Samantha Bee Is Done with Democrats (For Now)

The Assignment with Audie Cornish

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News Commentary, News, Politics

4.6 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It’s a very special New Year episode for The Assignment: a conversation with Emmy-winning comedian and writer Samantha Bee about the state of politics and how she’s engaging with the political moment. Bee is known for her time as a correspondent on The Daily Show and her own late-night show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She is now the host of the podcast Choice Words. Audie invites back her podcast friends for this conversation: Kara Swisher, host of On with Kara Swisher and co-host of Pivot, and Van Lathan, co-host of The Ringer’s Higher Learning podcast. They also share their “Word of the Year” for 2024, and give a predictive word for 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. A very happy new year from everyone here at The Assignment. We're actually kicking off
0:04.7	2025 with some friends. Harris Swisher and Van Lathen are here with me today. Hello, you two.
0:12.8	Hi. What's up? What's up? You're saying just what's up, but you're wearing like a full Santa
0:16.8	hat. So you're still in the spirit. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm still in the spirit. I ask you guys
0:22.3	if the spirit expires the day that Santa comes down the chimney and you guys said no, so I could
0:28.1	potentially be wearing this hat for it. No, you should wear it all year, I think. Wouldn't that be
0:34.3	great? Just wear a hat, Santa had all the time, like one of those people.
0:38.3	Just don't say a word.
0:39.4	Just be like, yeah, they won't say anything, honestly.
0:43.1	No, no, no, exactly.
0:44.8	Do I answer questions as to why I'm wearing it?
0:47.7	Like when someone asks me why I'm wearing a hat, do I give them a hat?
0:50.6	They won't ask.
0:50.6	What are you talking about? So we did this episode a few weeks back where we interviewed the one and only, Anthony Scaramucci.
0:58.3	You know, my wife dislikes Donald Trump like almost as much as Melania does.
1:02.1	I mean, so that's like a standard that you can't even imagine how bad it is, okay?
1:06.3	Slunk it is.
1:06.9	And she told me not to do it.
1:08.4	You're not to do it.
1:09.5	But I didn't listen.
1:13.1	Today, people are going to hear our conversation with the comedian, Samantha B.
1:15.0	I feel like there's a lot of work to do.
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