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Listen Now: Choice Words with Samantha Bee

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Hysteria

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.77.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today as a special treat, we’re sharing an episode of Choice Words with Samantha Bee from Lemonada featuring our very own Alyssa Mastromonaco! Each week on Choice Words, Samantha Bee sits down with people she admires to examine the biggest choices they’ve made in their lives and the ripple effects those decisions have had. Sam’s made a lot of choices, too. She may have to interview herself about starting this podcast. In the episode you’re about to hear, Alyssa joins Sam Bee to reminisce on a time when she was Deputy Chief of Staff in the Obama Administration and was averaging two hours of sleep per night. Sam asks Alyssa what it was like to go from that high-stakes environment to watching HGTV all day, what made her decide that she’s never wearing Spanx again, and how she got deep into the world of jam making. Keep up with Samantha Bee @realsambee on Instagram and Twitter.

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0:00.0

The average American worker is going to have about 12 jobs in their life.

0:06.2

My expert, Epanian, leads me to believe they're going to like about half a thumb, get health

0:12.1

insurance from some of them, and suffer through, you know, clip art, filled power points at

0:18.0

all of them.

0:19.0

So far, I've had so many jobs in my life, and they've each shaped me in various ways.

0:25.5

I was, I was a T sample giver outer at grocery stores, a teen bank teller, like I couldn't

0:33.5

even really see over the marble teller pod.

0:39.5

What do you call that?

0:40.5

It's a counter.

0:41.5

Oh, God.

0:42.5

I was a phone operator at an erectile dysfunction clinic, which was, yes, a real job for money,

0:48.3

not just for comedy.

0:49.4

And my longest job to date was as a correspondent on the daily show with John Stewart from 2003

0:55.2

to 2015.

0:56.2

Frankly, people in the industry like to say that I'm the longest serving correspondent

1:01.1

in the show's history, which is nice because it makes me feel both accomplished and old.

1:07.6

Great.

1:08.6

Leaving the daily show was such a complicated career decision.

1:12.9

It obviously had been my dream job.

1:15.1

It paved the way for me to relocate to New York where I was raising a family with my husband

1:19.9

who also happened to work with me at the daily show.

1:22.2

But you know, part of having a job, even a job that you love means at some point, you're

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