Jake Shane on Growing Up With OCD | Kerry Washington

This episode of Street I Grew Up On is so special to me because I get to talk to a fellow New Yorker. He's also a fellow podcaster, a fellow Broadway actor, and a fellow original gladiator. He is the lovable and talented and hilarious Jake Shane. Jake talks to us about his upbringing in Washington

Heights and how wonderful it was to grow up around all of that diversity. He has some very special neighbors including Lin-Manuel Miranda. He's super open and honest about growing up with anxiety and OCD. And you guys, if you are not a lover of reality TV after this episode, you will be. I love Jake so much. I

can't wait for you to watch. So, let's pull up.

So, tell me the name of the street that you grew up on. >> I grew up on 181st Street and Cabrini Boulevard. >> In? >> Washington Heights. >> Washington Heights. >> In New York. >> New York. Okay, that's incredible cuz there's like an entire musical named after your neighborhood, which we will get to. But when you close your eyes and

think about Cabrini Boulevard, what is the very first thing that pops into your head? >> Like literally like the gold like doorknob to my building that I would have to do if my doorman wasn't there. Like the like the walking up the street to the garage that my dad had his car like because he would drive me to school

every day cuz I went to school on the Upper West Side. >> Mhm. >> And like how cold it was during the winter cuz we were right next to the river. So, the breeze from the river would just like smack my face. >> Okay, okay, there's so much to unpack. I love that I'm like tell me the first