W. Kamau Bell

And I'd stopped doing standup comedy.

And I had this moment of like, wait a minute, I was raised by Janet Cheatham Bell.

I was raised by Walter Alfred Bell.

And sometimes people would ask me, what did your parents do for a living when you were growing up?

And I wanted to go, they're hustlers, but not in the way you think.

And my mom's father, Smith Cheatham, was one of those guys who would walk onto a job site and just start working.

And they're like, you don't work here.

But wait, you did better than everybody else.

You work here now.

He was just like, I'm going to get a job.

And so I chose this as an opportunity to start to really like, okay, what can I do?

Well, I know I can write.

Where can I take my writing?

So I went to Substack and was able to go, okay, now that I can do whatever I want to do, what is the goal here?

And the goal is to find out who's with me.

You know what I mean?

Literally, it's that simple.

Who believes me?

88% of the things I do, and we can talk about the other 20%.

Who believes very little of what I believe, but seems like I'm making some good points, and I want to at least work through this.