Hey, it's Bill Simmons. I wanted to tell you about Black on the air

Hosted by the one and only the great one Larry one more even though he's a Lakers fan

I still like him and he's talented

But he has all kinds of guests on from Neil the grass Tyson to Al Franken to Bernie Sanders

You name it. They're coming on pop culture politics

Newsmakers and then at the beginning of every podcast Larry does a little riff about whatever is either sticking in his car things that he's enjoying

Although he has been enjoying much lately with where the world's gone

But Larry will riff on anything and then he has guests on it's great

If you liked everything else that he's done comedy-wise if you love this comedy central show you will love

This podcast that is a medium that he is built for it. It's called Black on the air

Hosted by Larry will mark it wherever you subscribe to your podcasts

I don't actually find film making terribly difficult though. I'm sure you're not supposed to say things like that

But it's just understanding the subject and understanding what it is you're making which quite often you don't

I'm Sean Fennesee editor-in-chief of the Ringer and here's the big picture

What makes the royal family so interesting the legendary filmmaker Stephen Freer seems to know

Over the course of 40 years Freer's has made movies like The Grifters my beautiful lawn dread

Dangerously Aeons and high fidelity

But some of his best known work is about the royals including 2006 is the Queen and his new movie Victoria and Abdul

Which chronicles the unlikely friendship between Queen Victoria and an Indian Muslim man who visits her court named Abdul

I'll talk with Stephen about his movies and the royals

But first I'm joined by a royal correspondent and the Ringer's culture editor Amanda Dobbins to break down what makes the royal so compelling in the first place

Amanda thanks for joining me

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