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Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Bowen Yang

Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo & Cadence13

Comedy, Society & Culture, Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this episode Ellen sits down with actor, comedien, and SNL writer and cast member Bowen Yang. They discuss how Grey's Anatomy inspired Bowen's acting career, conversion therapy, and why representation in comedy is so important. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello again. Welcome to Tell Me. Today's conversation on Tell Me is like triple

0:06.2

threat Scorpio Day, me and Bo and Yang. This episode is amazing. We had so much fun.

0:11.9

I could be his mommy and I just might try to be. She could be my mother. She is my

0:17.3

mother. I can't find the certificate but she raised me basically. We just had so

0:21.2

much fun. I don't know what else to say. I hope you enjoyed this episode of Tell Me.

0:30.0

I loved your episode with Nithia Rahman by the way. That was a really great one. Oh, thank you so much.

0:40.8

I listened to that one, the Patrick one. I think I did like a nice sampling of all of them.

0:44.8

Nice. I feel a lot of compassion for Nithia because obviously you hear in this story she tells,

0:51.5

she got elected to City Council. She went to Harvard for urban planning. It's not like she's not

0:56.1

educated in this field but then she gets elected at the beginning of a pandemic where we have

1:01.4

like this mass of homelessness crisis and I really felt for her and I think people lack a lot

1:07.4

of compassion around this homelessness situation. Yeah, with her it seems like her experience so far

1:13.0

has been like once you're in power there's much more nuance to it than than people might expect.

1:18.0

There's just a lot of massaging of things, negotiating of things or working with people who kind of

1:22.6

don't have the same interest as you, which seems like so microcosmic of life in some way. Anyway,

1:27.7

I found it so wonderful. What a great conversation. Thanks. And hopefully with all of these stories

1:32.0

that we're trying to tell here, hopefully that's what we take away. It's like, oh, this applies

1:37.0

to this and that can apply to that. I agree with you. Nithia is saying about being in power.

1:42.0

You know, it's like people expect that once they get that certain job or once they get to that

1:46.6

certain place that everything's going to be great, it's going to work out exactly how they thought

1:52.0

it would and managing your expectations. And I think it's like such an important lesson. Are you

1:57.6

about to segue into my life with this? I am. I'm going to say I clocked it. I love it because it is

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