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KCRW & Sam Sanders · Entertainment

The Sam Sanders Show

The Sam Sanders Show from KCRW is your guide to entertainment. Find out what makes your favorite artists tick, dissect the trends that shape our culture, or just make sense of that random meme you can’t stop thinking about. Join us every week to unpack the pop culture we love. Sign up for Sam’s Newsletter to get behind the scenes stuff from every interview each week. Sam Sanders is an award-winning podcast and radio host. He’s been named best podcast host by both The Ambies and the iHeart Podcast Awards. He was one of the founding hosts of The NPR Politics Podcast and the host who launched both It’s Been A Minute from NPR and Into It from Vulture.

Episodes

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They Let Him Say What?! with Jay Jurden

07 Nov 2025
44m
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Is Rap Music Dead? with Broken Record’s Justin Richmond

05 Nov 2025
26m
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Is the Grind of a Comedian Never-Ending?

31 Oct 2025
32m
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Is Jaws Really a Horror Movie?

29 Oct 2025
27m
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Shoulda Been a Sugar Baby? w/ Phoebe Robinson

24 Oct 2025
49m
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Horror Movie Faves & Should Taylor Swift Retire?

17 Oct 2025
49m
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Can KPop Heal Us All? w/ Songwriter Mark Sonnenblick

10 Oct 2025
50m
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Can Satire Save Democracy? w/ The Onion CEO Ben Collins

03 Oct 2025
50m
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Is It Ever OK to Lie? w/ June Squibb

26 Sep 2025
50m
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Are Nepo Babies Cool Now? with Zosia Mamet

19 Sep 2025
49m
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Can Pop Culture Cure a Broken Heart? w/ Anna Sale

12 Sep 2025
49m
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Pop culture serves as a poignant lens for examining the universal human experiences of death, sex, and money. Grief manifests through the chaotic, ensemble family dynamics of Bad Sisters and the cyclical, restorative nature of The Lion King, where loss is framed as a persistent, lingering presence rather than an end. R...

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Should We Still Care About Fashion? w/ Robin Givhan

05 Sep 2025
49m
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A Brief History of Terrible Lyrics (from Switched On Pop)

29 Aug 2025
42m
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Does Pop Culture Give a F*#% about Friendship?

22 Aug 2025
39m
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Bob the Drag Queen: What is Freedom?

15 Aug 2025
48m
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Big Freedia: Is Twerking Next to Godliness?

08 Aug 2025
45m
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Did Beyoncé Change Country Music Forever?

01 Aug 2025
58m
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Are We Living in a Feminist Dystopia?

25 Jul 2025
48m
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Checking in from the public media dumpster fire

24 Jul 2025
4m
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What’s Worth Watching (and Skipping) in 2025 So Far?

18 Jul 2025
52m
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