Shonda Rhimes: Women Need To Brag More

Call Her Daddy

Alex Cooper

Comedy

4.4 • 164.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Join Alex in the studio for an interview with Shonda Rhimes. Shonda discusses being the most powerful woman in TV, why she thinks women should brag more, and the importance of complex female characters. She also opens up about her views on marriage, all things Greys, her favorite Shondaland moments, and how she learned to say yes. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	What is up, Daddy Gang?
0:04.7	It is your founding father, Alex Cooper, with Call Her Daddy.
0:11.8	We're ready.
0:12.9	Everybody is so excited that I'm doing it.
0:15.2	I've never had a reaction like this.
0:17.4	Stop.
0:17.8	No.
0:18.5	But I'm telling people I'm doing it, the reaction that I've gotten has been,
0:22.1	like, nobody gives a crap about anybody else. It's fascinating. Well, I feel the same way about you. So the vibes are great, Shonda. The fact that you're like, everyone's excited for me to be on Caller Daddy. I'm like, well, my whole team is so excited for you to be here. So it's a perfect mashup. Thank you for being here. Shonda Rhimes, welcome to call her daddy.
0:38.0	Excited to be here. Okay. How are you doing this morning? I'm good. I'm good. You're here for? I'm here for, you know, I'm here for my book. Year of Yes, the 10th anniversary edition, but I'm also here because today is the 450th celebration for the 450th episode of Grey's Anatomy.
0:55.4	Can you believe that? No.
0:56.1	Like 450 episodes feels insane to me.
1:00.0	It feels insane, but also it feels right.
1:02.6	It's just so strange because now it's been so many years.
1:06.4	Like it's such a part of my life, like the fabric of my life.
1:09.3	Whereas it made such a huge difference. Like I still think about the times like when we first started. Like, I'm still there in my head. I'm still there. I think we're all still there. I'm still at season one. Like, I'm at the LVadwire. I'm at, I'm at George's death. Like,'m still in that like the early. Yes.
1:27.6	Initial intern era.
1:29.7	We're going to get to all that.
1:31.1	We have so much to get through.
1:33.1	Also, you moved to Connecticut, right?
1:35.1	Yes, I did.
1:35.6	During the pandemic.
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