W. Kamau Bell

You said that thing.

That's not actually what it did.

So if you want to be held accountable, then I think what it feels more like is like, oops, my my my my balance of my bank account went down.

Let me let me try to let me try to staunch the bleeding.

No, I feel responsible.

I feel like I have been given this.

I say to my kids all the time, because we'll sometimes go places and people will give us free stuff because they know who I am and they're excited to whatever, ice cream or something.

And I sort of want to go, look, we didn't earn this.

They are doing this because they like the work that I do and the work that we do as a family, because I talk about it as a family business.

Yeah.

And so that's great that we get, that we get free things.

But if I, but then when I'm put in positions of like, should I say something?

I go, the thing that happens is like, if I am who I claim to be, then I have to say something.

If I, if I, the person I've told the world I am, if that's true, which I think it's true, then how can I not say anything?

Now, sometimes you figure out, I got to say it in this environment.

I'll say it like this and this environment.

I'll say it like this.

And I'll say different on Instagram.

Then I'll say it at like a,

I did an event for Brady United, which is anti-gun violence, which is more like corporate and lots of billionaires in the room.