Bonus Episode - Robert Forster
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this special Bonus Episode of Talk Easy, we bring you more of Sam's conversation with Robert Forster, who shares some additional items from his Menu of life stories and lessons. Tales of Marlon Brando, the JFK assassination, the Ringling Brothers Circus, and elephant-watching in Africa. Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, this is Sam. |
| 0:10.0 | If you enjoy our interviews with writers and artists on Talk Easy, then I'd recommend checking |
| 0:14.8 | out the podcast Missing Pages. Hosted by acclaimed literary critic and author Beth Ann Patrick, |
| 0:21.5 | Missing Pages investigates the biggest hot button topics in the book world today |
| 0:26.4 | with the help of special guests like New York Times Best-Selling author Jody Pekle |
| 0:31.3 | and publisher weeklies Jim Miliet. |
| 0:33.8 | Produced by the people at the Podglamaret, |
| 0:36.1 | Missing Pages explores everything from the insta frame of Colleen Hoover |
| 0:40.3 | to the rise of book bands across America to the lucrative culture of non-fiction ghost writing. |
| 0:46.0 | As both the Washington Post and the Guardian praise, |
| 0:49.0 | missing pages is a must listen. |
| 0:52.0 | So if you'd like to check it out, you can follow missing pages on |
| 0:55.0 | Apple Podcast or wherever you like to listen. Oh, Hey everyone if you are listening to this right now I can only assume you listen to our full episode with Robert Forster |
| 1:24.3 | that we released on Tuesday. If you have not I would urge you to check that out. I thought it was a good |
| 1:31.3 | conversation. It was it was fun and interesting and insightful and profound in |
| 1:37.6 | all the ways you hope Robert Forrester would be. It's also strange because we talked for two hours at his |
| 1:45.6 | morning breakfast spot in West Hollywood and rarely do you have two hour |
| 1:49.1 | conversations that are consistently fascinating. |
| 1:54.4 | But I think, you know, this is my opinion and my humble opinion. |
| 1:57.8 | I think it was all interesting. |
| 2:00.3 | So we decided to divvy it up a little bit and put out this 20-25 minutes of conversation which came at the end of our talk. |
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