Episode 101 - Rob Reiner

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Higher Ground

Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Legendary writer/director/actor Rob Reiner joins us on the show this week. You remember his American staples: This is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Misery, A Few Good Men. Then there's his performance as "Meathead" from Norman Lear's landmark show, All in the Family. And then there's...we could do this forever. Reiner has been an integral part of the American consciousness for over half-a-century, which makes him an especially challenging subject to spend *only* one hour with. Thankfully it's a fun one.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Well, you know, after the divorce I was like devastated. I mean, it was like a, like, that was really a blow because, you know, it's like you feel like not only a failure but then you're alone and and you're confused about who are you what did I do what how do I and then I was single for 10 years and during that 10 year period I was in and out of different
0:35.8	relationships and that became the basis for when Harry Mitzali which is you know how to men and women
0:41.6	are how are they together and how do they if they
0:45.2	become friends can they have sex and if they do have sex does that ruin the
0:48.6	friendship and all those questions started to plague me
0:58.0	that was Robert started to plague me. That was Rob Reiner. I'm San Francisco and this is talk easy. Welcome to the show. Oh, Hello everyone I hope you are doing well this Sunday morning.
1:26.0	If you're listening to it Sunday morning.
1:30.0	If you're not, I hope you're doing well all the days.
1:32.8	I sound a little sick and it's because I am at the time of this recording a little sick.
1:39.4	But I'm not going to stop it from the good news which is that we've made it through a hundred
1:44.0	god damn episodes of this podcast and now we're on a hundred and one with the one and only Rob Reiner.
1:54.8	I gotta say that's a good sentence.
1:56.3	The fact that we've done 100 is cool
1:58.6	and the fact that Rob Reiner is on the show is something yeah I mean I couldn't have imagined that when we
2:06.8	started it a couple of years ago so if you don't know who Rob Reiner is you do know who Rob Reiner is. Off the top of my head, I'm not even going to look at my notes or
2:16.9	as I'm D.B. He is the director of many films you've seen, including The Princess Bride, Stand By Me, this Spinal Tap.
2:26.9	When Harry met Sally, Misery, he played a pretty pivotal role in Norman Leers, all in the family as Meathead.
2:36.4	You've seen him a lot in front of the camera and seen his work behind the camera for many, many years.
2:42.3	His latest film that he has directed is called
2:45.9	Shock and Aw. It goes back to the early 2000s in the trailer. Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
3:09.1	They're dialing up the rhetoric on Iraq.
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