Lena Waithe's Superpowers
Nancy
WNYC Studios
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Note: this is a rerun of a previous episode.
We first spoke with Lena Waithe just ahead of Master of null's second season, which featured the groundbreaking episode "Thanksgiving." Kathy checked back in shortly after Lena won an Emmy for writing that episode.
— Lena Waithe is an Emmy-award winning writer and actress on Master of null. Her new show, The Chi, premieres Jan. 7, 2018 on Showtime.
— This episode was recorded in Los Angeles at Werk It, WNYC's women's podcast festival.
Episode scoring by Jeremy Bloom. Theme by Alexander Overington.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So one, two, three. |
| 0:02.0 | So Ben, Kathy, we're back in people's podcasts. |
| 0:13.6 | It is like we never even left. |
| 0:17.0 | We've got some very special bonus episodes. |
| 0:19.4 | Over the next couple of weeks, we're going to be revisiting some of our favorite episodes |
| 0:22.9 | from our first two seasons. |
| 0:24.4 | And then we're going to check back in with the people we had on Nancy to see what's changed |
| 0:28.5 | since they were on the show. |
| 0:31.2 | We check back in with my close personal friend, Lena Weigh. |
| 0:35.2 | You're going to keep this going forever, aren't you? |
| 0:37.2 | Always, Tobin, we are very, very good friends. |
| 0:39.2 | Anyway. |
| 0:41.2 | Things have blown up for Lena since the two of you talked, which was just before the start |
| 0:46.5 | of season two of Master of Nutt. |
| 0:48.2 | Denise, we're debating what I should do about this whole Alice situation. |
| 0:54.2 | You know, I texted her about her schedule's been two days. |
| 0:57.2 | I haven't heard anything back. |
| 0:58.2 | She doesn't like you, man. |
| 1:00.2 | I gotta crush my dreams. |
| 1:03.0 | So here's some of that interview with Lena. |
| 1:05.2 | Then after the break, I check back in with her on everything that's gone down since we last |
| 1:09.0 | talked. |
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