Hello, I'm Brendan Francis Nuneum.

And I'm Rico Gagliano.

Welcome to the dinner party download and to our occasional series Dinner for One.

These are long-form one-on-one conversations with a great guest we figure you would like to spend a little extra time with.

Basically, it's a podcast-only episode where we get to pretend we're Terry gross.

Yes, it's fun.

I even put on a pair of fake glasses and conduct my interviews in the dark.

Really?

She conducts her interviews in the dark?

Is that what they're?

Well, it's like near dark.

There's a little lamp.

Anyway, we'll do another episode about Terry. This episode, we're going to talk to the actor Sterling K. Brown, who won his first Emmy for portraying Christopher Darden in The People v. O.J. Simpson, American Crime Story.

And he won his second Emmy just a little over a week ago for his performance as Randall Pearson in the acclaimed NBC drama, This Is Us.

That is right. Randall is one of three siblings, all born on the same day. And as the show

begins, he is a successful lawyer in his mid-30s, married with a family, and curious to know who

his biological father is. His adoptive father, Jack, has passed away. Yes. By the way,

the new season of This Is Us begins tonight. So you could listen to this while watching that. It'll be like a...

You should put the sound down and listen to this. It'll be like a weird commentary track. We should note Sterling also appears in an upcoming biopic about Thurgood Marshall. It is called crazily enough Marshall.

Brendan taped this interview before Sterling won his recent Emmy, and the discussion started

like this. Off the bat, I want to say it, forgive me if I sound a little lethargic, because

to prep for our conversation, I caught up on several episodes of This Is Us last night.

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