Talk Easy Throwback: Norman Lear

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A throwback to one of my favorite episodes, with Norman Lear. - TV titan Norman Lear joins Sam on the show this week. The 95-year-old is chiefly responsible for changing television. His shows—All in the Family, Maude, The Jeffersons, Good Times—were unlike anything that came before them. Political, combative, funny. Lear’s greatest gift is his endless curiosity in the imperfection of humans. Especially Americans. When Sam and Norman sat down, they discussed his remarkable life, one story at a time. For more info about the podcast visit www.talkeasypod.com

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:06.0	It's just amazing.
0:10.0	It's just amazing the way it ends.
0:17.0	If that's an ending, we don't even know that.
0:20.0	Are you sleeping?
0:30.0	Is death? Are you sleeping? Is that just simply like a good night sleep or a bad night sleep or whatever? Or is there something more? My wife will go on and on about the,
0:35.2	because she does believe this far more.
0:37.7	I don't know.
0:38.4	I just think it's a wonder that we don't know
0:41.2	that nobody's ever come back to tell us and that the last question in a lifetime
0:49.7	full of questions we don't have the answer to.
0:56.0	That was Norman Lear. I'm Sanvergoso. This is Talk Easy.
1:00.0	Welcome to the show. Oh, Hello everyone. It is Sunday July 14th. I'm sitting here in Los Angeles and this is generally the part in the show where I introduce
1:37.1	our next guest but if you've been listening to the podcast for a while you may have
1:42.1	recognized Norman Lear as someone who has come on this show.
1:46.2	In fact, he was episode 69 of the podcast back in August of 2017 and you know intermittently this summer and mostly throughout August of
2:00.0	this year we're going to be running episodes that I find to be the ones that have stuck
2:04.8	with me. The conversations that linger in my head months and years after they happen.
2:11.6	Although in the interest of transparency I did plan on having a new
2:16.3	episode this week. But unfortunately there was a death in the family, my very wonderful Aunt Bertha who was really one of those people
2:27.8	that was genuinely selfless.
2:31.2	I don't meet many people like that. They're rare. They're really very rare.
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