Episode 86 - Josh Radnor
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Higher Ground
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Unless you've lived without a TV for the past decade or so, you probably recognize Josh Radnor. The actor--who is also a skilled writer, director, and musician--has been immortalized in the eyes of the public as Ted Mosby, the goofy and hyper-romantic protagonist of the hit series How I Met Your Mother, which ran on CBS from 2005 to 2014. In real life, though, Josh will be the first to tell you that in many ways, he and his fictional counterpart are worlds apart. When Josh sits down with Sam to track his life and career--from realizing in high school that performance was his solution to insecurity, to bringing two feature films to Sundance, to his new series Rise and his musical career with Ben Lee--the impression we're left with is one of determination and deliberation. Josh is brimming with insights from friends, artists, and his own experiences as he and Sam discuss periods of his life during which his dreams were tested, his success complicated, and his interests ever-changing. http://talkeasypod.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:07.0 | I, so there's an ego part of you that's like why don't I have that or why is |
| 0:14.9 | is that would that is that would that make me happy but I see that that's ego I see that |
| 0:20.5 | that just the ego is I heard this thing the ego doesn't want to have it |
| 0:27.6 | wants to want so it wants it stays in this perpetually unsatisfied state of hunger. |
| 0:34.4 | And I've noticed from different people, |
| 0:37.3 | I know a lot of people who are at various stages of visibility, |
| 0:41.3 | it just never goes away. You know, you can be at the top, top, and you're |
| 0:44.8 | still like pissed off that, you know, Will Smith's getting your roles or whatever, you know, |
| 0:49.5 | and it's kind of like showbiz is rigged for your dissatisfaction, |
| 0:54.4 | and you have to decide like where you're going to draw your juice from, |
| 0:59.2 | like what's going to sustain you. |
| 1:00.8 | And like the thing that's making me the happiest is learning how to play |
| 1:04.2 | guitar and writing songs is like literally like I can't it's my happy place like |
| 1:08.0 | when Ben comes over and we're writing or I'm writing on my own like I feel |
| 1:11.8 | successful that was my own like I feel successful. That was Josh Radner, I'm Sam Fregoso and this is |
| 1:17.9 | Talk Easy. Welcome to the show. I woke up this morning thinking about my freshman year of college. It wasn't long ago or anything, |
| 1:49.0 | but around that time in my first semester of school, I had what I guess will call my first true |
| 1:56.4 | girlfriend, I think that's a fair thing to say, and something she introduced me to was the show called How I Met Your Mother. |
| 2:05.0 | I've never seen it before and the more I think about it the more I'm convinced |
| 2:10.0 | that every relationship has a few default shows that they go to, you know, the times when you |
| 2:16.2 | really can't pick anything to watch and you need to put something on instead of just like |
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