The Summer in Review (with Culture Critic Sam Sanders)

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sam Sanders is the host of Into It, a twice-weekly podcast surveying all things pop culture. Today: he joins us for a review of summer 2023!

At the top, we discuss Barbenheimer (7:20), the dual Hollywood strikes (14:12), Trump’s mug shot (19:00), the RNC debate (21:50), and the Montgomery Riverfront brawl (26:05).

On the back-half, Sanders reflects on growing up in Texas (36:30), his childhood of churchgoing (42:48), and how he found his voice on the microphone (46:45). To close, we talk about the power of safe spaces (49:40), representation in media (55:15), and his hope for the future of journalism (59:46).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco journalist and culture critic Sam Sanders. He's the host of a flagship
0:47.5	vulture podcast called Intuit, a twice weekly survey of all things pop culture.
0:54.0	Before heading over to New York magazine,
0:56.0	Sanders worked for more than a decade at NPR.
1:00.0	There, he hosted the award-winning radio show, It's Been a Minute, which featured interviews with everyone
1:06.5	from Tracy Ellis Ross and Michaela Cole to Bowen Yang and John Legend.
1:12.2	But no matter the show or the network it's on, Sanders brings a natural
1:17.7	buoyancy and curiosity to each of his conversations. He's also, I think, the perfect guest to help us close
1:26.7	out this long, strange strike-filled summer. So today we're doing something a little bit different.
1:34.4	On the first half of this episode, Sam and I do a summer in review.
1:39.7	We talk Barbinheimer, the strike, the mug shot, the Montgomery Braw, and a couple other stories that have defined these past few months.
1:48.8	Then on the back half, we tell some of Sam's story, his complicated upbringing in Texas, how he found his voice on and off Mike,
1:58.0	the assignment at NPR that changed his life, and why he's most excited about this new chapter of his.
2:07.0	That's all coming up next with journalist and podcast host Sam Sanders.
2:12.3	Stick with us. You're going to be here. Oh, Sam Sanders.
2:47.0	Hi.
2:48.0	Hi.
2:49.0	It's so good to be here.
2:50.0	How do you feel?
2:51.0	I feel great.
2:52.0	I feel like so much of my life in the last year
2:55.8	has been like re-emerging from pandemic life.
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