Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

    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.

  • Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art

  • This Conversation with Author Jason Reynolds is a Gift

  • Wesley Morris Returns with ‘The Wonder of Stevie’

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

  • Francis Ford Coppola Stays in the Picture

  • The Joaquin Phoenix Interview

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

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

  • Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam

  • The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform

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

  • Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene

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

  • A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date

  • Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024

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

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

  • Tom Hanks: A Retrospective

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

  • Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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

  • A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville

  • How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer

  • A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke)

  • Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time

  • Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

  • Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering

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

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

  • Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait

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

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

  • The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels

  • Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

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

  • Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’

  • Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

  • How Do We Think About the 2024 Election?

  • Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

  • From the Oscar Archives: Cate Blanchett

  • Dispatches from a Gaza Hospital (with Dr. Seema Jilani)

  • A Cup of Coffee with Actor Kyle MacLachlan (‘Twin Peaks’)

  • Lily Gladstone (‘Killers of the Flower Moon’) is Making History

  • Quinta Brunson: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Back in Session

  • Filmmaker Lulu Wang Creates In Between Two Worlds

  • Oscar Nominations with Wesley Morris (The New York Times)

  • Dan Levy (‘Schitt’s Creek’) Goes His Own Way

  • Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework

  • Actor Michelle Williams Works from a ‘Place of Peace’

  • Talk Easy’s 2023 Mixtape

  • Bradley Cooper as ‘Maestro’ from The New Yorker Radio Hour

  • The New Yorker Editor David Remnick: 'There's No Time to Despair'

  • The Transformations of Actor Willem Dafoe

  • Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Fights for the Protection of Journalists

  • Actor and Director Benny Safdie Does It All

  • The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling

  • The Ziwe Interview

  • Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain

  • The Rise and Fall of Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (with Writer Michael Lewis)

  • Singer-Songwriter Weyes Blood Gives Us ‘Something to Believe’

  • A Human Conversation with Writer George Saunders

  • Author and Critic Hua Hsu (The New Yorker) ‘Stays True’

  • The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith

  • Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World

  • Legend David Byrne (‘Stop Making Sense’) is Still Burning Down the House

  • The State of Hollywood with Matt Belloni (‘The Town’)

  • Jazz Singer Laufey is Bringing the Past to the Present

  • The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders)

  • Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim

  • The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim

  • Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own

  • Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’) Can Hear the Music

  • Beto O'Rourke and the Border

  • Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Threads History and the Afrofuture

  • The Revolution Will Be Televised (with 'The Bear' Writer Alex O'Keefe)

  • Photographer Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing

  • At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates

  • The Summer of Our Discontent with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)

  • The Making of Tom Hanks

  • Every Second Counts with Actor Jon Bernthal (‘The Bear’)

  • The Era of Actor Michael Shannon

  • Model and Activist Geena Rocero Lives Her Story

  • A Father’s Day Special with Sarah Silverman

  • A Sunday Matinee with Actor Oscar Isaac

  • Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

  • The Elements of Singer-Songwriter Arlo Parks

  • Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life

  • Bill Hader Says Goodbye to ‘Barry’

  • Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’

  • Mother’s Day with ‘Top Chef’ Padma Lakshmi

  • Introducing So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

  • Jay Jordan Was Incarcerated At 18. Now, He’s Transforming the Criminal Justice System.

  • All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain

  • Carol Burnett Turns 90

  • Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking

  • A Portrait of Actor Michelle Williams

  • Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story

  • How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

  • Actor Bob Odenkirk: The King of (Dark) Comedy

  • The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood

  • Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee

  • Oscar Sunday with Actor Ke Huy Quan

  • Actor Ram Charan and the RRRevolution

  • Actor and Director Natasha Lyonne Plays Her Hand

  • Mr. Frost Goes to Washington

  • The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal

  • The Makings of Writer Hilton Als

  • Actor and Activist Nazanin Nour Wants to Tell a New Story of Iran

  • Opening Night with Artist Kehinde Wiley

  • 50 Years After Roe v. Wade: A Conversation With a Texas Abortion Provider

  • The Road to Actor Ke Huy Quan’s Second Act

  • Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved

  • The 2022 Talk Easy Holiday Special

  • Nobel Peace Prize Journalist Maria Ressa Holds the Line

  • Actor Lake Bell: 'The Voice is a Roadmap of Your History'

  • An Interlude with Musician Dev Hynes

  • Performer Kumail Nanjiani: A New Act

  • Actor Jonathan Majors: ‘Everything Happens To Me’

  • An Afternoon at Judd Apatow’s Office

  • Journalist Kara Swisher Believes in the Future

  • Writer George Saunders, Moment by Moment

  • The Homecoming of Director James Gray

  • Comedian Nick Kroll is Going Through Changes

  • The Transformation of Actor Eddie Redmayne

  • How Congresswoman Cori Bush Reimagines Politics

  • Back to School with Quinta Brunson (‘Abbott Elementary’)

  • Writer Sandra Cisneros is a ‘Woman Without Shame’

  • Understanding the Midterms with Reporter Astead Herndon (The New York Times)

  • Comedian Billy Eichner, Street to Screen

  • Storytelling with ‘Atlanta’ Director Hiro Murai

  • The Aftermath of 9/11

  • The Airline Workers' Movement is Taking Off

  • ‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates

  • Abbi Jacobson: A League of Her Own

  • A New Era of Musician Joey Bada$$

  • Coming of Age with Lena Dunham

  • Ethan Hawke, Here and Then

  • At Home with Comedian John Early

  • Disaster is Not Our Destiny. Neither is Democracy.

  • Jenny Slate in 2022

  • Through the Woods with Nick Offerman

  • Margo Jefferson: We Must ‘Go On’

  • The Supreme Court Conversation We’re Not Having

  • David Sedaris: A Life On and Off the Page

  • Actor Jon Bernthal: Leading Man

  • Performer Meg Stalter Heals Through Comedy

  • What Will It Take To Change? (with Stacey Abrams)

  • Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time

  • Pedro Pascal: A Life of Dreaming

  • Mother’s Day with Minnie Driver

  • Bill Hader Finds His Story

  • Poet Rupi Kaur is Here to Stay

  • Play It Again: Ocean Vuong

  • Love Songs with Syd (The Internet, Odd Future)

  • Let’s Talk About Sex (At the Movies)

  • Anita Hill is Getting Even. We Believe Her.

  • Oscar Sunday with Questlove

  • Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

  • The Pieces of David Byrne

  • Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions

  • Stacey Abrams’ Guide to Preserving Democracy

  • W. Kamau Bell: How Do We Talk About Cosby?

  • A Texas Principal Said Black Lives Matter. His Community Didn’t Agree.

  • How Glory Edim (Well-Read Black Girl) Gives Space

  • A Tea with Cate Blanchett

  • Questlove: A Celebration of Soul

  • Actor Tessa Thompson is Boundless

  • Ezra Klein (The New York Times) On The Year Ahead

  • Alana Haim: 13 Going on 30

  • Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham: How Did We Get Here?

  • Sunday on the Podcast with George Saunders

  • A Talk Easy Holiday Special

  • How We Continue (with Noam Chomsky)

  • Michael Tubbs: The Deeper the Roots

  • Play It Again: Author Jhumpa Lahiri

  • Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Path to Home

  • A Double Feature: Vicky Krieps and Melanie Lynskey

  • A Sunday Sermon with Janaya Future Khan

  • Comedian Jeff Garlin is Young at Heart

  • Nick Offerman: Out of the Woods

  • How to Reconnect to Earth (with Author Richard Powers)

  • Actor Noomi Rapace’s Homecoming

  • Poet Nikki Giovanni: Life is a Good Idea

  • Julie Delpy: Just Passing Through

  • A Portrait of Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola

  • The Aftermath of 9/11

  • Play It Again: Holland Taylor

  • Lorde: Through the Years

  • The Makings of Actor Poorna Jagannathan

  • Off the Court with Candace Parker

  • Dr. Jha on the State of the Pandemic

  • Director Brian De Palma: A Retrospective

  • A Zola Roundtable with Janicza Bravo and Joi McMillon

  • On Air with Larry Wilmore

  • Vince Staples by Vince Staples

  • Play It Again: Ts Madison

  • Steven Soderbergh: Making Movies

  • Uzo Aduba: The Road is Good

  • A Phone Call with Author Dave Eggers

  • Sleater-Kinney's Path of Wellness

  • On Earth with Ocean Vuong

  • One on One with CNN's Jake Tapper

  • Anna Sale: Death, Sex & Money

  • The Michael Lewis Story

  • Mother’s Day with Writer Jhumpa Lahiri

  • The Freedom Riders Turn 60 (with Dr. Bernard Lafayette)

  • Joel Meyerowitz: A Life in Photos

  • Kevin Abstract: New Light, New Machine

  • Songs For You

  • Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman

  • The Ts Madison Experience

  • We Turn Five

  • Nathaniel Rich: Stories from a World Remade

  • Sunday School with Author Anne Lamott

  • Black Futures with Kimberly Drew and J Wortham

  • The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried

  • Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality

  • At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On

  • Rest and Rebuild with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

  • Alone but Never Lonely: Johnny Mathis at 85

  • Short Stories with George Saunders

  • Dr. Ashish Jha Sees the COVID Finish Line

  • Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper?

  • A Talk Easy Holiday Special: Goodbye 2020

  • A Talk Easy Holiday Special (pt. 1)

  • Janaya Future Khan: The Work of Being Alive

  • The AIDS Memorial: Stories of Love, Loss, and Remembrance

  • Fran Lebowitz on Vinyl

  • Matthew McConaughey: Just Keep Livin

  • How Do We Heal? (with Resmaa Menakem)

  • Election Week with Noam Chomsky

  • Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein

  • A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman)

  • Antwaun Sargent: Young, Gifted and Black

  • State of the Union with Cornel West

  • Radha Blank: The Forty-Year-Old Version

  • Rep. Ilhan Omar: What Can America Look Like?

  • Claudia Rankine: Just Us

  • Me and You and Miranda July

  • Mythmaking with Jena Malone

  • Play It Again: Gloria Steinem

  • Carrie Coon / Cat Solen

  • Janelle Monáe, Past and Present

  • Brittany Howard is a “Living Miracle”

  • The Carol Burnett Show

  • Tyler Mitchell's “Black Utopia”

  • Unbreakable Tituss Burgess

  • Leah Remini vs. The Church of Scientology

  • Norman Lear Turns 98

  • Jenny Slate in 2020

  • Malcolm Gladwell Returns

  • Hannah Gadsby

  • Fran Lebowitz

  • Run the Jewels

  • Bonus Episode: Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross!

  • Hasan Minhaj

  • A COVID-19 Checkup with Dr. Ashish Jha

  • Bonus Episode: Radnor & Lee

  • Episode 176 - Dolores Huerta

  • Episode 175 - Holland Taylor

  • Episode 174 - Hank Willis Thomas

  • Episode 173 - Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker) On the Death of George Floyd

  • Bonus Episode: Directors Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness) & Malik Vitthal (Body Cam)

  • Episode 172 - Brooke Gladstone (On the Media, NPR)

  • Episode 171 - Ted Danson

  • A Mother's Day Special

  • Episode 170 - Roxane Gay

  • Introducing: “The Last Dance Aftershow”

  • Episode 169 - Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Episode 168 - W. Kamau Bell, Four Years Later

  • Episode 167 - Noam Chomsky (plus Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard Global Health Institute)

  • Episode 166 - Beto O'Rourke

  • Episode 165 - Naomi Klein

  • Episode 164 - Juliette Lewis

  • Episode 163 - Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of Harvard Global Health Institute)

  • Episode 162 - Sam Waterston

  • Episode 161 - Alison Pill

  • Episode 160 - Haley Bennett

  • Episode 159 - Morgan Parker

  • A Talk Easy Holiday Special!

  • Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem

  • Episode 157 - Laura Dern

  • Episode 156 - Tracy Letts

  • Episode 155 - Errol Morris

  • Episode 154 - Alma Har'el

  • Episode 153 - Randall Park

  • Episode 152 - Edward Norton

  • Play It Again: Robert Forster (1941-2019)

  • Episode 151 - Gary Gulman

  • Episode 150 - Sam

  • Bonus Episode: Trace Lysette

  • Episode 149 - Scott Aukerman

  • Episode 148 - Karley Sciortino

  • Episode 147 - Peter Bogdanovich

  • Episode 146 - Justin Simien

  • Episode 145 - Whitney Cummings

  • Talk Easy Throwback: Mom

  • Talk Easy Throwback: Alan Alda

  • Talk Easy Throwback: John Cho

  • Talk Easy Throwback: Lena Waithe

  • Talk Easy Throwback: Malcolm Gladwell

  • Talk Easy Throwback: Norman Lear

  • Episode 144 - Ron Perlman

  • Episode 143 - Jeff Garlin

  • Episode 142 - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

  • Episode 141 - Michael Kelly

  • Episode 140 - Jacki Weaver

  • Episode 138 - Pam Grier

  • Episode 137 - Werner Herzog

  • Episode 136 - Wyatt Cenac

  • Episode 135 - Chaz Ebert

  • Episode 134 - Live From Ebertfest! (With Richard Roeper, Rita Coburn Whack, And More)

  • Episode 133 - Tayarisha Poe

  • Episode 132 - Sean Kingston

  • Episode 131 - Alex Ross Perry

  • Episode 130 - Bill Pullman

  • Episode 129 - Brit Marling

  • Episode 128 - Vincent D'Onofrio

  • Episode 127 - Mary Holland

  • Episode 126 - Keith David

  • Episode 125 - Matt Walsh

  • Episode 124 - Dulé Hill

  • Episode 123 - Minhal Baig

  • Episode 122 - Jeremy O. Harris

  • Episode 121 - Jacqueline Bisset

  • Episode 120 - Chris Elliott

  • Episode 119 - Patrick Wang

  • Episode 118 - Zoë Ligon

  • Episode 117 - Viggo Mortensen

  • Episode 116 - Jonny Sun

  • Episode 115 - Adam Bhala Lough

  • Episode 114 - DeRay Mckesson

  • Episode 113 - Paul Dano

  • Episode 112 - Nathaniel Rich

  • Episode 111 - Kamasi Washington

  • Episode 110 - Judy Greer

  • Episode 109 - Amma Asante

  • Episode 107 - Colman Domingo

  • Episode 106 - Ione Skye

  • Episode 105 - Jerrika Hinton

  • Episode 104 - Sheila Vand

  • Episode 103 - Lauren Miller Rogen

  • Episode 102 - Alan Alda

  • Episode 101 - Rob Reiner

  • Episode 100 - Dad

  • Episode 99 - John Cho

  • Episode 98 - Chas Allen (Real-life subject of "American Animals")

  • Episode 97 - Dawn Porter

  • Episode 96 - Touré

  • Episode 95 - Nina Collins

  • Episode 94 - Gillian Jacobs

  • Episode 93 - Laia Costa

  • Episode 92 - Julie Dash

  • Episode 91 - Kogonada

  • Episode 90 - Chloé Zhao

  • Episode 89 - The Lost Episode

  • Episode 88 - Michael Imperioli

  • Episode 87 - Jay Duplass

  • Episode 86 - Josh Radnor

  • Episode 85 - Alia Shawkat

  • A Talk Easy Holiday Special

  • Episode 83 - Sean Baker

  • Episode 82 - Lois Smith

  • Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins

  • Episode 80 - Rory Scovel

  • Episode 79 - Joachim Trier

  • Episode 78 - Noël Wells

  • Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta

  • Episode 76 - Shea Serrano

  • Episode 75 - Jen Yamato

  • Episode 74 - Jon Daly

  • Episode 73 - Willem Dafoe

  • Episode 72 - Erica Chidi Cohen

  • Episode 71 - Giancarlo Esposito

  • Episode 70 - Heather Havrilesky

  • Episode 69 - Norman Lear

  • Episode 68 - Fred Melamed

  • Episode 67 - Amber Navran

  • Episode 66 - Rostam Batmanglij

  • Episode 65 - Doreen St. Félix

  • Episode 64 - Robert Downey Sr.

  • Episode 63 - Jelani Cobb

  • Episode 62 - Jenny Slate

  • Episode 61 - A.O. Scott

  • Episode 60 - Malcolm Gladwell

  • Episode 59 - Patricia Lockwood

  • Episode 58 - Lena Waithe

  • Episode 57 - Sudan Archives (Stones Throw Series)

  • Episode 56 - Mild High Club (Stones Throw Series)

  • Episode 55 - J Rocc (Stones Throw Series)

  • Episode 53 - Corinne Bailey Rae

  • Episode 52 - Martin Starr

  • Episode 51 - Anna Sale

  • Episode 50 - Mom

  • Episode 49 - James Gray

  • Episode 48 - Andy Daly

  • Episode 47 - Alice Lowe

  • Live From SXSW: Janicza Bravo

  • Episode 45 - Brenton Wood

  • Episode 44 - Philip Baker Hall

  • Episode 43 - Andrea Silenzi

  • Episode 42 - Roger Ross Williams

  • Episode 41 - Andy Greenwald

  • Episode 40 - Kate Berlant

  • Episode 39 - Noël Wells

  • Episode 38 - Brett Gelman

  • Bonus Christmas Special 2016!

  • Episode 37 - Reggie Watts

  • Episode 36 - Jay Caspian Kang

  • Episode 35 - Matt Zoller Seitz

  • Episode 34 - Mackenzie Davis

  • Episode 33 - Zoe Kazan

  • Episode 32 - Max Linsky

  • Episode 31 - Zazie Beetz

  • Episode 30 - W. Kamau Bell Returns!

  • Episode 29 - Margaret Brown

  • Episode 28 - Kelly Reichardt

  • Episode 27 - Mndsgn

  • Episode 26 - Esperanza Spalding

  • Episode 25 - Steve James

  • Episode 24 - Michael Phillips

  • Episode 23 - Lauren Lapkus

  • Episode 22 - Ben Schwartz

  • Episode 21 - Melanie Lynskey

  • Episode 20 - Charlene deGuzman

  • Episode 19 - Ira Sachs

  • Episode 18 - Kate Micucci

  • Episode 17 - Alan Arkin

  • Episode 16 - Donnie Trumpet

  • Episode 15 - Eric André

  • Episode 14 - Alex Gibney

  • Episode 13 - Alissa Wilkinson

  • Bonus Episode - Robert Forster

  • Episode 12 - Robert Forster

  • Episode 11 - Amy Nicholson

  • Episode 10 - Sherman Alexie

  • Episode 9 - Spencer Haywood

  • Episode 8 - Mac DeMarco

  • Episode 7 - The Ross Brothers

  • Episode 6 - Lamorne Morris

  • Episode 5 - Wesley Morris

  • Episode 4 - David Oyelowo

  • Episode 3 - Amy Seimetz

  • Episode 2 - W. Kamau Bell

  • Episode 1 - Don Cheadle

  • Episode 0 - Announcement

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