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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Philip Lewis on Uplifting Stories and Growing Up in Detroit

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by Philip Lewis, senior editor at HuffPost, to discuss reporting for a legacy digital outlet (3:21), how growing up in Detroit shaped his perspective (6:44), and takeaways from the 2023 elections (8:55). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Philip Lewis Senior Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:07.0

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

0:15.0

And welcome to another episode of a car ourselves podcast.

0:18.0

Today we have somebody who you all probably know because you retweet his tweets often. only that but you share them in your group

0:25.8

chats you were probably the most familiar person in everybody's group chats but

0:29.4

none other than Phil Lewis. How you feeling today?

0:33.0

I'm great. Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it. I think what a lot of people actually don't know is that I'm a big fan of the rink.

0:40.0

So this is really fun to be on it.

0:43.7

It's really cool.

0:44.7

Yeah, now I shout out to Bill Simmons and everybody else at the

0:47.4

Ringer, so giving me this opportunity and I'll make sure that Bill gets you on next

0:51.2

and we share this so we get the exposure get you the true

0:54.4

bring your family network so look I start each one of my shows by having my

0:59.4

guests walk us through the arc of their careers and talk us through each one of your career stops since finishing up Jamil Hill University, I mean

1:06.1

Michigan State. Talk to me about that.

1:10.0

Yeah, Michigan State, right.

1:13.2

So I, you know, it's really funny.

1:15.9

I didn't, I didn't major in journalism.

1:18.4

I had never participated in a journalism class before I even got into this field.

1:26.0

I actually majored in sociology and when I left Michigan State I was a teacher for a bit.

1:31.0

I was a teacher. a teacher. I was a teacher.

1:33.0

But my time at Michigan State really,

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