Brian Grazer on Growing Up With Dyslexia, Making Movies, and the Importance of Human Connection | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Larry Wilmore is joined by Academy Award–winning producer Brian Grazer to talk about how being dyslexic affects how he sees the world (21:28), the importance of forming human connections while working in Hollywood (37:55), and what he learned from going on Oprah's podcast (56:41). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Brian Grazer Check out Grazer’s book, ‘Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection,’ here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Liz Kelly and welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network.
0:05.0	Up on theRinger.com this week, we've posted our streaming recommendations for the month
0:08.7	of September, updated our 50 best superhero movies of all time list, and make sure to check
0:14.0	out our Seven King coverage by Ben Lindbergh on the site and on the big picture podcast.
0:18.4	On the sports side, our NFL experts are giving their predictions for the season, the storylines
0:22.8	they're most excited about, and finalizing their rankings of the top 150 fantasy players
0:27.6	of 2019.
0:28.6	You can check it out on theRinger.com.
0:58.6	He's one of those iconic class in the business, and you don't get a good sense of him, I think,
1:09.4	even from working with him, you need to sit down and really talk to him to find out what
1:13.8	he's about.
1:14.8	He brings up some interesting subjects, especially about people with things like dyslexia and
1:20.7	things like that and how they overcompensate in certain areas.
1:24.3	He's used his shortcomings to be his superpowers in the business, kind of what his book is
1:30.4	about, how to make human connections through just face-to-face context, real interesting.
1:36.4	But I worked with him.
1:38.5	One of my first big breaks was co-creating the PJs with Eddie Murphy and Steve Tomkins,
1:42.9	and that was with the Imagine Run How I Am Brian Grages, so there you go.
1:46.7	So we get to catch up, have an ask conversation, I think you guys will enjoy that.
1:52.4	Man, there's a lot going on right now.
1:55.8	The big news is the Hurricane Dorian, I believe.
1:59.9	Hurricane names are so ridiculous, so interesting.
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