Hey, guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I've got a very, very special interview for you this week with a man who was the very first guest on our show Sunday Today, nearly 10 years ago.

Our show premiered in April of 2016, and our first guest was one of the actors at the center

of the hottest show on Broadway, maybe in the history of Broadway, Hamilton.

Right in the heat of Hamilton Mania, Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Aaron Burr to

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton in that Broadway musical, came on our show. Couldn't have been a bigger

musical, couldn't have been a bigger pop culture thing at that time, and he came on as our very

first guest. Didn't even have the podcast back then, so that you can't go back and listen to the original.

It's been lost to the ages.

Archaeologists will find it someday if they decide to start looking for podcasts.

Leslie now back because he is back in Hamilton, reprising the role of Aaron Burr, 10 years after it premiered. The show is now 10 years old.

He was in it until summer of 2016, has gone on to big things in the decade since.

Of course, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in One Night in Miami.

He's released four albums. He's had two children since then.

He's written a New York Times bestselling book, been in a bunch of TV shows and movies,

has kind of launched off of the success of Hamilton. And now a short run back as Aaron Burr on that

stage. So we thought, what better place to get together than in the Richard Rogers Theater

on Broadway, where they've been putting on Hamilton for a decade now.

We sat together on the stage, same place we walked together 10 years ago and chatted as he

was in the middle of that first run.

And now, kind of on the other side of it,

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