- 134
- Episodes
- 114
- Transcribed
- 2,446
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 15M
- YouTube views
About First Person
Conversations with the world’s most fascinating people. Each week, hosts David Marchese and Lulu Garcia-Navarro talk to compelling, influential figures in culture, politics, business, sports and beyond — illuminating who they are, why they do what they do and how they impact the rest of us. New episodes every Saturday.
- Publisher
- The New York Times
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Apr 2023
- Latest episode
- 3 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
114 of 134 episodes have a transcript.
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness
26 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Sylvester Stallone Hid His Struggles for Decades. Now He’s Coming Clean.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Aaron Sorkin Goes Off Script
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Chris Rock Has Been Thinking About Forgiveness
Published 3 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But kind of an incredible performance. You realize she can sing amazingly. You've got one night only, one night only. You'll be the only one. The different... emotional levels she's able to bring to the to the character but can you talk about what she brought to misty that wasn't in the script initially she just brought a humanity to it i mean here's what i say what i'm directing it's my movie it's your part you know i mean and it was hers man she you know put this away i i met rosalyn about a month ago i never but for the months we're shooting misty there was only misty you know what i mean so she was misty when she came in on the audition she was misty through the whole the whole filming process she never asked she never asked me one question that didn't have to do with character so she's we will work again and there's a scene in the film where her character is not a spoiler at all but there's a scene in the film where her character is performing at kind of a nightclub. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on First Person
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Chris Rock
- Sylvester Stallone
- Aaron Sorkin
- Naomi Klein
- Astra Taylor
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 15,452,107
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 3.9 / 5
- 1,676 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.3 / 5
- 770 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 72 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 70
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 93
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