Episode 69 - Norman Lear
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
TV titan Norman Lear joins Sam on the show this week. The 95-year-old is chiefly responsible for changing television. His shows—All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times—were unlike anything that came before them. Political, combative, funny. Lear’s greatest gift is his endless curiosity in the imperfection of humans. Especially Americans. When Sam and Norman sat down, they discussed his remarkable life, one story at a time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music for the show is by Dylan Peck. www.dylanpeck.com Original illustrations by Krishna Shenoi: www.krishnabalashenoi.com.
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| 0:37.0 | It's just amazing the way it ends. |
| 0:44.0 | If that's an ending, we don't even know that. |
| 0:47.8 | Are you sleeping? |
| 0:49.8 | Is death just simply like a good night's sleep or a bad night's sleep or whatever? |
| 0:57.0 | Or is there something more? My wife would go on and on about the... |
| 1:02.0 | because she does believe this far more. I don't know. I just think it's a wonder |
| 1:06.7 | that we don't know that nobody's ever come back to tell us and that the last question in a lifetime full of questions we don't know the answer to. That was Norman Lear. I'm San |
| 1:24.9 | Goso. This is Talk Easy. Welcome to the show. Oh, Norman Lear is 95. I'll let that one sit for a second. Throughout my time with him, |
| 1:57.0 | we found ourselves gravitating back to this fact. |
| 2:00.0 | It's an incontrovertible one to use a word leer loves. |
| 2:05.0 | It's also a signifier of time and history, especially for Norman, |
| 2:10.0 | whose life and career is so large it needed a memoir and a documentary to be released at once. |
| 2:16.8 | To use his words, I've lived a multitude of lives. |
| 2:21.0 | In the course of all these lives, I had a front row seat at the birth of television, |
| 2:25.4 | wrote, produced, and created, or developed more than a hundred shows, |
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