Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Where people sounds like people.
Talk Easy is a weekly series of intimate, career-spanning conversations with artists, writers, and politicians hosted by Sam Fragoso. New episodes air every Sunday.
Find the full library of episodes at talkeasypod.com.
Director Edgar Wright (‘The Running Man’) on the Cornetto Trilogy, Pub Life, and the Future of AI
Salman Rushdie on Free Speech, Survival, and Returning to Fiction | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
‘Before’ Director Richard Linklater | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Rose Byrne on Acting with Conan O’Brien and Her ‘Lynchian’ New Film | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Writer Arundhati Roy on Her First Memoir, The Beatles, and Making Sense of the Past | Talk Easy
Terry Gross on 50 Years of “Fresh Air” | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Cook Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Returns with ‘Good Things’ | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Mayor Karen Bass on ICE Raids, LA Wildfires, and Working with Trump | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Is Actor Julia Garner (‘Ozark’) Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’? | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
David Mamet Has Left the Building | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Patricia Clarkson’s Fight for Equal Pay and How Harvey Weinstein Tried to Blacklist Her | Talk Easy
Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) on his COVID-era Western and How AI is Changing Hollywood
Reporter Jamelle Bouie (NYT) on the Ghost of Democrats Past and Zohran Mamdani’s Bid for NYC Mayor
Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is Creating His Own Truman Show | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Seth Meyers on a Decade of ‘Late Night,’ SNL Struggles, and Lorne’s Successor | Talk Easy
“I like to think of the novel as a bottom. It always makes room.” | Ocean Vuong on Talk Easy
Ocean Vuong on ‘The Emperor of Gladness’ and the Poetry of the Novel | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett (‘James’) | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
The Joaquin Phoenix Interview | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Ira Glass on Three Decades of ‘This American Life’ Magic | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
How Viola Davis Remade Hollywood in Her Own Image | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Viola Davis on Worthiness, Juilliard, and the Impact of Meryl Streep | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
“Self-Righteousness is Boring” | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
“This is a moment about where power truly lies in this country.” | Elizabeth Warren on Talk Easy
Elizabeth Warren on Trump, Tariffs, and the Future of Democrats | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Hollywood Plays Itself in Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Josh Brolin’s First Auditions in Hollywood | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Francis Ford Coppola on ‘Megalopolis’ and the Future of Movies | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Live from Aspen with Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Director Richard Linklater on Making Movies | Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso