All the President's Minutes is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. Each show we use the seminal and increasingly prescient 1976 film All The President's Men as a portal, to engage with the themes and the warnings of the film resonating since its release. For minute 102, I talk to writer, director and host of the Talk Easy podcast Sam Fragoso. Sam and I discuss breaking film criticism retirement to be here, and the way that 2020 has stripped the artifice away from conversations; on his show and in the minute at hand. 

About Sam Fragoso (via Talk Easy)

Sam is a writer, director, and radio host based in Los Angeles. From 2013-2017 he operated the film-focused website, Movie Mezzanine. Founded in 2016, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso is a weekly podcast of intimate, long-form interviews with people from all walks of life: filmmakers, comedians, activists, politicians, actors, and once, my mother. Sam's writings have appeared in Vanity Fair, NPR, WIRED, The New Republic, Playboy, and The Atlantic. He was previously the Creative Director of the Roxie Theater in San Francisco.His debut film, Sebastian, is about his grandfather who left Mexico for America in 1948. It's played festivals around the US and Europe.

You can watch it here.

You can watch his music video for Noel Wells' "Still Sleeping" here.

Twitter: @SamFragoso

Podcast: Talk Easy