Are Spoilers Actually Bad? And More Pop Culture Hot Takes
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 711 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This episode is nothing but hot takes!
In a world drowning in opinions, Sam and friends serve up their spiciest ones — the kind that spark debate, start drama, or are just too real to admit out loud.
TV writer and producer Kara Brown (Swarm, She-Hulk, Grown-ish) joins to argue that spoilers aren’t actually bad — and she means it. But not so fast: Sam’s own team member and resident contrarian Beau Delmore steps in with the rebuttal.
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| 0:20.0 | Hey, y'all, it's the Sam Sanders show from KCRW, your weekly guide to entertainment and pop culture. |
| 0:26.8 | This is a show about TV and music and movies and books and art. But let's be honest, actually it is a show about hot takes on all of these things. Big opinions, sometimes right, sometimes wrong. |
| 0:41.1 | For the first time ever on this show, we're having our guests this week come with one objective, |
| 0:46.5 | sharing their hottest pop culture hot takes. |
| 0:49.4 | The ones that may be a little afraid to admit. |
| 0:52.2 | My first guest is Kara Brown. |
| 0:54.1 | She's a writer who was written for sites like Jezebel, and also on TV shows like Swarm, She-Hulk, |
| 1:00.5 | and Grownish. |
| 1:02.1 | Kara's takes are so hot, but also so good. |
| 1:05.7 | Let's get into it. |
| 1:08.9 | No further ado, future Hot Take Champion. |
| 1:11.6 | Kara, tell folks who you are. |
| 1:14.6 | Oh man, future champion, I guess. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:17.6 | Kara Brown, I am a writer, producer. |
| 1:21.6 | I've written on the internet back when we all did that. |
| 1:25.6 | Were you thought catalog or Tumblr? |
| 1:29.2 | I was Tumblr. |
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