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Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo & Cadence13

Comedy, Society & Culture, Arts

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Ellen sits down with New York Times best selling author Taylor Jenkins Reid. They discuss family dynamics, their mutual love of houses, and the magic of the Hollywood sign. 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. On today's episode of Tell Me, I am talking to Taylor Jenkins

0:06.8

Reed, huge fan of Taylor and her writing. She's written so many books, Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,

0:13.9

Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones in the Six, which is being adapted into a series right now.

0:19.2

We talked about so many things. We have a lot in common. We're both from Massachusetts. We love

0:23.2

Los Angeles. We also love houses and the history of houses and Los Angeles. This was such a fun

0:30.3

conversation and I hope you like this episode of Tell Me.

0:45.5

Taylor Jenkins Reed, thank you so much for doing this. Oh, thank you so much for having me.

0:50.0

Of course, I'm a big fan as is my daughter. That makes me so happy. It's funny because we have

0:57.3

a lot in common. By the way, you and I. Yes, we do. We were both raised in Massachusetts.

1:02.2

Yeah, we both love Malibu. Oh, yes. We're in Boston, are you from? I am from a town 45 minutes

1:09.4

outside of Boston called Acton, which oddly enough, you interviewed one of my high school classmates,

1:16.5

not long ago, Maria Conocova. Oh, yes. Yes. Maria Conocova and I went to high school together.

1:21.4

We graduated the same year. We have a lot of friends in common. I love Maria and I'm just so

1:25.5

impressed with her. I love her too. And I love that book. Yes. I love Russian women. They're just so

1:32.2

balls. Yes. They just sort of say, you know, what's on their mind? Oh, absolutely. My in-laws

1:38.9

immigrated from Russia and Eastern Europe a long time ago. But when my daughter was born,

1:43.8

she had the roundest face and just the biggest cheeks. And we would go into like a grocery store

1:49.6

and Russian women would come up and they'd be like, that baby is Russian. And I mean, I think

1:54.4

like generations ago and they're like, no, with that face, that baby is Russian. She's ours. And I

1:58.9

was like, okay, great. I mean, who doesn't want somebody coming up and just loving on your baby?

2:03.3

It's true. There's a lot of mysticism to these old heritages, whatever they are. You know,

2:08.9

whether it's Sicilian women or the old Irish women, they just have so much sort of mysticism built

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