Jason Rezaian on Life After Imprisonment in Iran | Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air (Ep. 58)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Larry Wilmore is joined by Jason Rezaian, the former Washington Post Tehran bureau chief who was held hostage in Iran for 544 days, from 2014 to 2016. They talk about Rezaian’s experience growing up in America as an Iranian (14:11), being imprisoned by the Iranian government (33:47), and trying to bring avocados to Iran (48:00). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Jason Rezaian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ranger Podcast Network, I'm Liz Kelly. We just launched a brand new golf
0:04.6	podcast called Fairway Rollin, where Joe House is joined by a rotating cast of Ringer and
0:09.2	Golf World personalities every week. They'll break down the latest in golf headlines and news
0:13.5	from social media, keep up with everything Tiger Woods and delve into the world of golf gambling.
0:19.2	The first episode was just released earlier this week with new episodes being published every
0:23.4	Monday going forward. You can download and subscribe to Fairway Rollin on Apple, Spotify,
0:28.4	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.8	All right, welcome back. This is Larry Wilmer, this is Black Um Air. How you guys doing? We're in
0:42.4	February. Actually, this is Black History Month. Wow. All the jokes, of course. Why is Black
0:48.1	History Month the shortest month? You know, to really want to have more days of history. It's
0:54.2	what I always joke about. But whatever. I think Cory Booker announced he's going to run for
0:59.3	president. I think this morning, of course, on the first episode of the nightly show of my show,
1:06.4	four years ago now. Damn, he guys, my show was four years ago. I asked him if he was running for
1:11.9	president and I don't know if he said no, he didn't answer that through some week TN because I'm like,
1:18.4	you know, you run for president. So there you go. He kind of announced my show. Anyhow, I've got
1:22.9	a nice show today. Jason Mazzayon, who was journalist for the Washington Post, who was captured and
1:29.5	held prisoner in around for five hundred forty four days is my guest today and his book prisoner.
1:35.6	Really good book. You guys get a first hand account of what it feels like in a country like that
1:41.1	to be taking prisoners. So I talk to Jason, good conversation. This is I'm taping this. This is
1:47.0	Friday today right before the Super Bowl. So rooting for the Rams, don't want the Patriots to win.
1:52.2	But you might be listening to this after the Super Bowl. So you you already know what happened if
1:56.8	you're listening to it then. So I hope the Rams won. Happy about my Lakers right now. Looks like we're
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