shonda: yeah. shonda land audio.he great thing is i am really lucky i have amazing people who work with me at shonda land. sandi bailey, who runs our digital division team, says we could really have a podcast division, and it could be really powerful. she has come up with some really great shows. part of the beauty of it is we can take somebody like katie lowes and showcase her with a podcast called katie's crib, which is about parenting, and has become one of the most popular podcasts. we can do a podcast with someone like laverne cox. we can take a show like "bridgerton" and create a podcast about it. that is doing really well. also do behind-the-scenes video footage, take that and put it on our website, shondaland.com. and have a nice synergy going. that has been really important to me, to create a world in which all of the aspects of our shows and all the aspects -- i call them the people in our shonda land family, can find a place to be creative and exist in one spot. david: now, you have a partnership with dove

shonda: i recently bought a cello.bably because i saw yo-yo ma play the cello and got really inspired by his bach series and for years i've been saying i learned -- i'm going to learn how to play the cello, for like 15 years. so i finally went out and got myself a cello and started taking lessons. that is my new way of relaxing. it seems -- i'm terrible at it but it is wildly relaxing to try something new in that way and spend that concentrated time doing something different. david: why don't you come to the kennedy center and play a duet with yo-yo ma? we could arrange it. shonda: i think poor yo-yo would be very horrified by what was coming out of my cello. david: what new worlds are there for you to conquer in the detainment world? you are at the top of the profession. i can't imagine how you could be more successful. is there something else you aspire to do that you have not done yet? shonda: i'm really enjoying my life at netflix. i think we have just gotten started there. i cannot wait to keep building on that. a

shonda: yes.avid: so, is it easier to write a show or create a show from home, with three young daughters running around? shonda: i found, you know, being at home to be both revelatory in the sense that i'd always felt like there was so much -- there's so much work to be done, that i had to be standing right in front of everybody to be doing. and then i discovered that, no, actually, a, a lot of people got a lot more freedom to do things that i didn't need to be controlling. and b, i got a lot more writing done, just being at home. david: are you going to change the way you operate? will you spend more time at home now, or you say, actually, i can't wait to get back to my office? shonda: i definitely think i'm going to spend more time at home, mainly because i get a lot more writing done here. there's not as many interruptions. i discovered how little i am needed on set. you know, i used to joke that if i'm standing on a soundstage, i'm the only person who's not working, because i'm either writing

shonda: no. i mean, there is a certain insularity that comes with being in a certain position in hollywood but that does not change the fact that if, you know, if somebody does not who know who you are, they see you as just another person of color. the racism in this country is the racism in this country, unfortunately. david: so, the events that led to the murder of george floyd . obviously affected our country dramatically and certainly the african-american community particularly. how did you respond to that? you are a prominent african-american figure in the country. do you feel you had an do you feel you had some obligation to speak out, do more? how did it change your life what you say? -- your life would you say? shonda: i think the entire george floyd situation did a couple things. one, obviously, like anybody else, i felt nothing but rage and frustration, but i also felt real dismay that a lot of people used that event to finally discover that racism exists. that was disturbing to me that

. >> reporter: she says she couldn't do it without the support of her mother, shonda wells.ust wanted to help my mom's dream come true like she helped mine come true. >> reporter: see, five years ago when shonda was cooking and selling barbecue out of this pit, tamyra promised her a food truck. the plan was to use her olympic winnings to pursue aw $30,000 truck. well, those plans changed faster than mensah-stock pins an opponent. >> this isn't going to be a $30,000 food truck. this is going to be a $250,000 food truck with all the bells and whistles. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: cameron davies is a houston native who now lives in san antonio and operates cruising kitchens, the largest manufacturer of mobile assets in the world. his team will design, build, and donate this truck to tamyra's mom. plickle's famous barbecue truck is coming. but first the tears are coming. >> it's time for you to take care of her. because she's been taking care of you. >> i can't believe it. thank you so much! >> i've been wanting this for her for so long. >> reporter: and now with the gold and so

memory pay i live day because the, to me as the only day you as a no, no, actually she only proven shonda wholly, and boys who must, who, who, because the, so the law your little got out the whole evasion of the goal and i was a lot more complex than what one particular spy could have given. it was a hard fought that all you gotta give a lot of credit to the take forces of these railey defense force. you've got to give a lot of credit to their air force. you got to get all the credit to other intelligence venues, an outlet that they had. it was a massive, massive project. and of course, he was part of the puzzle that contributed to that. and that was part of that, but there's a lot of sources been saying for years that his role that has been exaggerated and i think there, right, if you will him most happy if you saw the unique laid out and i don't want to. so then it's more mission fab, but the wheel media and the lead on the welcome a lot. i mean, what, ok, i'm happy to help me. you know how to bang. yes. well not rather the east you know, 100 or don't. but then my, some of the little ha

shonda how do you do it all? ,the answer is this. i don't.u pointed out in your book you have adopted three young girls. is that more challenging than writing scripts or producing shows or is it much easier? ms. rhimes: [laughter] i always used to say i have three daughters and 47 actors or something like that when i have three shows. no, i feel like having children is far more fulfilling than any script or job or show. it is far more fun also. i think the older you get in more practice you get, the more fulfilling and easy it becomes. with your first child, you are afraid -- my mother said you're afraid you're going to kill the baby. the last child, you pop the baby downstairs and say she will be fine. children are such doors to reality, they keep you grounded and keep you focused on the present, really. that is the best thing ever. david: when you are raising children in hollywood, which i've have not done but i know, when you are wealthy and famous, it can be a challenge. how do you keep your children grounded because they go out and say m

and a question very specifically from lia columba, as a question for mr. shonda and your opinion, what makes this 2021 election free and fair? and then we're going to pivot to some of the issues with the economy in a moment. but i want you to answer that amos yes what, what makes it unfair? because the conditions this for the, for the position to come, then of course it's a coffee the election as we, according it, as the impacted the ruling pad in the manner that this is. although we design the campaign, we have had to move it almost 360 degrees from our we do the campaign to digital platforms. the reason why you don't see the ruling party making as much noise as the opposition does, is that we do have a commission that as a part of that, that's from the government that is in place. we do have a great that is possibility and their position as if we are taught by the public director in one digit of the country not to move. you won't see us going to the media and cry about that. we suffer insight. but because they will position, do not have that bed and responsibility to that. we have yo

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what you want to be is shonda rhimes or reese witherspoon able to sell your creation for $900 millionright not have to shift from platform to platform depending on who is handing out cash as an incentive to stoke engagement on their platform >> there is a few things going here obviously when you're buying stock, you want to have a die fer diversified portfolio. and then they're seeing that their followership, that's like what's most valuable for them, and then of course as we all learned in the media, you know, relying on a social network like facebook or snap for traffic, that can be turned on and off with the push of a button, right? it is some hard lessens for creators, but not like they're powerless either like, users are noticing that creators are leaving and if your favorite creator is gone, it is also very easy to switch download a different app they have some leverage as well. >> i was going to ask you about leverage, sal, and who has it right here because of the earnings that we got this past q2 season, snap was up there as one of best prints and i wouldn'ter wonder y could a