Choices We Made: Moscow or ‘Merica? (with David Remnick)

About this episode

Samantha Bee talks with David Remnick about the media landscape, personal decisions, and current events in relation to his experiences in Moscow.

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

People in this episode

Host: Samantha Bee

Guest: David Remnick

Topics covered

• media industry
• current events
• Soviet Union
• social media
• fitness content
• decision making

Keywords

• David Remnick
• Samantha Bee
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post
• Jeff Bezos
• Joe Rogan
• social media
• fitness content

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The New Yorker, Washington Post

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