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Seat-Filler or Superdelegate? (with Jon Cryer)
Season 2 Episode 16
Jon Cryer joins Sam to talk about how he chooses his acting roles when he knows saying yes to one job means having to turn down another, and tells Sam about a huge role he passed up. They also get in…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
List Maker or List Keeper? (with Mackenzie Davis)
Season 2 Episode 15
Actor Mackenzie Davis joins Sam to talk about how she took a semester off from college to model–hated it–and ultimately decided to go back to school and fast track her degree so that she could start …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Camper or Cosmopolitan? (with Shailene Woodley)
Season 2 Episode 14
Actor Shailene Woodley joins Sam to talk about a pivotal decision she made to move to Europe and live out of a carry-on suitcase for ten years amid a blossoming Hollywood career. Shailene tells Sam t…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Actor or Annapolis? (with Carrie Coon)
Season 2 Episode 13
Carrie Coon joins Samantha Bee to discuss being a classic midwestern middle child, almost attending a naval academy, how the first decision she ever made in her life was to go to graduate school, why…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Democracy or Else (with Jon Lovett)
Season 2 Episode 12
Crooked Media’s Jon Lovett joins Sam to debrief the DNC and why Chicago is the perfect combination of sweatpants and sandwich town. They discuss his decision to go on Survivor and why it’s the best w…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Make History or Repeat History? (with Symone Sanders Townsend)
Season 2 Episode 11
Co-host of MSNBC’s The Weekend and former senior advisor to Vice President Harris Symone Sanders Townsend joins Sam for DNC week! Sam and Symone talk about how as kids they both hosted fake news show…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Hot or Not? (with Tony Goldwyn)
Season 2 Episode 10
Actor and activist Tony Goldwyn joins Sam and talks about how he rides the waves of success—sometimes people want you and sometimes they don’t—and how he’s learned to be ok not chasing roles that wer…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Understand or Ignore: America’s Gun Problem (with Roxane Gay)
Season 2 Episode 9
In her new essay, “Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem,” Roxane Gay details her decision to become a gun owner and why she doesn’t think the US has missed its win…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Choices We Made: Make Comedy or Watch Comedy? (with Nick Kroll)
Season 2 Episode 8
When comedian Nick Kroll decided to end his hit show “Kroll Show” he wasn’t totally sure what he would do next. But it was important to him to decide something was done rather than drag it out. Sam a…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Theater or Therapist? (with Rachel Dratch)
Season 2 Episode 7
When Rachel Dratch was growing up, she figured she’d have some sort of “normal” career like therapist. Then she saw a performance of Annie and thought she could be one of the people on stage too. Sam…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago