W. KAMAU BELL Took His Mom Parasailing
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Hey, Poshy! Hey, Sufie! And hey, listeners, Tripsters, Family Trippers, what did we decide we're calling them, Poshy? Tripsters. Yeah, Tripsters. Tripsters, Family Trips is coming to you live this summer. Join us for our first American live shows at the City Winery. on August 12th in Philadelphia and August 13th in Boston, also at City Winery. Family Trips Live in Boston is a partnership with Airbnb. And of course, you know, we love taking the show on the road and love seeing all of you. So come join us on August 12th in Philly and August 13th in Boston at City Winery. Go to citywinery.com for tickets. That's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts. Hey, Bashi. Hey, Zufi. How are you? I'm good.
I got the Ponkas with me. Yeah, that's right. Ponkas visited, and it's a rainy day. It's a rainy beach day, so we've been socked in. We played a little bit of hearts already. Played three-person hearts. Yeah. This is something that's new to them. And 17 cards each, one card in the middle, and you don't know what that card is till the end. Last trick takes that card?
No.
Or does that card not play? That's what my assumption was. You just turn it over and it's just an uncounted point. But if you blitz, if you shoot the moon and try to take all the points, if a heart or the queen of spades is in there, it's not a blitz and you're screwed. Oh, wow. Yeah. I like that rule. Feels to me like this better strategy would be the last trick takes it. for what it's worth. But who am I? Who am I to fight the puns? Yeah, I mean, you could change that in terms of house rules. I went to a 4th of July party this year, and we played a little cornhole, and the girl who was sort of in charge of games, there was this whole beer Olympics thing, And she said, like a beanbag or a cornhole bag that is like leaning into the hole, that's two points, which I had never heard before.
And I was like, really? She was like, house rules. And you can call house rules when it's your house, so. That's true, I could house rule it. Trying to think of the highlights. One is that every, in case you're worried, every hand of, every time mom takes the queen of spades and hearts, she's shocked and she feels as though, how could anyone have seen this coming? Yeah. Her capacity to be surprised by a negative outcome in a game where everybody's fighting for their own positive outcome is shocking to me. We've been watching, she's been watching with the kids, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Mm-hmm.
A series of films that she probably missed when they were in theaters. All right. So I'm going to show you a character from the Pirates of the Caribbean. Would you say Caribbean or Caribbean, Posh? We've always said Caribbean, at least in this context. It changes. Okay. We would like take a trip to the Caribbean. That's Davy Jones. For anybody listening at home, Google Davy Jones Pirates. What animal do you think mom said that looked like? I mean, I would hope an octopus or a squid. A walrus. She said she went with walrus. And then two days later, she's trying to claim she said that because she knew the kids would think it was funny. Did the kids think it was funny? They think she thought it was a walrus. Then Ash said, first of all, you should know what a walrus looks like because Pancayeri looks like a walrus.
Yeah, he does. And then Ash asked me to make this to prove his point. So that's... Yeah. Yeah. Uh-huh. That was a picture that went from Davy Jones to walrus to dad. To dad. And dad looks way more like a walrus than Davy Jones does. Addie started calling dad Ponky the donkey. great it's pretty fun yeah yeah and then she goes punky the donkey hurry uh hurry the furry she was just coming up with nicknames real happy hurry the furry uh daddy the baddie that's me yeah um mama the llama and then i said what is axel and she said uh We had that going for us. That was pretty good. It was pretty good. Also, we went to a really great Fourth of July parade on Martha's Vineyard. And look, I saw this. This was like a slow motion car crash, but I couldn't get out of the way of it.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–28:17
2
Who is W. Kamau Bell and why is he the guest today?
28:17–37:35
3
Why are people “hate-watching” the new Supergirl movie?
37:35–43:49
4
What was Kamau’s experience living and spending summers in Mobile, Alabama?
43:49–56:18
5
Why did Kamau drop out of UPenn and how did he find comedy?
56:18–1:07:25
6
How did childhood TV habits with his grandmother shape his summers?
1:07:25–1:15:23
Speakers
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