Sam Fragoso is a writer, filmmaker, and the host of the podcast Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso.

“We have an hour together. We may not have another. We're here for a brief moment and then, you know, we die. And I want this thing to be as good as it can be. If if it's anything less than that, I'm just not interested. … And that, to me, is why you keep doing it: because that feeling when you really feel like you've put someone's life on the record in a way that is beautiful and painful and idiosyncratic and triumphant … when it goes well, it's like I lost 20 pounds. I am never a nicer or happier person than immediately after a taping. I'm kind of goofy and silly and delirious and grateful to be doing this. Like, so fucking grateful.”

Show notes:

• @SamFragoso
• samfragoso.com
• 00:00 Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
• 08:00 "#1: Matthieu Aikins" (Longform Podcast • Aug 2012)
• 09:00 "#156: Renata Adler" (Longform Podcast • Sep 2015)
• 09:00 "#187: Elizabeth Gilbert" (Longform Podcast • Apr 2016)
• 16:00 "Dr. Ashish Jha" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Mar 2020)
• 17:00 "Noam Chomsky" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Apr 2020)
• 21:00 "Margaret Atwood" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Mar 2022)
• 21:00 "David Byrne" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Mar 2022)
• 21:00 "Questlove" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Feb 2022)
• 22:00 "Anna Sale" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Apr 2017)
• 27:00 "David Sedaris" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Jun 2022)
• 52:00 WTF with Marc Maron
• 54:00 "Live Taping: Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" (On Air Fest • Feb 2023)

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