Sam Sanders

I Weigh with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.7 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Journalist and podcaster Sam Sanders joins Jameela this week to share about his conservative Christian childhood, his first experience with a therapist, the pivot point in his journalism career, how the Pulse nightclub shooting helped him open up to his audience, how cultural conversations are great agents of change, finding joy in the small moments, and more. Listen to Sam on his pop culture podcast Into It: A Vulture Podcast, or on Vibe Check also with Saeed Jones & Zach Stafford. Follow Sam on Instagram & Twitter @samsanders You can find transcripts for this episode here: https://www.earwolf.com/show/i-weigh-with-jameela-jamil/ I Weigh has amazing merch - check it out at podswag.com Jameela is on Instagram and Twitter @JameelaJamil And make sure to check out I Weigh's Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube for more!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jermina Jameil, podcast against shame. I hope
0:04.3	you're well. I am good because today I got to have a chat with someone who I admire so much
0:11.4	and who I think you will love. His name is Sam Sanders and he's an amazing podcaster, broadcaster,
0:18.1	journalist and all together voice of our generation and our chat did not let me down.
0:24.3	He talks about so many things so openly and just from such a progressive point of view, he
0:31.6	he doesn't manipulate any of his views or opinions in order to placate other people. He just says
0:38.8	what he thinks would be the best for all of us to communicate with each other. He just says what he
0:45.6	feels and fights for us to find better ways to communicate with each other and in this podcast we
0:52.4	discuss his conservative Christian childhood and the contradictory experience he had as a gay
0:57.2	child and the evangelical Baptist church and it's not all horror story, there's so much love in
1:01.8	there that I think is so important to discuss. We talk about the moment he pivoted his journalistic
1:06.5	career and started bringing his personal experiences into his reporting and why he thinks discussing
1:12.0	art and culture is the best way to influence and change minds. And we get into this because obviously
1:17.5	political and social justice discourses become such a fucking mess that we are running out of ways
1:22.4	to be able to reach across to each other. Sometimes it doesn't even feel like we are trying to
1:26.0	reach across to each other. I've said it a million times in this podcast, I feel especially the
1:29.7	left are seeking traders and not converts. And so art really does feel like one of the last ways
1:35.6	we have to slip in an important conversation remind people that we have so much more in common
1:40.8	than we have differences. And so Sam really gets into the weeds of this and such an intelligent
1:47.0	and humane and accessible way and I just couldn't stop thinking about him and everything he said in
1:52.5	this chat afterwards. And so I urge you to follow Sam Sanders online and please check out his
1:58.3	podcast Vibe Check also with Said Jones and Zack Stafford as well as his podcast into it where he
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