My mom named me Feline Horn and when I was a kid I remember being pissed that I had like a little two-syllable

boring name like I don't I want to be Takedia or you know

de Kwanah or something I wanted to have one of those names and my mom was like

trust me you'll thank me later.

This is death, sex, and money. Oh, they're super rich.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

You don't have to kill me and need to talk about more.

You were just some boy who made me laugh at a party once and now I loathe the side of you.

I'm Anna Sale. When I talked with writer and actor Lena Waith in early January,

she was in the middle of a packed press tour around her new show The Shai.

You are in the middle of it, man.

I am.

Ever I turn is Lena.

You know what?

And that's a good thing.

The Shai is just the latest project from Lena

that's getting a lot of attention.

Last year she became the first black woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing.

That was for an episode of Master of None that was based loosely on her own experience of coming out to her family.

This is a moment that Lena's been working toward for more than 10 years since she moved out to

LA from Chicago in 2006, right out of college to try to make it as a writer.

I lived deep in the valley, like Van Nuys Deep Valley.

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