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Hey, y'all, it's the Sam Sanders show from KCRW here with big questions and hot takes on the pop culture we love.

Thank you so much for listening.

This week, Zasha Mamet.

You've maybe seen her in a lot of stuff. Mad Men, Parenthood, the flight

attendant, a peacock show called Laid most recently, but Zasha is maybe most well known for her

role as Shoshana in HBO's Girls, one of my favorite TV shows of all time. I want to die. No, you don't. You and me and Jessa and or slash Marni, we are going to get through this together. If they ever show up or call back, I'll say you have absolutely lost weight, and that is a definite. Yes, two and a half pounds. Yeah, I know. That's a lot. To get Zasha in studio to talk about

girls with me, it was just sublime. A dream come true. We're also talking about Zasha's new book.

It's called Does This Make Me Funny? It's a book of essays all about Zasha growing up in an

industry family and forging her own path in Hollywood.

If he didn't know, Zasha's father is acclaimed director and playwright, David Mamet.

So Zasha's book, It Comes in Hot. At the very start, in the forward,

Zasha calls herself a Nepo baby and a B a B minus nepo baby at best.

Yeah, she said it.

We talk about all of that in this chat and more,

but because I couldn't help myself,

we start with HBO's girls.

I had the most perfect evening last night, thanks to you.

I made some pasta and the guy I'm seeing was over to hang out, we're eating, and we

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