Bomani Jones
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433 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Dec
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And so I feel like if I can keep it simple, like keep it, like keep it tangible and there'll be something funny that comes up along the way, then people will listen to it. And in the end.
I think that as long as you're not being a jerk about it, people can identify who are the very smart people, and they want to know what the very smart people think about things, if for nothing else than to affirm them when they agree with the very smart people.
And so the trick is figuring out how to assume that responsibility without being condescending in the process, which I am not always great at.
No, they're not.
I remember when I was in high school, I went to a summer program, like a pre-college prep type of summer program. And a professor came in and he was a math professor. And I remember it seemed like the most amazing thing in the world. He just started rattling off formulas, right? He would be like, yeah, I do math. So I know that sine squared of X plus a cosine squared of X equals one.
I know that sine theta divided by cosine theta equals tangent theta. Like he rattled off all these. And you know, we're 15. We're like, whoa, wow, this is so amazing. And I remember I told my mama about this guy. And my mom was a college professor, for those of you who don't know. And she just rolled her eyes.
She had been so sick of this man forever with these tricks that he was doing, rattling off these 10th grade level equations, right? She had been so sick of that for the longest, but he was capable of what you're describing, is the presentation is smart that goes away when people ask a few questions. And one thing about the way this internet stuff works is,
Even with like TV and radio, you were more likely to be in a place where somebody was going to challenge you on what you said and you had to answer for it. You don't really have to do that on your own platform like that. So Charlie Church put this stuff out there and a million people can reply to him and say, this is wrong, this is wrong, but he never has to answer to him.
Charlie Kirk taps into something I'm curious what you think about, where I am convinced that liberals made Charlie Kirk famous. That Charlie Kirk trolled his way into a larger fame.
Right. But the left does not the right values the fact that you antagonize the left. So Charlie Kirk making a bunch of people on the left mad makes him more famous with the right. It doesn't really work that way. You know, don't really work that way in the in the opposite direction. But I did MSNBC once and I remember they made some mention of Charlie Kirk and I had to be like, hey, guys.
The only reason I know who this man is is because people I hate keep talking. People I know keep talking about him. People I like keep talking about him. And that was at a time where you'd go to his Twitter profile, and it was the same number of followers as it was following, and that was in the hundreds of thousands.
He trolled his way into fame, but he wouldn't have gotten big enough if not for this outrage of the left that wasn't even outrage. It was as much people on the left showing how mad they were to each other.
Yeah, it's a mix of people and almost like a sports-like pipeline. Like, hey, you just retired, eh? How'd you like to come get a job on NFL game day? Like, you know, it's some measure of that. Like, with Scott, Scott... And I haven't done anything.
I'll be honest with you. I told him, I was like, Hey, I don't need to be on TV with him. Like, I just don't, I just, I just don't think that's a, I don't think that's a good idea, you know? Cause I don't, cause part of it is I don't want to argue with him, but then you got to argue with him.
if he's out there and then if this goes in a bad direction i don't like i just i don't i didn't feel like dealing with that as it related to him but i do notice on a lot of these networks like i do think that i am qualified to talk about these things i think i've got the rigor but i also think it's fair for somebody to look up and be like why is this guy on television
Right. And you have to show and prove. Like, this is actually an interesting Stephen A. Smith parallel. People were very upset with Stephen A. Smith about him getting Max Kellerman fired. And I respected the fact that Stephen A. owned it. But his point was, people come on every day and ask, why are you here? You weren't a journalist. You weren't a player. Why aren't you here?
And people took that as arrogance. And I'm like, no, sir, that is the question that all of us have to answer every single day when we are on television. Like we've got to answer it. I will admit, I watch a lot of political television and I'm not putting this on news night. I'm talking about in the macro.
I put, I watch a lot of television, even if the people have some qualification within this political world, I watch a lot of television and say, I don't understand why I'm listening to you.
I watch some of it just to get a handle of what's going on. I don't watch a lot. I want to be very clear. I don't watch a lot. I'll see clips as they float down on the Internet. It is. I mean, look, the business, the business of cable news is in a real bad place because apparently.
people in general outside of the fox news audience have decided they don't feel like this is a great use of their time anymore yeah which i am fascinated by how like that has happened now i think people just kind of burned out um on all of it i think they i think people have just grown exhausted like i think with all these if you think about 10 years ago like the emphasis on social causes that you saw all of these things i think people are just in survival mode at this point and interestingly enough cable news they don't feel like it's going to help them survive
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