Happy New Year and welcome to getting curious. I'm Jonathan Van Ness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

On today's episode, I'm joined by University of California

Irvine School of Law Professor Marissa Broderon where I ask her how fair is

banking. Welcome to Getting curious. This is Jonathan Vanes. I'm so excited to welcome our guest.

Who is a professor of law at the University of California Irvine School of Law, Marissa Baradoan, you are a writer, you're a professor of law, you are,

which also I just have to get out of my system.

That part in Legally Blonde when we meet the law professor like I just you are like this like

young fierce version I'm like I object and I want to learn about law.

That's a good movie. to learn about law. Thanks.

That's a good movie, yeah.

It's such a good one.

But you've authored two books that have both been published by Harvard University Press

how the other half banks and the color of money,

black banks and the racial wealth gap.

So you're the perfect person to help us learn about what is going on with race and the racial wealth gap?

So I think, you know, I remember once as a kid asking my stepdad,

what is, like what was the Gulf War about? And I was like five or six and he was like, well, you know, most wars are about money and then I you know when I think about it's like money

honey it kind of I can't buy you happiness but it sure can buy you like

security and safety and peace of mind and it has a lot of value and who gets money, who gets to store it, who doesn't.

And I think it's something that a lot of people have, we've talked about the gender wealth gap on this

podcast before I think I've really only started to learn about you know a racial

wealth gap you know very recently yeah, you know, very recently.

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