Episode 525: Sam Fragoso

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Education, Arts, Books, News

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Sam Fragoso is a writer, filmmaker, and the host of the podcast Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso. “We have an hour together. We may not have another. We're here for a brief moment and then, you know, we die. And I want this thing to be as good as it can be. If if it's anything less than that, I'm just not interested. … And that, to me, is why you keep doing it: because that feeling when you really feel like you've put someone's life on the record in a way that is beautiful and painful and idiosyncratic and triumphant … when it goes well, it's like I lost 20 pounds. I am never a nicer or happier person than immediately after a taping. I'm kind of goofy and silly and delirious and grateful to be doing this. Like, so fucking grateful.” Show notes: @SamFragoso samfragoso.com 00:00 Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso 08:00 "#1: Matthieu Aikins" (Longform Podcast • Aug 2012) 09:00 "#156: Renata Adler" (Longform Podcast • Sep 2015) 09:00 "#187: Elizabeth Gilbert" (Longform Podcast • Apr 2016) 16:00 "Dr. Ashish Jha" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Mar 2020) 17:00 "Noam Chomsky" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Apr 2020) 21:00 "Margaret Atwood" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Mar 2022) 21:00 "David Byrne" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Mar 2022) 21:00 "Questlove" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Feb 2022) 22:00 "Anna Sale" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Apr 2017) 27:00 "David Sedaris" (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso • Jun 2022) 52:00 WTF with Marc Maron 54:00 "Live Taping: Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" (On Air Fest • Feb 2023) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Longform Podcast. I'm Max Linske and I'm here with my co-host, Aaron
0:12.8	Lammer, Evan Ratliff, gentlemen. Hello. Hey, good day. Nice to see you there, Max. Nice
0:18.7	to be seen, you guys. Nice to be seen. I understand you taped an interview in person, which to
0:25.8	me is such an extravagant and anxiety-provoking experience. Who did you talk to? Well, I'll tell you,
0:33.8	and there's a twist in this interview, which I'm not revealing now, but it does connect to anxiety.
0:39.4	Hey, and we try. It's an anxiety-ridden interview. Although with a very unanxious person,
0:47.0	Sam Fragoso, who is the host of the Talk Easy Podcast, it's an interview show. He talks to
0:54.0	actors, musicians, writers. He has over the last couple of years started talking to politicians.
1:00.7	Sam is 28, lives in LA. He's been doing this for seven years. He started when he was 21. The show
1:07.4	books absolutely incredible guests like A-list, A-list, A-list people after. It provokes my
1:15.1	envy. Whoever is booking that show is doing a great job. There's definitely a significant chunk
1:19.4	of this interviewer. I'm just like, how the fuck are you doing it, man? The answer is an incredible
1:24.7	amount of persistence, but also part of the way that he gets these people to come on is that he is
1:30.2	just an incredibly, incredibly prepared and thoughtful interviewer. And as you guys know, sometimes
1:37.8	on this show, I like to talk to people about how they do interviews. And while I was anxiety-inducing
1:45.3	and ways that you will soon hear, it was also a real pleasure to talk to about how he thinks about
1:49.5	having these conversations, which is pretty profound, actually. The show is produced in partnership
1:55.4	with Vox Media. They help us out in all kinds of ways, so thanks to everyone over there at Vox.
2:01.3	Now here's Max with Sam Fragoso.
2:03.3	Hi, Sam. Hi, Max. Welcome to the podcast. I'm honored to be here. Thanks for doing it,
2:15.8	man. It's a Sunday afternoon. I don't think I've taped on a Sunday in five years. Is that because
2:22.9	you've professionalized? It's a 9-5 for you now. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, I play basketball on
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