Brittany meets Sam Sanders, and things get spooky

It's Been a Minute

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For longtime fans of this show, here's a name you know: Sam Sanders. Before Brittany, Sam was the host of It's Been A Minute, and recently Brittany ran into Sam at an event. The two got to talking and came up with an an idea...what if Brittany came on Sam's new show, KCRW's The Sam Sanders Show? And then...what if they brought all of you longtime IBAM fans the podcast multiverse event of the season to this feed?!

That's how we got here.

In this special bonus episode, Sam, Brittany, and Tre'vell Anderson rank the best spooky season films of all time and talk through their pop culture hot takes.

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0:00.0	I'm Rachel Martin. If you're tired of small talk, check out the Wild Card podcast. I invite
0:04.9	influential thinkers to open up about the big topics we all think about, but rarely talk about.
0:10.7	Tune in this fall to hear Mel Robbins, Malala Yusufzai, and Brunay Brown, talk about everything
0:15.9	from grief and God to ambition and forgiveness. Watch or listen on the NPR app, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:24.7	If you're a long time, and I mean long time listener of this show, then you are in for a treat today.
0:32.5	That's because I'm giving you a special episode of a show hosted by someone that many of you already know and love.
0:39.3	Sam Sanders.
0:41.0	Recently, Sam had me as a guest on the Sam Sanders show, and we talked all things spooky season.
0:49.1	All right, I'll let Sam take it from here.
0:50.9	Enjoy.
0:52.1	You all have to cast Taylor Swift in a reboot of one of our four films on our horror film, Mount Rushmore.
1:01.4	Which films do you cast her in?
1:02.9	Oh.
1:03.6	Get out.
1:04.5	Yeah.
1:09.4	Hey, y'all.
1:10.3	It's the Sam Sanders show from KCRW, a show all about the things that entertain us.
1:15.8	Thank you so much for listening.
1:18.6	Happy spooky season.
1:20.5	In honor of spooky season, we're talking horror movies this episode, a genre I truly love.
1:26.9	We're going to build a horror film Mount Rushmore this
1:29.6	episode and choose, in our opinion, the four greatest horror movies of all time. I'm joined by two
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