Daveed Diggs on How to Get by Till You Win a Tony Award (Ep. 21)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Larry Wilmore weighs in on Thanksgiving, Trump’s feud with LaVar Ball, and the rash of sexual assault and harassment allegations throughout Hollywood and politics (1:00). Later he sits down with Tony Award–winning rapper, actor, and singer Daveed Diggs to discuss how he went from working with underprivileged youth in the San Francisco Bay Area to starring on Broadway in 'Hamilton' (20:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Alright, welcome back.
0:08.3	This is Larry Wilmer.
0:09.6	I am Black on the air.
0:11.1	Hope you guys are doing great out there.
0:13.1	Happy Thanksgiving to everybody if you're listening to it on the holiday or past the holiday.
0:18.8	I'm taping this actually a couple of days before Thanksgiving.
0:22.2	Here in California it's real sunny and hot.
0:26.2	Man.
0:27.2	No climate change happening here, yeah.
0:29.8	It's beautiful here.
0:30.8	Hope everybody has a really good Thanksgiving, get some good food, get thatitis.
0:36.9	Just let that turkey knock you out.
0:40.2	I always find a way to overeat.
0:43.5	Even when I say I'm not, I just always do it.
0:45.8	When you think about it, what Thanksgiving really is about is about gluttony, football,
0:52.8	sleeping, pie.
0:54.6	I think that's what America is all about.
0:56.2	In fact, when it comes down to it, that's what America is about.
1:01.4	Gluttony, football, and pie.
1:03.0	It really, when you think about it, that's a joke, but it really does sum up America in
1:07.3	a lot of different ways.
1:09.6	The good and the bad.
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