Samantha Bee: Not Holding Back

so sick of it. I'm actually going to be sad when seriously, what is it, What's going to fill this hole in my life? That's true, I mean I do wonder what will the media cover, What will I talk about at dinner? What will I talk about in the morning when I wake up and look at my iPhone and tell my husband John the latest, greatest, craziest stuff that's going down. All these things leave you scratching your head.

It's enough to make you cry or laugh. If you're watching late night television, and if you've been watching Samantha b lately, you've been laughing a lot. I've said some foolish things, but there's a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women. Stop Jesus Christ, Donald, who is advising you on how to deal with your misogyny crisis. Let's also remember that one of the men who are is advising Donald Cruck

is Roger Ales. Of course, Roger Ales of the Esteemed pr Firm Ales Cosby Polanskian Gift. They're good. I hear they've got a friend on the move over. Boys, we got we got some estrogen in town. Do you want me to call Samantha or Sam? I like, whatever I Sammy b I like, whatever falls out of your mouth and feels natural is what we will establish. Sam. That's perfect, Sam, I am it um So. I mean, you start this show and this gift from God descends, and Donald Trump

I think he describes himself that way too. God. It's very spot on. I know they were all gifts though. I mean, the primaries were amazing. There were some amazing characters in that, and then when they couldn't find their way to their like turns, I mean, there were just so many great moments with all of those guys. I want to talk about sort of how you've approached this whole insane period of time. But first I want people to know a little bit about you. Okay, tell us

how you got into this crazy business of comedy. Um. I started doing comedy in Toronto. I started doing sketch comedy. Actually with a woman who is on the show now, Atlanta Harkin, and two other of our very very good friends. We um, we did sketch comedy. I mean we did it. We didn't get paid for it. We just loved doing comedy, writing comedy, performing on disgusting stages in the backs of bars and so. And I came to it, I think

fairly late in life. I was in my late twenties when I first started doing it, and it took a lot of encouragement from other people for me to even start. It wasn't like in my blood or anything. But how could it not be? In your book? Is you are so funny? Were you the class clown? Growing? I'm so quiet. I know it doesn't seem like I'm very quiet, but really I'm very pretty retiring person. Like I don't actually like to be the spotlight except for twenty one minutes

per week. I really enjoy it and then it is completely out of my system. So in life, fairly shy always, you know, writing and working. There was a period, a brief couple of years period where I was a hoodlum when my teenage years and I worked it out of my system. Those were your James Dean James I did. I had those, but they were short lived. Thanking us.

And you've got a job working, I mean down the road on the Daily Show, which must have been sort of the motherload at the time when you got hired. Did you realize what a juggernaut that was going to be? It was already a juggernaut to me, it was my

I loved the Daily Show like I adored it. I had a special I almost had a special room in my house that was a watching room, you know, we got it was really the only show that my husband and I really were very dedicated to, and we watched it every night it aired in Canada, so I watched it even in the years when it wasn't it didn't have that feeling of great importance. Um, I still loved it. I mean I really loved it. And so even getting in the chance to audition for that show was so

meaningful to me. I it was unthinkable, really to be living in Canada an audition for a U S show and did did you have a good audition? Did you feel good? I felt great about it. I trained for it really hard. I meant it meant more to me than any other experience of that nature ever. And you've got such a unique voice that is so welcome for me and so many other people in this late night landscape just have someone with boobs making fun of saying

appreciate it. So let's so let's hear a little taste of the humor that you honed on the Daily Show. Let's listen to this bit from two thousand four. Have you had your picture taken with a black person yet? Well? I don't think so, but I wouldn't mind doing that. That's something you'd be willing to try. Why, there's plenty of them, I know. Do you have any of them in Montana? You don't? You know you don't have any? Uh? In fact, I guess our creds were pretty old before.

I do love when you go out in the field, as we journalists say, and talked to real people. That was tell us about that skit for people want to be reminded. That was at the r n C in two thousand four. Um, we were. That was really my first convention. That was my first convention. It was really it was a free for all. We just went out with cameras and just started asking questions. And that was

here York at Madison Square. Guards it was and that lovely man he was quite such a nice man, a delegate from Montana who was unfamiliar with the way the world works. Now, did you ever feel bad? Did you feel like you were sort of making fun of people who didn't necessarily deserve to be mocked? Well, I think, you know, through the years, I've definitely done that. I don't really I don't really do that anymore, you know,

I think my position on that evolved over time. When it comes to figuring out the tone and the material you're picking, I mean, I guess take us behind the curtain, Sam a little bit and tell us the process that you go through for each show and how do you put it together. You know, we have our staff is incredible, and our research teams and our field department and our writers and everybody. It is a really I think it's a very free forum for people to pitch their ideas

and thoughts about UM. Joe and I Joe Miller she's the show runner of the show. She has her things that she's passionate about. I have things that I'm passionate about. Together we create can the template for a show. It's the stories that we read or think about that just you know, there's something that just happens where you just know it's a story that you can tell that you want to tell immediately. We're really kind of running the show on a very gut level, which I think is why.

That's why we're enjoying the experience for sure. And your show now is very different, obviously from the Daily Show. It's once a week, it's not every night. You're not playing a character anymore. You're not the fake news correspondent. I don't even know what to call myself anymo. I don't even know what I don't feel like creating a new category if you performer now? Is that is that liberating? Scary?

Some combination of the two. To have to have your own sort of point of view about this, it's really liberating. I don't find it scary at all. I mean, you have to know, you have to know yourself, that's for sure, because you know, if you don't want to do something in which your opinion waivers or you're unsure. So you have to be pretty solidly of a mindset about something in order for it to you know, in order for it to resonate as a piece as well. So I

think that makes sense. And certainly, um, I love doing field stuff. It's my you know, it's it's what I cut my teeth on. So if we were on more than once a week, we wouldn't be able to do that. So when your show launched earlier this year, you had a great tagline which was watch or your Sexiest. Loved it so much and so sad that we have to retire it, And I didn't think we don't. I don't think you need to best And you are the only

woman in late night TV. I mean you're not the only woman in streaming if one count that, but in terms of a late night TV, and do you feel a special more late night adjacent and we are on it in thirty were kind of get lumped into it, but we're not. I have a new kid that's very late night for me actually, So do you feel a special obligation or responsibility as the only woman or do you just you want to make people laugh? No? I

don't feel I should. I guess I I guess I should feel that obligation, but I actually don't, and I I think that's a good thing because you know, we have to keep it a little bit small. You actually have to keep it very too to give yourself freedom. You can't think too much about how you're perceived in the outside world. You can't be obsessed with it because

it's it's really paralyzing. Like if you thought, you know, the moment that you create creative content through committee, it's it's very it's difficult to make a pure product, and it's so I keep it very tight. And it's helpful actually that I have three little kids at home, because it limits the amount that I can crawl up my own ass about things. To be honest, like, it keeps it's really less nice, right, um, but you know you can't. I guess it limits the amount that I can overthink

things because there's just too much going on. You know, work is work, home time is family time, and so there's no there'sn't a lot of space to get to self indulgence or reflective. You have three kids, as you said, do you do you let your kids watch watch this stuff? Do you talk about it? Oh, we do talk about it. I mean they're pretty young, they're ten and younger, so they don't have a real handle on it. You know, we listened to NPR in the morning, so they hear it.

They definitely know what the tone is. And they were definitely wanted to watch the last debate and I let them do it, and they stayed up for the whole thing, which I think is a remarkable feat for three little kids. So you explain that to them, they you know, they have a they do. Things seep in the right things seep into them. They they're not a fan of course language at all. If they catch my husband or myself using it, they are incredibly disappointed in us. So you

have a cursed jar. We have to put a dollar in. Not quite, but they are truly horrified by it. So they mostly remember the Anthony Weiner story from a couple of years ago that was hilarious. And know, without explaining to them, they completely understood that. So they have a much greater understanding. Wasn't super complicated, do you? How do you explain though, Donald Trump's language, persona and sort of

the way he's conducted himself to your kids. You know, to be honest with you, I haven't had to explain it. They understand who he is. They've been drawing pictures of him speaking for months, I mean, since the beginning of the primary process. They've had their own impressions of him, and I let those I just let those those stand.

So we're going to take a quick break and be right back with more of Sam b. Before we get back to the interview, we just wanted to say how much we appreciate all the reviews that you guys have left on iTunes, and in fact, Katie and I wanted to read a few that we've found particularly edifying or amusing. Simply Smart wrote love this podcast. It's got all the ingredients to keep me sucking the list and downloading with each new entry. Katie is likable, wasn't a fan. I

am now thank you, Simply Smart. You're not as smart as I thought you were, but thank you for the kudos. And just to show this isn't pure propaganda, w J v j R. Says content is engaging, but there's no need for a legit journalist to casually swear. On the other hand, I like her impromptu bursts of singing with it. Cat wrote this is up there with this American Life and Death, Sex and Money as one of my can't wait for a new episode podcast highly recommended with the cat,

thank you very much. I love those podcasts as well, so that puts us in very good company. And we're really appreciative that you're liking this. Thank you for taking the time to review our show, and we'd be grateful if more of you did the same, especially if you like it. We're back with Sam be Hi, Sam bry Kate. So we've got some listener questions. People actually took the time to call in and leave a voicemail for you.

That's very sweet. Thank you so much, So let's listen. Hi. My name is Morgan Easterly, and I have a question for Sam b. I love full frontal, and I love that you attack women's issues with such beautiful ferocity. So my question is do you feel alone in the way that you choose to fully take these women's issues on with the power, with the intent that they deserve to be taken on or do you feel like other people are championing these things the same way that you are.

That's so interest, that's a great question, you know. I don't feel I don't feel alone. I understand that, you know, a lot of the issues that we talked about on the show aren't being really attacked satirically, but people are doing people are working so diligently on these issues. We did something about we did a story about the rape kit backlog, and um, you know, I think it helped.

It certainly helped to push a little piece of closing a loophole, kind of pushed a little piece of legislation forward. I think it brought attention to the issue and maybe helped move things a little bit more quickly. But and then, um, people were very quick to think that we would take

responsibility for it. And I really want to make sure everybody knows that there are people, hundreds and hundreds of people and attorneys and activists and people who like Marsica Hearket has been working on that issue for a long time, long, long, long, long time. It's not just you know, one little comedy show doesn't really quite push things. It's only everything is show can besolves with the riot ratio of celebrities. Kim Kardashian no is does it sound like her a little

bit to me? On the other hand, though, you know, you get on you know, you talk about an issue on a show like yours, and it does have the ability to permeate, you know, in a way that a news story doesn't. There's something about it that really connects the audience to the cause. And I think you did that so beautifully with the Syrian refugee crisis, because I

feel like there's so much out in the ether. I think that becomes a mantra for people, especially depending on their news source, and nobody is able to say, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute, let's give it some context. And I think that's what you did with the Syrian refugee crisis. Tell us about your thinking behind that and why you wanted to cover it that way. Well, I have to say that the refugee crisis, I can't even explain why, but it is a matter that is so close to

my heart. I think about it a lot. I think about how, you know, if ways to tell more stories, ways to bring more attention to it. So, you know, with the show, we had the opportunity to go to Jordan's and meet with refugees, and I think any opportunity that you can take to to humanize people is a great opportunity. Where did you do the interview, sam where you talked to the refugees and you were teaching them funny like words like gluten free. Oh yeah, that was

in Jordan's. They were um all of those, all of the people in that program. That was the last the last stage of your of the vetting process is trying to acclimatize them to life in the United States, trying

to teach them a little bit. They have to pass a course right at the end, so they've gone through all of these safety checks and security checks and background checks and physical and health checks and all of these different things, and then right at the end they have to take a course for a couple of weeks on American culture. So I happily took over the class that no one asked me to take over. In America, people wear sweatpants all the time. Important take notes. Can you

wear sweatpants to your own wedding? Yes you can. Those are forms pants. You have to buy them at Jake Crew. But it's such a place of at the resettlement place in Jordan's, it's a happy place. Everybody's on their way somewhere. You know, families are kind of getting together and they're going it's it's mysterious and it's scary, but it's also hopeful. You know, everybody listen in their dreams, everybody wants to go back to their home in Syria and live the

life that they were living before the war. But it's not possible. So why not try Chicago? And what's your view of Donald Trump making the Syrian refugees a big political issue? I mean, his son actually tweeted, as you know that if you have a bowl of skittles and one or two of the skittles could kill you, would you take a handful of skittles? Ergo, we shouldn't take a handful of refugees. I think it's appalling. I think it's they're just quite literally feeding people the worst, most vicious,

toxic misinformation there. These are human beings, they are vetted, They are literally spreading lies. I find it reprehensible. It's absolutely anti Christian, anti American values. It's everything that is wrong with the world that we live in. Is that kind of feeling of us in them is so destructive it actually makes me feel physically sick. Well, that's actually a pretty good segue to one question. I wanted to ask you which is Perusing some articles about you, one

word keeps coming up, which is anger? You mean hot, sensual, sizzling. I wanted to focus on the more intellectual word, sure to how I time this use angry white females? A headline Atlantic did a piece the Anger of Samantha b rolling Stone called you outraged? Are you really that piste off? Well, here's the deal, Like, well, I mean yeah, yes and no. I mean I think we can all summon our outrage on specific stories. I don't stalk the earth like an

outraged anger demon. I have a very level headed approach to life and living. Um, you know, we have to summon outrage to make the show. We have to tap into that to make a show about things that we feel passionately about. Um, we tap into that to make the show. But we live our lives as normal human beings. But it must feel good to be able to express that anger. You know, one of these articles talked about you know, there was a time where women wouldn't feel

comfortable expressing their anger. So in a way, this is a real This is real progress for women. Great good. We should be free to speak our emotions like you know, I'm I'm turning forty seven next week, actually, happy birthday, and thank you, and I'm just beyond I'm just done with it. You know. It's actually very helpful, and I think that our experience is unique in television, you know, Joe and I we laugh about this all the time because we're both in our late forties and we just

don't care anymore. Our ambitions, Like this is our ambition and television, we're we're living it right now, so there's no future prospect that we have to be careful about. Although for Hillary Clinton, you know, it's still a big problem, you know, giving her permission to be honest. We have a clip about her first debate performance from the show Let's Listen. What she needs to do is provide the

substance with the entertainment. Come away enjoying it. Be a happy warrior, enjoy what you're doing, you know, have a little lightheartedness, show some humor, so be perfect, but not too perfect. Save us from fascism, but like, don't be a bit about it. No one was suggesting superficial changes for Trump, like try wearing a suit that actually fits, or embrace your baldness proudly, or don't snort your way

through the debate like Jean Pierre's prize trouble pick. But you have to feel for Hillary Clinton in some ways, don't you. Sam. It's a very it's very interesting to live life and see this election through the prism of having grown up a woman. You know, it is hard to explain that when you are a woman. Usually, I mean from the moment you're born, you're kind of told how to how to look, what is pleasing, how to be a people pleaser, how to be agreeable, how to

make people at ease with you. It's hard to learn as a woman. It was hard for me to learn to stop being a people pleaser. I still learned that lesson all the time. It's hard for me to say no to people. But eventually you learn it, and then you can't take it anymore. You have to explain to people that when you're a woman and then you walk the planet, people tell you to smile all the time,

they tell you how to look. You're constantly confronted with people's expectations, whether you're falling short of them or you're exceeding them, you're constantly told about it. You know, we're so everybody's so conscious and aware of it all the time. It's nice to feel free to just throw off those

shackles and do the show we want to do. I think that's one reason SNL that Kate mckennon's character, sure whatever, it's really great of Hillary is so funny because you do sort of see that public private conflict and they should do something if she's elected. Of her first day at the White House where she just you know, talk about shackles, right, she does play the character with so much joy you can feel it. It's it's pretty beautiful judgment.

Secretary Clinton, do you think you have better judgment than Mr? Trump? Yes? Yes, yes, of course I do. Donald Trump has terrible judgment. He makes bad decisions. He spent his life cheating middle class laborers, laborers like my own human father who made I guess drapes or printed drapes or soul drapes or as someone with drapes. And he was relatable and I am also relatable.

What do you think about some of the criticism late night comedians and people like you have gotten from folks like Ross doubt that I always have a hard time pronouncing his last name. The columnist for The New York Times. Did you read that column? I did read it, And what did you think of that? It's Clinton, Samantha, I'm sure it's not the racism that's the problem. Ross, It's it's us. I'm sorry that we're making you all feel

so uncomfortable. I don't I don't take responsibility for I don't think that I have anything to do with Hillary Clinton's rise or fall. I don't think I'm a problem. But I guess his point is sort of this this political correctness out of control. I sound like I'm channeling Donald Trump in a way, but kind of that that all these institutions are taking these uh, liberally progressive stands.

I guess the Late Nine hosts have become more like advocates for liberal views or special commentators rather than just comedians who are making us laugh. I mean, it's I think it's a lot. I think it's legitimate to say it's a long way to go from Jay Leno's humor, which was very kind of down the middle. Isn't this all crazy? Both sides are nuts to the position you've taken, which is much more about one side as nuts. I'm not really a super huge fan of things that are

middle of the road. I don't That's not what I personally respond to as a viewer. I don't like things that are focus grouped to death. I like a strong point of view. That's what I respond to. That's the material I like. The show is not for everybody. I would certainly assume I don't really care. I'm sure tb scres that's great that they don't care for for that, But um, you know, I think what makes it niche or special in some way is that we're not holding back.

And that's that's all we have, is the purity of our voice. And if you can't handle it or you think that we're pushing you know what some people call political correctness, I just call progress or decency, decency I call well, I'm sorry that the world is not your liking anymore, and that you feel stripped of your power and authority to speak, But we are tired of not having a voice, and so we will now speak. Do

you think any of this has gone too far? Like the rhetoric about safe spaces and universities and only certain ideas are kind of allowed to be disseminated in particular communities. I don't I don't you know, it's hard to it's hard to talk about in general terms. I think that, you know, it is a fine line. I mean, I

obviously I'm all for being sensitive to people. But I think what find troubling and I have at times is the squelching of sort of free conversation, free speech, and and and and the exchange of ideas that I think will move the ball forward in terms of having these discussions that help, you know, at least acknowledge problems and then come up with solutions. I think that's when maybe the quote unquote political correctness can be an impediment rather

than something that builds sensitivity. You know. But people have accused me of silencing them on our show, and I tend to disagree with that. I think I'm just I think I'm just presenting an alternate viewpoint. I understand that it's difficult, and I understand that it's challenging to have your expectations of the world challenged. But we're you know, we're not trying to silence anybody. We're not trying to

squelsh conversation. We're trying to have conversations, and we're just expressing ourselves and all we're doing is presenting things on a t V show. We're not shutting anybody down, per se. People are free to speak. We're just also free to criticize them for doing so. I mean, you're former colleague. Jeff Sucker, who now runs CNN gave a speech or was interviewed at Harvard recently and he said if his network made a mistake last year, it was putting on

these unfiltered Trump rallies and that he regretted doing them. Um, what do you think the media's role is in all of this, besides NBC and kind of building up the Trump candidacy. Well, I think it is a little bit like that, you know, putting a frog in a pot of cold water and turning the burner on. I mean, we how could anyone have known? I mean, really, how could we all have known? But there were enough times

when it's funny actually being away. It's something that you always notice when you're out of the country and you watch Al Jazeera, or you watch BBC CNN International or BBC you know, or BBC b see. You see that they don't necessarily fill their airtime with two hours of an empty podium at a Trump rally. Okay, there's other things going on in the world. They will air documentaries. There are global issues we could be talking about, there are stories we could be telling, things we could be seeing.

But that camera was very often trained on the tarmac of an airport with the Trump plane, you know, an hour and a half away from arriving, and we're talking about that NonStop for hours and hours. So I generally object to that kind of coverage. It's not specific to Trump. I generally think that that is a waste of everybody's time.

Do you ever wonder if humor propelled this candidacy of Donald Trump's or lack thereof a lot of people like trace trace back to the White House correspondence dinner in two thousand eleven, President Obama famously mocked Donald Trump, and we have a clip of that. We thought we'd play it for you and get your take. A kidding aside, obviously we all know about your credentials and breadth of experience.

Um for example of seriously, just recently, in an episode of Celebrity Apprentice at the Steakhouse, the men's cooking team, uh did not impress the judges from Omaha Steaks, And there was a lot of blame to go around, but you, Mr Trump, recognized that the real problem was a lack of leadership, and so ultimately you didn't blame Little John or meat Loaf. You fired Gary Music. And these are the kind of decisions that would keep me up at

night out. It was brutal, brutal. And I don't know if you've watched to that video tape, but they're showing Donald Trump throughout completely stone faced and not laughing at all, not even pretending to laugh at himself. I guess it was an article that George Herbert Walker Bush was someone brought in Donald Trump as a potential VP candidate for him, right, and he said thanks, but no things. So I think

he had political aspirations early on. But many say this moment is what it really revenge, right, the idea was catalyzed. You know What's so by this moment and Trump being determined to show people, no, no, I'm a serious force in politics. I'm not somebody who should just be laughed at.

I know someone who was. It was a joke writer for you know, for those at those speeches, and I we it's so funny because we were all laughing, where like, oh my god, he wrote the did he write the joke that that started this whole goddamn s and he might have, he might have. You know, we have another we have another listener voicemail with a question. So here we go, uh, Stephen Colbert, Larry Wilmore, John Oliver, and Samantha by all disciples of John Stewart and The Daily Show.

What does that say about John Stewart and after his trump rant on The Late Show? How nostalgic and enjoyable was that to watch? Thank you? That's a great question too. I love I love watching John I was. I loved watching him on Coldbert. You know. I when he's done a couple of things on Colbert, I've really enjoyed it. He did something on our show. Actually, he did a cold open for us that was really funny. Yeah. You know, I don't have much. I don't have nostalgia for the past,

but I do think of it. I think of it all the time. It informs everything I do. Really, Um, I miss you know, I do miss him. I'm looking forward to his new project, whatever it is. I guess we'll all find out. We have to hear one more Samantha by moment before we say goodbye, and you've been so nice and generous. We can't let you go without playing a little of your bit on the excess Hollywood tape from two thousand five. Let's listen, that's two thousand

five Access Hollywood tape. Wasn't just lewd remarks. Trump was literally explaining a time tested strategy for sexual assault. In fact, take a tic tach and grab him by the pussy is the closest thing to a plan. Donald Trump has described this entirely. What did you think when you first heard that tape? I it's so funny. Someone at work. I hadn't heard it. I don't I was. I guess I was busy doing something and I hadn't heard it

un till the very end of the day. And he gave me the laptop and he was like, I'm just gonna watch you watching this video. And wait, John was my jock had completely dropped. And he was like, it gets better. And then it happened, and then the world shifted ever so slightly to the left and nothing's been the same since. So after the election, are you going to be sad? Brian and I started this by saying, I can't wait till it's over. Ryan said he's going to be sad when it's over. So you're in my camp,

in your camp, one dent. I can't wait. There's so much other stuff. There is actually so much other stuff to talk about, but we can't. I mean you can't. We can't talk about it. It's completely We're paralyzed until this thing is over. There are so many other stories to tell you discussion of the sweating. I don't want to. I can't handle it anymore. I just want to know who the winner is so I can live my life. I feel like we are going to need a period

of recuperation. We have a great national anxiety. I'm hearing it from everybody. You should have seen my offices on the day of the first debate. We were all pale. People were shivering. I shivering. I've never hit it out. Had we all somehow had the flu just watching with so much fear in our hearts. It's time for it to end. We need I just we all need to nationally. We need to cover the country in a dome and

pipe and spam music. And you know there is going to be one more cathartic, slash disturbing moment before the election actually happens, which is the Al Smith Dinner here in New York that actually happens the day that this podcast is released. It's a white tie dinner in which both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. They sit on a dais rather near each other, and the tradition is that they each give sort of self deprecating humorous remarks at this dinner. I'm so fearful now I have to tell

you it is. I've gone for a couple of them, and it is so much fun. I couldn't believe that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump agreed agreed to go to this dinner. And they do about like a five minute stand up five or ten minutes, and they obviously get their best writers. So honestly, it is going to be such excuse me for cussing such a ship show. I'm actually pitted out thinking about it. This year, I am going you are going, Wait, do you want to go?

What day is that? It is? Thursday? Do you want to? God? I can't why you have to rerange your software? I'm going to be in Miami. I wish you didn't invite me. Just for the record, do you have to go? But on the other hand, why does anyone want to be president. They have to do that. Oh my god, gonna be crazy. Oh no, well, if if your plans change and you want to be my date, oh I want to be your dates. And actually we can bring your husband and because my husband's coming to really we can go on

a double date to the Al Smith dinner. We will all be sweating. Sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's just being mean girl. I'm sorry, Brian. I can try to get you a ticket to the balcony. Our husband's will sweat right through their jackets. Just well, you are so generous to come and do our podist. Isn't she the greatest? Now you're the greatest. There are some people who like me too, like you, I think. Anyway, thanks so much, and I want to get together with you all right

after the election. We'll be so happy. This color will come back to our cheeks. We're going to live. That was so much fun. I just love her. And by the way, Full Frontal with Samantha b Airs Mondays on TBS at thirty Central. Do you think she'll be my friend? I think she'll be your friend. I think she already

is your friend. Actually I know, but I want to hang out with her and with her maybe yeah, I hope so she said she was, and all of you were invited to mean while, I want to thank Gianna Palmer for producing the show, and Jared O'Connell for engineering and mixing it. And thanks to Mark Phillips for our theme music, which I really like. I play it on weekends. Our next episode will air less than a week before

election day. Yea, So tell us, how are you getting through the final slog of a very long, very tense campaign season. What are your coping mechanisms? Leave us a message at four four, six three seven. So you heard earlier what other listeners are saying about the show, Mostly nice thing, mostly thank you, thank you, because I'm very bad at taking criticism. Well, what did you say earlier? You take it, uh seriously, but not personally. I didn't

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