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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

Can Atsuko Okatsuka Turn Family Trauma Into Comedy Gold?

11 Jul 2025

53m

Woodstock '99: Mosh Pit at the Apocalypse with Sam Sanders and Lindy West (From The Big Flop)

04 Jul 2025

41m

Britney Spears serves as a definitive lens for examining the collapse of the American "millennial dream" and the evolution of celebrity culture over the last quarter-century. Once an icon of institutional success, Spears became a lightning rod for the predatory nature of early 2000s tabloid media, which weaponized her ...