Malcolm Gladwell on Pioneers, Tokens, and ‘The Satire Paradox’ (Ep. 9)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Larry Wilmore kicks off this week’s show with a few responses from Twitter and his thoughts on Michael Vick’s recent advice for Colin Kaepernick and the ongoing attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (1:00). Later Larry chats with Malcolm Gladwell about the concept of pioneers and tokens within the world of sports and debates Malcolm’s stances on Satire and Golf (14:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome back to Black on the Air.
0:09.2	Larry, one more.
0:10.2	Black on the Air.
0:11.2	That is me, Larry, one more.
0:12.7	And I'm Black on the Air.
0:13.7	I've got three times already.
0:16.3	Part of the Great Ringer Network of Podcasts.
0:20.3	So we're really having a lot of fun doing this podcast.
0:22.5	Once again, I'm going to thank everybody for all your comments and your support out there.
0:28.4	Really enjoying it all.
0:29.4	We have a really fun one today.
0:30.6	I'm talking with Malcolm Gladwell about his podcast, Revisionist History.
0:34.2	If you haven't had a chance to listen to it, it's really great, especially if you're a
0:37.1	Gladwell fan.
0:38.6	And we talk about the podcast and I kind of get on him for a couple of things.
0:43.3	I think you'll enjoy that.
0:44.5	It was really, really a lot of fun.
0:46.1	It's one of my favorite type of conversations where we cover a lot of topics.
0:49.5	It's been very interesting.
0:51.3	I got a lot of comments.
0:53.1	I don't know if Blowback is the right word, but I was going off on burgers last week.
0:58.7	I can't even remember now why.
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