Sean Baker is a writer/director known primarily for the Prince of Broadway, Tangerine, and, most recently, The Florida Project. In this week’s...
This week, Sam sits down with comedian, actor, and TV writer Paul F. Tompkins. Paul is a longtime standup comic who has appeared in everything from...
Rory Scovel has been on the stand-up scene for more than ten years, from his early days spent doubling as a “desktop support specialist” in...
Joachim Trier is a Norweigan filmmaker who has so far directed four feature films, including the English language family drama Louder than Bombs and...
Since the late ’90s, director Miguel Arteta has worked in film and television to bring us multilayered comedic movies like Chuck & Buck and Youth in...
His whole adult life, Shea Serrano’s worked hard. Not just at one thing, but at everything he’s done, from chronic pool-playing and highly-calculated...
Jen Yamato is an internet-era journalist working at one of the last print news institutions in America, The LA Times. That in itself is interesting...
For over thirty years, Willem Dafoe has been putting in hard work on stage and screen, and it’s paid off. Starting in 1980 with Heaven’s Gate, a...
This week, CEO, author, and nationally recognized doula Erica Chidi Cohen joins Sam on the show. Erica is known for taking a whole-self, support...
Giancarlo Esposito started performing at age 8. Now nearing 60, the signature character actor is reflecting on a lifetime of work. From his...
Heather Havrilesky is the author of “How to Be a Person in the World”, a collection of essays from her hit Ask Polly column in New York Magazine. In...
For over thirty years, Fred Melamed has been a true Character Actor. He’s starred in seven Woody Allen movies, played Sy Ableman in the Coen...
Amber Navran is the lead vocalist of “Moonchild,” a neo-soul group out of Los Angeles. With their third record out in stores, Amber came on the show...
Rostam Batmanglij was first introduced to us through his band Vampire Weekend. The music was infectious and seemed to be the soundtrack of every New...
Doreen St. Félix is only 25 but she has made a name for herself in the New York media scene. After graduating from Brown she started her career at...
Robert Downey Sr. (also known as “A Prince”) is known for giving a candid response. Throughout all of the films he has directed he has never been...
Jelani Cobb has a clarity about his life and what he intends to do with it–combine journalism and history. Known for his writing on America and its...