Sam Sanders is the former host of NPR\u2019s\xa0It\u2019s Been a Minute. He hosts Vulture\u2019s\xa0Into It, which launched last week.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think I ever wanted a career where I was doing the same thing for 30 years. I think that, editorially, I had become someone who was really contemplating what kind of capital-j journalist I wanted to be, want to be, and I was questioning a lot of rules and the structure of what we think journalism is supposed to be, and I think I needed to be away from a legacy institution like NPR, at least for a spell, to work that out.\u201d\nShow notes:\n\n@samsanders\n\nSanders\u2019\xa0NPR\xa0archive\n\n02:00\xa0It\u2019s Been a Minute\xa0(Sam Sanders \u2022 NPR \u2022 2017)\n\n02:00\xa0NPR\u2019s Politics Podcast\xa0(Tamara Keith and Scott Detrow \u2022 NPR \u2022 2022)\n\n28:00\xa0"Eric Andr\xe9 Talks \u2018Bad Trip\u2019 and Dangerous Pranks with Sam Sanders"\xa0(It's Been a Minute \u2022 April 2021)\n\n29:00\xa0"Joel Kim Booster Reflects on the 'Pride and Prejudice' of Fire Island's Party Scene"\xa0(Fresh Air \u2022 June 2022)\n\n30:00\xa0Psychosexual\xa0(Joel Kim Booster \u2022 Netflix \u2022 2022)\n\n32:00\xa0"Maya Rudolph Once Struggled With Identity And Belonging. Now It's Her Inspiration"\xa0(It's Been a Minute \u2022 Aug 2021)\n\n33:00\xa0"Jennifer Lopez on Longevity and 'Second Act'"\xa0(It's Been a Minute \u2022 Dec 2018)\n\n34:00\xa0"A 1998 Jennifer Lopez Interview Is Going Viral for Her Comments About Other Actresses "\xa0(Kimberly Truong \u2022 InStyle \u2022 Sept 2019)\n\n41:00\xa0"The Business of Beyonc\u202a\xe9"\xa0(Into It \u2022 July 2022)\n\n48:00\xa0Inside the Actors Studio\xa0(James Lipton \u2022 Bravo \u2022 1994)\n\n50:00\xa0"Longform Podcast #491: Lulu Garcia-Navarro"\n\n\n50:00\xa0"Host Sam Sanders Calls Out NPR, Media Industry for Lack of Diversity: 'It Doesn't Sit Well'"\xa0(David Oliver \u2022 USA Today \u2022 March 2021)\n\n50:00\xa0"NPR Hosts' Departures Fuel Questions Over Race. The Full Story Is Complex"\xa0(David Folkenflik \u2022 NPR \u2022 Jan 2022)\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices