and welcome to another episode of Baccariazell's podcast today we have a friend of the show

Kamau Bell how you feeling first and foremost?

Somebody asked me, are you nervous? I was like, well, I stay nervous. So I have to get nervous.

So there you go. They're like, people ask me, tell me, man, my stomach's and knots, man, I don't know how to feel about this election.

I was like, you're talking to somebody who has really bad anxiety. How do you think I feel?

No, it's funny because people think people like us, and you are certainly at a higher level than me, no, have some special secrets.

So we're like, oh, we actually know it's going to be fine.

Don't worry about it.

Yeah, I tell them that anyway.

I just tell them.

Yeah, yeah.

So they leave you love. So look, we'll skip that usual question of walking us through the arc of your career because we've actually done that on another show.

But talk about your latest project, who's going to catch your kid?

That's what I want to know about.

You know, one of the greatest things that I have stumbled into because I moved out here for comedy was living in the Bay Area, which I'm surrounded by smart, politically

minded, sensitive, sort of people who are able to be nuanced in their politics at all times.

Like, as I say a lot, there's synagogues in my neighborhood that have permanent ceasefire

signs up on them.

So, you know, that was brought to me by my friend Adam Manzbach, who's most famously known

for his book,

Go the Fuck to Sleep. And so he works in political issues every campaign cycle. And we're two dads who happen to live near each other and become friends. And he brought it to me. And it was really,

it started out being one thing. But then as the race went on, we kept in the traffic around,

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