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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso — 548 episodes

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The Jagged Little Pieces of Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette

2

Sam Interviews Nathan Lane on ‘Fresh Air’

3

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

4

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

5

The Michelle Obama Interview

6

Mother’s Day with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

7

Actor Riz Ahmed Remakes the Leading Man

8

Showrunner Lee Sung Jin is Back with More ‘Beef’

9

Play It Again: Actor Oscar Isaac

10

Are We Witnessing Podcaster Chris Ryan’s Apex Mountain?

11

Talk Easy Turns 10 (with Terry Gross)

12

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

13

Is Governor Josh Shapiro the Future of America?

14

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

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

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

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State of the Union with Journalist Jacob Soboroff

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The Makings of Musician Anderson .Paak

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This Is America with George Saunders

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Play It Again: Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

21

Is Will Arnett Nailing This Interview?

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22

This is Patti Smith

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The Return of Gwyneth Paltrow (‘Marty Supreme’)

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Viola Davis: What If We’re Enough?

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Is Comedian Robby Hoffman the Last American Dream?

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Kate Winslet Is Home for the Holidays

27

The New Yorker at 100 (with David Remnick)

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

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Filmmaker Joachim Trier’s ‘Sentimental’ Family Affair

30

The Noah Baumbach Retrospective

31

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

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Cook Alison Roman Creates ‘Something from Nothing’

33

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

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

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Novelist Salman Rushdie at ‘The Eleventh Hour’

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‘Before’ Director Richard Linklater

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GQ’s Will Welch on the Future of Magazines (and Men)

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Does Fashion Have a Future? Designer Gabriela Hearst is Threading the Needle.

39

Actor Rose Byrne: A Woman on the Verge

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A Cup of Coffee with Director Benny Safdie (‘The Smashing Machine’)

41

Ta-Nehisi Coates Has a Message to Deliver. Can We Hear It?

42

And In Our Hour of Darkness, Writer Arundhati Roy

43

Director Francis Ford Coppola Keeps His Dream Alive

44

Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ Takes the Emmys

45

The Terry Gross Interview

46

Cook Samin Nosrat (‘Salt Fat Acid Heat’) Returns with ‘Good Things’

47

The Homecoming of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)

48

Laura Dern on Living Well (The Dan Buettner Podcast)

49

A Candid Conversation with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

50

The Stories of Actor Josh Brolin (‘Weapons’)

51

Actor Julia Garner is Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’

52

David Mamet Exits Stage Left

53

Director Celine Song on ‘Materialists’ (Death, Sex & Money)

54

Actor Patricia Clarkson (‘Sharp Objects’) Goes Her Own Way

55

Play It Again: Joaquin Phoenix

56

Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) Has Made an American Western for 2025

57

Lena Dunham is Never ‘Too Much’

58

How ‘Big and Beautiful’ is Trump’s Bill? (with Jamelle Bouie of NYT)

59

Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach Returns to ‘The Bear’

60

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is Creating His Own Truman Show

61

Live From New York with Sam Rockwell (‘The White Lotus’)

62

Father’s Day with Seth Meyers

63

Michelle Zauner (Japanese Breakfast) is Creating a Language of Her Own

64

Writer Ocean Vuong’s Vision of the Future

65

Graduation Week with Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb

66

Play It Again: Sarah Silverman (‘PostMortem’)

67

Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett (‘James’)

68

Ira Glass on Three Decades of ‘This American Life’ Magic

69

Penn Badgley: Here’s Looking at ‘You’

70

The Many Lives of Viola Davis

71

Elizabeth Warren Holds Onto Hope

72

Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (‘Dream Count’) Has Some Notes

73

Jenny Slate in 2025

74

Hollywood Plays Itself in Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’

75

Ezra Klein’s Call for ‘Abundance’ in America

76

Play It Again: Actor Amanda Seyfried

77

A Portrait of the Artist Tyler Mitchell

78

Actor Monica Barbaro (‘A Complete Unknown’) Takes the Stage as Joan Baez

79

Oscars Week with Jesse Eisenberg (‘A Real Pain’)

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Director RaMell Ross (‘Nickel Boys’) is Redefining Cinema

81

Live From New York: 50 Years of ‘Saturday Night Live’

82

Are You Not Entertained? Host Chris Hayes (The Sirens’ Call) on the Attention Age

83

Mikey Madison (‘Anora’) Enters Her Golden Age

84

The Humanity of Actor Steven Yeun (‘Love Me’)

85

Director David Lynch Transcends

86

The Week That Changed Los Angeles

87

A Hopeful Climate Conversation with Richard Powers

88

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

89

A ‘Babygirl’ Holiday with Harris Dickinson

90

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

91

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

92

Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni

93

Talk Easy in 2024: A Mixtape

94

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

95

Play It Again: Jeff Daniels

96

Jesse Eisenberg Steps Into His Past

97

Actor Josh Brolin: A Life in Vivid Color

98

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

99

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

100

Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art

101

This Conversation with Author Jason Reynolds is a Gift

102

Wesley Morris Returns with ‘The Wonder of Stevie’

103

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

104

Francis Ford Coppola Stays in the Picture

105

The Joaquin Phoenix Interview

106

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

107

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

108

Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam

109

The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform

110

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

111

Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene

112

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

113

A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date

114

Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024

115

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

116

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

117

Tom Hanks: A Retrospective

118

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

119

Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus

120

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

121

A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville

122

How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer

123

A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke)

124

Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time

125

Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

126

Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering

127

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

128

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

129

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait

130

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

131

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

132

The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels

133

Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

134

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

135

Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’

136

Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

137

How Do We Think About the 2024 Election?

138

Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

139

From the Oscar Archives: Cate Blanchett

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

Quinta Brunson: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Back in Session

144

Filmmaker Lulu Wang Creates In Between Two Worlds

145

Oscar Nominations with Wesley Morris (The New York Times)

146

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

147

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework

148

Actor Michelle Williams Works from a ‘Place of Peace’

149

Talk Easy’s 2023 Mixtape

150

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

151

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

152

The Transformations of Actor Willem Dafoe

153

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Fights for the Protection of Journalists

154

Actor and Director Benny Safdie Does It All

155

The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling

156

The Ziwe Interview

157

Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain

158

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

159

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

160

A Human Conversation with Writer George Saunders

161

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

162

The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith

163

Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World

164

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

165

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

166

Jazz Singer Laufey is Bringing the Past to the Present

167

The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders)

168

Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim

169

The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim

170

Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own

171

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

172

Beto O'Rourke and the Border

173

Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Threads History and the Afrofuture

174

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

175

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing

176

At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates

177

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

178

The Making of Tom Hanks

179

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

180

The Era of Actor Michael Shannon

181

Model and Activist Geena Rocero Lives Her Story

182

A Father’s Day Special with Sarah Silverman

183

A Sunday Matinee with Actor Oscar Isaac

184

Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

185

The Elements of Singer-Songwriter Arlo Parks

186

Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life

187

Bill Hader Says Goodbye to ‘Barry’

188

Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’

189

Mother’s Day with ‘Top Chef’ Padma Lakshmi

190

Introducing So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

191

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

192

All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain

193

Carol Burnett Turns 90

194

Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking

195

A Portrait of Actor Michelle Williams

196

Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story

197

How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

198

Actor Bob Odenkirk: The King of (Dark) Comedy

199

The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood

200

Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee

201

Oscar Sunday with Actor Ke Huy Quan

202

Actor Ram Charan and the RRRevolution

203

Actor and Director Natasha Lyonne Plays Her Hand

204

Mr. Frost Goes to Washington

205

The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal

206

The Makings of Writer Hilton Als

207

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

208

Opening Night with Artist Kehinde Wiley

209

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

210

The Road to Actor Ke Huy Quan’s Second Act

211

Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved

212

The 2022 Talk Easy Holiday Special

213

Nobel Peace Prize Journalist Maria Ressa Holds the Line

214

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

215

An Interlude with Musician Dev Hynes

216

Performer Kumail Nanjiani: A New Act

217

Actor Jonathan Majors: ‘Everything Happens To Me’

218

An Afternoon at Judd Apatow’s Office

219

Journalist Kara Swisher Believes in the Future

220

Writer George Saunders, Moment by Moment

221

The Homecoming of Director James Gray

222

Comedian Nick Kroll is Going Through Changes

223

The Transformation of Actor Eddie Redmayne

224

How Congresswoman Cori Bush Reimagines Politics

225

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

226

Writer Sandra Cisneros is a ‘Woman Without Shame’

227

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

228

Comedian Billy Eichner, Street to Screen

229

Storytelling with ‘Atlanta’ Director Hiro Murai

230

The Aftermath of 9/11

231

The Airline Workers' Movement is Taking Off

232

‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates

233

Abbi Jacobson: A League of Her Own

234

A New Era of Musician Joey Bada$$

235

Coming of Age with Lena Dunham

236

Ethan Hawke, Here and Then

237

At Home with Comedian John Early

238

Disaster is Not Our Destiny. Neither is Democracy.

239

Jenny Slate in 2022

240

Through the Woods with Nick Offerman

241

Margo Jefferson: We Must ‘Go On’

242

The Supreme Court Conversation We’re Not Having

243

David Sedaris: A Life On and Off the Page

244

Actor Jon Bernthal: Leading Man

245

Performer Meg Stalter Heals Through Comedy

246

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

247

Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time

248

Pedro Pascal: A Life of Dreaming

249

Mother’s Day with Minnie Driver

250

Bill Hader Finds His Story

251

Poet Rupi Kaur is Here to Stay

252

Play It Again: Ocean Vuong

253

Love Songs with Syd (The Internet, Odd Future)

254

Let’s Talk About Sex (At the Movies)

255

Anita Hill is Getting Even. We Believe Her.

256

Oscar Sunday with Questlove

257

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

258

The Pieces of David Byrne

259

Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions

260

Stacey Abrams’ Guide to Preserving Democracy

261

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

262

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

263

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

264

A Tea with Cate Blanchett

265

Questlove: A Celebration of Soul

266

Actor Tessa Thompson is Boundless

267

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

268

Alana Haim: 13 Going on 30

269

Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham: How Did We Get Here?

270

Sunday on the Podcast with George Saunders

271

A Talk Easy Holiday Special

272

How We Continue (with Noam Chomsky)

273

Michael Tubbs: The Deeper the Roots

274

Play It Again: Author Jhumpa Lahiri

275

Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Path to Home

276

A Double Feature: Vicky Krieps and Melanie Lynskey

277

A Sunday Sermon with Janaya Future Khan

278

Comedian Jeff Garlin is Young at Heart

279

Nick Offerman: Out of the Woods

280

How to Reconnect to Earth (with Author Richard Powers)

281

Actor Noomi Rapace’s Homecoming

282

Poet Nikki Giovanni: Life is a Good Idea

283

Julie Delpy: Just Passing Through

284

A Portrait of Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola

285

The Aftermath of 9/11

286

Play It Again: Holland Taylor

287

Lorde: Through the Years

288

The Makings of Actor Poorna Jagannathan

289

Off the Court with Candace Parker

290

Dr. Jha on the State of the Pandemic

291

Director Brian De Palma: A Retrospective

292

A Zola Roundtable with Janicza Bravo and Joi McMillon

293

On Air with Larry Wilmore

294

Vince Staples by Vince Staples

295

Play It Again: Ts Madison

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Steven Soderbergh: Making Movies

297

Uzo Aduba: The Road is Good

298

A Phone Call with Author Dave Eggers

299

Sleater-Kinney's Path of Wellness

300

On Earth with Ocean Vuong

301

One on One with CNN's Jake Tapper

302

Anna Sale: Death, Sex & Money

303

The Michael Lewis Story

304

Mother’s Day with Writer Jhumpa Lahiri

305

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

306

Joel Meyerowitz: A Life in Photos

307

Kevin Abstract: New Light, New Machine

308

Songs For You

309

Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman

310

The Ts Madison Experience

311

We Turn Five

312

Nathaniel Rich: Stories from a World Remade

313

Sunday School with Author Anne Lamott

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Black Futures with Kimberly Drew and J Wortham

315

The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried

316

Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality

317

At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On

318

Rest and Rebuild with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

319

Alone but Never Lonely: Johnny Mathis at 85

320

Short Stories with George Saunders

321

Dr. Ashish Jha Sees the COVID Finish Line

322

Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper?

323

A Talk Easy Holiday Special: Goodbye 2020

324

A Talk Easy Holiday Special (pt. 1)

325

Janaya Future Khan: The Work of Being Alive

326

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

327

Fran Lebowitz on Vinyl

328

Matthew McConaughey: Just Keep Livin

329

How Do We Heal? (with Resmaa Menakem)

330

Election Week with Noam Chomsky

331

Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein

332

A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman)

333

Antwaun Sargent: Young, Gifted and Black

334

State of the Union with Cornel West

335

Radha Blank: The Forty-Year-Old Version

336

Rep. Ilhan Omar: What Can America Look Like?

337

Claudia Rankine: Just Us

338

Me and You and Miranda July

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Mythmaking with Jena Malone

340

Play It Again: Gloria Steinem

341

Carrie Coon / Cat Solen

342

Janelle Monáe, Past and Present

343

Brittany Howard is a “Living Miracle”

344

The Carol Burnett Show

345

Tyler Mitchell's “Black Utopia”

346

Unbreakable Tituss Burgess

347

Leah Remini vs. The Church of Scientology

348

Norman Lear Turns 98

349

Jenny Slate in 2020

350

Malcolm Gladwell Returns

351

Hannah Gadsby

352

Fran Lebowitz

353

Run the Jewels

354

Bonus Episode: Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross!

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Hasan Minhaj

356

A COVID-19 Checkup with Dr. Ashish Jha

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Bonus Episode: Radnor & Lee

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Episode 176 - Dolores Huerta

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Episode 175 - Holland Taylor

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Episode 174 - Hank Willis Thomas

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

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

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

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Episode 171 - Ted Danson

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A Mother's Day Special

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Episode 170 - Roxane Gay

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Introducing: “The Last Dance Aftershow”

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Episode 169 - Elizabeth Gilbert

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Episode 168 - W. Kamau Bell, Four Years Later

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

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Episode 166 - Beto O'Rourke

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Episode 165 - Naomi Klein

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Episode 164 - Juliette Lewis

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

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Episode 162 - Sam Waterston

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Episode 161 - Alison Pill

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Episode 160 - Haley Bennett

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Episode 159 - Morgan Parker

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A Talk Easy Holiday Special!

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Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem

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Episode 157 - Laura Dern

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Episode 156 - Tracy Letts

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Episode 155 - Errol Morris

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Episode 154 - Alma Har'el

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Episode 153 - Randall Park

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Episode 152 - Edward Norton

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Play It Again: Robert Forster (1941-2019)

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Episode 151 - Gary Gulman

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Episode 150 - Sam

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Bonus Episode: Trace Lysette

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Episode 149 - Scott Aukerman

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Episode 148 - Karley Sciortino

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Episode 147 - Peter Bogdanovich

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Episode 146 - Justin Simien

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Episode 145 - Whitney Cummings

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Talk Easy Throwback: Mom

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Talk Easy Throwback: Alan Alda

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Talk Easy Throwback: John Cho

399

Talk Easy Throwback: Lena Waithe

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Talk Easy Throwback: Malcolm Gladwell

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Talk Easy Throwback: Norman Lear

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Episode 144 - Ron Perlman

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Episode 143 - Jeff Garlin

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Episode 142 - Raphael Bob-Waksberg

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Episode 141 - Michael Kelly

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Episode 140 - Jacki Weaver

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Episode 139 - Kenneth Branagh

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Episode 138 - Pam Grier

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Episode 137 - Werner Herzog

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Episode 136 - Wyatt Cenac

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Episode 135 - Chaz Ebert

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

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Episode 133 - Tayarisha Poe

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Episode 132 - Sean Kingston

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Episode 131 - Alex Ross Perry

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Episode 130 - Bill Pullman

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Episode 129 - Brit Marling

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Episode 128 - Vincent D'Onofrio

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Episode 127 - Mary Holland

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Episode 126 - Keith David

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Episode 125 - Matt Walsh

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Episode 124 - Dulé Hill

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Episode 123 - Minhal Baig

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Episode 122 - Jeremy O. Harris

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Episode 121 - Jacqueline Bisset

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Episode 120 - Chris Elliott

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Episode 119 - Patrick Wang

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Episode 118 - Zoë Ligon

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Episode 117 - Viggo Mortensen

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Episode 116 - Jonny Sun

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Episode 115 - Adam Bhala Lough

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Episode 114 - DeRay Mckesson

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Episode 113 - Paul Dano

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Episode 112 - Nathaniel Rich

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Episode 111 - Kamasi Washington

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Episode 110 - Judy Greer

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Episode 109 - Amma Asante

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Lessons Learned (or how I turned 24 today)

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Episode 107 - Colman Domingo

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Episode 106 - Ione Skye

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Episode 105 - Jerrika Hinton

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Episode 104 - Sheila Vand

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Episode 103 - Lauren Miller Rogen

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Episode 102 - Alan Alda

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Episode 101 - Rob Reiner

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Episode 100 - Dad

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Episode 99 - John Cho

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

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Episode 97 - Dawn Porter

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Episode 96 - Touré

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Episode 95 - Nina Collins

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Episode 94 - Gillian Jacobs

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Episode 93 - Laia Costa

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Episode 92 - Julie Dash

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Episode 91 - Kogonada

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Episode 90 - Chloé Zhao

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Episode 89 - The Lost Episode

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Episode 88 - Michael Imperioli

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Episode 87 - Jay Duplass

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Episode 86 - Josh Radnor

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Episode 85 - Alia Shawkat

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A Talk Easy Holiday Special

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Episode 83 - Sean Baker

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Episode 82 - Lois Smith

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Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins

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Episode 80 - Rory Scovel

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Episode 79 - Joachim Trier

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Episode 78 - Noël Wells

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Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta

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Episode 76 - Shea Serrano

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Episode 75 - Jen Yamato

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Episode 74 - Jon Daly

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Episode 73 - Willem Dafoe

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Episode 72 - Erica Chidi Cohen

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Episode 71 - Giancarlo Esposito

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Episode 70 - Heather Havrilesky

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Episode 69 - Norman Lear

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Episode 68 - Fred Melamed

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Episode 67 - Amber Navran

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Episode 66 - Rostam Batmanglij

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Episode 65 - Doreen St. Félix

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Episode 64 - Robert Downey Sr.

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Episode 63 - Jelani Cobb

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Episode 62 - Jenny Slate

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Episode 61 - A.O. Scott

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Episode 60 - Malcolm Gladwell

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Episode 59 - Patricia Lockwood

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Episode 58 - Lena Waithe

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Episode 57 - Sudan Archives (Stones Throw Series)

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Episode 56 - Mild High Club (Stones Throw Series)

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Episode 55 - J Rocc (Stones Throw Series)

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Episode 54 - Peanut Butter Wolf (Stones Throw Series)

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Episode 53 - Corinne Bailey Rae

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Episode 52 - Martin Starr

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Episode 51 - Anna Sale

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Episode 50 - Mom

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Episode 49 - James Gray

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Episode 48 - Andy Daly

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Episode 47 - Alice Lowe

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Live From SXSW: Janicza Bravo

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Episode 45 - Brenton Wood

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Episode 44 - Philip Baker Hall

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Episode 43 - Andrea Silenzi

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Episode 42 - Roger Ross Williams

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Episode 41 - Andy Greenwald

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Episode 40 - Kate Berlant

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Episode 39 - Noël Wells

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Episode 38 - Brett Gelman

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Bonus Christmas Special 2016!

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Episode 37 - Reggie Watts

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Episode 36 - Jay Caspian Kang

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Episode 35 - Matt Zoller Seitz

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Episode 34 - Mackenzie Davis

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Episode 33 - Zoe Kazan

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Episode 32 - Max Linsky

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Episode 31 - Zazie Beetz

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Episode 30 - W. Kamau Bell Returns!

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Episode 29 - Margaret Brown

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Episode 28 - Kelly Reichardt

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Episode 27 - Mndsgn

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Episode 26 - Esperanza Spalding

522

Episode 25 - Steve James

523

Episode 24 - Michael Phillips

524

Episode 23 - Lauren Lapkus

525

Episode 22 - Ben Schwartz

526

Episode 21 - Melanie Lynskey

527

Episode 20 - Charlene deGuzman

528

Episode 19 - Ira Sachs

529

Episode 18 - Kate Micucci

530

Episode 17 - Alan Arkin

531

Episode 16 - Donnie Trumpet

532

Episode 15 - Eric André

533

Episode 14 - Alex Gibney

534

Episode 13 - Alissa Wilkinson

535

Bonus Episode - Robert Forster

536

Episode 12 - Robert Forster

537

Episode 11 - Amy Nicholson

538

Episode 10 - Sherman Alexie

539

Episode 9 - Spencer Haywood

540

Episode 8 - Mac DeMarco

541

Episode 7 - The Ross Brothers

542

Episode 6 - Lamorne Morris

543

Episode 5 - Wesley Morris

544

Episode 4 - David Oyelowo

545

Episode 3 - Amy Seimetz

546

Episode 2 - W. Kamau Bell

547

Episode 1 - Don Cheadle

548

Episode 0 - Announcement