Kai Wright

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819 appearances 18 recordings 7 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 6 Jul

Kai Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And, you know, like, that honesty thing, the telling the truth piece, like, that's the core Richard Pryor.

That is, like, what was at the core of his fame and what people loved about him.

And the messed up part also, you know.

He is simultaneously, as you said at the beginning, just wildly self-destructive.

But the two...

I think they got something to do with each other.

And that is the thing that I am drawn to.

There's a way in which the disruptive behavior is why he had such a massive impact on the culture.

And I want to talk about that.

Let's do it.

Welcome back.

This is Big Lives, and we are talking about Richard Pryor.

Okay, so Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III.

Three times.

The third.

I almost didn't take in the third part, right?

He had a life, a young life, as complicated as his long name.

Born in December 1940 in Peoria, Illinois.

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