Choice Words with Samantha Bee
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About this podcast
We make a lot of choices, every single day. Some explode, some implode, most we barely remember. Each week on Choice Words, Samantha Bee sits down with people she admires to examine the biggest choices they’ve made in their lives and the ripple effects those decisions have had. What’s a story a journalist took a chance on that changed history? A vote that a politician never should have cast? A song lyric a musician came up with in the shower that made them instantly famous?
Sam’s made a lot of choices, too. She may have to interview herself about starting this podcast.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 263 episodes
- Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos: What the Documentary Left Out | Criminally Online · 9 minWhat did the Elizabeth Holmes documentary leave out about the Theranos scandal? Just 34 days before reporting to federal prison, Elizabeth Holmes invited a documentary crew into…
- Choices We Made: Outraged or Engaged? (with Patton Oswalt) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 262Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt joins Sam to catch up where they left off during the first Trump administration and how they simply can’t believe we’re doing round two of this…
- Choices We Made: Magazine Makeup Artist or Cosmetics CEO? (with Bobbi Brown) · 48 min · Episode 261Bobbi Brown, Founder of Jones Road Beauty, joins Sam fresh off the plane from Paris to discuss her new book, Still Bobbi, and to explore her career trajectory from…
- Choices We Made: Joy or Happiness? (with Kate Bowler) · 58 min · Episode 260Professor, author, and podcast host Kate Bowler joins Sam to talk about her new book Joyful Anyway, and what the difference between joy and happiness really is. They talk about…
- Choices We Made: Gina or Gheena? (with Gina Gershon) · 55 min · Episode 259Actress and author Gina Gershon joins Sam to talk about her new book AlphaPussy which leads to discussing their shared love of audiobooks, allowing cats to choose their owners…
- Choices We Made: Bruce Springsteen or Kid Rock? (with Aasif Mandvi) · 57 min · Episode 258Aasif Mandvi joins Sam for a major Daily Show catch up, and to talk about juggling his return to Broadway in Fallen Angels with his new TV show The Miniature Wife. They bond over…
- Choices We Made: 1929 or 2026? (with Andrew Ross Sorkin) · 56 min · Episode 257Financial journalist and author of the new book 1929, Andrew Ross Sorkin, joins Sam to talk about the parallels between 1929 and now and, and how while history does repeat…
- Choices We Made: Cookbook Author or Restaurant Chef? (with Padma Lakshmi) · 58 min · Episode 256Television host and cookbook author Padma Lakshmi joins Sam to talk about her new show, America’s Culinary Cup and how she’s a triple threat on it serving as creator, executive…
- Choices We Made: TV or Radio? (with Christa Miller) · 51 min · Episode 255Actor Christa Miller joins Sam to talk about the new season of Shrinking and her other role where she serves as music supervisor. Christa talks about how she loves giving new…
- Choices We Made: Lawyer or Journalist? (with Jodi Kantor) · 52 min · Episode 254Journalist Jodi Kantor joins Sam to talk about her new book, How To Start, and how, much to the chagrin of her parents, she dropped out of Harvard Law to go into a career in…
- Choices We Made: Secular Saint or Church Guitarist? (with George Saunders) · 1 h 2 min · Episode 253Author George Saunders joins Sam to talk about his new book Vigil and why people are so obsessed with turning him into a secular saint (and his childhood role of church…
- Choices We Made: Shamed or Shameless? (with Jennifer Welch) · 1 h 0 min · Episode 252Jennifer Welch, host of the podcast “I’ve Had It” joins Sam to talk about taking a midlife gap year in Manhattan and how the country is led by people with no shame, and you just…
- Choices We Made: Moscow or ‘Merica? (with David Remnick) · 56 min · Episode 251The New Yorker editor David Remnick joins Sam to talk about if The New Yorker is the “slow food movement” of news and how today’s current events remind him of living in Moscow at…
- Choices We Made: Earth or Space? (with Kal Penn) · 54 min · Episode 250Actor and former Obama White House staffer Kal Penn joins Sam to talk about how he doesn’t make calculated decisions and hates when people suggest he makes a decision tree. They…
- North South or East West? (with Senator Murphy) · 35 minSenator Chris Murphy joins Sam to talk about keeping plants alive and why he’s been walking across the state of Connecticut for ten years, now with titanium screws in his…
- Joy or Happiness? (with Kate Bowler) · 58 minProfessor, author, and podcast host Kate Bowler joins Sam to talk about her new book Joyful Anyway, and what the difference between joy and happiness really is. They talk about…
- House or Home? (with Lisa Ann Walter) · 42 minActress and comedian Lisa Ann Walter joins Sam to talk about becoming the “man of the house” when she was ten and what it means to finally have a “Nancy Meyers kitchen” of her…
- Choices We Made: TV or Radio? (with Christa Miller) · 51 minActor Christa Miller joins Sam to talk about the new season of Shrinking and her other role where she serves as music supervisor. Christa talks about how she loves giving new…
- DC or Everywhere Else? (with Ana Navarro) · 50 minAna Navarro, co-host of The View and host of the new podcast Bleep!, joins Sam to talk about how she’s been boycotting DC for almost two years and what might finally bring her…
- Lawyer or Journalist? (with Jodi Kantor) · 52 minJournalist Jodi Kantor joins Sam to talk about her new book, How To Start, and how, much to the chagrin of her parents, she dropped out of Harvard Law to go into a career in…
