Kerry Washington Expands Interview Show to Weekly Podcast — SkimNews
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- Kerry Washington is expanding "Street You Grew Up On," originally launched in 2021 as a digital series during the COVID pandemic, into a full-length weekly audio and video podcast via a partnership between her production company Simpson Street and creator-services company Daylight.
- Season 5 guests include Ben Affleck, Dwayne Johnson, Demi Lovato, Colin Kaepernick and Chelsea Handler; past seasons featured Michelle Obama, Jane Fonda, Queen Latifah, John Legend, Issa Rae and Jay Shetty.
- Season 5 premieres Wednesday, Sept. 30, with new episodes released every Wednesday — audio on all podcast platforms and full video on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
- Each episode asks guests "What street did you grow up on?" and follows the memories, relationships and experiences that shaped them before they became famous, exploring how childhood and community continue to shape identity.
- Simpson Street is named after the street in the Bronx where Washington's mother grew up; Washington said the deceptively simple question gives her "more room" to explore how origin stories impact who people become.
- Daylight's studio arm QCode has produced a slate of scripted podcasts, and Daylight's broader services span distribution, audience development, marketing and IP expansion.
Why it matters: By turning a seasonal digital series into a year-round weekly format, Washington and Simpson Street gain a recurring platform where A-list guests (Affleck, Johnson, Kaepernick) can share longer-form origin stories instead of one-off promotional stops — and Daylight's distribution, audience-development and tech stack give the show the infrastructure to compete in the crowded celebrity-podcast market.
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