W. Kamau Bell
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 14 Oct
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I just think that may be the cycle, but that cycle may happen over, like, there's going to be some stat of, like, the number of people who died because their Social Security check didn't come in. Like, they missed one month of Social Security, so they couldn't buy their medicine or they couldn't buy their food, and they died. And there's going to be some stat that proves this is what the cost was.
You know, this is what the human cost was.
And I want to be clear, I'm not here to advocate for President AOC or Bernie or any of these people. It's funny to me to see all these comedians who showed up at the inauguration being like, man, I would never show up at one of these people's things. Even people I agreed with, I'm not trying to be at the VIP room. And so for me, I'm not advocating for anybody.
I just appreciate people who are actually trying something versus people who are like, what can we do?
I don't think you compare it to who's doing it right. I think about a video game. Like in an NBA video game, the sliders on each player. This player's going to three-pointers. This player's going to rebounds. I think you have to look around and go, I'm going to look at all the sliders and go, man, Norway has a great quality of life. It's got social safety net. It's got prison reform.
It's got that. But it's got almost zero black people. So I can't do it. So I can't do it. I can't do it.
Yeah, it's fucking freezing. So I think you're not going to get. Which is synonymous with zero black people. Exactly. Those things often go hand in hand. So I think you can't look at these countries like, I'm going to pick the best one. You're going to pick the one that works for you.
And I think that we all sort of take, there's things that you take for granted in this country that if you go somewhere else, you might be like, oh man, I do kind of miss that. So I think that you have to, I think when we talk about moving to other countries, you got to talk about it in a way that's like, you're not looking at other countries like there's a best one or there's a perfect one.
all of this shit has been destroyed has been like raked over by imperialism and colonialism and capitalism human humanity yeah humanity but what are the things you need to get through your life you know so i think that that's which is why i like because i have kids it's like man i guess i'm gonna have to roll with this america for 12 more years yeah yeah i you wouldn't move them
No, I don't – I mean, not – no. Not if I – unless I had to. Unless something like, oh, shit, the National Guard is invading California and they're coming for Oakland, which could happen. But, like, I'm not going to – if things – if I can still figure it out here, I want them to have the life that they want here.
I'm not going to – because it would be hard on kids to sort of, like – I will – the culture change is not going to be as big for me as it is for them. But I don't want to put them through that.
I'm trying to find my joy. I don't think I can find it here anymore.
And I see you're doing things where you put photos in and stuff. Oh, what? Like when you promote the thing, you put like... Oh, sometimes on Instagram when they do that. Yeah, that's a guy. I'm not... I know it's not you on your phone.
Well, no, one of the saddest things I can hear from my kid is, Dad, can you put the phone down? I'd like to say I've never heard that, but I've heard that. Can you look at me? Can you look at me? Yeah. Oh, really? He says that? It's been, it's been, I got, on occasion, you know, big news story breaks and you're like, whoa, I gotta keep up with this.
No, we don't have to. I feel compelled. I guess my wife says it all the time. I feel compelled to keep up with it.
Or why are you yelling at your phone? Right? Yeah, I mean, I think that I just suffer from the, because I'm sort of trying to be, you know, in that instant response thing to keep the algorithm fed. That like, you feel like, I gotta get a thing out about a thing that just happened. Oh, I don't do it. Again, you've reached a velocity that is in a different place.
Genau, es macht die Leute sehnsüchtig. Und ich weiß, dass es einen Wert gibt, weil es so ist, wie das ganze Nonsens funktioniert, dass je mehr ich da draußen bin, um die Leute sehnsüchtig zu machen oder verletzt zu werden oder was auch immer, dann wenn ich sage, hey Leute, könnt ihr das Ding sehen, das ich gerade gemacht habe, damit meine Kinder weiter essen können?
Dann sagen sie, oh ja, er ist schon da.
Könnt ihr Tickets für meine Tour kaufen? Könnt ihr Tickets kaufen? Ja.
Ja, ja, ja. Leute erwarten mehr als nur Lachen.
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