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

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Episodes (559)

Does Fashion Have a Future? Designer Gabriela Hearst is Threading the Needle.

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Actor Rose Byrne: A Woman on the Verge

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A Cup of Coffee with Director Benny Safdie (‘The Smashing Machine’)

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Ta-Nehisi Coates Has a Message to Deliver. Can We Hear It?

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And In Our Hour of Darkness, Writer Arundhati Roy

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Director Francis Ford Coppola Keeps His Dream Alive

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Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ Takes the Emmys

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The Terry Gross Interview

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Cook Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Returns with ‘Good Things’

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The Homecoming of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)

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Laura Dern on Living Well (The Dan Buettner Podcast)

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A Candid Conversation with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

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The Stories of Actor Josh Brolin (‘Weapons’)

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Actor Julia Garner is Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’

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David Mamet Exits Stage Left

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Director Celine Song on ‘Materialists’ (Death, Sex & Money)

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Actor Patricia Clarkson (‘Sharp Objects’) Goes Her Own Way

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Play It Again: Joaquin Phoenix

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Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) Has Made an American Western for 2025

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Lena Dunham is Never ‘Too Much’

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How ‘Big and Beautiful’ is Trump’s Bill? (with Jamelle Bouie of NYT)

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Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach Returns to ‘The Bear’

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Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is Creating His Own Truman Show

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Live From New York with Sam Rockwell (‘The White Lotus’)

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Father’s Day with Seth Meyers

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Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) is Creating a Language of Her Own

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Writer Ocean Vuong’s Vision of the Future

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Graduation Week with Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb

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Play It Again: Sarah Silverman (‘PostMortem’)

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett (‘James’)

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Ira Glass on Three Decades of ‘This American Life’ Magic

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Penn Badgley: Here’s Looking at ‘You’

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The Many Lives of Viola Davis

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Elizabeth Warren Holds Onto Hope

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Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (‘Dream Count’) Has Some Notes

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Jenny Slate in 2025

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Hollywood Plays Itself in Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’

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Ezra Klein’s Call for ‘Abundance’ in America

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Play It Again: Actor Amanda Seyfried

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A Portrait of the Artist Tyler Mitchell

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Actor Monica Barbaro (‘A Complete Unknown’) Takes the Stage as Joan Baez

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Oscars Week with Jesse Eisenberg (‘A Real Pain’)

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Director RaMell Ross (‘Nickel Boys’) is Redefining Cinema

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Live From New York: 50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Are You Not Entertained? Host Chris Hayes (The Sirens’ Call) on the Attention Ag...

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Mikey Madison (‘Anora’) Enters Her Golden Age

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The Humanity of Actor Steven Yeun (‘Love Me’)

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Director David Lynch Transcends

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The Week That Changed Los Angeles

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A Hopeful Climate Conversation with Richard Powers

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