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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)

A New Year with Writer Jia Tolentino (‘Trick Mirror’)

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A ‘Babygirl’ Holiday with Harris Dickinson

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Dec 29, 202454:28pending

Writer Hilton Als on Prince and ‘What Joan Didion Means’

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Dec 22, 202452:05pending

The Year of Actor Sebastian Stan (‘The Apprentice’)

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Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni

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Dec 11, 202444:27pending

Talk Easy in 2024: A Mixtape

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Dec 8, 202458:46pending

Host Padma Lakshmi (‘Taste the Nation’) is Just Getting Started

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Dec 1, 202453:39pending

Play It Again: Jeff Daniels

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Nov 27, 20241:13:17pending

Jesse Eisenberg Steps Into His Past

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Actor Josh Brolin: A Life in Vivid Color

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Nov 17, 20241:25:23pending

What Can Be, Burdened By What Has Been (with Astead Herndon of NYT)

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Nov 10, 20241:09:26pending

Ta-Nehisi Coates (‘The Message’) is Live in Los Angeles

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Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art

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Oct 27, 20241:02:24pending

This Conversation with Author Jason Reynolds is a Gift

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Oct 20, 20241:23:17pending

Director Jason Reitman’s Love Letter to ‘Saturday Night’

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Oct 13, 20241:02:07pending

Francis Ford Coppola Stays in the Picture

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Oct 6, 20241:04:29pending

The Joaquin Phoenix Interview

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Sep 29, 20241:05:15pending

Why Myha’la (‘Industry’) is Playing the Long Game

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Sep 25, 202457:13pending

Actor Ken Leung (‘Industry’) Enters a New Season

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Sep 22, 202454:29pending

Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam

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Sep 15, 202456:56pending

The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform

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Sep 8, 202459:40pending

Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light

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Sep 1, 202451:09pending

Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene

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Aug 29, 202444:55pending

We Are So Back (at the Movies) with Sean Fennessey (‘The Big Picture’)

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Aug 25, 20241:31:55pending

A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date

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Aug 18, 20241:03:31pending

Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024

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Aug 11, 20241:25:32pending

The Vision of Novelist Zadie Smith (‘The Fraud’)

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Aug 4, 20241:08:29pending

Writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner on Her ‘Long Island Compromise’

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Jul 28, 20241:11:25pending

Tom Hanks: A Retrospective

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Jul 24, 202457:56pending

Talk Easy Presents Author Isabel Allende on ‘Wiser Than Me’

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Jul 21, 20241:16:57pending

Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Jul 14, 202455:31pending

Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach (‘The Bear’) Returns to the Kitchen

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Jul 7, 202453:16pending

A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville

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Jun 30, 20241:11:53pending

How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer

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Jun 23, 20241:03:38pending

A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke)

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Jun 16, 20241:13:06pending

Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time

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Jun 9, 20241:20:12pending

Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

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Jun 2, 20241:01:41pending

Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering

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May 26, 20241:00:29pending

A Love Letter to Comedy with Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello (‘Hacks’)

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May 19, 20241:15:56pending

A Mother’s Day Special with Pamela Adlon (‘Better Things’)

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May 12, 20241:05:34pending

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait

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May 5, 20241:25:05pending

Nick Offerman (‘Civil War’) Brings a Message of Hope

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Apr 28, 20241:16:15pending

Poet Rupi Kaur: 10 Years of 'Milk and Honey'

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Apr 21, 20241:02:15pending

The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels

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Apr 14, 20241:15:04pending

Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

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Apr 7, 20241:02:09pending

Director M. Night Shyamalan: A Talk from 'Development Hell'

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Mar 31, 202458:15pending

Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’

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Mar 24, 20241:24:04pending

Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

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Mar 20, 202448:10pending

How Do We Think About the 2024 Election?

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Mar 17, 20241:14:57pending

Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

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Mar 10, 202459:29pending
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