: Stories from a World Remade 2021-03-31 · 49m
Sunday School with Author Anne Lamott 2021-03-28 · 50m
Black Futures with Kimberly Drew and J Wortham 2021-03-21 · 47m
The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried 2021-03-14 · 50m
Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality 2021-03-07 · 65m
At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On 2021-02-28 · 40m
Rest and Rebuild with Brittany Packnett Cunningham 2021-02-21 · 57m
Alone but Never Lonely: Johnny Mathis at 85 2021-02-14 · 36m
Short Stories with George Saunders 2021-02-07 · 63m
Dr. Ashish Jha Sees the COVID Finish Line 2021-02-03 · 37m
Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper? 2021-01-31 · 40m
A Talk Easy Holiday Special: Goodbye 2020 2020-12-27 · 92m
A Talk Easy Holiday Special (pt. 1) 2020-12-20 · 62m
Janaya Future Khan: The Work of Being Alive 2020-12-13 · 67m
The AIDS Memorial: Stories of Love, Loss, and Remembrance 2020-12-06 · 103m
Fran Lebowitz on Vinyl 2020-11-29 · 28m
Matthew McConaughey: Just Keep Livin 2020-11-22 · 57m
How Do We Heal? (with Resmaa Menakem) 2020-11-15 · 50m
Election Week with Noam Chomsky 2020-11-08 · 50m
Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein 2020-10-29 · 74m
A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman) 2020-10-25 · 74m
Antwaun Sargent: Young, Gifted and Black 2020-10-22 · 53m
State of the Union with Cornel West 2020-10-18 · 50m
Radha Blank: The Forty-Year-Old Version 2020-10-15 · 46m
Rep. Ilhan Omar: What Can America Look Like? 2020-10-11 · 47m
Claudia Rankine: Just Us 2020-10-04 · 63m
Me and You and Miranda July 2020-09-27 · 58m
Mythmaking with Jena Malone 2020-09-23 · 49m
Play It Again: Gloria Steinem 2020-09-20 · 70m
Carrie Coon / Cat Solen 2020-09-16 · 78m
Janelle Monáe, Past and Present 2020-09-13 · 48m
Brittany Howard is a “Living Miracle” 2020-09-06 · 41m
The Carol Burnett Show 2020-08-30 · 66m
Tyler Mitchell's “Black Utopia” 2020-08-26 · 44m
Unbreakable Tituss Burgess 2020-08-23 · 53m
Leah Remini vs. The Church of Scientology 2020-08-19 · 47m
Norman Lear Turns 98 2020-08-16 · 50m
Jenny Slate in 2020 2020-08-09 · 63m
Malcolm Gladwell Returns 2020-08-02 · 51m
Hannah Gadsby 2020-07-26 · 50m
Fran Lebowitz 2020-07-19 · 81m
Run the Jewels 2020-07-12 · 55m
Bonus Episode: Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross! 2020-07-09 · 51m
Hasan Minhaj 2020-07-05 · 57m
A COVID-19 Checkup with Dr. Ashish Jha 2020-06-28 · 45m
Bonus Episode: Radnor & Lee 2020-06-24 · 58m
Episode 176 - Dolores Huerta 2020-06-21 · 74m
Episode 175 - Holland Taylor 2020-06-14 · 73m
Episode 174 - Hank Willis Thomas 2020-06-07 · 43m
Episode 173 - Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker) On the Death of George Floyd 2020-05-31 · 51m
Bonus Episode: Directors Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness) & Malik Vitthal (Body Cam) 2020-05-27 · 67m
Episode 172 - Brooke Gladstone (On the Media, NPR) 2020-05-24 · 60m
Episode 171 - Ted Danson 2020-05-17 · 73m
A Mother's Day Special 2020-05-10 · 79m
Episode 170 - Roxane Gay 2020-05-03 · 60m
Introducing: “The Last Dance Aftershow” 2020-04-30 · 2m
Episode 169 - Elizabeth Gilbert 2020-04-26 · 86m
Episode 168 - W. Kamau Bell, Four Years Later 2020-04-19 · 72m
Episode 167 - Noam Chomsky (plus Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard Global Health Institute) 2020-04-12 · 78m
Episode 166 - Beto O'Rourke 2020-04-05 · 76m
Episode 165 - Naomi Klein 2020-03-29 · 58m
Episode 164 - Juliette Lewis 2020-03-22 · 65m
Episode 163 - Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of Harvard Global Health Institute) 2020-03-15 · 55m
Episode 162 - Sam Waterston 2020-03-08 · 63m
Episode 161 - Alison Pill 2020-03-01 · 62m
Episode 160 - Haley Bennett 2020-02-23 · 56m
Episode 159 - Morgan Parker 2020-02-16 · 78m
A Talk Easy Holiday Special! 2019-12-23 · 102m
Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem 2019-12-16 · 67m
Episode 157 - Laura Dern 2019-12-09 · 57m
Episode 156 - Tracy Letts 2019-11-25 · 90m
Episode 155 - Errol Morris 2019-11-17 · 67m
Episode 154 - Alma Har'el 2019-11-10 · 61m
Episode 153 - Randall Park 2019-11-03 · 58m
Episode 152 - Edward Norton 2019-10-28 · 68m
Play It Again: Robert Forster (1941-2019) 2019-10-20 · 78m
Episode 151 - Gary Gulman 2019-10-13 · 58m
Episode 150 - Sam 2019-10-07 · 74m
Bonus Episode: Trace Lysette 2019-09-30 · 50m
Episode 149 - Scott Aukerman 2019-09-22 · 77m
Episode 148 - Karley Sciortino 2019-09-15 · 72m
Episode 147 - Peter Bogdanovich 2019-09-08 · 67m
Episode 146 - Justin Simien 2019-09-01 · 75m
Episode 145 - Whitney Cummings 2019-08-25 · 71m
Talk Easy Throwback: Mom 2019-08-18 · 77m
Talk Easy Throwback: Alan Alda 2019-08-11 · 53m
Talk Easy Throwback: John Cho 2019-08-04 · 72m
Talk Easy Throwback: Lena Waithe 2019-07-28 · 75m
Talk Easy Throwback: Malcolm Gladwell 2019-07-22 · 72m
Talk Easy Throwback: Norman Lear 2019-07-14 · 57m
Episode 144 - Ron Perlman 2019-06-30 · 60m
Episode 143 - Jeff Garlin 2019-06-23 · 55m
Episode 142 - Raphael Bob-Waksberg 2019-06-16 · 69m
Episode 141 - Michael Kelly 2019-06-09 · 75m
Episode 140 - Jacki Weaver 2019-06-02 · 62m
Episode 139 - Kenneth Branagh 2019-05-26 · 71m
Episode 138 - Pam Grier 2019-05-19 · 70m
Episode 137 - Werner Herzog 2019-05-12 · 60m
Episode 136 - Wyatt Cenac 2019-05-05 · 57m
Episode 135 - Chaz Ebert 2019-04-29 · 70m
Episode 134 - Live From Ebertfest! (With Richard Roeper, Rita Coburn Whack, And More) 2019-04-21 · 56m
Episode 133 - Tayarisha Poe 2019-04-15 · 57m
Episode 132 - Sean Kingston 2019-04-08 · 57m
Episode 131 - Alex Ross Perry 2019-04-01 · 77m
Episode 130 - Bill Pullman 2019-03-25 · 63m
Episode 129 - Brit Marling 2019-03-18 · 73m
Episode 128 - Vincent D'Onofrio 2019-03-14 · 59m
Episode 127 - Mary Holland 2019-03-03 · 56m
Episode 126 - Keith David 2019-02-24 · 58m
Episode 125 - Matt Walsh 2019-02-19 · 49m
Episode 124 - Dulé Hill 2019-02-11 · 54m
Episode 123 - Minhal Baig 2019-02-04 · 56m
Episode 122 - Jeremy O. Harris 2018-12-24 · 82m
Episode 121 - Jacqueline Bisset 2018-12-17 · 51m
Episode 120 - Chris Elliott 2018-12-10 · 67m
Episode 119 - Patrick Wang 2018-12-03 · 60m
Episode 118 - Zoë Ligon 2018-11-19 · 72m
Episode 117 - Viggo Mortensen 2018-11-12 · 55m
Episode 116 - Jonny Sun 2018-11-05 · 54m
Episode 115 - Adam Bhala Lough 2018-10-29 · 90m
Episode 114 - DeRay Mckesson 2018-10-22 · 50m
Episode 113 - Paul Dano 2018-10-14 · 59m
Episode 112 - Nathaniel Rich 2018-10-08 · 56m
Episode 111 - Kamasi Washington 2018-10-01 · 59m
Episode 110 - Judy Greer 2018-09-24 · 79m
Episode 109 - Amma Asante 2018-09-17 · 53m
Lessons Learned (or how I turned 24 today) 2018-09-09 · 66m
Episode 107 - Colman Domingo 2018-09-03 · 79m
Episode 106 - Ione Skye 2018-08-27 · 73m
Episode 105 - Jerrika Hinton 2018-08-20 · 81m
Episode 104 - Sheila Vand 2018-08-06 · 70m
Episode 103 - Lauren Miller Rogen 2018-07-30 · 65m
Episode 102 - Alan Alda 2018-07-22 · 56m
Episode 101 - Rob Reiner 2018-07-15 · 67m
Episode 100 - Dad 2018-07-02 · 93m
Episode 99 - John Cho 2018-06-24 · 72m
Episode 98 - Chas Allen (Real-life subject of "American Animals") 2018-06-17 · 83m
Episode 97 - Dawn Porter 2018-06-11 · 49m
Episode 96 - Touré 2018-06-04 · 79m
Episode 95 - Nina Collins 2018-05-23 · 64m
Episode 94 - Gillian Jacobs 2018-05-14 · 51m
Episode 93 - Laia Costa 2018-05-07 · 51m
Episode 92 - Julie Dash 2018-04-30 · 65m
Episode 91 - Kogonada 2018-04-22 · 64m
Episode 90 - Chloé Zhao 2018-04-16 · 58m
Episode 89 - The Lost Episode 2018-04-09 · 58m
Episode 88 - Michael Imperioli 2018-04-03 · 58m
Episode 87 - Jay Duplass 2018-03-26 · 55m
Episode 86 - Josh Radnor 2018-03-19 · 78m
Episode 85 - Alia Shawkat 2018-03-12 · 92m
A Talk Easy Holiday Special 2017-12-24 · 85m
Episode 83 - Sean Baker 2017-12-18 · 75m
Episode 82 - Lois Smith 2017-12-11 · 65m
Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins 2017-12-05 · 67m
Episode 80 - Rory Scovel 2017-11-20 · 67m
Episode 79 - Joachim Trier 2017-11-13 · 47m
Episode 78 - Noël Wells 2017-11-06 · 48m
Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta 2017-10-31 · 77m
Episode 76 - Shea Serrano 2017-10-25 · 64m
Episode 75 - Jen Yamato 2017-10-16 · 68m
Episode 74 - Jon Daly 2017-10-09 · 76m
Episode 73 - Willem Dafoe 2017-10-02 · 45m
Episode 72 - Erica Chidi Cohen 2017-09-25 · 55m
Episode 71 - Giancarlo Esposito 2017-09-19 · 77m
Episode 70 - Heather Havrilesky 2017-09-12 · 81m
Episode 69 - Norman Lear 2017-08-28 · 57m
Episode 68 - Fred Melamed 2017-08-21 · 70m
Episode 67 - Amber Navran 2017-08-14 · 63m
Episode 66 - Rostam Batmanglij 2017-08-06 · 61m
Episode 65 - Doreen St. Félix 2017-07-30 · 54m
Episode 64 - Robert Downey Sr. 2017-07-23 · 59m
Episode 63 - Jelani Cobb 2017-07-17 · 93m
Episode 62 - Jenny Slate 2017-07-11 · 67m
Episode 61 - A.O. Scott 2017-07-03 · 73m
Episode 60 - Malcolm Gladwell 2017-06-25 · 70m
Episode 59 - Patricia Lockwood 2017-06-18 · 59m
Episode 58 - Lena Waithe 2017-06-12 · 75m
Episode 57 - Sudan Archives (Stones Throw Series) 2017-05-31 · 59m
Episode 56 - Mild High Club (Stones Throw Series) 2017-05-23 · 59m
Episode 55 - J Rocc (Stones Throw Series) 2017-05-17 · 74m
Episode 54 - Peanut Butter Wolf (Stones Throw Series) 2017-05-10 · 77m
Episode 53 - Corinne Bailey Rae 2017-05-03 · 72m
Episode 52 - Martin Starr 2017-04-26 · 69m
Episode 51 - Anna Sale 2017-04-19 · 62m
Episode 50 - Mom 2017-04-11 · 76m
Episode 49 - James Gray 2017-04-04 · 67m
Episode 48 - Andy Daly 2017-03-28 · 79m
Episode 47 - Alice Lowe 2017-03-22 · 64m
Live From SXSW: Janicza Bravo 2017-03-14 · 63m
Episode 45 - Brenton Wood 2017-03-08 · 68m
Episode 44 - Philip Baker Hall 2017-03-02 · 94m
Episode 43 - Andrea Silenzi 2017-02-22 · 75m
Episode 42 - Roger Ross Williams 2017-02-14 · 51m
Episode 41 - Andy Greenwald 2017-02-08 · 84m
Episode 40 - Kate Berlant 2017-01-31 · 60m
Episode 39 - Noël Wells 2017-01-25 · 42m
Episode 38 - Brett Gelman 2017-01-18 · 78m
Bonus Christmas Special 2016! 2016-12-26 · 95m
Episode 37 - Reggie Watts 2016-12-14 · 66m
Episode 36 - Jay Caspian Kang 2016-12-07 · 66m
Episode 35 - Matt Zoller Seitz 2016-11-30 · 64m
Episode 34 - Mackenzie Davis 2016-11-23 · 54m
Episode 33 - Zoe Kazan 2016-11-16 · 74m
Episode 32 - Max Linsky 2016-11-01 · 55m
Episode 31 - Zazie Beetz 2016-10-26 · 66m
Episode 30 - W. Kamau Bell Returns! 2016-10-21 · 54m
Episode 29 - Margaret Brown 2016-10-20 · 58m
Episode 28 - Kelly Reichardt 2016-10-11 · 61m
Episode 27 - Mndsgn 2016-10-04 · 56m
Episode 26 - Esperanza Spalding 2016-09-27 · 74m
Episode 25 - Steve James 2016-09-20 · 54m
Episode 24 - Michael Phillips 2016-09-13 · 36m
Episode 23 - Lauren Lapkus 2016-09-07 · 61m
Episode 22 - Ben Schwartz 2016-08-30 · 62m
Episode 21 - Melanie Lynskey 2016-08-23 · 60m
Episode 20 - Charlene deGuzman 2016-08-17 · 49m
Episode 19 - Ira Sachs 2016-08-09 · 48m
Episode 18 - Kate Micucci 2016-08-02 · 51m
Episode 17 - Alan Arkin 2016-07-27 · 55m
Episode 16 - Donnie Trumpet 2016-07-19 · 57m
Episode 15 - Eric André 2016-07-13 · 39m
Episode 14 - Alex Gibney 2016-07-05 · 50m
Episode 13 - Alissa Wilkinson 2016-06-28 · 62m
Bonus Episode - Robert Forster 2016-06-24 · 26m
Episode 12 - Robert Forster 2016-06-21 · 70m
Episode 11 - Amy Nicholson 2016-06-14 · 81m
Episode 10 - Sherman Alexie 2016-06-07 · 59m
Episode 9 - Spencer Haywood 2016-05-31 · 62m
Episode 8 - Mac DeMarco 2016-05-24 · 58m
Episode 7 - The Ross Brothers 2016-05-17 · 61m
Episode 6 - Lamorne Morris 2016-05-10 · 65m
Episode 5 - Wesley Morris 2016-05-03 · 67m
Episode 4 - David Oyelowo 2016-04-26 · 39m
Episode 3 - Amy Seimetz 2016-04-19 · 64m
Episode 2 - W. Kamau Bell 2016-04-12 · 66m
Episode 1 - Don Cheadle 2016-04-07 · 26m
Episode 0 - Announcement 2016-04-06 · 2m
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