Choices We Made: Scam or Sam? (with Weird Al Yankovic)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Weird Al Yankovic joins Samantha Bee to discuss their unique meet-cute, and how their interview came to be due to a scam gone right. Al tells Sam about how he’s actually happy with all the choices he’s made in life except (other than wishing he had bought Apple stock) and yet he agonizes over little decisions—especially when editing music videos. He reveals that the ultimate dig at him is when people say he’s talented enough to do “real music”, why record companies beg for Christmas albums, and turning down an opportunity to open for Duran Duran at Madison Square Garden.

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1:06.9	This week, President Trump celebrated his 100th day in office, or perhaps mourned, is the better word, as the day was marked with the worst favorability records at a president's 100th day in eight decades.
1:25.2	Do you know how long that is?
1:27.2	That is a whole Joe Biden.
1:29.6	And instead of spending the day gluing 100 Cheerios onto a piece of paper, like the traditional
1:35.1	100th day celebration, the president spent it the way he spends all of his days,
1:40.6	tanking the economy, endangering the planet, and complaining about his poll numbers.
1:47.2	And while President Trump's 39% approval rating is the lowest in 80 years, I still have some
1:54.2	serious choice words for the 39% of people who approve what has happened in the past 100 days?
2:02.6	Who approves of deporting children?
2:06.2	Who approves of arresting judges?
2:09.6	Who approves of firing thousands of federal workers
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