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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Stories From ‘Get Out,’ ‘The West Wing,’ and ‘The Post’ With Bradley Whitford (Ep. 27)

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Larry Wilmore chats with veteran actor Bradley Whitford about working with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin on 'The West Wing' (3:00), why it’s hard to be an actor and an activist, rehearsing in secret with Meryl Streep on 'The Post' (31:00), and playing the secretly evil dad in Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' (48:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back. I am Larry one more and this is Black on the air. Larry

0:10.4

one more black on the air. Back from a second episode of 2018. Yeah. Damn, what a year.

0:17.8

Hey, let me tell you, second season of Trump is lit, you guys. It is lit.

0:23.0

There's so much going on. Oh my god. There's not even time to cover it all. It happens so

0:29.7

fast. I have a really fun conversation coming up on today's podcast with actor and activists

0:36.5

Mr. Bradley with Ferrd. It happens to be an old buddy. I think you're going to enjoy that.

0:40.7

We talk about a lot of different things. His career, political stuff, and just have a lot of fun.

0:48.6

That conversation goes a bit long. I won't take too long at the top here.

0:52.4

But the thing is stuff happens so fast with the Tandrian, Edie Amin,

0:59.7

Nektrian, Noriega, Orange Julius Caesar. I think we had just dropped the podcast when you made

1:05.4

this whole shithole comment. I was like, damn, I can't believe that. What's wrong with him? His timing

1:12.8

is horrible. I don't have a chance to say anything about it. Now it's got old news. Everybody's

1:16.9

talking about it and all that stuff. To me, one of the biggest takeaways from that is I love how

1:23.2

these news anchors and how all these people are columbishing that Trump is racist, all of a sudden,

1:31.0

breaking news and seeing it. Trump is a racist. It's like, well, thanks for reporting the 2011

1:36.7

news in 2018, you guys. I appreciate that. How did you not know this? Even just the Mexican

1:44.1

rapist line, you should have been reporting. He was a racist back then. It's very frustrating

1:51.8

when I see that. I think I want to talk about the news next week a little bit more. I'm just getting

1:58.0

tired of some of these cable news channels. Now they're engaged in on Fox. They're going after

2:05.6

seeing N. CNNs, going after Fox. When did the news itself become a media critic? That was always

2:13.4

our job. That's comedians. Now they're playing media critic and criticizing each other's thing.

2:20.4

It's we're in bizarre land right now. Never ever owning up to their responsibility for putting

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