The Right Time with Bomani Jones - Roy Wood Jr. Discusses Celebrity Jeopardy, Life, and the New York Knicks

Episode Date: February 5, 2025

On today’s episode, comedian Roy Wood Jr. joins Bomani Jones to talk about why his 2025 has been off to a busy start. The show begins with Bo plugging Roy's new special on Hulu Lonely Flower (0:34) and why Roy is not one of the typical depressed comedians (1:14). They move onto a wide range of topics including why kids are bad at speaking to adults (4:56), why they're both more comfortable staying at home (8:38), Roy getting invited to a sex party (11:56) and friends who go through divorces (16:06). Roy talks about his experience being on Celebrity Jeopardy (29:04) and what makes going to Knicks games at MSG so special (44:00). The show rounds out Roy's San Antonio Spurs prediction (50:16) and his thoughts on the current political climate. (51:33) . . . Subscribe to The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts and follow the show on Instagram, Twitter, and Tik Tok for all the best moments from the show. Subscribe to Supercast for Ad-Free Episodes: https://righttime.supercast.com/ Download Full Podcast Here: Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/6N7fDvgNz2EPDIOm49aj7M?si=FCb5EzTyTYuIy9-fWs4rQA&nd=1&utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-right-time-with-bomani-jones/id982639043?utm_source=hoobe&utm_medium=social Follow The Right Time with Bomani Jones on Social Media:  http://lnk.to/therighttime Support the Show:  PrizePicks: Daily Fantasy Made Easy! Visit PrizePicks.com/BOMANI and use code BOMANI for a first deposit match up to $100! Download the Viator app now and use code VIATOR10 for ten percent off your first booking in the app. Find travel experiences for you. Do more with VIATOR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time, a wave original presented by prize picks. My name is Beaumani Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast. Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest join us. You got a special on Hulu, the name of which I have already forgotten, but he's going to tell you what it is.

It was very funny. Roy Wood Jr., what that thing called? Lonely flowers. There we go. There we go. So the thing is, I thought it had the word lonely in it, but then I was like, no, I didn't sound that sad, did it? And then I was like, yep, no, no, no.

It did. It did. That was, and the whole special is about loneliness and abandonment. A comedy special on Disney, Hulu, you know, the happy place. Well, hold on two things, right? Basically, deep down, you're one of the least sad comedians that I know. Like, my buddy James, James, James, is the least sad comedian of all the comedians that I know.

You are low on the sad comedian quotient. I think I'm more lonely than sad, which is a different type of place to mind comedy from. So, yeah, I'm not, I am blessed to not deal with the demons of depression that a lot of people within our industry are afflicted with. I feel like you, you operate on the prince.

17 days level. Prince had the line called you yesterday. You didn't pick up your phone. You're the one who's always lonely and I'm the one who's always alone. Like, I don't feel like you are alone and I don't mean that in a pimping sense. I just mean you'll be around people. But the connections are always. Yeah.

There's like in New York City, there's maybe like five people where I'm like, I consider tight. And also the problem, bro, is that when you get older and you lose the friends from your, as I call it in the special, your ramen noodle days, like you're never going to have the friends that was forged in struggle in poverty or, you know, shitty job or college, like, whatever your struggle was, right? Right. Your struggle friends, if you lose them, we try to get new friends with the same roots as the struggle

friends. And you ain't going to never have that. Right. It's just not possible. So the barrier for entry into friendship, becomes, like the bar becomes higher. So low key, man, it'd be harder to make friends. Like, that's the part of what I was talking about.

It's like the idea of a book club fantasy football, you got to do it. Like, you got to be on purpose because you ain't going to just stumble in the friends no more because you can be in your phone all day. No, no, no. You do, like, there is an intentionality with a lot of this stuff about life. Like, I realized this, especially post-pandemic, go like, I think about it living in New York in the winter, right? The thing about New York in the winter is it can be real easy to be like, I haven't

left my house in five days. because it's cold outside and wherever you go, you got to go be in the elements unless your bread is just super long and you jumping in cars everywhere you go. Like, none of it's, there's a lot that's not going to feel pleasant and you just have to say to yourself, hey, I am going to get up and either do this thing or I am going to call this person. Like I got one good friend and I'd be feeling bad

because I probably agree to one out of three of his less catch-ups, but he is consistent on the less catch-up, and I appreciate his intentionality. because anytime we do the catch up is great. He my Spanish-speaking partner. Like we get together, we'll go to, we'll go up to Inwood or something like that, or we'll go to the Bronx, we post up here, and we speak Spanish for an hour or two or whatever.

But you got to do it at this age. Yeah, you got to, like, really set out to catch up with your homeboys. Like, I'm going home for a Super Bowl. I'm going back to Birmingham for the day. And it's like, it's one or two partners. I'm going to catch up with, like, hey, man, let me come by, let me holl at your pops, let me see what you're up to. Because conceivably, when I look at my schedule, if I don't do it this week, it's going to be April.

And who knows what the hell is going to be happening then? So it's really like, man, life is just kind of weird. Like, do you ever feel like in a way like where retail has played a role and how we disassociate from each other now? Because I feel like retail was like the basic social. All right, so like my son is eight. that used to be the basic teach your kid how to talk to strangers. Tell the lady what you want to order, little boy. Man, he got a touchscreen kiosk.

Ah, good point. My son is running self-checkout now. And part of me, I don't like that. I don't like it. Hey, man, let's go in the line and you're going to talk to the lady. Here's my credit card. You learn how to pay for stuff and make eye contact and connect with strangers. I will say this, man.

Kids are bad at talking to grownups at this point in a way that hits me, where I'm just kind of like, oh, okay, like, I know this is not personal, but y'all don't put no, you know, there's rules of how you do this. There used to be kind of a training program and learning how to talk to people. I don't feel like they didn't get that no more. Sir, yes, sir, dress right dress. Like, it's, a lot of that is gone.

Now, that's going to cost me 15 extra minutes in the grocery store because I'm in a long-ass line for an actual cashier, but I think my son will be better off for it in the long line. It's just when I can do stuff, like that, I would rather do that, man. I just think it's real easy not to talk, not to interact with nobody. So we got to get out of that habit, man. As I say, go to the sex parties.

You know? See, that's the thing. Your special is a lot about kind of the human disconnections that we have or just how we have become more distant as people. And it's interesting because all this thing about like declining club membership and like how people don't go bowling anymore and all of this. They've been doing these studies for like 50 years. Like I read a 40-year-old book that was making this exact same point.

Like we have gradually kind of drifted people not going to church. Church ain't never been my bag, but I appreciate the value of it. I see how our music has gotten worse. Now that people don't go to church no more, the music don't got, it lacked a certain, like, aesthetic substance to it. You know what I'm saying? Like, it don't have that. You got the heaving to heaven balance on it.

It's the season and stuff. It lacks a foundation, right? Like, it lacks a substantive essence. But a lot of this is, yeah, we just, we don't value each other enough. Like, that's the whole thing about AI where it's like, hey, man, we got to hire each other somehow some way. We're like, what we got to do that for? Yeah, talk to your friend.

Talk to the computer. Bro, I was looking at it, and I think part of what, like, really set me off on this road on like, all right, I don't want to do no politics this time. I don't mention Kamala or Joe. I think I might mention race once in this special. And considering my race joke volume of the previous three specials, this is an unprecedented choice. Well, I was on Facebook one day and Facebook will fuck you up because Facebook will show you just a picture from 11 years ago and just be like, man, remember these folks? I ain't talking to a single person in the picture no more.

Yeah. And that shit be hurting. You'd be like, damn, who I replaced them with. I used to hang out after the show. Man, I go straight to the house, bro. I did a gig last week. I got to give a shout out. I can't remember the Air Force Base,

but you know who you are. You're in Aurora, Colorado. It's a Space Force Base. I did a show for the troops. We were supposed to do the Air Force Academy the next day. And the show ended at 9.30 in Aurora. Like, I'm 20 minutes from the airport. I get a text going,

A, the show tomorrow at the Air Force Academy is canceled. Do you want me to change a flight or whatever? I said, put me on that bitch at midnight tonight. While troops are going, do you want to hang and have a drink? Could have had a drink. Took the 6 a.m. flight and been back to the, perfectly fine. I've been gifted back a day of my life. But rather than even hang and just have drinks with a couple of strangers, I said, man, I got

to go, I got to go to the hotel and get my shit. Good news, I can leave. And like that I'm embarrassed about because it really was a good ass hang. They were good people. But like when you just, I don't know, man, sometimes you just want to be home. Yeah. Like I'm a little too, like, I'm a little too good at hanging out by myself. And I got like just enough money to have all the stuff I want or slash need or whatever back to crib. Like this south system ain't nowhere else. and it's really all I need. It's my favorite thing in the world is this record player and these speakers and this out and you ain't got this and I can be I can be just good right here while also I'm

recognizing, no, I need to, you know, especially being a little too old to be this single, you know what I'm saying? Like it's a recognition like, hey man, you're going to need to do something. But also, bro, I feel like we can't like be, I feel like we put too much pressure on friends. like the people we know now, we try and make them to be all end all. I love baseball. I love baseball so much that I like going to the stadium an hour before the game. This is my strategy.

This is some, as they say, as the young people say, some big back behavior. I get to the stadium an hour before to get my first meal. Okay? I want to knock out that first round of good food because I know somewhere around the fifth, six in it, I'm going back for a re-up. we're going to eat something else. I like to get there early. I like to take in the atmosphere. I like to watch bat in practice. I like to see them water the grass. It's all part of my process. I'm not going to take a short attention span friend with me to go watch baseball, if that's not your thing.

If we in a suite, like if it happens to be, I get an opportunity to be in a suite, okay, cool. Because a suite is for ADD people anyway. It's a bunch of other shit going on in the suite. You can bring sweet friends. But you know what? whether or not you got the, I like baseball-ass friend. Don't bring them to that if they're not that. Same thing, go for the club. I don't like going to the club. I don't like hanging in the club.

I don't really, like you go out with comedians, man. Now you want to talk about some sad-ass comedians, but the ones that like to go to the strip club and talk to the strippers. Comedians good for that. I mean, you mean, go with you to your therapy session? I'm straight. Hold on.

They're not like talking to them just to, like, it's not like terribly different than any other job with service like you talk to the bartender nicer they poured a drink a little heavier you feel what i'm saying like they're not even playing it like that it's a little bit of that but it ain't necessarily for it's i need attention i need to feel cared for it's it's very much i need a i need a girlfriend energy okay you do know if you treated a woman right she would do that for you so like day when you got home she would go how was your day and rub your chest and then take a bra off dude do any of them wear windbreakers?

Because this sounds like windbreaker by the stage behavior. You know, buddy over there by the stage with the windbreaker all. All alone. Here's the thing about buddy by the stage with the windbreaker. They all know his name. Every single one of them in there. They be like, hold on. I'll be right back.

I got to go talk to him. Yeah. You know, but if that brother then found his community, did he not seek connection? I have, man, I talked to my mom. mom about this shit, man. And like, you know, I talk about this in a special, but I got invited to a sex party, an adult one.

It's an important detail you have to add. I had assumed that off the rip, but I guess these are the times. But these are the times. So I call my mom laughing about the shit because, you know, me and my mom talk about my career a lot. And then my mom was like, what's wrong with people seeking connection

if they all adult? And I was like, damn, you're right, Joyce. I can't even, I can't even front on that. So when I see a brother alone at the front of a stage at a strip club on a Tuesday afternoon in Missouri, I'd be like, hey, man, good for you. At least you ain't out there shooting somebody. And I'm assuming you have a good job. Like, part of the implicit contract is that if you're going to be in those seats, you got to spend some money or, or, or it's a real one that will, right? Like, you need to get to the back. You being too generous now. You being too generous now.

Ain't no dude in an unwashed starter jacket from 97 got the kind of money. One of them half-zipped ones with the pockets. Yeah. We're in a half-zipped Charlotte Hornets in the teal. There. And it's July. Why the fuck you wearing a half-zip in July, sir? Something wrong with you.

Yeah. And you're musty. But I'm glad you're not murdering. I tell you something else that kind of hit me as we talk about, like, connection and stuff like this. I don't know if you ever feel this way. but I had a buddy of mine who hit me because he and his wife were divorced him. Okay. And I hollied out of my talk to him when he checked him out because I wanted to make sure he was doing okay.

Because I say this and this is, I think I told him this, but I'd say this to anybody else. This is a big thing. We read all these stories about these people who lose it in the midst of a divorce, but somehow we act like it can't be our people. Like, no, you need to divorce do things to people, right? You need to go lay eyes on them, do all that stuff. I did that and everything was cool and he said everything was cool and I can't lie. I was like, who,

welcome back, partner. I got my man's back. We can go. We in you. We hugged out this weekend, man. It felt like back in a day. You can't do that. You can't hang with no freshly divorced, man.

They're reckless. No, no, he wasn't reckless. Like he chill enough. He got a number of. responsibilities and stuff. But for me, it was like, man, I missed you, dog. I didn't even, I didn't really properly realize how much. Wait, dude, you felt like he was like, he had changed the relationship when he got married. He wasn't like coming around like you used to no more. No, no, no, he got more time now. You know what I'm saying? Like, he just got more time.

Damn, Bo. Are you celebrating this man's pain? Incorrect. No. No. No. See, that's the thing. Once I saw that it wasn't pain. Okay. It was all good. Okay. First lap dance on me type of situation. Right, right, right, right. That's what I'm saying. Like, I checked if it was pain. We got through that, we got through that part slash getting through that part. Then it was like, nope. Got a homie. Like, like, we, we've, like, we've, like, you talk about

trying to find the people that, you know, that you was in the mud with. We was in the mud, right? You know what I discovered, though, about me. So you know, I like the argument is always between men and women about when something goes wrong in my day, I don't want you to solve the problem. I just want you to be there for me, right? Like there's people of that ilk where their love language is just you being close to them. Just be with me. Be sad with me. But me, man, me solve problem.

And then you get mad because you don't care because you're not being sad with me. but how can you say I don't care when I'm trying to solve your problem? That argument, right? Right. So I've had that argument over the course of dating numerous times, right? But what I've discovered is that it's not exclusive to women. I got a partner that was going through a terrible second divorce. And the only thing I could offer him was money.

Because I don't know anything about the emotional, whatever that cliff, is you go off of and divorce. Like, I can be, as a man, I can beat up for me. Let me know if you need. I don't know how to talk to you about that because I never even, I can't, I literally cannot relate. I've never been divorced. I've never, like, I've never been gutted like that emotionally. So the only thing I know to do is to be activity friend. And I almost like wanted, like, and in that discovery with him, I almost wanted to go back to some of the women that I argue and go, hey, just so you know, this wasn't exclusive to you. This is just who I am.

All I know how to do is provide logistics. Yes. I'm just logistics, man. I'm incapable of just being there and being quiet because I want your pain to stop. So I'm going to always try to figure out a way to fix the pain. I'm sorry. I'm incapable of it. By the way, my friend is going through his third divorce.

I am capable of listening to it. And I'm fine with it. You just can't tell always with somebody is just looking for an ear or looking for a solution. And you know what? They don't always know that until it's too late for you to know exactly what it was that I was supposed to do under these circumstances. Correct. And I think that's where I tend to get a disconnect with some of my friends, you know, like, I mean, divorce is just a whole nother. Divorce is just different from a breakup because now you're getting into, hey, man, how are you going to actually, like, function now?

What are you doing now? And, like, I've witnessed, I was talking with Bert Kreischer about this shit the other week, bro, and I didn't understand it at the time. When I was in my early 20s, I was a feature act, and I was driving around. Like, when you're doing like them rogue years, like, say four cities and four days around the south, right? sometimes you're dealing with a headliner that ain't got a car or a car in the shop. So one comedian drives and we ride together. I was opening for a ventriloquist who was going through a divorce and he would have the dummy in the car in the back seat, seat belt, like chilling. And then when we would go in restaurants to eat, he would bring the dummy in and would table for,

for three, please. And I'm, this is like a man in his 50s and I'm 22. And I'm like, what the fuck? What, what is this, bro? Now that I'm older in 46, I get it. That was his only friend. And that was a relationship. As odd as it was, it was connection.

I know it's weird. It's very weird. But I would rather, if I knew my friend was going through a divorce, and he was talking to a doll and that was keeping him normal, fuck you. Yeah, whatever works. Where do you want to eat, man? Go to the crowd, bring the doll in.

Come on, man, let's get the buffet. Whatever. Well, look, man, part of, like, why podcasts generally are successful, and I'm trying to figure out a way to be more specific when I say a podcast because this doesn't apply to every podcast.

Some of them are a little too big for what I'm describing, though. But if you've ever gone to a podcast live show, that's all that is is people like, hey, we have this thing in common, right? Somebody they might have met on a Reddit or tweeting about the show or in the YouTube comments or whatever it is is people pulling up. Like, oh, we have, we have found a thing we have in common. And the podcast themselves are typically just the nature of the medium intimate enough

to where it's not like, hey, I shop at Target 2, right? Like it's close enough. It brings you together. and that is like the idea that people want to come see us sit on stage and talk to each other is like no no no no no we are finding a reason to come together like the show i did in um north carolina over the weekend which i was very glad to do and i realized it was kind of like it hit me in a way in the community sense because it was i realized it was the first time that i've done a show of any sort in north carolina in over like 12 years you know i left there 12 years ago and i get out there I'm talking and I'm giving the thank you for the stuff. And I hear the applause.

And I realize, oh, wait a minute, this is my room. Right? I get off the stage. It's like, it's not a bother when people start walking up and wanting to take pictures and stuff because this is a different room. Now, I did have to hear a dude who was just like, hey, excuse me, can I take a picture? I was like, hey, how are you? You doing all right?

You're feeling good. Right? He's learning. He's learning. Yeah. But look, they know the brand. So you understand that this is, this is something the real, Bomani might do to you in that moment is, hey, how about you talk to me like I'm a human being?

I'd like a little community too, brother, but I look like a goddamn cardboard cut out. You know what I'm saying? Like, you're going to do, in fact, I'm going to start doing that. Get a car bar cut out made. So when people come to me and don't be nice about it, I'd be like, yo, you can go talk to that motherfucker right there and get everything that it is that you're looking for. But it was community, right? It was my community of people I worked with many years ago.

And then it was the community, the audience or whatever. But I was just like, no, that's, like, people would be like, wow, somebody will come listen to you do your podcast. Nah, people will come and hang out with each other while you do your podcast. That's what it is. It's a beautiful thing, man. So then let me ask as a fan, do you do more of these then? Or do you think that North Carolina and your relationship with that community was part of why that night felt special?

I think it worked there, but also, yes, I do more. Or, you know, I guess you haven't made it out, but like we do the dinner and the show in New York every now. We've done the Evening Jones Live where I got my spot in Brooklyn and we'll do it where we got a dinner downstairs for 20. And then we'll come up, have halftime, shall we say. And then I'll do take questions basically for about an hour, give a take. We get hold about 50 people in there. And then we do that. And I love watching the people talk to each other, right?

So I can do it in certain circumstances. I find I'm a bit more anxious about strangers. Like when I walked in that room, I felt like I was walking a wrong way on a freeway. I was like, I walked in the door, and I felt like everything was coming at me. I was kind of freaking out where I'm like, hey, hey, let's walk over this way.

Like, I got my buddy Dimitri, who was running the show, and Dimitri, a big dude, right? And that helps because when you have a big dude walk with you, they think he's security. And so I was like, hey, we're going to make a hard walk this way, and then a hard move that way. And then ain't nobody, you know, Like I need to throw the hood on and I ain't nobody going to mess with me because they know I got this big baldheaded man with me.

They know what body doing with walking with a big ballheaded white man. They know what time it is, right? But no, like I appreciate, especially at this point in my career where I'm just like, hey, I played, I did my big room phase. I'm back to playing like concert halls and allegedly speaking, civic centers. And I'm good with that, right? And it just is a different vibe. And I want my work to encourage community in that way. Because we work at ESPN, that's not how it goes, right?

That's McDonald's. Like, this is, this is, we do it something different. I would like my work to serve that because then I can find something that's a little bit fulfilling out of it. And we all get something. And it reminds me of back in the day with the morning Jones and all that stuff. You know what I'm trying to start doing more of now, or at least what I've made a decision to be more intentional on is going to more conferences and festivals.

tell you something, man. I took my ass to Sundance this year and probably one of the best decisions I've made professionally in the last decade. Just to just be... So I'm in this movie Love Brooklyn. And when I say in it, I mean like three scenes. But I'm in the movie

and Andre Holland is starring in it with Nicole Bihari and DuWanda Wise. And they go, hey man, the film got selected for Sunday. dance, you in the movie, you're going to come to sundance, you're welcome to come to sun. I'm like, all right, I'll go to Utah. I get there, and I don't know if it's the altitude or what. I don't know, like, once you get over like 6,000 feet, just everything is just happy, but to just be around like-minded people who were all just excited about film and indie film

and creating and it didn't feel annoying. Because, you know, like some of these conferences, man, I ain't going to name names, but some of these conferences, they feel like a bunch of people clout chasing and a bunch of people trying to just swap business cards real fast. But like, this was like you turn to the left and see John Hamm and Bill Murray. You know, you turn to the right, you know, you see I-O. And then you just see three young 20-year-olds from Chicago who just made a short film that got in the joint. So the idea of just being around people that are all into the same thing, man, I think I got to do more of that and less comedy festivals.

And everybody loves a good out of town trip from church camp all the way up. Everybody loves a good out of town trip. I ain't talk about you right now. I'll just talk about the world. You dare right. I need to start going to more conventions. Not as you bring it. up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that's, that's going to be my move, man. That's going to be my move

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on Celebrity Jeopardy because you went on Celebrity Jeopardy. First of all, I give you all the props of the world for going on Celebrity Jeopardy because I'm going to be honest with you. The reason I will not go on Celebrity Jeopardy is people will only tolerate victory for me. Like I feel like I'm going up there as the Yankees. The fans

expect a championship and if there's not a championship no matter what happens, they're going to be on my neck and what I don't want to be I'll never forget the first time I watched Celebrity Jeopardy. And all I remember is the runner up was Luke Perry and the champion was Cheech. Cheech from Cheech and Chong. Yeah, yeah, he won. Apparently he knows a lot of things.

And look, I'm not disrespecting Cheech. I'm just telling you right now. If I go on Celebrity Cheapy and lose to Cheech, I will never hear the end of this. and I already got to hear too much shit from people I don't respect. I went on because I was trying to raise money for an Alabama nonprofit. Oh, you don't even get to keep the money. Oh, hell no. None of these shows is all for charity.

I did Celebrity Rule of Fortune. I did 25K pyramid, all of that. It was charities. I see me eat Birmingham Urban League. Yeah, just. just charity. You want the money. Have you done any of, if you done any, what game show would you do then?

If not so it's funny. I need to do a game show where like there isn't a lot of skill involved. You know what I'm saying? You're just out here messing around on television. Like pyramid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I just feel like we just here to have a good time. And I'd be honest with you, my real brain knew that you'd have to give the money to charity.

I don't know why for this brief moment. I was like, damn, I don't even get to. keep the money? I have never felt more capitalist in my life. I would do celebrity family feud. Yeah, I would do that. But I would do that. Would you take family? That's the issue. Is that I think about some of my family and I'm like,

I don't know if they would like, like, you got to feel like people will embarrass you a little bit, you know? Like, I would for sure have my uncle Derek. He QB1 because he's going to say all the ignorant shit that makes Steve Harvey walk off. Yes. That's my uncle off the top. My mom is the in but because she's an intellectual, she's going to think too long. She's not good under person.

My mama know everything, but she don't know it. Not in five seconds. I don't know. Jeopardy was fine. The issue was the buzzer. It's just hard to buzz in on Jeopardy. That's the only thing. But, I mean, it was a good time.

I looked up because they had two categories where your boy was able to come back. They had chess, which I pulled with myself. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to show him the other one right now. HBCUs. HBCUs 200.

Showcased in the Dark Homecoming, her epic 2018 Coachella gig was a loving tribute to HBCU culture. Roy. Who is Beyonce? Yes. HBCU's 400. Founded mostly at HBCUs, the so-called Divine Nine includes four of these groups. Kamala Harris is in Alpha Kappa Alpha, which is one of them. Roy.

What are sororities? You got it. HBCU 600? Need to locate an alum of this revered D.C. School? Just shout out H.U. Any bison who hears you will shout back, you know. Phoebe. What is Howard University?

Right. HBCUs 800. This state has the most HBCUs. 14, including Talladega College and Selma University. Roy. What is Alabama? Right. HBCUs 1,000.

Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson all attended this Atlanta school, the largest men's college in the U.S. Roy. What is Morehouse College? That's right. Okay. I got two observations here, right? Okay. Okay. Number one, when you didn't get that one answer and I wasn't looking, but I heard Phoebe, I was like, oh, and then Phoebe turned out to be black, so it was kind of okay. There we go. And it was technically a Beyonce question. That really wasn't the HBCU. It was. And number two, and this is a big one. Brother, you was a lot. in. You were taking Celebrity Jeopardy. What of my favorite things about Celebrity Jeopardy is how all the funny people are locked in. You see them just paying hard attention. Because all we do is be funny all the time.

So a comedian, I want y'all to know I know some shit. Watch this. Watch me know some stuff. I'm smart too. Yes. Smart people want to be seen. Like, everybody want to be seen as something other than what they know for. Yeah. That's why rappers want to act.

That's why singers want to rap. That's why basketball players want to do karaoke and all of that. It's just one big circle jerk. Also, it's the Black College category, bro. If I get any of these wrong. Yes. If I get any of these wrong. Yes.

Yes. If me and Phoebe let that white man from English teacher buzz in on any of these. It's disrespect. But don't you have to worry. You was talk about how that category people were like it was a little bit too easy. too easy for you. It was a $50 job breaker for the white people. Ain't nothing quite like when they got a black people category on Jeopardy. Man, we can run through that without even paying any attention. These white folks, they never heard of no Matthew Henson, right? If it's all us and they'd be

like, this man's coat and we all jumping in, because we all know that Matthew Henson, you know, even colder than fictional John Schaff, Matthew Henson got the coldest coat in the history of coats. By the way, I think I saw somewhere that Taraji Henson is some kind of kin to Matthew Henson. Okay. So, like, with that being said, then, if you're the Jeopardy clue people, do you make the clues so hard? Because I think somebody said in that Jeopardy TikTok, they were like, the question should have all been founders of HBCUs. And I'm like, wait a minute, muffling. Hang on now.

Because I don't know if I know all of them. I know. Oh, how, I can think of a couple. I know Mary Cloud Bethune. That was going there, one. And John Mercer Langston. I know Mr. Morehouse. I assume that's his name.

If I'm not mistaken, the dude they named Clark after it's a white man. So I don't even know if that's, see, that's wrong. That's also where this, there's also where this founder thing gets a little bit weird. Those aren't all black people's names on the marquee. Now, Morris Brown, that's a black man. if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. I don't know.

Yeah. And so that's why I was like, all right, look, some of these got, also, I think you have to think of Jeopardy in a way also as a tool to educate people who don't know basic things. If it's a predominantly white audience watching, they should know that Spike Lee and Sam Jackson and Dr. King all went to Morehouse. You know what else they should know? That makes perfect sense. I don't think everybody knows that.

No, not everybody knows that. even more of them should know that Spike took all of his mass communications classes at a school called Clark College because Morehouse did not have such a department at the time. So while he, and they love to talk about Spike Lee, he just went there. He actually learned things at my school. Yeah. Had to do it. Had to do it. Yeah. I, man, Jeopardy is one of them things where you be thinking that you smart as you, and you know the answer. You just can't buzz in fast enough. And then you look stupid. And it don't matter because in the eyes of the public, either you win or you lost. I won, thankfully. Yeah. So I get to go to the semifinals, but now you got to run it back and do it all over again.

But yeah, man, I'm straight serious face on that shit. So, you know, Katie Nolan did it. I think she finished third and it was fun because she was very Katie the whole way. And she started cooking. And you can see like the confidence get up and her and the energy and everything. And she, she really got to go. And it was really good to see her with that. I have had many thoughts about doing Jeopardy. So like something I remember when I was a teenager. My brother had come back to live at home for a little while. My brother 13 years older than me. I'm about 12.

By the way, experience I think that everybody should have is like a 25 year old coming back while you're 13 or whatever, that form of period in your life. Like that's the male influence. Like a time traveler showing up to tell you with the world. Yes. But that's the male influence that you need. And that was very helpful for me, whatever. But we used to watch the real world and he was like, let me tell you what I would do if I was on the real world.

Number one, I'll add everybody that lives in the house. By the time they, like the goal is to get kicked out. By the time they put me out of his house, like just the idea of just being a chaos agent, that would be his goal. When I watch Jeopardy, what I've never seen on Jeopardy is like an intimidator. No Dale Earnhardt, Michael Jordan type. where these people be looking straight ahead when the questions come. All you need to do is hear the questions. You ain't got to look.

You need to be like, that person's up on you. You need to be giving them the cold, hard stare. Yeah. Right? And when you get their mantis, hell yeah. Like nobody ever be out there talking no shit when they play Jeopardy or nothing. Like I would be the first person that's coming out there like Larry Bird, who finished in his second place today?

Somebody need to be that guy. You come in and just start getting people mentally. Now, if we was playing for real money, I think I'd do that. I think I'd do that in the heartbeat. I'd tell you the one that's hard is a 25K pyramid because you're playing with somebody else and you're trying to help them win money. That's, to me, that's the most pressure field

of all the game shows. Because I got a question wrong. It was me and Michael Costa from Daily Show. And I can't remember if it was me and him, but we got one question wrong. Let's just say you're supposed to go six or six. the sixth question one of us gave a bad clue that wasn't clear enough and the lady missed it by like a beat missed out on like an extra 20k by half a second oh she was pissed and i don't i don't need that type of pressure in my life ma'am i'm here for charity and i got news for you i don't don't be too mad around me because that'd be funny i'm not i'm not i'm not here to improve the situation i'm not going to improve the situation i'm not i'm not going to improve the situation i'm not i'm not are not going to be helpful.

I watch most stuff to root against people, like, especially like, oh, you know what I love rooting against? Any live sports fan hit these shots to win this thing contest or run around the bases in this amount of time? They got one so cold-blooded. I think it's the Mets that do it. Might be the Mets of the Yankees. It's for sure a New York team, right?

where they have two bases that are, let's just say, 17 seconds apart. The amount of time it would take a normal, physically fit human to run from here to here and back is 17 seconds. But then they get on the jumbotron and they go, you've got 15 seconds to go from here to here and you win the thing. And I ain't never seen a motherfucker do it. It's always 16. It's like a carnival game where it's crooked.

and you know nobody can do this unless you just fucking... The basketball rim like this big. Yeah. Like the amount of speed you would have to possess to run between those two distances, you would be a prospect. Like it's like Wesley Snipes, Willie Mays, Willie Mays, hey, show up in your pajamas, running sprints major league to type speed.

And I laugh every time because them kids be crushed. And I'm like, these are kids, bro. And y'all got these buggers out here running gassers. for t-shirts that ain't even they size. Gassers. I guess we can't call them. It's suicides. Yeah, I don't know we can call for that no more.

It's the baseball equivalent of baseline free throw, baseline half court back, and you have 17 seconds, whatever the number is, it's unreasonable. It's unreasonable. They got that beat the freeze. I love that. I love when the fans,

how has nobody pulled a hammy? Because these people don't stretch. That is a great question. Now, I believe my buddy Billy Gill for the Lepatar show beat the Freeze. They had set up some competition because quietly, I want to say Billy was a pole Walter at Florida International. Oh, see, that's not fair. Yeah, so Billy, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, the Freeze played something too.

But on one level, it's not fair. On the other hand, Billy White Cuban. So, like, Billy beating the Freeze is something. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. That's fair. I mean, but them pole vault just got that long gate, though. They, they got, they ain't got the regular, like, quick sprint. To this day, I want to know who the person is that invented that shit.

Because you want to talk about something, the trial and error portion of the formation of the activity, the juice not being worth the squeeze. Like, who is the person that was like, no, I'll do it again? I don't, like, what do they win if they beat this dude? Because you're just pulling random hours. alcoholics out the crowd who haven't stretched and then just go race this black man. Yes. And go. Yes.

And what I also love is that doesn't the freeze still have like a regular job at the stadium? Like doing like groundskeeping. Like it's not just like Philly fanatic where this is all you do. It's you do shit to the six end and they go, hey, you go change until your, your fucking hero. Hey. Put the goggles on. and that's a long run too. That running around the fence is not short.

Oh, bro, you go foul pole to foul pole. That's literally what the pitchers do to warm up to get their leg strength. And you're just going to do this out the stands. Throwing a first pitch without stretching your arm is hard enough. You got to, like, I'm shocked that the beat the freeze promotion has not resulted in torn hamstrings and lawsuits and liability. Show me to waiver. I want to see the waiver. I want to see to waver.

It's got to be five pages. It's got to be five pages. But I love it. I love when regular people try to do professional athletic feats and they fail and it's entertaining. It's cool when they win every now and then you need somebody to hit the half-court shot to get the car and good for you. But for the most part, I'll tell you who does it right is the Knicks.

Y'all, I was at a Knicks game on Monday and I was shocked how invested I was in their Cardiffel games. The Knicks, I don't know how they know that these people don't have a jumper, but they know how to pick them. The Knicks will pick somebody who look like they can hoop. And then they go, you got to hear a layup and a free throw. And you win a gazillion billion trillion. And that motherfucker will brick 40 layups in a row in 30 seconds and go,

I'm sorry, here's a T-shirt that's not in your size. Thanks for playing. Hey, when the last time you went to the Knicks game? Two weeks ago, Nick's Hawks on Martin Luther King. Because you and I went to a Knicks game a couple years ago, and we both had the same observation, which was it's like, well, it was your observation and I agree with it. It's like being around 20,000 people who have money on the game.

I've never been anywhere where the audience was more invested in the sporting event and pay closer attention than the Knicks game. Maybe it's because the tickets cost so much money. I've just never seen that. Hey, man, let me tell you something. That was before the Knicks got good. Being there when the Knicks are good, hey, man, that's a whole different situation.

It's no more of an exciting place to watch a sport than basketball in Madison Square Garden. Yes. And when the Knicks are good, boy, they get mad. Oh, they get mad. Let me ask you this about the Knicks as a team, though. Have you noticed Jalen Brunson? Like, he's always been a leader,

but I noticed Brunson is doing more of a good cop in between the play. Like, at the Hawks game, Kat caught a couple tech or whatever. Cat caught a tech, and then Brunson immediately was over there, a good cop, hey, officer, there's no need to send my friend to jail. Don't throw him out the game. Like, there's a degree of leadership between the whistles that I'm noticing from Jalen Brunson now as well that I thought was like really dope to see his evolution over the, like just his journey through maturity, you know, as a leader on the team. But they're fun to watch. It's weird because I didn't grow up a Knicks fan, but I'm raising one.

So it's like I got to like, I can't not care. And also the alternative is I'm not raising a Charlotte Hornets fan. I wouldn't do that to my son. That's not. You know, that was a burden of your father carried. I'm here to free you. I will say this. And this is an important thing about Knicks fans.

And it's a lot, it's, I think this applies to a lot of things, generally speaking, about New Yorkers. It's a lot better when you hear. The Knicks fans that you meet out in the wild in other places, they really give a, New Yorkers, generally speaking, the New Yorkers who aren't here give a real bad rap to the New Yorkers who are here. Let me tell you something. I realize this.

weekend in North Carolina, brother. I have become a New Yorker. And people can say that you're not a New Yorker. If you're not born here, I hear you. I'm just saying I got to North Carolina and I get off the plane and I get to my hotel and three different people said hello to me. And my immediate thought was, why all these people talking to me? And I said, oh, shut your website. That's right. We talk to each other. That's how this works. And I was like, oh, okay, it's been eight years. New York it is. That's me. Am I a New Yorker? They help me understand. understand this. I was born in New York. I did not know that. We immediately went to the South when I was eight months old. My parents separated shortly after I was born. My mama said,

fuck you. I'm going to Memphis and I'm getting a graduate degree at Memphis State. Then second grade, third grade, my parents reconcile. And at that point, my pops that left WCBS and was now in Birmingham. And we moved to Birmingham. And that's where I was raised. But now I'm back in New York. So am I technically in New York? Like, you know, I don't know. I don't know. I've been here a decade. I've, I claim South. I am

South. South is what I, you know I mean? Like, I just, I feel like the person that was raised by different family and now I'm back home and it's very odd. And, you know, now I get to raise my son as a New Yorker, but, you know, I still like

cheese grits. Yeah, yeah. Like, I'm from where I'm from. But in the present tense, you know, like there's a permanence to the beginning. But I have to be honest about like, no, I'm, I'm at this place now where people say stuff like, I don't understand how you buy groceries and you ain't got no car. And my answer is, you just do. Like all these things that seem completely foreign to me, I'm like, yeah, no, no, you just do it. It's not as hard as you think.

I remember explaining to somebody the other day. The train's easy. I did ride the train the first year and a half I was in the city. and now I'm the person going, train easy. Why are you scared of the train? This is when I knew something else was happening with me deep down the side of money. I wore a bubble vest in Alabama,

which essentially, the sleeveless joint, which is essentially me saying, I'm not one of you. Yes. And that's not what I was trying to say. It's just this is what I wear up there and it's fine. Well, I can't tell of what you were saying is that you was an underground rapper or that you just invested in a fund that owns these people's

mortgages. My mama said I'm too old to be wearing stuff that, how does she put it? You're too old to be wearing garments that ain't complete. You know, black mamas want you to have something on you. You can put something on your arms. Yes. Right your chest out, boy. Yes. Yeah. I love this city. The Knicks are a tough love organization, but they are good. They are competitive. I'm curious to see who else gets traded over the next couple of days, though I don't think the Knicks are going to really make any moves. I mean, the Luca shit is, that's a West problem. And low-key, I still think the Spurs are built for the, when I say long run, I mean, like the next three years. Omar coming.

Look, Omar is, oh, Omar. Give Winbingyama one more year. Omar is. Oh, my coming. Look, if Deeran Fox is willing to throw some oops, because that was my problem with the Spurs, all these dudes I ain't never heard of, not try to throw the ball to the dude that's taller than the goal.

I don't really understand logically where you guys are coming from here. It seems like a great way for everybody to make a lot of money. How do we got three dudes on the team, averaging 10 assists a game? Because all we do is throw the ball, up to the dude that's taller than the gold. That is what I would do. That is Roy Wood. Check him out. Lonely Flowers on Hulu. The special is excellent. I have watched it. I enjoyed it. Congratulations. I'm proud of you for making that happen. You out here doing celebrity jeopardy. You out here

hanging at Sundance. You know what I say? You're living the life. That was a good time, man. It was a good January. Happy final Black History month to you, Beaumani. That's a podcast for another day. Brother, it's been a, it's been a, okay, I'm just going to say this right fast. It's not a political observation. It is a politician, but not a political observation. Okay. My thought was that Trump could not win in this third election because I didn't think anybody was capable of holding the American attention through three elections, through three election cycles.

I just thought that anybody would burn out. But what I forgot was they had. de-platformed that man for them four years. And what I don't think people had thought about was that actually gave people a break. They got a reprieve. They kind of forgot what it was like.

Dog, these last two weeks have, I can't think of any analogy of somebody coming back and just being like, damn! Was it? Yeah. Because I don't think it was like, I don't think it felt like this the last time.

It feels more organized, bro. Like, I still think all that, like, Panama Canal, we're going to buy Greenland. All that's just smoke screen for whatever policy is going to come down once he get all this folks in order. Once you get the confirmation hearings done. But in the meantime, enjoy y'all's vacation down in the Gulf of America. Look, all I'm saying is this.

They was like, hey, what happened with that plane crash? And he was like, black people breathe air for free. Y'all just going to let that slide? Yep. Yep. D and I. And then they go, ha-ha, it really. was a woman pilot. Okay, but she still meant all of the qualifications to be in that seat at that

particular point to run that drill. So that would say she was still qualified. Look, man, this is my thing. I think the best Chappelle show sketch, like the actually most ingenious one was Black Bush, Black Trump. I don't even know if it's possible to do that. Like, it would, three more years, brother. Enjoy. Yeah, man. Go to some country down in the Gulf of America and hide out. Oh, man, I'm from Texas. We used to go to the beach at Galveston. And let me tell you something.

Hey, not once. Have we ever wanted our name on that water? Not one single time have we wanted our name for the I had always assumed that calling it the Gulf of Mexico was a strategic dodge. It was all about our brand. It's their fault that the water is shitty.

Not we're going to claim it. What are we doing? Oh my goodness. Sean, prize picks now, please. Yeah, tough to follow up

with prize picks after that. But you're going to do it. I'm going to do it. Patrick Mahomes, thanks to prize picks, 0.5 pass yards. That's all you need. So I'll take more there.

Saquan Barkley. 0.5 rush reception touchdowns. I'll take more. Jalen Hertz. I expect a tush push in the Super Bowl. So 0.5 rush reception touchdowns. I will take more there. All right.

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