Mick Unplugged - The Heart Behind the Humor with Roy Wood Jr.

Episode Date: November 13, 2025

Roy Wood Jr. is a trailblazing comedian, writer, and broadcaster whose journey spans from FAMU to Birmingham, to the national stage on The Daily Show. Rooted in southern culture and steeped in the rea...lities of Black America, Roy’s comedy mixes sharp insight with raw authenticity, making audiences laugh—and think—with every performance. He's the author of "The Man of Many Fathers," a deeply personal book exploring the values and mentorships that shaped his life after the loss of his own dad at 16. Both on stage and in print, Roy uses humor as his tool to challenge, inform, and uplift, leaving a lasting legacy for his son and his audience. Takeaways: Legacy with Purpose: Roy sees comedy not just as entertainment but as a way to affirm Black experiences and open eyes to hard truths—his mission is to inform, confirm, and bridge communities. Improvise and Adapt: Roy's career started by necessity—he created his own internship at Hot 105.7 to fit his schedule and circumstances, teaching himself the craft of radio and standup by learning from real-life experiences and mentors. The Power of Storytelling: His ability to blend humor with pain and depth, especially in his specials and book, showcases how storytelling can invite audiences into reflection, empathy, and growth. Sound Bytes: "I do what I do in an effort to...confirm to our people, to Black people, that they aren't crazy in what they're seeing and what they're feeling..." "I got my first internship–I need an internship. I believe your morning show could use some hard news in the morning...Van said, bring Starbucks Frappuccinos and a dozen Krispy Kremes every day, and I'll see you at 5:15 sharp." "Pain is a tool. Sorrow can also be woven into this fabric of what you're presenting...the written word will always have worth." Connect & Discover Roy: Instagram:  @roywoodjr Website: roywoodjr.com X: @roywoodjr TikTok: @roywoodjr Facebook: @roywoodjr Show: Have I Got News For You Book: The Man of Many Fathers 🔥 Ready to Unleash Your Inner Game-Changer? 🔥   Mick Hunt’s BEST SELLING book, How to Be a Good Leader When You’ve Never Had One: The Blueprint for Modern Leadership, is here to light a fire under your ambition and arm you with the real-talk strategies that only Mick delivers.  👉 Grab your copy now and level up your life → Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million    FOLLOW MICK ON: Spotify: MickUnplugged Instagram: @mickunplugged  Facebook: @mickunplugged YouTube:  @MickUnpluggedPodcast  LinkedIn: @mickhunt  Website:  MickHuntOfficial.com Apple: MickUnplugged Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Roy Wood Jr. has made us laugh for many years, but in this conversation, he made us think. We go deep into the man behind the mic, his journey from FAMU to Birmingham to the Daily Show, and to the lessons that shaped his comedy and his brand new book, The Man of Many Father. This episode isn't just funny. It's powerful. It's raw. And it's proof that laughter can lead to a legacy. Ladies and gentlemen, I present my good friend, Mr. Roy Wood Jr. Mr. Roy Wood Jr. I appreciate you. I appreciate you.
Starting point is 00:00:32 I appreciate you more, man. Like, we graduated high school the same year, college the same time. Like, you've always been that person that from afar, I've just appreciated it because during the time that we were coming up, Roy, man, like you were doing it in the comedy entertainment game. I was trying to do it in the business and leadership game. Like, we didn't have.
Starting point is 00:00:55 have a lot of people, I'm just going to be blunt and honest, that looked like us that were blueprints to show other people how to do it. And I appreciated you because you were like, you were like my generation's blueprint. And so like every move that you were making, I was trying to follow to see how you were doing it because it was pushing me to be like the best person, the best entrepreneur, the best leader that I could be because you kept changing your game. So I had to change mine. You kept elevating. I had to elevate. But for me, It's all because we're literally the same age, bro. I appreciate what you're saying,
Starting point is 00:01:29 but I guarantee if you point out any part of my game, it was, I got it from watching somebody else, my damn self. I think the drive and the gumption, you have to be a little crazy to bet on yourself. That's inherent. But I think that the belief that, oh, I could do this, that didn't come from me. That came for Ricky Smiley.
Starting point is 00:01:58 I saw Ricky Smiley on TV in the late 90s, and he was reping Alabama hard. He didn't just put Birmingham on his back. He put the whole state on his back. And nobody asked him to do that. He just did it. And when I saw that, I was at, oh, bet, you can be from,
Starting point is 00:02:16 he can be from the north side and get on TV? I can do it from the west side. And that was it. Like, it wasn't even no big. like whatever debate or doubts I had about whether or not I belonged in entertainment gone.
Starting point is 00:02:32 But that's what I mean, man. It's that drive. It's that thing that you've always had that inspired people like me. Because yeah, you saw Ricky. But you still had to go do it though. It's not like there was a thousand people that were like, oh yeah,
Starting point is 00:02:48 I'm funny too. I can go do this too. Yeah. But you actually did it, bro. And that's why again, you're my go. I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you, me. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So on the show, I like to ask all my guests, like, what's your because? That thing that's deeper than your why, right? Like, if I were to say, Roy, what's your why? You're going to tell me your son, right? But when I say, why is your son your why? I call that your because. So if I were to say, Roy, man, what's your because? Why do you do the things that you do? Why do you have the legacy that you're trying to leave behind?
Starting point is 00:03:21 I do what I do in an effort to to better inform, to confirm to our people, to black people that they aren't crazy and what they're seeing and what they're feeling because so many people will gaslight us into thinking that what we see is not there. So, you know, if I can confirm to black folks what they're thinking and feeling while opening new eyes from non-black people on what we're going through, the mission accomplished, you know, because a lot of people don't know what's happening, you know, to our people. And it's fun to be able to do that through comedy. It's more difficult now to do it through comedy, but that's my weapon. That's the tools I got, you know. I'm a hammer and a nail.
Starting point is 00:04:20 I'm not a screwdriver. I'm not an Alan wrench. I don't know. I do none of that. I can't be precise and profound. I'm not Mark Lamont Hill. I don't have that. I just ain't got it.
Starting point is 00:04:36 I can crack a joke. Yeah. You know, I can probably make that work. Yeah. Yeah. And let's talk about your journey a little bit, man. like from intern, the internship that you created, right?
Starting point is 00:04:51 It wasn't like there was an internship. You created the internship at FAMU. And then you parlayed that into tremendous radio success. And then the stand-up legend that you've become, man. Talk to the folks about that journey just a little bit from what inspired you to create this internship for yourself to begin with. That Negro, I had to graduate. Hell you mean. Like, it wasn't like I was, I'm going to.
Starting point is 00:05:16 leave a path for the next intern. I won't give a damn about nobody else. There were a couple things that were in play at the time. One, I was, I'd gotten suspended from school. I was at FAMU and I'd stole some credit cards and I'd use one of them on campus, amongst other stuff or whatever. And so you get caught for the crime and you're on probation for that. But in addition to the crime, also, you used a credit card on campus.
Starting point is 00:05:46 A little Negro, so we're going to need you to be on probation when you get back on campus as well. So I'm on a campus version of probation in addition to regular federal probation. So within the campus version of probation, you can take your classes, but when you lead, when you're done with like, essentially a family, if you're on any type of behavior of probation, you can go to class, you can go to the library, take your your ass home. No football games, no frat parties, no hanging on the set. If you need to go something, buy something at the bookstore, cool, do that on the way to your car. But take your ass home and get off this campus. You're not welcome here other than for education. And so with that, with that pretext in mind, you needed, you were supposed to do an internship at the radio station, the campus radio station, as part of what my discipline for broadcast journalism
Starting point is 00:06:46 was. And at the time, I was not allowed to write for the campus paper for that semester. I eventually got an exemption. But at the time, in the time frame, we're talking about, it was, you got to go home. And I go, well, what if I'm writing for the paper? And I got to talk to my editor. Well, if it's not for a class, well, no, it's not for a class, but it's for the experience so I can get the job when I, well, we don't know. We'll have to talk. So it was a Like, I was fresh off of, I was fresh off of suspension. So we're two months back into school, two weeks back into school. So we haven't thought that deep about our policy yet, Roy.
Starting point is 00:07:29 So we don't have time to. So the more I thought about it, and I needed a class in radio. I was taking radio news. And you can do the internship with the radio station. I wasn't sure if I was in violation of the policy or not. I felt like I would win, but I was like, I don't know if I want to risk that. Thing too, the campus radio station, because I was going through all of this back and forth about whether or not I could, whether or not I could take the class.
Starting point is 00:08:07 And by the time they finally decided I could take the class, by the time they finally decided I could, be on campus and radio. This is like a month into the semester now. We go back and forth. They go, you know what? Here's your exemption. You can do anything journalism related within the journalism department any time of day. Well, by the time they gave me the extension,
Starting point is 00:08:29 all the shifts at the radio station have been signed up for. And the only shift left was like some Sunday morning gospel, play the gospel tunes radio shift and at that point I was already on the road doing comedy regularly because during that suspension
Starting point is 00:08:52 is when I started stand-up so I literally cannot do Sunday morning because I'm somewhere in the south on a Greyhound headed back to town so either I give up comedy or I have to get a radio
Starting point is 00:09:08 or I have to get an internship ship at the outside radio station. And so most radio stations in Tallahassee, they didn't have, they just didn't have scheduling that was favorable. I was just like, I need something to fit my schedule. I know beggars can't be choosers,
Starting point is 00:09:25 but I can't come here in the middle of the day on a weekday. I got classes. I can't come at night because I'm working at Golden Corral. I'm gone. The only time I'm free is the ass crack of dawn. Right. That's the only time I can make
Starting point is 00:09:39 this work. So it just so happened that there was a morning show that I used to listen to every morning when I was getting up and getting ready for school and, you know, whatever. And it was WVHT Hot 105.7, the breakfast buffet with Van Wilson and William Gilmore. And so I came up in radio news. My pops was a radio news man. He did news on the fives for four hours straight. on the black news station in town and then would do reports for the black music station as well on the tens. And so I knew what radio news was because I sat beside him in the control room every summer for hours listening to him, just read news reports and take care. I listened to the breakfast buffet and I listened to Tom Joyner. Tom Joyner had news.
Starting point is 00:10:33 The breakfast buffet didn't. So about a month until getting back in the school, I ride my bike. over to Hot 105.7. And I rap with Van Wilson, who ironically, his father, Roosevelt Wilson, used to run with my pops back in the day in journalism circles. And his pops, Roosevelt, was one of my journalism professors. Now, I had funked his class. I was a terrible student. But off the strength of my pops, it was enough of a vouch where I felt confident going to step in the van. I go, yo, man, our pops used to know each of.
Starting point is 00:11:09 other. I need an internship. I believe your morning show could use some hard news in the morning. If you don't mind, I would like to come to the station every day at 6 a.m. and do the news until 9 a.m. when I got my first class. And Van said, cool. He shook my hand. He said, bring Starbucks Frappuccinos and a dozen crispy creams every day, and I'll see you at 515 Sharp. And that's how I got my first internship. And the funniest part of that now, when I look back on it in hindsight, is that they made me bring these Starbucks Frappuccinos from the gas station or whatever. Because this was the beginning of iced coffee in the mid-90s.
Starting point is 00:11:56 And I don't know if, like, black men just thought it made you look gay if you bought one. Because, you know, you walk around, ooh, I got a little iced coffee, and you know, homophobia. So I ain't saying this is true. I'm just thinking what I was thinking. I just feel like, yeah, go get me one of them gay coffees that I like that I don't drink in public, little Negro. So I get the internship at Hot 105, and I'm now the newsman. And on the days that I can't come in studio, I'm recording news reports from the house
Starting point is 00:12:26 and emailing them to them. The technology isn't what it is now, but it was garbled, but it was good enough for me to get the job done if I was absentee. And I would pick three national stories. from USA Today, two local stories from the Tallahassee Democrat and a kicker story from wherever I could find something, some little chuckle story
Starting point is 00:12:47 or whatever. And I would write out my copy, bro, and I'd have my little Word, Microsoft Word document, all caps, and rattle through them stories in under 90 seconds, man. I was cold with it. Wow. My co-host, the co-host
Starting point is 00:13:04 of the show was a comedian named William E. Gilmore. He's still my OG to this day. Gilmore was the comedian on the show, cracked the jokes, do the skits, write the parody songs, and I just got to sit and watch them. I just watched them for two hours. Because I was only doing, this is the other thing,
Starting point is 00:13:22 I was only doing news on the 10 and the 40. The rest of the time, I'm just shutting up. I'm just, I'm 19, I'm just quiet, and I'm watching two grown men just hold court with the community. And so Gilmore, because he was a school teacher, first bail is 8.30. So 8.15, he out the door. So from 815 to 10 a.m., it's just van hosting the show. And after a couple of months, and Gilmore and I would start interacting in our news reports.
Starting point is 00:13:58 And knowing what I know now, it was him bringing me into the show. It was him bringing me into the fold. because instead of just doing a straight news written in the WVHT News Center, I'm Roy Wood Jr., here's the news today in Tallahassee. I would do a story, and then Gilmore would be like, wait, wait, man, explain the story again, and Gilmore would have a joke. So now we're kind of interacting a little bit. So now this 90-second news break became two minutes, became two and a half,
Starting point is 00:14:26 kind of became my own thing. So when Gilmore left and would go to school, after I'd been established with the listenership and everything, Van would start doing what Gilmore did. So in the 8 o'clock and the 9 o'clock hour, I started kind of co-hosting the whole show with Vand. And that 830 to 10 a.m. time frame, those air checks, which is for people don't know, that's like your audio resume when you work in television or any form of broadcasting. You send them an air check, which is just samples. of you being on air being good at your job. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:06 That time from 8.30 to 10 a.m., those air checks is what I sent in, and that's what got me hired in Birmingham after Ricky Smiley left. Amazing. And so all of that, because I couldn't get the thing that I thought I was supposed to have, I ended up getting literally what I broke. I came in in news and then just watch cats do radio all day. And then slowly got to step my toe into the water until I was knee deep, till I was waisty, till I was scuba diving. And I also had to give a shout out to DJ Dap at Hot 105.7 because DJ Dap,
Starting point is 00:15:47 Dap was a cat who was the afternoon DJ. And he was piped in with all the rappers and the rappers would come in and do their interviews. I learned the art of interviews and taking calls and, you know, the act of just what song to play in when the DJs would come in and live mix and, you know, five o'clock traffic jam mix or whatever. I would watch them. It was, man, it was on some Star Wars loop going to see Yoda in the Degaba system type stuff, man.
Starting point is 00:16:19 I really learned the craft of radio inside out from that building, man. It's gone now. I think it's a, but it's, but it was. That was a special place to me on the Appalachia Parkway, man. It really was. Man, I love that story. And, you know, all of my friends know, all of my listeners and viewers know this because I'm okay when it's my show telling people my opinion, right?
Starting point is 00:16:49 I'm bold with it. I've always said, Roy Wood, Jr. is the greatest storyteller that we witnessed. because of that like you bring people into that space and you take them on that journey and you're so good to give the important detail and walk them through step by step even on your comedy shows and that's why again you're my favorite comedian because of that like when i'm watching a roy wood junior set i know he is going to make me feel like i'm his best friend and he's telling me this story and there's going to to be funny parts to it, there's going to be emotional parts to it, but you are in so control and you don't rush. And I think, you know, people hear comedic timing and they don't really understand what that truly means. But you perfected that skill of telling a story and bringing someone along that journey without rushing the pace. How did that become a skill set for
Starting point is 00:17:51 you? So my third hour special, Imperfect Messenger, which I did in 2021, On backside of COVID, when it was letting like 50% capacity in rooms or whatever, that was the first time I really told a deeper, longer story on stage. And just as part of a bigger bit, and I was just trying to tell a joke. But then the moment, the more I started constructing the joke, I was like, damn, they really need to know this backstory. And it's not really funny, but it'll help this. And I was like, let's see if they go with me on it.
Starting point is 00:18:31 And the audience went with me on it. And it was like a deeper, emotional, kind of painful thing to talk about. And without telling the whole joke, it's a story about how there was a murder that happened in Birmingham. And I know the victim and the convicted killer. And the confliction you feel of knowing this person who. did not pull the trigger but was there. And because you were there, you are
Starting point is 00:19:04 a murderer in the eyes of the Alabama justice system, right? Right. But then also feeling the pain and pity of this man who was killed, who literally helped my career in ways that him and his son, they ran
Starting point is 00:19:20 a black-owned music store and they carried my prank phone call albums on consignment. The sales I ran through that is the only reason my album gotten to every major music outlet in the state was because of the sales numbers, the sales numbers they reported on my product, which ultimately helped my growth, help my career.
Starting point is 00:19:38 So, dang, this person who helped me is dead. Dang, this person who I know deep down made a mistake is good, but he's locked up for killing who do I feel sorry or for. So that's the baseline for a larger conversation and joke about criminal justice reform. that joke was the genesis point of me going oh pain is a tool sorrow can also be woven into this fabric of what you're presenting i always thought sorrow and pain was for a one-man show and for something much deeper and confessional and black box theater and it's like no you could probably do this and make it work then you start looking at what Ali Sadiq has been able to do and the fabric that he weaves on stage with storytelling.
Starting point is 00:20:33 I'd still say Ali Sadiq is the best pound-for-pound joke for joke right now doing the craft. But it just gave that incident gave me confidence of, okay, when it makes sense to tell a story, tell a story. I don't think I'm a football on storytelling comedian. Like I don't, I don't know. I don't, there's something uncomfortable about dealing with emotion. It's very delicate because you're manipulating the audience in a way.
Starting point is 00:21:06 So that part of it was, I'm hesitant at times. But I'd say that third hour special is where it started. And then I told another story in my fourth special, Lonely Flowers, this year, which also was kind of a, you know, There's some depth to that one as well. So, you know, you look at that and, you know, the idea of writing this book now, The Man of Many Fathers, where there's a lot of stories in that book that are painful. There's a lot that are hilarious, but it's a few in that thing.
Starting point is 00:21:44 It's kind of painful, man. And having the confidence to sit with that, you know, it's been a good thing. Writing this book has been a great exercise in that. I love it. And I'm going to come to the book in two seconds. But there's two things I got to tell you and give you praise for that maybe you don't know. First thing is, so I've been a speaker for a long time, 10 plus years. But watching your specials, and I know you say you're not a storyteller, I'm giving it to you.
Starting point is 00:22:11 I'm giving you your flowers, not the lonely ones. I'm giving you the big, beautiful flowers, right? But watching your specials help me as a speaker just with pace, just with slowing down and let the storyteller. like let the points that you're trying to hit like tell because I'm not a comedian but again I do inspirational speaking I do leadership development same concept right to me being on stage is stories and points less brown taught me never tell a story without a point and never make a point without a story and you do that really well so watching you help me bring that aspect of that to life so I'm giving you kudos for that boy number two your dorm room famous bro
Starting point is 00:22:54 These Gen Zs and millennials are Roy Wood followers. And here's why. My kids who are now 25, 23, 27, but when they were in school, when they were in college, you know, people stopped having CD players. You know, like for us, that was your, that was our Mac move, right? Like, go look at my CD. Go look at my shelf system over there. But my kids always had a CD player.
Starting point is 00:23:23 only to play your prank call CD. And so their dorm rooms used to be part. You put the albums on like the 70s. Everybody crowd around the record player. Yes, sir. So you were a dorm room famous. I just want you to know because it's a thing that people still carry CD players to listen to your prank call CDs back.
Starting point is 00:23:48 I pulled a lot of prank phone calls offline. I pulled all the albums. off of digital stuff. Like, I think you can stream my stuff, maybe. But most of all of my pranks is underground now. Yeah. Like, matter of fact,
Starting point is 00:24:03 I'm positive you can't purchase my albums anymore. Like, that, I went through a phase about 10 years ago. Well, that's, this is a year or two before I got Daily Show. And I'd done so many prank
Starting point is 00:24:23 calls. I had three albums. So that's about 40, 50 pranks. And then there's another 80 or 90 that never got put on streaming that were just on YouTube. I just didn't want to be known as a prank called dude. And I was having a fear that that was going to be my faith. Yeah. And a lot of people showed love because of the pranks. But I also had a decade worth of stand-up appearances within that run. And so, like, since 2002, bro, I've been on TV every year, minimum of one time. Never less than five times since 2014. So I've had a regular presence across Cape and still around 2013, 2014, a lot of people knew me for the pranks, which I respect it and I loved. But I got to draw your focus to something else. So I have to make
Starting point is 00:25:19 this harder to find because the money I'm making off these pranks, if I'm not careful, will be the only money I made because people won't even think of me in these other regards. And I'm not just thinking about the fans. I'm thinking about producers and writers who think, oh, we should call Roy, he could do this thing. You won't even think to call me. You know, you got to be very careful about that, much in the same way that these young sketch internet people after five years or so you have to evolve beyond what you were because if they only see you as that then they attach you to a period of their life that they have matured from
Starting point is 00:25:59 and you're seen as something that you may as well be the hula hoot in their garage or something right so yeah i i love that the youngans have found them i know people put them on ticot now and they put videos with them and i've i've seen like man my prank calls I just call it. That's open source code. That's open source comedy code for anybody that won. And as much stuff as I bootlegged and stole in media, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:29 how many movies I never paid for in the years prior to me knowing better? I look at my prank calls just being decimated all over the place and monetized by these people. Get a game back. It is. It's just a prank call. It didn't take it. It wasn't nothing.
Starting point is 00:26:50 I wrote, worked hard at, I called somebody at 6.20 in the morning. They cuss me out. I uploaded it as an MP3. You're welcome. If you make you feel good, have that it. Like, I really do feel like that's just kind of my way of just giving back. You know, there's people who know my name and don't know my face. People from your children's generation.
Starting point is 00:27:12 They still know me as the prank call, dude. But now when you find out, oh, I've done. and all this other stuff, when now it's set up the way I want. Yes, sir. Yeah. Now let's talk about the man of many fathers. Man, one, I'm so proud of you for this book.
Starting point is 00:27:29 I know the purpose, the intent of the book, but I want to give you the floor, give you the mic to talk about why the book, why now, and the legacy that that's going to leave behind. Because it is about to be a bestseller, just so you know. Man, I appreciate.
Starting point is 00:27:46 We'll see, as they say, prayer fully. You know, I wrote the book because I wanted to kind of do a deep dive into who I am and why I am, who I am. Where did I get my values from? What lessons instilled particular ideologies in me? And leave that, you know, for my son to have, you know, whenever he's old enough and ready and wants to flip through it. And hopefully in that, you find a little bit of yourself. My dad died when I was 16, so a lot of guidance and mentorship and, connection with men, I innately sought out from any man that was around, be it a supervisor
Starting point is 00:28:24 or a coach or an older comedian that I might have been opening for. Like, those things all played a role for me in being a better man, like all of those people. So the book is just a series of stories of just values. It's a semi-memoir. I can't talk about my life. I can't tell you about people in my life without talking about my life to a degree. But it's not a memoir of every little incident and thing that happened in my life. But, you know, one chapter might be, hey, here's what I did learn from my dad. And then next chapter might be, here's what I learned from my coworker who was on cocaine. There's lessons to be had in both sides. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So has your son read any of it yet?
Starting point is 00:29:16 Oh, no, he's nine. This book got cussing. You ain't allowed. You ain't allowed. He can pick this book up, like, I don't know, maybe high school graduation, something like that, you know. So son can't cuss until he's 16, 17? 13, 40, you better not cuss at me ever. But, you know, cuss at other folks, do that whenever you want.
Starting point is 00:29:41 But I'm your daddy. I still put hands on you. I'm also the man of many hands. Oh. Okay. That's book number two. Yeah, but not. I think like 13, 14 is probably a pretty good crossroad for him to understand most of
Starting point is 00:29:58 these lessons of what I was doing and what my world was like. But yeah, having a child really did redefine and really changed my trajectory and the things that I hold important in terms of. of the things that I choose to talk about now. So I'm very excited for the book. I think it's just fun. It's concise. It's an easy read.
Starting point is 00:30:21 But I just think that if you're asking for the bare bones inspiration for what drove me to write it, I would say that. I love it. I love it. I also heard you say, you couldn't leave your son to SD court, right? Like we can't have, what was it, the iTunes player, the iPod, we can't leave that anymore, right? So you had to put it in book for them. So no matter how
Starting point is 00:30:45 technology changes over the next 30 years, everybody still will read a book. Yeah. It's like, no matter what, there would be a book. They put words on walls and caves. People still go read that. Yeah. The written word
Starting point is 00:31:03 will always have worth. Hey, Sally's phone number is still on a bathroom stall at the airport in the bedroom. If you call it, I bet you Sally don't show up. I bet you'll be somebody else. I love it, man. I love it. Roy, I know how busy you are. I just want to thank you for the time that you gave us today. Also for you, the day after
Starting point is 00:31:27 Thanksgiving, you're going to be in Charlotte. Yes. Yes, indeed. I'm going to be. So I live in Greenville, South Carolina, so Charlotte's just up the road. I'm going to be there. I'm going to bring some people with me. We're going to buy tickets, so I don't want anything. Now, I'm in Durham the day after. Ain't that closer? No, I'm in Greenville, South Carolina. Oh, South Carolina.
Starting point is 00:31:46 I'm thinking Greenville, North, the ECU Pirates. Yeah, that's on the east side to say. No, okay, yeah, you're right there. Yeah, Greenville Spartanburg. Okay, yeah. They ain't number 82 miles. Look at them, knowing the exact match. Yeah, I remember that, man.
Starting point is 00:31:59 I know GSP. Okay. Yes. So I'm going to come up. I'm going to see you, man. Just excited to see you in person. Again, thank you for what you've meant to me in my life. Thank you for the inspiration.
Starting point is 00:32:12 Thank you for the continual drive that you have. Everybody do me a huge favor. I need you to go wherever you buy books, the man of many fathers. I need you to go get that. I need you to read that. If you're a father, if you're a parent, you definitely need to get two or three copies. You need one for yourself, one for your children, whenever they're at cussable age. We'll make sure you get it to them there.
Starting point is 00:32:37 And again, I don't care. Go supported at your local bookstore. Amazon books a million Barnes-Nobles wherever you buy books go get it and here's what I'm going to do okay the first 20 people that message me and I don't care if it's Instagram LinkedIn wherever that message me many fathers I'm going to buy the book for you the first 20 oh wow so hit me up it wherever it is man you're too kind no no not not because I believe I believe in the message of the book I believe in you most importantly And again, it's the least I can do to support you, brother.
Starting point is 00:33:13 Man, I appreciate you, making it. I really do, man. And I look forward to seeing you down there in Charlotte, man. Get you backstage before that show, man, because I know you're going to be drinking. They're going to kick you out. All right, fine, because you told me too, I will. Because you told me too, I will.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Ladies and gentlemen, this has been my good friend, Mr. Roy Wood Jr. Roy, love you, man. Appreciate you, brother. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. To all the viewers and listeners, remember your because is your superpower. Go Unleash it.
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