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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.

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Episodes

Is It Time to Let Our Illusions Die? (with Obama National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes)

Can We Avoid AI Catastrophe? (with Tech Ethicist Tristan Harris)

It’s Time to Give Nick Offerman (‘Parks and Recreation’) His Flowers

Play It Again: Gloria Steinem

The Fall Movie Preview (with Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins of ‘The Big Picture’)

In ‘The Good Place’ with D’Arcy Carden

Novelist Colson Whitehead’s New York State of Mind

The ‘Past Lives’ of Actor Greta Lee

Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Cooks These ‘Good Things’ at Home

Comedian Mary Beth Barone’s Brilliant ‘Galaxy Brain’

Actor Timothy Olyphant (‘Justified’) is Riding High

The Gilded Presidency of Donald Trump with NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman (‘Regime Change’)

Danny McBride’s Delusions of Grandeur

A New Generation Has Arrived in LA Politics. Is Nithya Raman Ready to Lead It?

Father’s Day with Tom Hanks

The Jagged Little Pieces of Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette

Sam Interviews Nathan Lane on ‘Fresh Air’

Tony Nominee Christopher Abbott (‘Death of a Salesman’) Takes Center Stage

Is Josh Johnson (‘The Daily Show’) the 21st Century Comedian?

The Michelle Obama Interview

Mother’s Day with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Actor Riz Ahmed Remakes the Leading Man

Showrunner Lee Sung Jin is Back with More ‘Beef’

Play It Again: Actor Oscar Isaac

Are We Witnessing Podcaster Chris Ryan’s Apex Mountain?

Talk Easy Turns 10 (with Terry Gross)

The AI Conversation We Need to Have (with Tristan Harris)

Is Governor Josh Shapiro the Future of America?

Oscar Sunday with Filmmaker Joachim Trier (‘Sentimental Value’)

Play It Again: Actor Rose Byrne is a Woman on the Verge

Ryan Coogler Made the Movie of the Year. Now He’s Making Oscars History.

State of the Union with Journalist Jacob Soboroff

The Makings of Musician Anderson .Paak

This Is America with George Saunders

Play It Again: Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

Is Will Arnett Nailing This Interview?

This is Patti Smith

The Return of Gwyneth Paltrow (‘Marty Supreme’)

Viola Davis: What If We’re Enough?

Is Comedian Robby Hoffman the Last American Dream?

Kate Winslet Is Home for the Holidays

Songs For You

The New Yorker at 100 (with David Remnick)

Renate Reinsve Delivers the Performance of the Year in ‘Sentimental Value’

Filmmaker Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental’ Family Affair

The Noah Baumbach Retrospective

For the Holidays, Ina Garten (Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus)

Cook Alison Roman Creates ‘Something from Nothing’

Judd Apatow’s Guide to Failure and Success (Fail Better with David Duchovny)

At the Movies with Director Edgar Wright (‘The Running Man’)