Tara Palmeri on ‘Somebody’s Gotta Win’ and ‘The Red Letter’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Larry is joined by political journalist, writer of ‘The Red Letter’ Substack, and host of The Ringer podcast ‘Somebody’s Gotta Win’ to discuss all of the latest buzz shaking up D.C. They begin their conversation by analyzing the possible political repercussions of Trump’s new tariffs. This leads into a talk about the viability of a third Trump term and a detailing of the apparent unseriousness of Donald’s current cabinet officials (13:13). After the break, Larry and Tara turn their eyes left toward new reporting on the covering up of Joe Biden’s mental state during the final stretch of his presidency, and the coordinated efforts to keep Joe from debating and ultimately running for a second term (24:54). They end the pod by shining a light on ways Kamala Harris’ team failed her during the 2024 campaign, and speculating on the length of Elon Musk’s tenure within the White House orbit (31:31). Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Tara Palmeri Producer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? It's Rachel Lindsay, and if you love all things Bravo, then you need to be listening to Morley Corrupt.
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0:50.8	Hey, welcome back, everybody. The world is crazy right now. It is crazy. And I thought I need to have a same conversation with somebody that I trust. It's really that simple. And so one of the people, who I feel is killing it out there in just reporting. I've been reading her for a while now.
1:13.1	Some of you may know her from Puck, but she's got her own podcast on the Ringer Networker.
1:17.4	Somebody's got to win.
1:18.4	It's really great, but she just started her own YouTube deal right now.
1:21.5	She's killing it out there, guys.
1:23.4	Tara Pall Mary, welcome to Black on the Air.
1:25.3	It's such a pleasure to have you here.
1:26.7	Thanks, Larry. It's amazing to be here. I've been such a fan. I'm so happy this worked out.
1:31.3	Oh, yeah, me too. It's great. I mean, I love reading your stuff, you know. I always feel like you're one of the few people that I can trust to give me the straight news, you know, to, like, I don't feel like there's any
1:45.0	agenda seeping in there, you know. Yeah. Thanks. I, no, I appreciate that. Why do you think that?
1:52.0	Isn't that kind of sad? I mean, I'm happy for you, but it's, that's, that's, that's, that's,
1:56.8	that's like a comment on where we are on mainstream news right now, don't you think?
2:01.2	Yeah.
2:01.7	I'm not trying to change hearts and minds.
2:04.2	I just want to tell you what I know.
2:06.1	Yeah.
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