REESE WITHERSPOON and JENNIFER ANISTON’s Alex and Bradley tackle sexism and false selves on The Morning Show - SHRINK THE BOX

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4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Ben and Nemone put Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s The Morning Show characters, Alex and Bradley, on the couch. We ask how a person creates a false self at work, what makes Bradley break the mould and find out how Alex could ever have respect for her male boss in the middle of a #MeToo scandal. Stay tuned for more on false selves in our upcoming episodes on Jackson Lamb and Polly Shelby too! We want to hear about any theories we might have missed, what you’ve thought of the show so far and your character suggestions. Please drop the team an email (which may be part of the show): [email protected] NEXT CLIENTS ON THE COUCH. Find out how to view here Tasha, Orange is the New Black (season 2) Polly, Peaky Blinders (seasons 1&2) Reginald "Bubbles" Cousins, The Wire (Season 1) Moira Rose, Schitt's Creek (Season 1) Raymond Holt, Brooklyn 99 (selected episodes) Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses (Season 1) CREDITS We used clips from Season 1 of The Morning Show. It’s available to watch on AppleTV+. Starring: Jennifer Aniston as Alexandra "Alex" Levy Reese Witherspoon as Bradley Jackson Billy Crudup as Cory Ellison Mark Duplass as Charlie "Chip" Black Néstor Carbonell as Yanko Flores Karen Pittman as Mia Jordan Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Hannah Shoenfeld Bel Powley as Claire Conway Desean Terry as Daniel Henderson Jack Davenport as Jason Craig Steve Carell as Mitch Kessler Created by: Jay Carson Directed by: David Frankel Lynn Shelton Roxann Dawson Tucker Gates Produced by: Jennifer Aniston Reese Witherspoon Kerry Ehrin Michael Ellenberg Mimi Leder We would love to hear your theories: [email protected] A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts. To bring your brand to life in this podcast, email [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:06.8	2024 on Mo Farah. Of all of the athletes we could have chosen, why Mo Farah?
0:12.4	He's a distance running, Iosh, he did the double,
0:15.6	five thousand and ten thousand meter gold at two Olympics. One of those gold medals formed
0:21.1	part of Super Saturday, maybe the most famous day in British Olympic history.
0:25.2	So so much to talk about.
0:26.6	Follow everything to play for, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.1	Hello, it's Simon and Mark here.
0:31.2	This week, Ben and Nimona putting Alex and Bradley from the morning show on the couch.
0:36.5	The presenting pair for the morning show were cut from different cloths.
0:39.3	Alex is the wise old operator. Bradley the upstart who can't help but speak the truth even if it risks her career and with that comes a whole lot of psychological complexity.
0:48.7	Ben in a moment would love your emails, voice notes and anything else at shrink the box at
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1:00.6	Monday for Alex and Bradley's first show.
1:04.0	What are you going to be on here please?
1:07.0	What are you fissed doing?
1:10.0	Oh, congratulations, Bradford Jackson. Your life just took off. Don't say anything to anyone
1:17.1	and meet me at the studio.
1:18.1	We're changing the microscope. together again for the podcast where we put your favorite TV characters under the
1:34.2	microscope very putically speaking and the moan how you doing I'm good I'm
1:39.6	I cannot wait to get stuck into this I'm literally'm literally like, let me add it, let me add it, let me
1:45.2	chomping at the bit, no champing at the bit. Yeah. One of those two. Whatever that is. What the
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