Podcast Episodes

Choices We Made: City or Country? (with Leslie Bibb)

Choices We Made: Actress Leslie Bibb joins Sam while Mercury is fully in retrograde and they quickly agree that their shoulders only fully relax when they’re in the country despite both living in the…

Published on 13 hours ago

Choices We Made: Magazine Makeup Artist or Cosmetics CEO? (with Bobbi Brown)

Bobbi Brown, Founder of Jones Road Beauty, joins Sam fresh off the plane from Paris to discuss her new book, Still Bobbi, and to explore her career trajectory from behind-the-scenes makeup artist to …

Published on 1 week ago

Choices We Made: Bread Baskets or Bougie Butter? (with Tony Shalhoub)

Actor Tony Shalhoub joins Sam to discuss living out both their dreams while traveling the world eating bread for his new CNN show Breaking Bread. He talks about how bread is the “OG social media,” an…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Choices We Made: Wealthy or Wise? (with Michael Lewis)

Author Michael Lewis joins Sam to celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Big Short and talk about if we’ve learned any lessons since its publication—like why we so often conflate wealth and wisdom. Th…

Published on 2 weeks, 5 days ago

Act or Direct? (with Michael Showalter)

Season 3 Episode 23

Comedy legend turned director extraordinaire Michael Showalter joins Sam to talk about how he made this career shift and how he now realizes he hates acting. Michael tells Sam that he’d ultimately li…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Outraged or Engaged? (with Patton Oswalt)

Season 3 Episode 22

Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt joins Sam to catch up where they left off during the first Trump administration and how they simply can’t believe we’re doing round two of this shit. They discuss how…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Choices We Made: Mother or Father? (with Atsuko Okatsuka)

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka joins Sam to talk about her new special “Father” and why in her relationship she is “father” and her husband is “mother.” They talk about recalibrating your goals once you’ve…

Published on 4 weeks, 2 days ago

City or Country? (with Leslie Bibb)

Season 3 Episode 21

Actress Leslie Bibb joins Sam while Mercury is fully in retrograde and they quickly agree that their shoulders only fully relax when they’re in the country despite both living in the city.  They talk…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Choices We Made: Caretaker or Comedian? (with Cristela Alonzo)

Comedian Cristela Alonzo joins Sam to talk about her new Netflix special Upper Classy, and how before her career took off she made the life-changing decision to leave LA to become her mom’s full-time…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Earth or Space? (with Kal Penn)

Season 3 Episode 20

Actor and former Obama White House staffer Kal Penn joins Sam to talk about how he doesn’t make calculated decisions and hates when people suggest he makes a decision tree. They unpack the hope of la…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago