Is Jaws Really a Horror Movie?
The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders
4.9 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! From now on you’ll be getting double the Sam in your feed every week.
In today's episode...When Sam placed Jaws on our Horror Movie Mt. Rushmore our videographer, Luis Peña, had A LOT to say. Sam and Luis duke it out and find out once and for all what actually makes a horror movie a horror movie.
The Sam Sanders Show is a production of KCRW and Sam Sanders Productions.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, it is the season of giving. Get that warm, fuzzy feeling. Make a donation, |
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| 0:27.6 | Hey, y'all, it's the Sam Sanders show from KCRW, a show all about the things that entertain us. |
| 0:39.0 | Dear listener, I know what you're saying right now. You're saying, Sam, this podcast usually drops on Fridays. |
| 0:46.6 | And this, today is a Wednesday. You're right, dear listener, it is Wednesday. And surprise, |
| 0:52.5 | surprise, surprise, drum roll, drum roll, drum roll, please. We're giving you two episodes this week. |
| 0:55.5 | We're going to call this segment, at least for now, |
| 0:56.9 | NSFR. |
| 0:59.0 | Not safe for radio. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, this week and every week from now on, |
| 1:07.8 | we'll be dropping a second episode with a little bit of a looser kind of chat style. |
| 1:10.5 | I'll be talking with friends or writers, the folks behind the scenes on this show. |
| 1:13.1 | I might even at some point get my Aunt Betty in the mix. |
| 1:16.4 | Longtime listeners to my stuff know what her voice sounds like, and I bet you miss it. |
| 1:22.0 | Anywho, this first NSFR, I'm talking with my friend and colleague Luis Pena. |
| 1:28.2 | Luis is one of the videographers for the Sam Sanders show, and I'm going to tell you how |
| 1:33.1 | things work with Luis. |
| 1:34.8 | Every time we have an episode taping where we give opinions, hot takes, and such, every |
| 1:40.8 | time we build them out, Rushmore of some sort, I finished the taping. |
| 1:45.5 | I go into the control room and ask how it went. |
| 1:49.1 | And Luis is like, I got notes. |
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