Moscow or ‘Merica? (with David Remnick)

Choice Words with Samantha Bee

Lemonada Media

Comedy

4.3 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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The New Yorker editor David Remnick joins Sam to talk about if The New Yorker is the “slow food movement” of news and how today’s current events remind him of living in Moscow at the end of the Soviet Union. They talk about how the industry changed when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and why his ownership is different in the second Trump administration than in the first, and how David is currently being sued by the president. They discuss how you can’t say the quiet part out loud anymore since there’s no quiet part, why David has been listening to Joe Rogan in the middle of the night, why teenagers are consuming so much fitness content, and how the two best decisions he’s ever made are marrying the right person and not signing up for social media when he first had the chance. 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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0:45.7	right?
0:46.4	Yeah.
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1:30.2	There is so much repulsive news right now that I actually couldn't decide what I was going to have choice words for this week, especially because by the time I recorded it, a new, more reprehensible thing would have happened. So instead, I will take a pause from that. I would like to shout
1:36.8	out some very rare good news happening right here in my home state. It is true. I actually have
1:43.8	some serious good choice words for a new
1:45.9	proposal by New York Governor Kathy Hokel and New York City Mayor Zara and Mom Dani to provide
1:51.3	free child care for children as young as two years old. As I am sure that you know, Mayor
1:57.2	Mom Dani campaigned on this issue, and I'm so thrilled that Governor Hokel is embracing it.
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