The Best of Larry Wilmore, With Neil deGrasse Tyson, Issa Rae, and Malcolm Gladwell (Ep. 25)
Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air
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4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back. I am Larry Womor and you are listening to Black on the |
| 0:10.8 | Air. This is the last one of 2017 you guys, the last Black on the Air. Not of all time, |
| 0:17.5 | just of 2017. I want to thank everybody for listening this year, making our podcast |
| 0:23.0 | special. As I said, we were time-exing called us the fifth best podcast in their top 10 |
| 0:29.4 | of the year. Keep the word out there and keep giving me your feedback who you'd like to |
| 0:34.9 | hear on the show, that type of thing. We're going to continue to do live events, which is |
| 0:38.4 | a lot of fun. We haven't come up in San Francisco, I believe in early February. And hopefully |
| 0:44.2 | we can come to where you are too at some point. That would be great. It would be so much fun. |
| 0:48.0 | Today, the end of the year, we're going to do a special kind of best of some moments from |
| 0:53.1 | some of our favorite podcasts this past year. We'll hear from Neil deGrasse Tyson, |
| 0:58.9 | Sam Malcolm Gladwell, O'Esa Ray, and maybe some others too. I think you'll enjoy that. It'll be |
| 1:07.4 | fun. So I don't know, what a year it's been. The only thing I'd like to talk about real quick, |
| 1:12.7 | the couple of things to me are the biggest things of this past year. The big thing was the |
| 1:18.3 | assignments breakers. The whole Me Too movement where women are telling their stories. People |
| 1:24.8 | are listening to revelations of some monsters who were hiding in plain sight, some people who were |
| 1:32.2 | called to account for horrible behavior. And it's breathtaking. I mean, what has happened this year, |
| 1:38.4 | it's really amazing. And I hope that it does lead to a real change in our society and a real |
| 1:45.2 | relationship change and how we deal with each other and how women have demonstrated. And then |
| 1:53.1 | eyes are really open on this issue. I hope so. And then the other big thing this year, to me, |
| 2:00.6 | is the Trump administration and the normalization of just Trump lying. And it's so ironic that those |
| 2:07.4 | are two big things. And the assault, and ironically, for me, one of the most disappointing things is |
| 2:16.5 | the Trump administration, to me, ends with an assault on women. And I'll explain that. |
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