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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Breaking Down the Jussie Smollett Case With Van Lathan | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 60)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

TMZ’s Van Lathan joins Larry Wilmore to talk about the latest developments in the Jussie Smollett case, including his initial story (23:05), his possible motivations for allegedly lying about the incident (44:45), and the consequences of reporting a false attack (53:54). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Van Lathan 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.

0:05.7

This Sunday night after the final episode of True Detective, we'll be going live for our

0:09.4

last flat circle after show with Jason Concepcion and Chris Ryan.

0:13.6

You can stream that live on YouTube, Facebook and Periscope.

0:17.0

And while you're there, make sure to subscribe to our channel at youtube.com slash the ringer

0:21.2

as we near 100,000 subscribers.

0:30.0

Welcome.

0:33.4

This is Larry Womong.

0:35.4

I'm Black on the air special show today.

0:38.2

Usually you know, I do a little wane, but there's so much going on.

0:42.1

I had to bring my boy.

0:43.5

I had to bring one of my boys in to have the rightest conversation.

0:48.0

He's the senior producer on TMZ and he has his podcast, Red Pill.

0:52.2

If you guys aren't listening to it, listen to it.

0:53.9

Drops every Tuesday, I believe.

0:55.1

Mr. Van Latham Van, thank you so much.

0:57.2

What up?

0:58.2

Pleasure to be here.

0:59.2

I'm a fan of yours.

1:00.2

I'm back at you.

1:01.2

You know, and you know, I want to talk to you just about you for a second before we get

1:05.9

into the real reason here.

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