Bea or Twila? (with Emilia Clarke)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Actress Emilia Clarke joins Sam to talk about her new show PONIES and how for the first time ever she was given the choice of which main character to be, Bea or Twila. They compare stories of traveling with hot plates, and the need to have “an evening” of making dinner and watching a cooking show even if they get home late. They talk about reading cookbooks like novels, the correct amount of newspapers to get every weekend (four), sliding into Alison Roman’s DMs, the never-ending loyalty of Game Of Thrones fans and their unique fan fiction. Emilia talks about the decision to finally reveal her experience undergoing brain surgery in the New Yorker and trying to figure out how to thank the NHS for saving her life. Keep up with Samantha Bee @realsambee on Instagram and X. And stay up to date with us @LemonadaMedia on X, Facebook, and Instagram. For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.6	Hey, it's me, Steve Burns, and I'm so glad you're here because you and I go way back, right?
0:46.4	Yeah.
0:47.1	And look at us now.
0:48.3	Like, we're all grown up.
0:49.4	We've got this new podcast where we talk about all this grown-up stuff and there's special guests like
0:54.2	Jamie Lee Curtis and Bill Nye but for the most part it's about you mean it's always been about
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1:26.3	Wow, it has just been one of those weeks where I peek out from my turtleneck and I look at my phone and then I drive to the ocean.
1:30.3	I throw my phone in it. I go get a new phone, go back into my turtleneck, peek back out, drive to the ocean, drown my phone once again. I bet you're doing
1:36.0	that. I bet you're doing your version of that as well. It is impossible to be a caring citizen
1:42.3	right now and not feel just consumed with with worry and anger and
1:53.0	confusion, which is why this week I just have some collective choice words for all of this serious shit that is swirling around.
2:03.0	It's actually kind of impossible to pinpoint just one example.
2:07.6	For this entire year, I feel like we've said every day.
2:11.2	I can't believe it hasn't been a year yet.
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