W. Kamau Bell

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Nobody Should Believe Me · Introducing: At Liberty · 22 May 2025 podcast

So we can't get the house we want. We have to get the house we would like and then fix the roof. And then I talked to a friend of mine yesterday who was like, his parents do halftime one place, halftime another place. And he's like, we're sort of trying to slowly talk them into a retirement community.

You know, because like the traveling across the country and the living by yourself where you're not near your community, it's not. And so then is that like we have to sort of encourage them to move into a retirement center that you, of course, know is not the dream. It's just the reality, you know, and they're again, these are people who are lucky enough to be able to make those choices.

Yeah. And I just want to, again, highlight the fact that me and my friend are the lucky privileged ones who get to sort of make some choices based on the fact that we're lucky enough and have enough resources to make these choices. We're not people who are just like, what do we do? We can't. We don't know. We have to move them into a place that's not big enough for us or we have to give away.

You know what I mean? So I just want to be clear about that, too.

Thank you for, yeah, I think it's a lot. And I feel lucky because my dad is 80, but he's sort of like, he's newly remarried. I'm like, okay, she'll handle him. He's your responsibility now. Let's dig into the thing that Medicaid is in the news more and more. And I really mean this. What is it? What is Medicaid? I just want to get to the vet. And then what does it do now?

What is it not doing that it needs to be doing? You know, we can get back into the what should it be doing. But just like this. Give us your takes on Medicaid. So we'll start with you.

They may be, they may some may politically be into a place where they're like, suddenly they're, I don't want Medicaid, but I like my turquoise hair because of the way politicians work. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And we're going to remind them. The FO part is coming. And that's Latin, I want to be clear.

So let's talk about the threats. And like you said, it's coming. Well, it's here. Let's talk about the threats, the things they want to defund or cut. Let's talk about the breadth of what's going on there.

You sound like you're excited to make people scared.

Are there advocates in Congress that you feel like are people who are on the right side of history on this one?

Woo, I've seen that image, but you just really sort of highlighted it now with like a disabled man. I mean, you know, I feel like every black man gets a cane at some point, whether he needs it or not. But now I'm really understanding it. Yes, he is a disabled man who's saying no cuts to protect his community. Yeah, okay, wow. Yeah. I didn't mean to interrupt. You were flowing.

So one of the things that I just recently learned about, Section 504. Zoe, can you educate me and anybody listening who doesn't know about Section 504?

So just can you say, either one of you, about like what would happen if it's gone, what does that change about, you know, it says any place that gets federal funding, how would that affect somebody, a disabled person who is in a hospital or in a federally funded school, how would that directly affect them?

I can't help but in this, and you referenced this earlier, the idea of the disability community being intersectional before that was a word. Because the idea of like, I think sometimes, and you see this all the time, people talk about communities if they're all separate.

And like the black community, the women community, the disability community, it's like there's a woman who's like, all of those are me. Those are all me. Those are not three separate communities. And I think that when you compound

the discrimination that women get, that black people get, and then a disabled person in that one body, it's like, then you really are at a deficit of care in a place like a hospital, just because of all the stereotypes attached to each one of your separate identities.

Yeah, that's for sure. I forgot. Yeah, there's it's.

No, no, no, you weren't. You weren't. I don't feel good. First of all, you can correct me if you want to. But I also don't feel I just feel like like sort of like, oh, yeah, it just there's just so much to consider, which is why it's important that we stand up for communities that we don't even perceive ourselves to be a part of, because it's going to it's it's touching someone around you.

And also it's going to help lift the weight off you if you stand up for others, even if you don't see yourself as being directly in that community. Absolutely. That was my like, that's like the sound you make before you lift a heavy couch. That's what that sound was like. I was just like, okay, there's a lot of heavy lifting I got to do.

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