My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

I literally picked up the phone and talked my way into getting this audition on PBS and they hired me. Elder was born in 1952 the second of Randolph and Viola Elder's three sons.

His show began September 27 2010; it was previously heard on the same station weekdays from 3-7 PM from 1994 to 2008 and was syndicated on ABC Radio Networks from 2002 to 2007 and from 2009 to present. His radio program The Larry Elder Show airs weekdays 3pm on talk radio 790 KABC in Los Angeles California.