How much longer does America have? Southeast Asians LFGOOO!, Insecure co-creator on why certain TV shows get made - Larry Wilmore, Kulap Vilaysack (S1E7)
How much longer does America have? Southeast Asians LFGOOO!, Insecure co-creator on why certain TV shows get made - Larry Wilmore, Kulap Vilaysack (S1E7)Description
How much longer does America have? Southeast Asians LFGOOO!, Insecure co-creator on why certain TV shows get made - Larry Wilmore, Kulap Vilaysack (S1E7)
Larry has a daughter who teaches Chinese, Kulap is obsessed with American mahjong, and Jenny is apologizing to Kulap about all the Taiwanese Yangs in Hollywood.
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It is Friday, June 6th, 2025 and this week, like that one Louisiana Plantation, I am FIRED UP.
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Today we have a comedic writer, director, actor, producer and podcaster. She created, directed and was the showrunner of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ on Seeso. She was also the showrunner and Co-Executive Producer of the NBC Christmas special, A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy. And co-hosts the award winning weekly podcast, Add to Cart with SuChin Pak. Kulap Vilaysack! (Instagram)
Our next guest is an Emmy award-winning writer, comedian, producer, actor and political commentator who created The Bernie Mac Show, and co-created The PJ's with Eddie Murphy, and Insecure with Issa Rae. He was the Senior Black Correspondent on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, hosted his own show The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and hosted Obama's last White House correspondents dinner. He currently he hosts his very own podcast, Black on the Air. Larry Wilmore! (Instagram)
On today’s agenda we have:
1. PODCAST UPDATE: You heard it here first. I’m doing a LIVE NEW YORK SHOW at UNION HALL in Brooklyn, Saturday, July 26th! Get tickets here and tell your NYC friends!
2. BUTT NUGGET OF THE WEEK: That Iowa Senator who responded to concerns that the GOP Budget bill will kill people with “well we are all going to die.”
3. Where are the Southeast Asian stories: new study is out, Rewriting the script: A new era for API voices in Hollywood. The Geena Davis Institute.
4. Give your best conspiracy theory and Larry will debunk it
5. How much longer does the US have?: That massive New Yorker profile on that troll who is influencing the current regime to dismantle a Democracy to implement techno-fascism, “Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America.”
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6. Black Americans leaving America for a softer life
7. I've become obsessed with American Mahjong. I play with the homies about once a week.
8. (if we have time) Does God exist?
9. TASTE TEST. Jenny couldn’t find Coke Zero for Larry at the natural foods story so we are trying this weird “diet cola” called NIXIE.
10. ACTION ITEMS (place for you to make note of some things you want to try or do from today’s chat)
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