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Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Jesse Williams

Dinner’s on Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Sony Music

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.7753 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Grey’s Anatomy star and my Take Me Out co-star Jesse Williams joins me at Pijja Palace, an Indian American sports bar in L.A.’s hip Silver Lake neighborhood. Over green chutney pizza, wings and soft serve – we dig into our relationships with our fathers, his childhood moving place to place, and we share some humiliating early career stories. Join us! Want next week’s episode now? Subscribe to Dinner’s on Me PLUS. As a subscriber, not only do you get access to new episodes one week early, but you’ll also be able to listen completely ad-free! Just click “Try Free” at the top of the Dinner’s on Me show page on Apple Podcasts to start your free trial today. A Sony Music Entertainment & A Kid Named Beckett production. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected] Find out more about other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Jesse.

0:03.7

Today on the show, another Jesse, actor Jesse Williams.

0:08.2

We'll talk about Broadway, our fathers, and share some embarrassing moments.

0:14.0

And about like five or six blocks in, I look down and the red sauce and the tahini cream sauce had been pouring from my wrist,

0:26.1

from my sandwich, down my pant leg of my khakis all the way down my leg.

0:31.1

You're going to want to stick around for this.

0:46.0

The other day I was making lemonade with my sons, Beckett and Sully, and Beckett is a little bit of a perfectionist.

0:54.5

I'm not sure where he gets that from. It's me. It's definitely me. But he was getting really upset about the seeds falling into the juice and it was turning into a bit of high drama. Now listen, there's an easier way to do this. Who knew? Wonderful

1:00.6

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1:06.6

and everything you love about lemons minus the seeds. That's right, no more seeds floating in your

1:12.0

lemonade or Diet Coke or getting caught in your teeth when you take a bite of salad. Frankly,

1:17.4

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1:23.7

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1:30.1

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1:36.7

to learn more.

1:38.6

I got to know Jesse working together on the Broadway play, Take Me Out.

1:43.6

It was his first time performing on Broadway,

1:46.4

and of course, being the tremendous actor that he is, he landed the lead role of Darren

1:51.8

Leaming. Darren is a biracial, gay, major league baseball player who comes out and in the process

1:59.9

learns a lot about homophobia and racism amongst his teammates.

2:04.1

It's been one of my favorite plays forever, and I was thrilled to get the opportunity to play Mason Marzac,

2:09.7

who plays Darren's gay business manager.

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