Jay Ellis and Walter Thompson-Hernández on Giving A Voice to Young Incarcerated Writers

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Larry weighs in on Kyrie Irving refusing to get vaccinated (1:00) before he is joined by ‘Insecure’ star Jay Ellis and New York Times writer Walter Thompson-Hernández to talk about their new podcast with Lemonada Media, ‘Written Off,’ which features work from young writers who developed their voice while incarcerated (18:29). Plus, Ellis gives some hints on what’s to come on the final season of ‘Insecure’ (57:42). Host: Larry Wilmore Guests: Jay Ellis and Walter Thompson-Hernández Producer: Kaya McMullen Production Assistant: Jonathan Kermah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.0	We have a really, really fun episode today with J. Ellis, of course Lawrence, Uninsecure, and Walter Thompson Hernandez,
1:27.0	writer for The New York Times.
1:28.0	They're talking about a new project, a podcast that they have called Written Off, where they have some formerly incarcerated young writers presenting their vulnerable poems and honest stories with celebrities reading them and that kind of stuff.
1:43.0	It's a really great program and we get in and talk about that and I hope you enjoy it.
1:49.0	It's a really cool conversation.
1:52.0	So, man, there's so much bullshit happening in the world right now.
1:56.0	It's just exhausting, too, to try to cover it all.
2:04.0	I'm like, which one do you talk about? I'll tell you what I try to do, you guys, and you know this from me for people that listen to me.
2:13.0	If I can give a new insight or a different angle to something, that's when I like to weigh on it.
2:18.0	If I feel like I'm just saying the same things that other people are saying, then I'm like, I don't know.
2:26.0	I wonder if I should weigh in on the Kyrie Irving stuff for you, basketball fans out there, Kyrie Irving, a place for Brooklyn Nets, has always been, let's just say kindly, has not always been in the mainstream of what we consider groupthink for obvious things like the shape of the world.
2:47.0	I think it was a flat earther at one point or that type of thing.
2:50.0	Kyrie is in kind of a world of his own. Not saying that Kyrie is dumb or stupid of that type of thing.
2:56.0	I think he's a very thoughtful person, Kyrie Irving. He does a lot for his community. I know that.
3:01.0	If you, he's always been said to be a really nice guy. He's very, you know what the word is?
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