How To! | Interview Someone

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Interviews are a time-honored way to elicit intimate insights from public figures and people in power. But at a moment when so much history is being denied or even deleted, interviewing family members and elders can be an important way to document their lives—and understand more about ourselves. On this episode of How To!, Carvell Wallace brings on Sam Fragoso, host of the podcast Talk Easy. Sam explains what he’s learned from hundreds of longform celebrity interviews, and how he applied those lessons to sit-downs with his parents. If you liked this episode check out: The Art of the On-Mic Interview or How To Ace an Interview Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at howto@slate.com or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. How To is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Sam, I don't need to give you a long introduction about how interviews work, but you do so much
1:05.0	introducing people and figuring out what it is that needs to be said about them to familiarize
1:10.0	your audience with them. I'm curious how you that needs to be said about them to familiarize your audience with them.
1:11.1	I'm curious how you would like to be introduced. No, I'm the wrong person to ask. Why?
1:16.8	I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself. Okay, if Sam is not going to do it, then I'll do it.
1:26.3	This voice you hear is Sam Fregoso.
1:29.4	And for the past nine years, he's interviewed all kinds of people.
1:33.1	Every week on his podcast, Talk Easy.
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1:39.8	They ask for a short bio for the event.
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