The Year of Actor Sebastian Stan (‘The Apprentice’)
Actor Sebastian Stan has built a career out of shapeshifting. This week, he joins us to discuss the process of transforming into Donald J. Trump in The Apprentice (8:27), his personal relationship to ...
15 Dec 20241h 16min
Remembering Poet Nikki Giovanni
For the past 50 years, Nikki Giovanni has been one of our preeminent poets. Rest in Power to the legendary writer and activist, who passed this week at the age of 81. Today we return to our conversati...
11 Dec 202444min
Talk Easy in 2024: A Mixtape
It’s been a year. And while we’re not quite done with it (3:15), we wanted to take a moment to celebrate some of our favorite episodes and guests from 2024. On the front half, we revisit passages fro...
8 Dec 202458min
Host Padma Lakshmi (‘Taste the Nation’) is Just Getting Started
To close out the holiday weekend, we're revisiting our conversation with writer, food expert, and television host Padma Lakshmi. At the top, we discuss her Hulu docuseries Taste the Nation (4:40), a f...
1 Dec 202453min
Play It Again: Jeff Daniels
Today, for your holiday week, we’re returning to one of our favorite 2024 conversations with actor Jeff Daniels. Daniels is always writing. Plays, songs, a script or two. Even in interviews you get th...
27 Nov 20241h 13min
Jesse Eisenberg Steps Into His Past
Actor, writer, and director Jesse Eisenberg’s latest project, A Real Pain, is perhaps his most personal to date. He joins us today to unpack the journey that shaped the film (9:18), memories from his ...
24 Nov 20241h 2min
Actor Josh Brolin: A Life in Vivid Color
Since the turn of the century, actor Josh Brolin has had quite a run. From No Country for Old Men and Hail, Caesar! from the Coen Brothers, to Inherent Vice from Paul Thomas Anderson, to Sicario and t...
17 Nov 20241h 25min
What Can Be, Burdened By What Has Been (with Astead Herndon of NYT)
It’s been a week. To help us through it, we’ve enlisted The New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon. We start with election night 2024 versus election night 2016 (6:35), what Astead discovere...
10 Nov 20241h 9min
