Shonda Rhimes

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Bridgerton, Scandal) is a producer, writer, and showrunner. Shonda joins the Armchair Expert to discuss what her experience has been working for a streaming service versus network television, why she loves meeting other showrunners, and her ability to stay unburdened by comparison. Shonda and Dax talk about their relationship with making money, the power of Chicago, and the impact of being interviewed by Oprah. Shonda explains how she is naturally a shy person, how she feels about people being intimidated by her, and the decision to raise kids by herself. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to arm chair expert experts on experts on experts on experts
0:05.3	So many experts you want experts we are slashing prices on all experts every expert must go I am shonda Shepard and I'm joined by Monica Rhymes.
0:15.6	Wow, Monica Rhymes. That'd be a cool name. Yeah, you could be a rapper.
0:20.9	Monica Rhymes. Oh, yeah.
0:23.0	What were you thinking?
0:24.0	Just, it's like a strong name.
0:26.0	Not a stripper name or anything, just a strong name.
0:28.0	Strong.
0:29.0	Monica Rhymes.
0:30.0	Yeah.
0:31.0	You've probably put it together by now.
0:32.0	Our guest today is Shonda Rhymes who's an award winning showrunner, screenwriter, producer, and author.
0:39.0	She's outrageously successful in television.
0:43.4	You'd just, you'd be hard-pressed to find somebody.
0:47.1	It's so admirable.
0:49.2	It is.
0:50.0	It's a Goliath, a Herculean feat she's accomplished.
0:54.0	She broke onto the scene with Gray's anatomy
0:56.8	and guess what, she nevertheless, the scene.
0:59.0	It's still going 19 years later.
1:01.2	And of course, Scandal, Bridgerton,
1:03.0	the biggest show maybe of all time
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