The key to EGOT-ing with John Legend

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🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

John Legend has permeated the culture for over two decades. His music has racked up billions of plays and he and his wife regularly make headlines when they bring us into some of their happiest and most vulnerable moments as a family. Today, we're looking back on his rise to fame, his most creative project, and what keeps him coming back to the ivory keys. Brittany also brings on the fun with an EGOT game of trivia.

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0:00.0	Is there like a e-gout group chat?
0:02.8	There is not one, there's not.
0:05.0	Is there like a meeting like,
0:06.8	do you all go to Switzerland every year?
0:08.1	What's the secret?
0:09.4	We don't have any bonding activities.
0:11.2	I feel like Jennifer should try to convene it now
0:13.7	that she has her talk show.
0:15.0	Oh!
0:16.0	Ha-ha-ha-ha.
0:18.0	You're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR.
0:23.7	I'm Brittany Loose, and today we're talking to NEGOT winner.
0:28.2	Someone who's won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
0:33.5	And it wouldn't be too hard to organize a group chat
0:36.3	with all the e-gout winners because they're just
0:39.1	aren't that many of them.
0:40.8	But one of them, the one I'm talking to today, is a legend.
0:46.4	John Legend, welcome to It's Been a Minute.
0:48.0	It's so great to have you.
0:49.4	My pleasure.
0:50.4	Thanks for having me.
0:51.4	Who would I do without your sworn love?
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