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--:-- Mick Hunt: Because great leaders don't avoid tough conversations. They grow through them. Mojo offers educational psychological support and is not a substitute for medical care. 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 Fathers.
--:-- Mick Hunt: 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., how you doing?
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I appreciate you. I appreciate you. I appreciate you more, man. Good to see you. 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 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Like we didn't have a lot of people. I'm just going to be blunt and honest that 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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, 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 in the gumption, you have to be a little crazy to bet on yourself. That's inherent.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: But I think that the belief that, oh, I could do this, that didn't come for me. That came for Ricky Smiley. I saw Ricky Smiley on TV in the late 90s, and he was repping 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 like oh bet you can be from 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 doubt I had about whether or not I belonged in entertainment gone.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 like there was there was a thousand people that were like oh yeah 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 goat I appreciate you man I appreciate you man yes sir yes sir.
--:-- Mick Hunt: 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?
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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, then mission accomplished.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Because a lot of people don't know what's happening 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. I'm a hammer and a nail. I'm not a screwdriver. I'm not an Allen wrench. I don't know. I do none of that. I can crack a joke. You know, I can probably make that work.
--:-- Mick Hunt: Let's talk about your journey a little bit, man. Like from intern, the internship that you created, right? 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. Talk to the folks about that journey just a little bit. What inspired you to create this internship for yourself to begin with?
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Negro, I had to graduate. The hell you mean? It wasn't like I was, I'm going to leave a path for the next intern. I don't give a damn. By nobody else. There were a couple of 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 used one of them on campus amongst other stuff or whatever.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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, little Negro. So we don't 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: So within the campus version of probation, you can take your classes. But when you leave, when you're done with like essentially a family, if you're on any type of behavior probation, you can go to class. You can go to the library. Take 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 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 timeframe we're talking about, it was, you got to go home.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 like, 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: We haven't thought that deep about our policy yet, Roy, 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 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 two 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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, all the shifts at the radio station have been signed up for.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Yeah. So either I give up comedy or I have to get a radio or I have to get an internship at an outside radio station. 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, but I can't come here in the middle of the day on a weekday.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 newsman. 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 call. I listened to the breakfast buffet and I listened to Tom Joyner. Tom Joyner had news. The breakfast buffet didn't. So about a month into getting back into school, I ride my bike over to Hot 105.7.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 flunked his class. I was a terrible student. But off the strength of my pops, it was enough of a voucher. where I felt confident going, step in the van.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I go, yo, man, our pops used to know each 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 Krispy Kremes every day and I'll see you at 5:15 sharp.
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--:-- Mick Hunt: That's all lowercase, Notion.com forward slash Mick to try our new AI teammate, Notion Agent today. And when you use our link, you're supporting our show, Notion.com forward slash Mick. 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 I got a little iced coffee and you know homophobia and so I ain't saying this is true I'm just telling you what I was thinking I just feel like Go get me one of them gay coffees that I like, that I don't drink in public, little Negro.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 and emailing them to them. You could tell 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 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. And under 90 seconds, man, I was cold with it.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: My co-host the co-host 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, crack the jokes, do the skits, write the parody songs and I just got to sit and watch him. I just watched him for two hours because I were I was only doing this other thing I was only doing news on on the 10 and the 40 the rest of the time I'm just shutting up.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I'm just, I'm, I'm 19. I'm just quiet. And I'm watching two grown men just hold court with the community. And, and so Gilmore, because he was a school teacher, first bell is 8:30. So 8:15, he out the door. So from 8:15 to 10 AM, it's just Van hosting the show.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: And after a couple of months and, and Gilmore and I would start interacting in our news reports, 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 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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, 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: So in the 8:30 to 10 a.m. timeframe, I started kind of co-hosting the whole show with Van. And that night, that 8:30 to 10 a.m. timeframe, those air checks, which is for people don't know, that's like your audio resume when you work in television or any, any, any form of broadcasting, you send them an air check, which is just samples of you being on air, being good at your job.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Yeah. That time from 8:30 to 10 AM, 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 the news and then just watched cats do radio all day and then slowly got to step my toe into the water until I was knee deep, until I was waist deep, until I was scuba diving.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: And I also have to give a shout out to DJ Dapp at Hot 105.7 because DJ Dapp, Dapp 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 and when the DJs would come in and live mix you know five o'clock traffic jam mix or whatever.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I would watch them. It was, man, it was on some Star Wars, Luke going to see Yoda in the Dagobah system type stuff, man. I really learned the craft of radio inside out from that, from that building, man. It's gone now. I think it's, but it was, it was a special place to me on the Appalachian Parkway, man. It really was.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Man, I, 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? 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: And that's why, again, you're my favorite comedian because of that. Like, When I'm watching a Roy Wood Jr. 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 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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. So my third hour special, Imperfect Messenger, which I did in 2021, 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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. And the audience went with me on it.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Because you were there, you are 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 a black-owned music store and they carried my prank phone call albums on consignment.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: The sales I ran through that is the only reason my album got into every major music outlet in the state was because of the numbers, the sales numbers they reported on my product, which ultimately helped my growth, helped my career. So, dang, this person who helped me is dead.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 full-blown storytelling comedian. Like, I don't know.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: There's something uncomfortable about dealing with emotion. It's very delicate because you're manipulating the audience in a way. 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 that'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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I'm giving it to you. I'm giving you your flowers, not the lonely ones. I'm giving you the big, beautiful flowers. Right. But watching your specials helped me as a speaker, just with pace, just with slowing down and let the story tell, like let the points that you're trying to hit, like tell, cause I'm not a comedian, but again, I do inspirational speaking. I do leadership development, same concept, right?
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: To me being on stage is stories and points. Les 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 helped me bring that aspect of that to life. So I'm giving you kudos for that. Thank you.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Number two, you're dorm room famous, bro. 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 only to play your prank call CD.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: And so their dorm rooms used to be part of the albums on like the seventies. Everybody crowd around the record player. Yes, sir. So, so you were 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. I pulled a lot of prank calls off offline. I pulled all the albums off of digital stuff.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I think you can stream my stuff maybe, but most all of my pranks is underground now. Matter of fact, I'm positive you can't purchase my albums anymore. I went through a phase about 10 years ago. This is a year or two before I got Daily Show. And I'd done so many prank calls. I had three albums, so that's about 40, 50 pranks.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 the prank call dude. And I was having a fear that that was going to be my fate. Yeah. And a lot of people showed love because of the pranks, but I also had a decade worth of standup appearances within that run.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 cable and still around 2013, 2014, a lot of people knew me for the pranks, which I respected and I loved, but I got to draw your focus to something else.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: So I have to make this harder to find because the money I'm making off these pranks, if I'm not careful will be the only money I make because people won't even think of me in this, 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: You know, you gotta 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. And you're seen as something that you may as well be the hula hoop in their garage or something.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: So yeah, I love that the youngins have found them. I know people put them on TikTok now and they put videos with them. And I've like my prank calls that I just call it. That's that's open source code. That open source comedy code for anybody that want And as much stuff as I bootlegged and stole immediately you know know how many movies I never paid for in the years prior to me knowing better.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: I look at my prank calls just being decimated all over the place and monetized by these people. Have you ever felt like the banking system is stacked against you? I remember overdraft fees hitting me at the worst time and feeling like I was always playing catch up with my money. That's why I love Chime.
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--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: That's chime.com slash mick. Chime. Feels like progress. The holidays are approaching, and everyone knows that this time of year, the sooner you can get things done, the better. For both shoppers and businesses, the best time to score great deals during the holidays is during that Black Friday, Cyber Monday weekend.
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--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Get the game back. It is. It's just a prank call. It wasn't nothing I wrote, worked hard at. I called somebody at 6:20 in the morning. They cussed me out. I uploaded it as an MP3. You're welcome. If you make you feel good, have at it. I really do feel like that's just kind of my way of just giving back.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: There's people who know my name and don't know my face. People from your children's generation. They still know me as the prank call dude, but now when you find out, oh, I've done all this other stuff, well, now it's set up the way I want. Yes, sir. Yeah.
--:-- Mick Hunt: Now let's talk about The Man of Many Fathers. Man, I'm so proud of you for this book. 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Man, I appreciate it. We'll see, as they say, prayerfully. 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 or a coach or an older comedian that I might've been opening for.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: 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 on both sides. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
--:-- Mick Hunt: So has your son read any of it yet? 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 maybe someone that maybe 13, 40 better not cuss at me ever you know cuss at other folks do that whenever you want but I'm your daddy I still put hands on you I'm also the man of many hands okay that's book number two.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: Yeah, I think like 13, 14 is probably a pretty good crossroad for him to understand most of these lessons of what I was doing and what my world was like. But yeah, having a child really did redefine and really change my trajectory and the things that I hold important in terms of the things that I choose to talk about now.
--:-- Roy Wood Jr.: So I'm very excited for the book. I think it's just fun. It's it's concise it's an easy read but yeah I just think that if you're asking for the bare bones inspiration for
