W. Kamau Bell

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Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers · W. KAMAU BELL Took His Mom Parasailing · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And later I was like, I guess that's the guy she was dating.

But, you know, so she was very good at like separating church and state.

Would you and your mom go on getaways or – Yeah, I mean, so certainly there were like – like when we lived in Chicago, there would be like trips to go to my – her mom's house in Indianapolis.

That was like – there weren't a lot of like major huge vacations, although when I was little, little, we went to Disneyland.

That's like one of my first memories.

And then like there were a couple like –

The biggest vacation that I remember us taking is we went to San Francisco one time, which was years before I ever thought I would live in the Bay Area.

And because I was – this is like the way I look back.

Oh, that's proof that my mom loved me.

So I don't know how we ended up picking San Francisco, but I do know that once we got there that she allowed us to stay in a hotel near Chinatown because I was a fan of Bruce Lee and I knew Bruce Lee had been born in Chinatown.

That's a mom who loves her son.

All the places you could stay in San Francisco, we stayed in the Hilton Chinatown because my mom was like, and I walked around the streets of Chinatown looking for Bruce Lee memorabilia, which at the time was not as easy to come by as it is right now.

I mean, I feel like we're actually in peak Bruce Lee now.

This was like, I don't know.

What was I like late, late, like this is the eighties.

So I was a teenager and there was a period of time where the Bruce Lee industrial complex hadn't fully kicked in yet.

So like, I remember going to like a,

Like a shop that like one of those Chinatown shops that has like everything, like my friend Kevin would say it has videotapes and parkas and sprites.

And and they had to get a Bruce Lee iron on on a white T-shirt that I had forever.

That was the way I got my Bruce Lee T-shirt.

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