A COVID-19 Checkup with Dr. Ashish Jha
Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute) joins us this week to give us science-based updates on the global pandemic....
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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Talk Easy is a podcast of long-form conversations with the people shaping our culture today: filmmakers, musicians, comedians, activists, authors, actors. Hosted by writer Sam Fragoso.
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Bonus Episode: Radnor & Lee
A bonus episode! And a personal one at that. Back in February I directed a music video for Radnor & Lee, the folk duo created by artists Jos...
Episode 176 - Dolores Huerta
Today we celebrate Father's Day with the great Dolores Huerta! An icon within in my Latino family, she's a trailblazing labor leader, civil...
Episode 175 - Holland Taylor
Holland Taylor is an American playwright and actress best known for her television roles on The Practice and Hollywood; films like Legally B...
Episode 174 - Hank Willis Thomas
Hank Willis Thomas believes the past is the present. Now more than ever. As a conceptual artist, he focuses on race, identity, and popular c...
Episode 173 - Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker) On the Death of George Floyd
Jelani Cobb is a professor, historian, and staff writer for The New Yorker, where he covers race and politics. He joins us to discuss the “d...
Bonus Episode: Directors Terence Nance (Random Acts of Flyness) & Malik Vitthal (Body Cam)
In the midst of a global pandemic, two artists emerge with new projects. Art for your hearts and minds. First we call up multi-hyphenate tal...
Episode 172 - Brooke Gladstone (On the Media, NPR)
For the last 20 years, journalist Brooke Gladstone has been making sense of the news. Her Peabody-winning show, On the Media, says to examin...
Episode 171 - Ted Danson
A self-described “contract player”, Ted Danson has been a staple on television for the past 40 years. Cheers. Becker. Bored to Death. Damage...
A Mother's Day Special
Back in 2017 I invited my mother on the podcast. She (reluctantly) accepted the invitation. What follows is that conversation, in full. A ve...
Episode 170 - Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay may be a self-described introvert, but she's not one to shy away from a public fight. As a contributing writer for The New York T...
Introducing: “The Last Dance Aftershow”
For the next month I'm co-hosting a new podcast! It's called “The Last Dance Aftershow”, a weekly program on the 10-part documentary of Mich...
Episode 169 - Elizabeth Gilbert
Four years ago Sam stumbled upon a book called “Big Magic”. From it, Talk Easy was born. Today we come full circle in sitting with beloved w...
Episode 168 - W. Kamau Bell, Four Years Later
Four years ago W. Kamau Bell joined us on Talk Easy. It was a different time, before Donald Trump was President Trump. This week the sociopo...
Episode 167 - Noam Chomsky (plus Dr. Ashish Jha of the Harvard Global Health Institute)
Who better to guide us through this darkness than Noam Chomsky? The esteemed linguist, author, and political activist joins us this week to...
Episode 166 - Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke entered politics because of people. He believes in their capacity for goodness and decency. He believes in their potential. An...
Episode 165 - Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is an author, filmmaker and climate activist. But above all– she is a journalist. She joins us to reflect on her natural instinc...
Episode 164 - Juliette Lewis
Actress Juliette Lewis “lost her anonymity” with the movies. Movies you've probably seen. Cape Fear, Natural Born Killers, What's Eating Gil...
Episode 163 - Dr. Ashish Jha (Director of Harvard Global Health Institute)
Dr. Ashish Jha is the Director of Harvard Global Health Institute and a Professor at Harvard T. H. Chan school of public health. If you've t...
Episode 162 - Sam Waterston
Actor Sam Waterston doesn't do many of these. In fact, this is his first podcast. To mark the special occasion the stage and screen performe...