A Mailbag With Bill Simmons and Pete Aronson on Breaking Into the Entertainment Industry and ‘The Bernie Mac Show’ | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Larry Wilmore is joined by Bill Simmons to answer some mailbag questions, including why Kamala Harris dropped out of the presidential race (5:47) and what he wishes he had known when he started writing (31:44). Then, Larry sits down with the executive vice president of programming and production at AMC, Pete Aronson, to talk about how he got his start in the industry (39:46), and Larry tells the story of why he got let go from ‘The Bernie Mac Show’ (1:24:36). Host: Larry Wilmore Guests: Bill Simmons and Pete Aronson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:05.5	Throughout the month of December, the Ringer staff will be releasing their year and reviews
0:09.0	covering the best and worst of 2019 in sports, TV, movies, music, and more.
0:14.8	This week we're getting started with Shay Serrano and Rob Parvilla on the best albums of the
0:18.4	year and Alison Herman and Chris Ryan break down the best TV shows.
0:22.2	We'll have tons more in the coming weeks so make sure to check it out on theringer.com.
0:30.5	Okay, welcome back to another black and air. This is going to be a fun one you guys.
0:40.5	Not only do you have a mail back but I'm talking to a really good buddy of my Pete Aaronson
0:44.0	who's been in executive business for a while.
0:45.9	People is one of the people who first kind of mentor me and show business and has an amazing
0:51.9	personal story.
0:53.2	And then I am going to tell you and people have been asking they wanted to hear my story
0:58.2	about the burning macho and what happened.
1:00.2	You know, did I got fired from that show, what happened back in the day, what was the context
1:04.6	for it and all that stuff.
1:05.6	So I'm going to tell you that story.
1:06.6	I don't even know that story.
1:07.6	I know.
1:08.6	It's very fascinating.
1:09.6	Pete is going to help me tell that story or he has a great, it's very cool.
1:12.1	A lot of people don't know how deep this shit goes in his business.
1:16.4	It's pretty interesting.
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