Talk Easy’s 2023 Mixtape

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

As we say goodbye to 2023, a collection of passages from some of our favorite episodes of the year. Featuring journalist and podcast host Sam Sanders on the stories of the summer (4:10), director and actor Natasha Lyonne on being a child actor in New York City (18:42), the Stanley Kubrick film that propelled Tom Hanks into performing (28:55), critic Hilton Als on the late Joan Didion (41:45), novelist Zadie Smith on the politics of writing (52:15), and to close, a tribute to the late Norman Lear (1:15:00).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. Today as we close out 2023 we look back on the year that was. Before we head into
0:49.2	2024 I wanted to revisit some of my favorite passages from the past 12 months.
0:55.8	Not an easy year, but these are all subjects that stayed with me, that I kept coming back
1:02.0	to either for the jokes or the wisdom or sometimes if we were lucky a bit of both.
1:08.0	This was objectively, as I said last week, a pretty difficult year, especially in Hollywood, as the industry faced
1:18.3	a pretty historic double labor strike between the actors and writers and the studios.
1:25.0	As such, there was about three, four months there where we stood in solidarity with the unions
1:31.0	and didn't air any episodes with the forced a lot of us who make podcasts to either A go on hiatus, B release a series of
1:48.6	reruns, or C get really really creative on the booking front.
1:55.9	Thankfully, we have an incredible team here
1:58.8	and we chose mostly option C. And such we landed on this next guest Sam Sanders.
2:08.0	Formerly at MPR Sanders is the co-host of Vibe Check, and really one of my favorite culture critics working today.
2:17.0	When Sanders and I sat down, it was in the middle of the strike, and he did his damnedest to make sense of some of the biggest stories from the summer.
2:27.0	Let's take a listen.
2:28.0	These past few months have been a lot.
2:32.0	It's been a lot. It's been a lot. Like it's been maybe too much.
2:35.9	Although some of the stuff that has felt like too much has been an excellent exercise in indulgence.
2:43.8	When I think of the three biggest pop stories of this year right now,
2:47.5	it's Beyoncé going on tour,
2:49.2	it's Taylor Swift going on tour,
2:50.9	and it's Barbie taking over the world and all three of those things were just
2:55.4	like supersized as pop culture moments and I feel like it's too much but also we
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