On this week’s show, our guest is one of the inspirations for this very podcast. Max Linsky, co-host of the ‘Longform’ podcast...
Zazie Beetz is a great rising young actress, who has recently gained rightful attention for her fantastic work in the FX series Atlanta and her role...
He’s back! W. Kamau Bell, the second ever guest on Talk Easy, makes his triumphant return to talk about this crazy election, the madness of...
Margaret Brown is the talented documentarian behind “Never Trump,” a short doc from the New York Times, about hardcore conservatives who...
This week on the show, Certain Women director Kelly Reichardt joins Sam for a conversation about her unique and beautiful filmmaking, the loneliness...
The awesomely talent jazz star Esperanza Spalding stops by Talk Easy to talk openly about her career, navigating the boys club in jazz, being an...
Legendary documentary filmmaker Steve James joins the show to talk with Sam about his extraordinary career, his masterpiece “Hoop...
This week on a special TIFF 2016 edition of Talk Easy, Sam sits down with Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips at the Toronto International...
This week’s guest, comedian Lauren Lapkus is known to most people from her roles in Orange is the New Black and Jurassic World, but she made...
Think of any great comedy project in the last decade and Ben Schwartz probably had something to do with it. Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation...
On this week’s show, Sam is joined by the great and talented actress Melanie Lynskey. Hailing from New Zealand, Lynskey got her start at 15 in...
Charlene deGuzman made waves on the internet three years ago when her short film, “I Forgot My Phone,” which she wrote and starred in...
You probably know Kate Micucci from somewhere, whether it was her role in Scrubs, or How I Met Your Mother, or The Big Bang Theory, or When in Rome...
Alan Arkin has been acting in movies since the 1960s, delivering decades worth of great and memorable performances, including indelible turns in The...
Nico Segal, aka Donnie Trumpet, is a musician out of Chicago whose work with Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa has gained him notoriety in the worlds...
Eric André is the host of the bizarre, surreal, insane The Eric André Show on Adult Swim. His style of comedy can be described as erratic, insane...