The Sam Sanders Show
KCRW & Sam Sanders · KCRW
Show overview
The Sam Sanders Show has been publishing since 2024, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 164 episodes, alongside 4 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 120 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 102nd season.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 33 min and 51 min — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 30% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 85 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 85 episodes published. Published by KCRW.
From the publisher
<p dir="ltr">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&rsquo;t stop thinking about. Join us every week to unpack the pop culture we love.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sign up for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-sam-sanders-show">Sam&rsquo;s Newsletter</a> to get behind the scenes stuff from every interview each week.</p> <p dir="ltr">Sam Sanders is an award-winning podcast and radio host. He&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Been A Minute from NPR and Into It from Vulture.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>