Bomani Jones
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433 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Dec
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And then by the time I left, I was a fairly beloved figure across the board because they realized, like, we have more in common with each other than probably anybody else that you're going to hear on the air. Because, again, I'm a product of rural public schools like we were there. And so that's what frustrated me most about them and all of that.
What I realized, though, is their army of people is largely bots. Like when I would look on the internet, when something from that website would come down about me and who the people are who are talking about me, none of the accounts seem real. Now, I actually stumbled upon Clay Travis at the Super Bowl this year.
I realized in the very short conversation we had that he and I are not built the same. We do these jobs for much different reasons, and this is all wrestling to him. It is all wrestling. That was the conclusion I came to from him is that to him, this is wrestling, and as long as everybody's making money, what's the big deal?
You don't have to say if you don't want to. Not quite my friend, but I will say that he behaved in a way that misunderstood how seriously I take what I do. Interesting. And I don't, I think.
I chose to walk away. I'll tell you that. Oh, you did. Okay. I chose to walk away. Because, look, you can't give nobody like that none of you because that's a victory to them. You know what I mean? Like, all you can do is walk away.
Um... At various points in my life, yes. Like, I think I served that purpose for Dan Levitard in many ways at points in time. But it was important also because I think Dan was very fascinated by the idea that a black person could be this smart, which I never got that vibe off of you.
right like no no yeah like that's not it like i think dan couldn't believe that this happened like it was like wow look at that look at that fish riding a bicycle like he just like he just you know like it just he just hadn't and to be fair to him he lived in miami he don't see no smart people at all let alone a black one like that's not so much no so you lived in miami you hated it didn't oh i mean
it wasn't bad for me because I had bread, right? But like, if you don't have bread, I don't, it's a very thoughtless place. That's the best way that I can put it. It's the least awful place I've ever been. But no, that can happen from time to time. And I think.
white people don't realize this, that there's a tendency to take the black person, you know, and that black person be the spokesman for all the black people. And I, I can't speak for all of them. Right.
And so I know there's no harm in like, the only reason I would say that to you is because I know there was no harm intended because if there was harm intended, I'd have just never took the calls in the first place. Right. But I definitely wasn't about to miss out on the NBA finals to be your Sherpa. That wasn't, that wasn't going down. I got it.
It was, but I also, so what's interesting about that for me though, in a professional capacity is you can sign me up to be the person that speaks for black people, but you have no idea what's coming after you do that. Anything, todo es posible in that moment.
Like that would happen for Dan often where he would call me on his show to be the black person and he would not necessarily get the thing that he thought was coming.
What I will say about that is with somebody like Candace Owens, the people who are doing that are being very particular and calculated in what they're doing. So that that doesn't make me nearly as angry. But I do have a twinge of what should I do when they call me to be this person? Because God knows who the next call is. Right.
Yeah. Like this next person might not actually be smart. I may agree with that person, but that person's back. There's a lot of things that kind of come down to it. But I did what it's so funny, like being the black guy on television because this was a non-black topic. But I did saw the CNN hit.
about uh trump and saban and the nil commission and i said something about like basically they don't need to cut down on the money they're playing paying players because i'm like hey man there are always gonna be people out there who love to trick off on college students and there was this pause from the two hosts it was two women because they weren't ready for that and then one of them goes no doubt i just
Cause that seemed like something you say after somebody says something about tricking. Yeah. That seemed like the appropriate answer.
Yeah, the question I would ask people about Stephen A. Smith for president, and I'm telling you, man, I get it from everywhere. Like, you'd be surprised some of the calls I've gotten when people, and I'm like, I'm down to talk to you about it, but I'm not going to say anything bad about him, first of all, because I don't think.
Yeah, he's a decent dude, but the part of this story that is problematic and ridiculous is not his fault. Like the idea that we're entertaining it is not his fault. Even if he said I should be the president, us entertaining it is not his fault. And so if he – look, if he thinks he can be the president, then bless his heart, right?
Like I'm not going to be the one that says anything bad about him in the course of it. But it is – why – I just would throw this out to somebody at this point. Why him and not me? Not because I want it, but I'm just curious what, what people think, like what their explanation is. Now, if your explanation is, well, he's a lot more famous than you. Cool. That makes perfect sense.
But acknowledge what that means, right? Acknowledge like what that says about the whole situation. So that's where it always comes down to for me. It's just kind of like, how do we get here? Like you people who are entertaining this, why, why did you pick this guy?
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