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Episode 81 - Paul F. Tompkins
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 Mr. Show with Bob and David to two Paul Thomas Ande…
Published on 8 years ago
Episode 80 - Rory Scovel
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 Washington D.C., to this year’s Netflix special, Rory Scove…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 79 - Joachim Trier
Joachim Trier is a Norweigan filmmaker who has so far directed four feature films, including the English language family drama Louder than Bombs and his newest project, Thelma, an intense thriller th…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 78 - Noël Wells
Early this year, Sam and actress Noël Wells recorded an episode of Talk Easy at Sundance. Days after the presidential inauguration and in the midst of festival chaos, it was a strange time for both o…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 77 - Miguel Arteta
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 Revolt, as well as episodes of acclaimed shows lik…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Episode 76 - Shea Serrano
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 games of Texas hold 'em in college, to teaching m…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Episode 75 - Jen Yamato
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, but it's only the latest step in a career that's a…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Episode 74 - Jon Daly
This week, Sam sits down with friend, comedian, and writer Jon Daly. Along with appearing as a regular at the improv institution Upright Citizens Brigade, Jon's taken on comedic roles in dozens of sh…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Episode 73 - Willem Dafoe
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 movie that he was mostly cut from during editing, he w…
Published on 8 years, 2 months ago
Episode 72 - Erica Chidi Cohen
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-based approach to pregnancy and parenting, first throu…
Published on 8 years, 3 months ago