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 Times, Gay has taken aim at President Trump, modern misogyny,...
3 Touko 20201h
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 Michael Jordan and the 1997-1998 Chicago Bulls.Upcoming guests i...
30 Huhti 20202min
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 writer Elizabeth Gilbert. Both in her fiction and non-fiction...
26 Huhti 20201h 26min
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 sociopolitical comedian returns to provide some light and laughter ...
19 Huhti 20201h 11min
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 provide a historical perspective to the pandemic (44:02). He...
12 Huhti 20201h 18min
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. And yet– what if his political brand is not exactly what the c...
5 Huhti 20201h 16min
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 instinct to run toward crisis; her decades long research of disaste...
29 Maalis 202057min
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 Gilbert Grape, From Dusk Till Dawn. She's a visceral, singular ...
22 Maalis 20201h 4min
