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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Eating Well and Making Hit TV Shows With 'Everybody Loves Raymond' Creator Phil Rosenthal | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 33)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore chats with his daughter, Lauren Wilmore, about Pi Day, the shrug emoji, and intricacies of language (1:00). Later, he sits down over lunch with renowned TV producer Phil Rosenthal to discuss his love of food and travel; his new Netflix show, ‘Somebody Feed Phil’; and how he created the hit television sitcom ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ (19:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Alright, welcome back to Larry Worm, Black on the Air. I'm Larry Worm and I'm Black on the Air.

0:12.0

And we have a really fun episode today. My old pal Phil Rosenthal. We had a conversation.

0:18.0

I think it was actually a few weeks ago and it was all about Phil's first love, which is food.

0:23.0

So I think you're going to enjoy that. I've filled up, created the show, everybody loves Raymond.

0:28.0

It's great, great comedy writer. He's just a really interesting funny guy. And it's funny how he just loves food.

0:34.0

And he's had two series about Phil's quest to find good food. And I was actually on one of them a couple years ago.

0:42.0

But it was fun. It's fun conversation. Give us a little break from all this politics and all that stuff. I think you're enjoying it.

0:48.0

And I'm recording this today, March 14th, which so when you're listening to it, know that I'm recording at a March 14th, which is Pi Day for ominous and blurred out there.

1:00.0

And joining me, just sitting in from spring break is my daughter Lauren. Hey Lauren. Hi. How you doing?

1:06.0

I'm doing pretty good. Happy to be on spring break. I know. Lauren goes to school on the East Coast where it's cold.

1:13.0

I'm very cold. Happy to be back in California. Happy Pi Day. You having a good Pi Day? I am absolutely.

1:19.0

Yeah, you hit Lauren. Now my kids, my kids, I have a son and a daughter, John learned they are we're unapologetic, I should say, you know, still growing up.

1:30.0

Just nerds about stuff like Pi Day and everything. You had a funny story about celebrating Pi Day.

1:36.0

Yeah, because my brother and I, we both would memorize digits. I think I still have like 160 down. Yeah, digits of Pi.

1:42.0

But John got up to like 325 or something. 325 digits of Pi. Yeah. And see at his school, which was much nerder

1:49.0

than mine, they would actually have a Pi Day celebration and they all ate Pi and they had a digit reciting contest.

1:56.0

Whereas at my school, I came to school wearing my Pi shirt. Yes. And everyone was like, either saying nothing or they said, why do you have a shirt with Pi on it?

2:07.0

It's Pi Day. You got shade for Pi Day. You guys even even my math teacher didn't really say anything.

2:12.0

So sad. I thought it was a nerdy. You got shade from your math teacher about Pi Day.

2:17.0

Not exactly shade, but just ambivalence. ambivalence. Which is worse than shade. Like younger. Why why are you celebrating?

2:24.0

Why do you care about? Yes.

2:26.0

It's so sad. And then today to make Pi Day complete Stephen Hawking, you know, the celebrated physicist died today on Pi Day.

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