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Samantha Bee

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first: 2018-10-01
most recent: 2018-10-01
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“She gets killed on social media. Yeah, you really have to stop. It's a discipline. It really is just like a discipline of total restraint. And I'm actually very good at it. Thanks. That's my special skill. I don't read what people say about me, and that is very good to do that.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm more active. You use it, right? Not a lot. I actually don't use it that much. I'm an active, very active observer. I am always on Twitter, but not always interacting with it. I see. I keep my mentions off. And I've done that for years, and that's just out of self-preservation. It's smart.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Attacking people personally. It was yet to get to me. This is going to sound crazy, but as soon as he tweeted about me, it gave me a sense of calm washed over me, actually. I thought, okay, that's good because The president is calling for you to get fired, you can't really get fired, can you? No, you can't become a First Amendment issue. And it takes it to the stratosphere. So I felt a little bit calm from it, but it definitely unleashed a lot of badness, a lot of dementors came into my life for sure, which is really, really negative.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I learned a lot about it. I actually learned a lot about myself and my capacity. It felt like walking through fire. And I think that I came out on the other side stronger and better for it, older by a hundred years. Okay. All right. But you look good. I just live at the bottom of an old oak tree now. Just wizened when the president does it. The use of Twitter.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I never really had that experience before wherein I walked down the street and many, many people were interacting with me. Right. I don't really have, well, there were a lot of I5s, quite honestly, but I don't live life that way. I don't walk around as like the king of the Ever West Side with people talking to me all the time. You know, I'm really very, yeah, very, very low-key. So that was a different sensation and I definitely felt like, oh, this is to be notorious even for a second in this way is not, it was not, it was really unpleasant. It really put me off my game. And then when the president tweets about you, that's a whole other. That is like winged monkeys come out of the woodwork and they just fly toward you. Feels absolutely terrible. Would I change the past? Absolutely not.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Instance, I would say it was not a good feeling to be on everyone's lips. I know it was, you know, even my husband, for example, was just walking into conversations randomly in other cities and people were talking about it, not knowing that he was my husband. You know, it was like, it was the talk of the town and many towns for a long time. It was not a good feeling. It was terrible. I don't, it was terrible. It was truly an awful week.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. And that was the beginning of a very long week, I would say. Yeah, but it did, I learned after the fact that it did begin with bots. And then people got involved. People got involved. They definitely, the bots inflamed people. That's right”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“At four o'clock in the morning, and it is smoldering because so much has happened in the night, it was that. I don't even, I don't even have my Twitter mentions turned on. And I could see that we were in for something. You were trending.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I would say completely, it was completely opposite. And it was consistent with the show up until that point, actually. If you had been doing it.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And Oh, yes. Well, we did the show and we all high-fived each other. We thought, great show, everyone. We were all very satisfied with the end product.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A lot of that was bot traffic, which was really. And the same thing with Roseanne's, which was interesting, and it was used to, and then it generated a lot of attention. Talk a little bit about that experience, what happened there.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Get me all the hot gas. I'm gonna be a hermit. No, you don't have to be any gossips. All right, sitting there with a ukulele, an ironic ukulele in the beginning. So let's talk about here and now. Let's talk about what happened to your other internet, what happened along the internet. One of the things I did a show a little while ago about bots and the use of bots. And one of the things that was really interesting that emerged was what happened around Roseanne and you on the show when you called Ivanka the name. And that flew up like crazy on the internet.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I will disappear, then I will disappear. It'll be so bad. I'm going to visit your island and you can give me all the hot gas. No, I'm going to be a hermit. No,”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You do. I do. You're right. I do meet them. You know everyone. I do know everybody. It's weird. I am amazed by how many people you know. I always love talking to you. I want to like corner you and stick you in a car and talk to you about all the people you know. Yeah.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We're here with Sam B. She's the host of Full Frontal, and we're talking about the app she created in Civic Gaze. That's how I met her. I don't usually meet hosts of TV shows that much. You do. I do. You're right. I do know everyone. I do know everybody.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“As I've heard, and we're going to talk about that more when we get back, we're here with Samantha B. She's obviously the host of full frontal and also an internet mogul at this point. That's right. That's me. When we get back.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is amazing. Yeah. That's either the number of people who've registered and have signed up for voting reminders, which is actually great because, as you know, 20,000 votes can make a huge difference.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have your numbers? I don't. No, I didn't think so. No, no, no. I actually, no, I think maybe $75,000 people have signed up for voting reminders. Wow,”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, we know that people are signing up for our voting reminders in the dozens of tens of thousands, which is the dozens of tensions.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would think, ew, what a you need a bigger TV or something. I don't know. What are you trying to do? So yeah, it's not a money-making endeavor. It really is civic. Trying to get people out. It's a civic engagement app. Yeah.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“She did, but her thing is different. This is a civic engagement app. I did think it did occur to me how. Many fewer people would download it if it seemed to be, if I seem to be personally profiting from it, I think I would be true. I wouldn't want that. I wouldn't download it. No.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was a whale. It was a whale. Well, you do celebrate your failure. That was part of the learning curve. So, you know, even kind of from a television network perspective, they're like, oh, no, it crashed. I'm like, no, it's good, guys. Trust me. What did you learn from your journey in tech? I'm still learning. I think that we had the kernel of a good idea. I think the voice is very clear in the game. We did try to make it fun. I think we can do an even bigger and broader game for 2020. I think that if we keep this and keep making it better, it will be a very interesting.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Roseanne Galani, who's the producer who's really producing the game with Adam Werbach. The two of us were so sad. We were like, oh no, the game crashed. And then she kept getting these emails from people in Silicon Valley who were like, congratulations on the crash. Oh. It means you've got something there. It is. You've really got something there. You got a little nut for you. Who has incredible?”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That it's a huge, takes a huge team of incredible, it takes so many people and it is so much work to make the simplest thing possible. And you really have to, I mean, it's all about the team that you're working with. And it also is about believing in the end result. Like you have to see something on the horizon that is possible. And I appreciate the way that we came at it. I really do like not having any knowledge about it didn't give us, didn't afford us the opportunity to be cynical about it. It's been terrific. I just did not. Where are you on download, Sam?”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To it as a complete naive. So me thinking, oh, is this even real? It was real. The way that they just that all day brainstorming session alone was stunning to me. Your wireframe.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, people have to vote. I mean, the stakes are very high. I mean, there are lots of people who've known about the stakes of voting for a long, long time. And I think the rest of us are just figuring that out. And it's what anything.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Much Silicon Valley We made a show out of it. We filmed the entire process from the beginning of even thinking about the game to the creation of the game. We've filmed content after.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Try to build something that could potentially influence people to vote them to vote. Why not? It was really just an experiment that actually, I think, turned out really well. I mean, we're still learning from it. It's been really quite a journey.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it was so wildly successful that we ended up paying the rent for this newspaper for a year or more. And it occurred to me after the fact, I was like, I wonder if you could make people vote this way because we'd heard so many stories from him about applying gamification to like tax stuff in China, like these amazing stories of success. And I thought, well, even if it didn't work for the midterms, it would be an interesting journey. Right.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Completely. And now I see that. Now I see it all around me, but I never heard that. I was the one who was gullibly getting sucked in by gamifications. That's the point of it. We learned about that. We applied that to saving this newspaper that really they couldn't pay their own rent.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Gamification Well, I did a piece about gamification. So we ended up doing a piece about this little newspaper in New Brunswick, New Jersey that was providing excellent anyway, they were doing excellent work in this small town in New Jersey. We ended up meeting an expert in gamification, Gabe Zickerman. I loved him. I had never heard of it before. It's not my vacation. No, it's not my world. I didn't know anything about it. Everything scary.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really funny questions in the voice of the show. People win cash prizes, and hopefully you also with the app will sign up for voting reminders and will present challenges as we get closer to the midterms, because we learned that really a huge part of getting people to vote is getting them to make a plan for voting. So with our app, it's funny and you win stuff, but also we sneakily try to deliver civic engagement with...”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of everything. And I've Well, the app is a comedic political trivia game with cash prizes. And the specific engagement app that's actually really funny and I think turned out great. You play a trivia game every day. All of the questions are related to what's in the news or they're related to government, but they're.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't a Rye observer of the Rye Observer, I'll take that With my feathered chappa and a gimlet. I don't know how I see myself, not really a comedian, I guess a comic performer. I don't know. I have no way to know myself.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There are Houston Texans cheerleaders who are suing the NFL for fair wages and for payments. They're treated absolutely just horribly by the NFL. It's as though any of the rules that we've come to understand just do not apply to the cheerleaders. They are treated miserably. So we did a piece about that.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We try to think we know by Thursday or Friday, but ultimately the first act or the most topical stuff is written on a Monday, Tuesday, sometimes on a Wednesday. I mean, yesterday we were following the Kavanaugh stuff. We'll talk about that as it was happening. So, you know, that's a little bit different. But we generally have a picture of two-thirds of the episode. And then the last piece of it is the most topical, and that goes in. We figure that out on Monday or Tuesday.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we also will put second acts or kind of longer. Term, we try to be a little bit evergreen or larger stories that are emerging for us that maybe aren't in the news cycle. We get those prepared with lots of research and the writers write on them, and those are up on the board too. And we generally know what the picture of a show will be. The Act one is the most timely. So that is something we talk about on the Thursday after a show, but it's not really solid because now the new cycle is so bonkers. I think in a previous life cycle in a different timeline, it's never coming again. Yeah, we would know. We would have a better idea of what was coming next week, but we don't have a clue now. So it's pointless to even talk about it.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Sure. I mean, we have, you know, we know what our schedule is. We try to put some longer form things up on the board. We basically have a board. So you would do in any Corporate environment. Any ATT employee. We have a beautiful whiteboard. And we put as many long-term things up on the board as we can possibly do. So it's very helpful to know generally what the shape of a show will be. So we do field work and have correspondents who also do field work. So we know generally what those stories are.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was getting his news, and that's where he was Really interesting. You don't think of it that way. I don't think of it that way because, well, I don't reflect on it too much from a broader perspective. I just we're so focused on making a show every week. And I think that the brain turns in the direction of like”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But these shows are the only things my kids watch, I know that, all of them, which is really, I woke up yesterday and one of my sons was watching one of the shows, and that's where he was getting his news, and that's where he was getting his perspective on the news, which was really interesting. But you don't think of it that way.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nobody You're not going to burn your sources. And you can do that. You can do basically do what you want to do. But what's happened is they've become they've, I think they've changed more minds than it used to be.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Miss a ton of things. Well, we also don't. I mean, what we do have is more freedom in the sense that we don't have to have access to anything. Nobody has to talk to us. We're not the paper of record. So the stakes are, you know, they're not totally low, but you're not going to burn your sources. We're not going to burn our sources. We don't have any. So that gives us a little bit more freedom to speak. And that was always how it felt at the Daily Show. We're like, we're not we don't have to. No one's inviting us into the room. We're not in the White House press score. We don't have to play nice at all. So it's a little bit freeing. You can do basically do what you want to do.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And what's the commentary? What's the commentary? We get to sit back a little bit because we're only once a week, so that's actually nice. That's a gift we don't have to put on a show every day in the midst of. It would be difficult”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know that I have a goal. I actually think it's very instinctive. I think we try to, we're just trying to, I'm just trying to say what. The week has led to. It's really just a voice for the things that have happened in that week, or sometimes it's a longer perspective thing. It's just what is emerging for us”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in fact, it just worked. It just was. Something that people craved in a different way. So what do you connected with something?”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Calling card for future shows. We just use these. We'll make the best episodes we can do resume building. Yeah, and then when we get canceled because it's too outrageous, we'll take it somewhere else and do something with it”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Impossible to articulate that because I thought, well, the show will just naturally be different because it's me. Of course it will be different, but you can't explain that. And it was. And in fact, I had an image in my brain before we launched the show, which was that we would only have six episodes. I think they had only really picked us up for six. And of course, you know, with television, they can cancel you after one episode. They don't have to even air that episode. So everything's kind of in the air. And I thought, what I'll do is I'll just like kick the barn doors in with the first episode of the show. And these six precious episodes and these will be.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do the women's perspective. You can't do just one perspective. I had no desire to just do the women's perspective, but I did have a sense that it would just be different on its own. And so when people, you know, you do, you end up doing like a lot of press before your show launches and everyone wants to know what will be different about it. And it was very...”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so there were areas where we pulled back out of necessity to that voice of that show that I didn't want to. And that was like the most perfect example of where I thought I could take my voice. So, what were you trying to show”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it wasn't. John loved the story. He absolutely pushed me to go deeper into my point of view on the story. But the Daily Show could only contain so much of my perspective. It really ultimately was not my show. It's not my show.”
2018-10-01 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: 'Full Frontal' host Samantha Bee · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT