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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso — 562 episodes

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

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

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Play It Again: Gloria Steinem

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

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In ‘The Good Place’ with D’Arcy Carden

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Novelist Colson Whitehead’s New York State of Mind

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The ‘Past Lives’ of Actor Greta Lee

8

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

9

Comedian Mary Beth Barone’s Brilliant ‘Galaxy Brain’

10

Actor Timothy Olyphant (‘Justified’) is Riding High

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

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Danny McBride’s Delusions of Grandeur

13

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

14

Father’s Day with Tom Hanks

15

The Jagged Little Pieces of Singer-Songwriter Alanis Morissette

16

Sam Interviews Nathan Lane on ‘Fresh Air’

17

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

18

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

19

The Michelle Obama Interview

20

Mother’s Day with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

21

Actor Riz Ahmed Remakes the Leading Man

22

Showrunner Lee Sung Jin is Back with More ‘Beef’

23

Play It Again: Actor Oscar Isaac

24

Are We Witnessing Podcaster Chris Ryan’s Apex Mountain?

25

Talk Easy Turns 10 (with Terry Gross)

26

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

27

Is Governor Josh Shapiro the Future of America?

28

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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33

This Is America with George Saunders

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Play It Again: Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

35

Is Will Arnett Nailing This Interview?

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36

This is Patti Smith

37

The Return of Gwyneth Paltrow (‘Marty Supreme’)

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38

Viola Davis: What If We’re Enough?

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39

Is Comedian Robby Hoffman the Last American Dream?

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40

Kate Winslet Is Home for the Holidays

41

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

44

The Noah Baumbach Retrospective

45

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

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46

Cook Alison Roman Creates ‘Something from Nothing’

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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.

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Actor Rose Byrne: A Woman on the Verge

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

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

56

And In Our Hour of Darkness, Writer Arundhati Roy

57

Director Francis Ford Coppola Keeps His Dream Alive

58

Seth Rogen’s ‘The Studio’ Takes the Emmys

59

The Terry Gross Interview

60

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

61

The Homecoming of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)

62

Laura Dern on Living Well (The Dan Buettner Podcast)

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A Candid Conversation with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass

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The Stories of Actor Josh Brolin (‘Weapons’)

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Actor Julia Garner is Hollywood’s Secret ‘Weapon’

66

David Mamet Exits Stage Left

67

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

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

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Play It Again: Joaquin Phoenix

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

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Lena Dunham is Never ‘Too Much’

72

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

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Actor Ebon Moss-Bachrach Returns to ‘The Bear’

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Comedian Jerrod Carmichael is Creating His Own Truman Show

75

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

76

Father’s Day with Seth Meyers

77

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

78

Writer Ocean Vuong’s Vision of the Future

79

Graduation Week with Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb

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Play It Again: Sarah Silverman (‘PostMortem’)

81

Pulitzer Prize Winner Percival Everett (‘James’)

82

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

83

Penn Badgley: Here’s Looking at ‘You’

84

The Many Lives of Viola Davis

85

Elizabeth Warren Holds Onto Hope

86

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

87

Jenny Slate in 2025

88

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

89

Ezra Klein’s Call for ‘Abundance’ in America

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Play It Again: Actor Amanda Seyfried

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A Portrait of the Artist Tyler Mitchell

92

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

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

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

95

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

96

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

97

Mikey Madison (‘Anora’) Enters Her Golden Age

98

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

99

Director David Lynch Transcends

100

The Week That Changed Los Angeles

101

A Hopeful Climate Conversation with Richard Powers

102

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

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A ‘Babygirl’ Holiday with Harris Dickinson

104

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

105

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

106

Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni

107

Talk Easy in 2024: A Mixtape

108

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

109

Play It Again: Jeff Daniels

110

Jesse Eisenberg Steps Into His Past

111

Actor Josh Brolin: A Life in Vivid Color

112

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

113

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

114

Actor and Director Anna Kendrick: Life Imitates Art

115

This Conversation with Author Jason Reynolds is a Gift

116

Wesley Morris Returns with ‘The Wonder of Stevie’

117

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

118

Francis Ford Coppola Stays in the Picture

119

The Joaquin Phoenix Interview

120

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

121

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

122

Abbi Jacobson Interviews Sam

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The First Gen Z Congressman’s Fight for Gun Reform

124

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

125

Director Steven Soderbergh: Scene by Scene

126

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

127

A Tea with Amelia Dimoldenberg of Chicken Shop Date

128

Author Vinson Cunningham on our ‘Great Expectations’ for 2024

129

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

130

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

131

Tom Hanks: A Retrospective

132

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

133

Live from Aspen with Performer Julia Louis-Dreyfus

134

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

135

A Post-Debate Talk with Democratic Strategist James Carville

136

How Playwright Annie Baker Made the Movie of the Summer

137

A Father’s Day Special (with Ethan Hawke)

138

Director Richard Linklater’s Moments in Time

139

Maya Hawke (‘Stranger Things’) Writes through Chaos

140

Comedian Ilana Glazer (‘Broad City’) is Mothering

141

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

142

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

143

Comedian Jerrod Carmichael’s Self-Portrait

144

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

145

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

146

The Stories of Actor Jeff Daniels

147

Actor and Director Dev Patel is a Leading Man

148

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

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Comedian Ramy Youssef Returns with ‘More Feelings’

150

Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

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How Do We Think About the 2024 Election?

152

Oscar Sunday with Composer Ludwig Göransson (‘Oppenheimer’)

153

From the Oscar Archives: Cate Blanchett

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

155

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

156

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

157

Quinta Brunson: ‘Abbott Elementary’ is Back in Session

158

Filmmaker Lulu Wang Creates In Between Two Worlds

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Oscar Nominations with Wesley Morris (The New York Times)

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

161

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s New Hollywood Framework

162

Actor Michelle Williams Works from a ‘Place of Peace’

163

Talk Easy’s 2023 Mixtape

164

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

165

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

166

The Transformations of Actor Willem Dafoe

167

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Fights for the Protection of Journalists

168

Actor and Director Benny Safdie Does It All

169

The Futurist Vision of Actor and Filmmaker Brit Marling

170

The Ziwe Interview

171

Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain

172

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

173

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

174

A Human Conversation with Writer George Saunders

175

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

176

The Transformations of Novelist Zadie Smith

177

Writer Sandra Cisneros Finds the Poetry of the World

178

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

179

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

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Jazz Singer Laufey is Bringing the Past to the Present

181

The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders)

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Tracing 'The Steps' of Musician Alana Haim

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The Era(s) of Musician Este Haim

184

Abbi Jacobson is in a League of Her Own

185

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

186

Beto O'Rourke and the Border

187

Costume Designer Ruth E. Carter Threads History and the Afrofuture

188

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

189

Photographer Joel Meyerowitz: The Pleasure of Seeing

190

At Home with Writer Joyce Carol Oates

191

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

192

The Making of Tom Hanks

193

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

194

The Era of Actor Michael Shannon

195

Model and Activist Geena Rocero Lives Her Story

196

A Father’s Day Special with Sarah Silverman

197

A Sunday Matinee with Actor Oscar Isaac

198

Comedian and Actor Ramy Youssef Tells a Muslim American Story

199

The Elements of Singer-Songwriter Arlo Parks

200

Director Nicole Holofcener’s Art Imitates Life

201

Bill Hader Says Goodbye to ‘Barry’

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Actor Alan Ruck’s Road to ‘Succession’

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Mother’s Day with ‘Top Chef’ Padma Lakshmi

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Introducing So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

205

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

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All the Women in Actor Betty Gilpin’s Brain

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Carol Burnett Turns 90

208

Alison Roman’s Imperfect Approach to Cooking

209

A Portrait of Actor Michelle Williams

210

Actor Steven Yeun Tells a New Story

211

How Author Jenny Odell Discovered a Life Beyond the Clock

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Actor Bob Odenkirk: The King of (Dark) Comedy

213

The Stories of Writer Margaret Atwood

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Live from New York with Author Min Jin Lee

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Oscar Sunday with Actor Ke Huy Quan

216

Actor Ram Charan and the RRRevolution

217

Actor and Director Natasha Lyonne Plays Her Hand

218

Mr. Frost Goes to Washington

219

The Year of Actor Pedro Pascal

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The Makings of Writer Hilton Als

221

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

222

Opening Night with Artist Kehinde Wiley

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

224

The Road to Actor Ke Huy Quan’s Second Act

225

Actor Claire Foy Observes the Unobserved

226

The 2022 Talk Easy Holiday Special

227

Nobel Peace Prize Journalist Maria Ressa Holds the Line

228

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

229

An Interlude with Musician Dev Hynes

230

Performer Kumail Nanjiani: A New Act

231

Actor Jonathan Majors: ‘Everything Happens To Me’

232

An Afternoon at Judd Apatow’s Office

233

Journalist Kara Swisher Believes in the Future

234

Writer George Saunders, Moment by Moment

235

The Homecoming of Director James Gray

236

Comedian Nick Kroll is Going Through Changes

237

The Transformation of Actor Eddie Redmayne

238

How Congresswoman Cori Bush Reimagines Politics

239

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

240

Writer Sandra Cisneros is a ‘Woman Without Shame’

241

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

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Comedian Billy Eichner, Street to Screen

243

Storytelling with ‘Atlanta’ Director Hiro Murai

244

The Aftermath of 9/11

245

The Airline Workers' Movement is Taking Off

246

‘Dreaming Back’ with Novelist Joyce Carol Oates

247

Abbi Jacobson: A League of Her Own

248

A New Era of Musician Joey Bada$$

249

Coming of Age with Lena Dunham

250

Ethan Hawke, Here and Then

251

At Home with Comedian John Early

252

Disaster is Not Our Destiny. Neither is Democracy.

253

Jenny Slate in 2022

254

Through the Woods with Nick Offerman

255

Margo Jefferson: We Must ‘Go On’

256

The Supreme Court Conversation We’re Not Having

257

David Sedaris: A Life On and Off the Page

258

Actor Jon Bernthal: Leading Man

259

Performer Meg Stalter Heals Through Comedy

260

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

261

Author Jennifer Egan: Writing Through Time

262

Pedro Pascal: A Life of Dreaming

263

Mother’s Day with Minnie Driver

264

Bill Hader Finds His Story

265

Poet Rupi Kaur is Here to Stay

266

Play It Again: Ocean Vuong

267

Love Songs with Syd (The Internet, Odd Future)

268

Let’s Talk About Sex (At the Movies)

269

Anita Hill is Getting Even. We Believe Her.

270

Oscar Sunday with Questlove

271

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present

272

The Pieces of David Byrne

273

Author Margaret Atwood’s Burning Questions

274

Stacey Abrams’ Guide to Preserving Democracy

275

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

276

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

277

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

278

A Tea with Cate Blanchett

279

Questlove: A Celebration of Soul

280

Actor Tessa Thompson is Boundless

281

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

282

Alana Haim: 13 Going on 30

283

Activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham: How Did We Get Here?

284

Sunday on the Podcast with George Saunders

285

A Talk Easy Holiday Special

286

How We Continue (with Noam Chomsky)

287

Michael Tubbs: The Deeper the Roots

288

Play It Again: Author Jhumpa Lahiri

289

Musician Buffy Sainte-Marie’s Path to Home

290

A Double Feature: Vicky Krieps and Melanie Lynskey

291

A Sunday Sermon with Janaya Future Khan

292

Comedian Jeff Garlin is Young at Heart

293

Nick Offerman: Out of the Woods

294

How to Reconnect to Earth (with Author Richard Powers)

295

Actor Noomi Rapace’s Homecoming

296

Poet Nikki Giovanni: Life is a Good Idea

297

Julie Delpy: Just Passing Through

298

A Portrait of Artist Toyin Ojih Odutola

299

The Aftermath of 9/11

300

Play It Again: Holland Taylor

301

Lorde: Through the Years

302

The Makings of Actor Poorna Jagannathan

303

Off the Court with Candace Parker

304

Dr. Jha on the State of the Pandemic

305

Director Brian De Palma: A Retrospective

306

A Zola Roundtable with Janicza Bravo and Joi McMillon

307

On Air with Larry Wilmore

308

Vince Staples by Vince Staples

309

Play It Again: Ts Madison

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Steven Soderbergh: Making Movies

311

Uzo Aduba: The Road is Good

312

A Phone Call with Author Dave Eggers

313

Sleater-Kinney's Path of Wellness

314

On Earth with Ocean Vuong

315

One on One with CNN's Jake Tapper

316

Anna Sale: Death, Sex & Money

317

The Michael Lewis Story

318

Mother’s Day with Writer Jhumpa Lahiri

319

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

320

Joel Meyerowitz: A Life in Photos

321

Kevin Abstract: New Light, New Machine

322

Songs For You

323

Kathrine Switzer: Marathon Woman

324

The Ts Madison Experience

325

We Turn Five

326

Nathaniel Rich: Stories from a World Remade

327

Sunday School with Author Anne Lamott

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Black Futures with Kimberly Drew and J Wortham

329

The Golden Age of Amanda Seyfried

330

Winnie Byanyima's Lifelong Fight for Equality

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At 74, Actor Glynn Turman Keeps On

332

Rest and Rebuild with Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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Alone but Never Lonely: Johnny Mathis at 85

334

Short Stories with George Saunders

335

Dr. Ashish Jha Sees the COVID Finish Line

336

Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper?

337

A Talk Easy Holiday Special: Goodbye 2020

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A Talk Easy Holiday Special (pt. 1)

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Janaya Future Khan: The Work of Being Alive

340

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

341

Fran Lebowitz on Vinyl

342

Matthew McConaughey: Just Keep Livin

343

How Do We Heal? (with Resmaa Menakem)

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Election Week with Noam Chomsky

345

Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein

346

A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman)

347

Antwaun Sargent: Young, Gifted and Black

348

State of the Union with Cornel West

349

Radha Blank: The Forty-Year-Old Version

350

Rep. Ilhan Omar: What Can America Look Like?

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Claudia Rankine: Just Us

352

Me and You and Miranda July

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Mythmaking with Jena Malone

354

Play It Again: Gloria Steinem

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Carrie Coon / Cat Solen

356

Janelle Monáe, Past and Present

357

Brittany Howard is a “Living Miracle”

358

The Carol Burnett Show

359

Tyler Mitchell's “Black Utopia”

360

Unbreakable Tituss Burgess

361

Leah Remini vs. The Church of Scientology

362

Norman Lear Turns 98

363

Jenny Slate in 2020

364

Malcolm Gladwell Returns

365

Hannah Gadsby

366

Fran Lebowitz

367

Run the Jewels

368

Bonus Episode: Documentarians Bill and Turner Ross!

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Hasan Minhaj

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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

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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

513

Episode 47 - Alice Lowe

514

Live From SXSW: Janicza Bravo

515

Episode 45 - Brenton Wood

516

Episode 44 - Philip Baker Hall

517

Episode 43 - Andrea Silenzi

518

Episode 42 - Roger Ross Williams

519

Episode 41 - Andy Greenwald

520

Episode 40 - Kate Berlant

521

Episode 39 - Noël Wells

522

Episode 38 - Brett Gelman

523

Bonus Christmas Special 2016!

524

Episode 37 - Reggie Watts

525

Episode 36 - Jay Caspian Kang

526

Episode 35 - Matt Zoller Seitz

527

Episode 34 - Mackenzie Davis

528

Episode 33 - Zoe Kazan

529

Episode 32 - Max Linsky

530

Episode 31 - Zazie Beetz

531

Episode 30 - W. Kamau Bell Returns!

532

Episode 29 - Margaret Brown

533

Episode 28 - Kelly Reichardt

534

Episode 27 - Mndsgn

535

Episode 26 - Esperanza Spalding

536

Episode 25 - Steve James

537

Episode 24 - Michael Phillips

538

Episode 23 - Lauren Lapkus

539

Episode 22 - Ben Schwartz

540

Episode 21 - Melanie Lynskey

541

Episode 20 - Charlene deGuzman

542

Episode 19 - Ira Sachs

543

Episode 18 - Kate Micucci

544

Episode 17 - Alan Arkin

545

Episode 16 - Donnie Trumpet

546

Episode 15 - Eric André

547

Episode 14 - Alex Gibney

548

Episode 13 - Alissa Wilkinson

549

Bonus Episode - Robert Forster

550

Episode 12 - Robert Forster

551

Episode 11 - Amy Nicholson

552

Episode 10 - Sherman Alexie

553

Episode 9 - Spencer Haywood

554

Episode 8 - Mac DeMarco

555

Episode 7 - The Ross Brothers

556

Episode 6 - Lamorne Morris

557

Episode 5 - Wesley Morris

558

Episode 4 - David Oyelowo

559

Episode 3 - Amy Seimetz

560

Episode 2 - W. Kamau Bell

561

Episode 1 - Don Cheadle

562

Episode 0 - Announcement