Larry Mantle has been the host of AirTalk on LAist (formerly KPCC) since April 1st, 1985. It is now the longest continuously running daily talk program in the Los Angeles radio market. Mantle also hosts the movie review and interview program FilmWeek on AirTalk, heard every Friday at 11 a.m. on LAist 89.3 and Saturday at noon.
Local and national news, NPR, things to do, food recommendations and guides to Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland EmpireAirTalk host Larry Mantle pushes his son Desmond on a swing. Desmond was two years old at the time. Now, father and son are co-hosting a new podcast from LAist Studios called Passing the Mantle.If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily morning newsletter, How To LA.
AirTalk host Larry Mantles "interviews" his young son Desmond who was a toddler at the time. Now father and son are co-hosting a podcast from LAist Studios, Passing the Mantle.It’s hard for me to overstate how much I’ve learned from years of talking with him. Many times I’ve brought into on-air conversations onpoints that Desmond raised at home. I hope that his mother and I helped expose him to a world of nuance and complexity.
That question was harder to answer because Dad is the only father I’ve had, and with no siblings or first cousins, I had very limited exposure to what another kind of childhood would look like. I went with my parents to jazz concerts, watched classic films with them and talked with them about the world. When Dad would pick me up from school, we’d talk in depth about the subjects he had covered on his show, the material I’d learned in classes and the current events of the day.
Desmond Mantle and his father Larry sit in the AirTalk studio at LAist. They are co-hosting a new podcast from LAist Studios, Passing the MantleWith that realization has come a tremendous degree of mutual respect. Since I was an infant, my father communicated with me the same way he communicated with adults. Our conversations covered subjects from psychology to philosophy, economics to history and much, much more.
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