Katie Couric and the Difficulties of Dialogue in These Times | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 31)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Larry Wilmore touches on the Parkland high school shooting, our culture of gun violence, and Laura Ingraham’s comments about LeBron James (1:00). Later, he sits down with Katie Couric to discuss the qualities necessary for journalism, what technology is doing to teens, and why it’s hard to have a dialogue in a divisive political environment (16:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Larry.
0:07.2	One more in this is Larry, one more black on the air.
0:10.0	Welcome back.
0:11.0	Always good to be back.
0:12.8	Very excited for you to hear today's episode.
0:14.7	I'm sitting down with a legendary Katie Kirk.
0:17.7	Someone I've been a fan of for a long time.
0:19.8	I used to watch her and Brian Gumball, I remember, on the today show.
0:24.0	Back in the day, I've been a fan of hers for years and I was on her podcast a while ago.
0:28.3	She really hit it off and I've been aching to have her on and it was really, really fun
0:34.1	talk.
0:35.1	I talked to her a couple of days ago.
0:36.1	So, can't wait for you guys to hear that.
0:37.6	So much going on guys.
0:39.0	Good Lord.
0:40.4	The first thing that I want to talk about and this is all going to be kind of brief today.
0:45.4	But the whole parkland shooting, man, you know, it's so tough seeing these things happen
0:52.0	in our society.
0:53.3	And there's so much to be said about this.
0:55.4	I don't have everything I want to say right now because sometimes it's hard when it's
1:00.4	fresh like this.
1:02.0	Um, difficult.
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