SEASON 1 and EPISODE 21! (a very special episode recorded back in August that is our final episode of Season 1! Bonus episodes will pop up between now and when Season 2 starts in January though!)
It is Wednesday, August 6th, 2025, and this is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang! On-location in the great state of New York. We left the city for that upstate country air. Mmmm. Smells like Republicans. This is your weekly catchup time with smart and funny people to find joy in an unjust world. We discuss topics submitted by our guests and you, the listener. Any topic! From pop culture to the personal and political. Current, old! Big, small! Nerdy, petty!
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My guest today is a Tony and Emmy award nominated, American comedian, writer and actress who voices the Purple M&M and is a New York Times bestselling author. She became the FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO WRITE FOR A NETWORK LATE NIGHT SHOW IN THE US EVER? WTF THIS WAS ONLY 2014 on Late Night with Seth Myers. And then she hosted her OWN late night talk show on Peacock. You can watch her be funny, commenting on the news of the day on CNN’s “Have I Got News for You.” Let’s welcome to the pod, AMBER RUFFIN!!
And as always on the final mic, heard but not seen, my sweetie and co-producer of life, Corey Higgs (http://okletsbrand.com/).
On today’s agenda:
PODCAST UPDATES
When people say "what do you do to relax?" and having no clue what they even mean
Ocean Vuong: It’s unsettling how “cringe culture” holds back Gen Z
Every new Stevie Wonder song is the best little gift
THE FREE PREVIEW ENDS HERE - My ONLYPAIDS get the rest of the episode for real talk.
Getting un-hired to host the White House Correspondents dinner
No one warns us about perimenopause
ACTION ITEMS (place for you to make note of some things you want to try or do from today’s chat)
Because you don’t want to feel like you are losing your mind and because we long for a better world filled with fun, love, joy, and cool shit. This is What Should We Talk About? With Jenny Yang.
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Jenny Yang is a standup comedian, actor, and tv writer who was named one of Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch and has been featured at Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, the San Francisco Sketch Festival, and Netflix is a Joke Festival.
Jenny is a former labor organizer who was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, and stars opposite Michelle Yeoh as an assassin in the Netflix action comedy-drama series, The Brothers Sun.
