Choices We Made: Attention Seeker or Attention Giver? (With Chris Hayes)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joins Sam and drops the most intimate choice yet—the decision to kiss his now-wife for the first time! Chris talks about how he is perhaps *too* decisive, what the right level of fame is, how his life improved when he stopped reading his mentions and Donald Trump’s pathological and genuine need for attention. They talk about Chris’ new book The Sirens’ Call and why they agree Trump might actually be funny.

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1:39.4	We are barely a week into the second Trump term, and yet I feel like I have whiplash from trying
1:46.4	to follow the news whack-mall he has plunged us into.
1:51.0	If you're trying to follow the White House happenings, your neck and eyes probably hurt
1:55.5	as much as my do as our attention is consistently demanded wherever we're not currently
2:00.4	looking, like we're not currently looking,
2:01.2	like we're watching 10 simultaneous tennis matches.
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