Babes in Pod-Land: Samantha Irby and Lindy West
Food with Mark Bittman
Sweetness and Light
4.8 • 981 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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The supremely talented and charismatic writers talk to Kate about mail ordering fancy ice cream, the beauty of "store food," and watching hours and hours of TV together.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Food with Mark Bitman. I'm Kate Bitman. Thanks for being here. We know how many of you are loyal listeners and we appreciate that so much. If you'd like to hear more from Mark and me and our small but mighty team, check us out on bitmanproject.com. When you subscribe there, you'll get access to our recipe database, which now has thousands |
| 0:24.2 | of recipes, with more added weekly. |
| 0:27.1 | If you prefer a substack experience, we're on there, too, bitmanproject.substack.com. |
| 0:33.9 | Reach out to us with any questions, comments, or stuff you think should be featured on the podcast or on our site, food at markbitman.com. On today's show, we're revisiting an episode for almost four years ago, |
| 1:04.0 | an episode that includes two women with wonderfully distinctive voices, |
| 1:10.1 | Samantha Irby and Lindy West. Both are known for their bountiful |
| 1:14.3 | senses of humor, and both have used it with much success to bolster feminism, social justice, |
| 1:20.8 | and body positivity. Both women are also known for their self-deprecating, intelligent essays, |
| 1:26.7 | and nonfiction, as well as TV writing. |
| 1:29.8 | Sam was a writer on the Sex and the City follow-up and just like that, and Lindy developed and |
| 1:34.4 | wrote for the Hulu comedy Shrill, which was based on her book of the same name. And in fact, Sam |
| 1:41.3 | wrote for that show, too. If you've seen it, she wrote the famous pool episode. |
| 1:46.7 | Sam and Lindy are close friends, so I thought it'd be fun to interview them together. |
| 1:52.1 | And it was. |
| 1:54.2 | I just want to say thank you to Samantha Irby and Lindy West for joining me today. |
| 1:59.5 | It's a freaking honor to have you both here. |
| 2:03.3 | The honor is ours. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Agreed. So my first question, well, you can speak for both of you. |
| 2:12.2 | You guys are friends. We'll get to that. We'll get to your friendship. We're a unit. We're not just friends. We're like, |
| 2:18.4 | half of a whole. Okay, so I'll change the question to how did you become a unit? Oh, well, |
| 2:26.6 | okay, so I, we were like internet for, I was a fan first. Like, because my friend Laura was obsessed with Wendy and I was like, who? Um, because friend, Laura, was obsessed with Lindy. |
| 2:35.3 | And I was like, who? |
| 2:37.2 | Um, because, but truly only because like I didn't, I still don't fully know how to be |
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