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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Live From the Now Hear This Festival With Robin Thede of ‘The Rundown’ (Ep. 14)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2017

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore riffs on Trump, disaster porn, fake news, and how to decipher what’s actually true (0:01) before he’s joined by Robin Thede, host of ‘The Rundown’ in a 'Nightly Show' reunion (13:00). They discuss Robin’s early experiences with racism, the emergence of black women in comedy (30:00), their favorite moments from 'The Nightly Show,' and Robin’s tweets (41:00). Later, Larry and Robin take questions from the audience (65:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you. Thank you very much. Man, it's funny. I never, uh, welcome. Welcome to Larry Wilmore Black in the air.

0:11.6

I never get to hear that theme song. Like, that's what it sounds like. It's so weird.

0:16.8

Uh, welcome to my podcast. I'm setting up some stuff right in front of you.

0:20.4

Very excited because we have Robin Thede as my guest today.

0:23.4

Very excited, guys. Robin's got a show coming out. Very excited about a little nightly show reunion. We got here. How you guys doing?

0:32.4

So I want you guys to like if you have suggestions and all that stuff, please keep tweeting suggestions for the show stuff you want to see on the show.

0:42.4

Uh, guess you might be interested in. I love it when people get mad at me too. That's fun.

0:48.4

Uh, how come you didn't blah, blah, blah. I'm sorry. I was just talking. What am I supposed to do?

0:54.4

But it's all good. I enjoy all of it. Well, any kind of interaction is good because we got to keep the conversation going, right? Right?

1:00.4

What conversation, Larry?

1:03.4

The conversation, you guys. We got to talk about this shit. That's why I'm here. We can talk about it. I don't have the answers. I don't have the right questions all the time.

1:14.4

But I do enjoy talking about it. All right. So a couple of things before I bring up Robin. I want to talk about Trump a little bit.

1:20.4

The, um, yes, the mango Mussolini. I was like, oh, the orange Julia's Caesar.

1:29.4

Pretty good. Actually, you know, we had some pretty good names for this. I want to. Here's what I wanted to be first start. I want to get a vote on what you think is the best name we have so far.

1:37.4

Because people treated some really good ones. Okay. All right. So mango Mussolini, orange Julia's Caesar, those remind.

1:42.4

All right. But we also have pumpkin Putin.

1:46.4

That's pretty good. I like that one. I like. Yeah. It's got a nice nice kind of ring to this one is one of my favorites. The nectarine noriega.

1:58.4

That's pretty good, isn't it? That's got a, ooh, that's got a nice flow.

2:03.4

I like that because noriega was, he was such a cheap little punk. That's what I like about it too. You know, I know exactly that's that's that's that's Trump on that one. Oh, here's a good one. Papaya pop a duck.

2:16.4

That's fucking awesome, you guys. The papaya pop a duck. That works in so many great levels. I love that one. That's great. The cumclot to doffee.

2:27.4

Nice use of the cues there. Very and several people treated that one. That was very nice. I was very impressed by cumclot.

2:37.4

Oh, this one is one of my favorites. The tangerine idiomine.

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