A Talk Easy Holiday Special
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On our annual holiday special, we hear from the people that came on Talk Easy in 2021. To start: performer Ts Madison (4:20), CNN anchor Jake Tapper (7:25), actor Vicky Krieps (8:25), and a phone call with actor and director Julie Delpy (9:55).
We also play some voicemails from visual artist Toyin Ojih Odutola (25:30), host of Death, Sex & Money Anna Sale (28:13), and actor Glynn Turman (30:20), before calling up writer George Saunders (33:20).
To close the year, we hear from actor Nick Offerman (52:30), Zola editor Joi McMillon (54:51), writer/director Janicza Bravo (56:30), and Ugandan activist and UNAIDS executive director Winnie Byanyima (1:00:25).
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone, it's Sam. If you like Talk Easy, there's another podcast I think you'll really enjoy. |
| 0:05.2 | It's called Death, Sex, and Money from the Good People at Slate, hosted by my friend and mentor, Anna Sale. |
| 0:12.2 | It's a show about all the things we think about a lot, but don't talk about enough. |
| 0:16.7 | From debt to breakups to grief, and it gets people to open up about the parts of life that can |
| 0:22.0 | feel really isolating and confusing. So my personal favorites include Jane Fonda, Miranda July, |
| 0:29.5 | Celine Song, which we dropped in this feed, and the late great Bill Withers. It's that episode |
| 0:35.3 | with Withers called How to Be a Man that served as a real true inspiration for Talk Easy. |
| 0:42.2 | I've said it before, but I'll say it again. |
| 0:44.2 | Without that episode, How to Be a Man with Bill Withers, just even now thinking about it, it gets me emotional. |
| 0:50.6 | Without that episode, I don't know. |
| 0:53.0 | I don't think Talk Easy would be what it is today. |
| 0:56.9 | And so before I get any more emotional than I already am, you can follow and listen to |
| 1:01.3 | death, sex, and money, wherever you listen to podcasts. I promise you won't regret it. Pushkin. |
| 1:12.8 | This is Talk Easy. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm Sam Fragoso. |
| 1:33.6 | Welcome to the show. Today, on our final episode of the year, we present our annual holiday special. |
| 1:58.3 | We've been doing these since the podcast began back in 2016, but if you're new |
| 2:03.3 | here, let me explain. In 2021, we release 52 episodes featuring dozens and dozens of people. |
| 2:12.1 | To close out our year, I've invited a handful of those people to sit and reflect on the past 12 months. |
| 2:19.4 | George Saunders, Julie Delpy, Glenn Termin, Winnie Bionema, Nick Offerman, and many, many others. |
| 2:27.1 | To everyone, I presented a few central questions. |
| 2:31.0 | What piece of art spoke to you in 2021? |
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