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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

‘Moneyball’ author Michael Lewis on How to Get Invited to Steve Bannon’s House and More | Larry Wilmore (Ep. 29)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore sits down for a live interview with ‘Moneyball’ and ‘The Big Short’ author Michael Lewis to talk about his inspiration for 'Moneyball,' eating chicken salad sandwiches with Steve Bannon, and his thoughts on the current state of the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back. This is Larry one more and I am black. I'm the air. Always

0:10.8

good to be black on the air and to be back on the air all that kind of stuff. Anyhow, we

0:15.4

have a really fun show. This was so enjoyable. I spoke with one of my favorite authors,

0:21.1

Michael Lewis, author of the Undoing Project. But you know, you know him from Liars Poker,

0:26.6

the blind side, money bomb, big short, all those all that stuff so many more. And he's

0:32.9

one of the people I really enjoy reading. And we're going to talk about his book or at

0:36.0

least I thought we were going to talk about his book, the Undoing Project. But he really

0:39.7

wasn't even interested in talking about that. We had a fun conversation in San Francisco

0:43.5

last weekend that I think you'll enjoy. We have a lot of fun. So I love doing these live

0:48.6

events. If any of you out there have ideas for live events or want me to come to your

0:53.5

town or that type of thing, we'd love to do it. Black on the air on the road, man.

0:59.2

So just, you know, you can treat me at Larry one more and let me know what you're thinking.

1:04.0

It would be fun. So I don't have much of a way in for this one. I don't like to do too

1:09.2

much for these live events. But I will mention this. This whole Trump is so hilarious to

1:14.9

me guys. As you know, but I'm starting to think that the ridiculous stuff that he does

1:20.8

really is just a way to distract us. I really do. And I'm starting to think that maybe

1:26.4

he is more Macchi Vellan than I'm giving him credit for. I'm being very careful with

1:32.6

my words. I don't want to say smarter. You know, I don't want to say clever. Okay. I'm

1:39.0

not ready to go there yet. But like this whole thing about winning, I'm sure you guys

1:43.6

are at the sea wants to have just a random military parade. I mean, he wants to be Kim

1:50.2

Jong Un so bad. It is amazing to me. You know, I mean, he really is the mango Mussolini,

1:57.6

you know, the pumpkin Putin, as we said, he's the change in India. I mean, you guys, he's

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