Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air - Podcast Rankings and reviews

Great interview with Sally Jenkins. The stories about athletes, performance, and the connection between the body and mind were endlessly fascinating. I look forward to reading the book. However, the comments about Dak Prescot, Naomi Osaka and other athletes regarding triggers and suggesting they’re an optional experience were ignorant and incredibly insensitive. Suffering from a trigger is not choice. It’s a stimulus that occurs in real time for the sufferer. Triggers originate in the body, then affect the mind. Folks who do understand triggers are more fortunate that their upbringing was not rife with excessive struggle, abuse, or deprivation. I would expect a seasoned journalist like Sally Jenkins to have educated herself on the topic. I also would expect Larry to understand the concept better as well. Older generations of athletes suffered from triggers; their issues were never identified as such. Think of all the athletes who died prematurely from addiction, or chronic poor decision making. We should all be fortunate that modern psychology has evolved to recognize triggers and to name it.

Larry Wilmore is smart, funny, and talented. I love his guests and the way he discusses important topics from a perspective not always heard. I’m really enjoying the podcast.

I don’t listen as often as I should. It’s always fantastic, but an hour is longer than my commute time. I can’t just sit in the car and finish the episode, can I? (Just kidding). The interviews are always interesting and are not centered on one polemic viewpoint. The host honestly wants to hear his guest’s view of the world.

Black on the Air continues to be such an entertaining show. I just finished listening to the Tiffany Cross interview and it was such a delightful and warm episode. A true meeting of two curious minds with differing yet complimentary perspectives. I hope that you and Tiffany can work on a project together.