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The Science of Happiness

W. Kamau Bell’s Thoughts on Awkward Relationships and Bridging Divides

The Science of Happiness

PRX and Greater Good Science Center

Social Sciences, Science

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Comedian W. Kamau Bell discusses the challenges of finding common ground, even with people in your own family.

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My wife's grandfather, when I first met him, I'd heard about him a lot.

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He was this powerful patriarch of the family and the family all sort of swirled around him.

0:56.0

Everybody loves him. He's so funny. There was his party and he was cooking on the grill. He was also the cook of the family.

1:04.0

And I walked open to this and brought me over it

1:05.8

and he looked up and sent a load of her and they get kissed.

1:08.0

And then he sort of like said, oh, and this has come out.

1:11.4

My memory is that he didn't look at me and that he just sort of like cast his

1:15.1

eyes away and that Melissa sort of like tried to give him the benefit of the

1:18.0

doubt and kept saying this come out and then eventually we just walked away.

1:20.7

I knew immediately what it happened.

1:23.5

I was like, yeah, this is why I was nervous about this.

1:27.5

Because telling me a 70-year-old white man that he's white granddaughter's dating

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