Pushkin.

The idea that you're going to be extinguished when you finally realize that that is the most factual fact about life, then you think, well, that wasn't very long.

It seems like it's going to last forever when you're a kid.

But then you start to realize it's shorter.

So if it's not going to last that long,

I think it would be a good idea to feel good about things as much as you can.

That was Alan Alda, I'm San Francisco, and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. We are here. We are back. This is Talk Easy, a podcast. I host every single Sunday.

If this is your first time, welcome. If you've listened to many of these,

welcome back. It's a series of long form interviews with artists I admire. It's pretty much that simple. People have asked what is your show about

and I can never really give anything better than look it's an hour of a conversation

where I hope at the end of it you know people better than you do

than when you entered the interview and that was not a great sentence and I

realize that but let's move forward. This week on the show is Alan Alda. He doesn't need an introduction. I don't want to give him an introduction. You know who he is and where he is from. The only thing I want to mention is that he has his own podcast

now out on iTunes, Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. It is called Clear and Vivid. It's a series in which Alda has very

spirited conversations with people who know how hard it is and yet how good it

feels to really connect with other people, whether it's one person, an audience,

or a whole country.

I like to believe that's a little bit what happens on this show that I host every week but you should also

check out all this podcast it is really fun I listen to his Judge Judy episode

he had Judge Judy on and that was great. Imagine Judge Judy and

Alan Alda shooting the shit for an hour. It's really, really fun. I want to

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