I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of Bakari Sellers podcast.

Today I have someone who I have admired for a very long period of time. I don't want to call him an

O. G. because that means that he's old. You know you start calling the people a

goat, O. G. U. G. U. G. U. S.

They have crossed on over. But none other than Bomani Jones. How you feeling man. Hey man I've been getting up for a minute now you know what I'm saying like I've made peace with these things man but I'm good how about you? I'm doing good man.

Look, we start each of our so the same way

by having our guests kind of walk us through the arc of their careers.

And you've done it all as a journalist, TV, radio, the whole nine yards.

But one of the things I learned about you

is that your academic training and politics

and economics and how did you go from almost

a PhD in economics to the work you do now and how did that formal

training in economics help you frame and understand the work you do?

Well, I think more accurately I went from doing media to the academic path because I thought that the academic path was going to bolster the media thing, which just so you know is a terrible rationale for trying to do a PhD like you

got to love it you know like you got a really really love school school yeah yeah

and I didn't like Like that that really wasn't it. Now for me in terms of like the molding is what the economics did was give me a thought process. Right? You throw any problem in front of me,

I got a process for addressing it.

That's the biggest thing that it did.

Like I think that people have a misunderstanding

about economics where they think about it strictly in terms of the economy.

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