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Speaker 2 Best to you out there in the podcast universe. Welcome to a TCB Infomercial Tuesday.
So happy to have you here. We are very excited because I think maybe

Speaker 2 the guest gods are smiling on us this year in 2025. Not that they haven't in the past.
But we're going to start off with a bang. We had Felipe Esparsa, but he was recorded back before 2025.

Speaker 2 And now, today, Roy Wood Jr. Roy Wood Jr.
Who I have often said is Roy Jones Jr., but that's a different guy altogether. My old brain doesn't work so well.

Speaker 2 I told Esther this morning, I'm like, I'm so excited. We're talking to Roy Jones Jr.
She's like, it's Roy Wood Jr. And I was like, yeah, oh, yeah, that's a boxer, Roy Jones Jr.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he tried to say that the other day. That's what happens when you get old.
You start mixing names up.

Speaker 2 Roy Wood Jr. is coming in to talk to us.
Daily Show Fame. Daily Show host.

Speaker 2 Last Comic Standing has had a number of specials out there.

Speaker 2 RoyWoodjr.com is where you can go to find out all the information, including on the 17th of January, his new special on Disney's Hulu, Lonely Flowers. And I'm really excited to see the new special.

Speaker 2 I watched clips of it. A couple of months ago, I watched his, I guess, the most recent special after that, No One Here Wants You or No One Wants You or something like that.

Speaker 2 And it was an hour of hilarity. He is really good at what he does.

Speaker 2 And he was in a huge room. I mean, it might must have been 5,000, 6,000 people.
Anyway, he's extremely popular. You know him from the Daily Show,

Speaker 2 The Correspondence Dinner. He's on CNN.

Speaker 2 Oh, Oh, yeah, he does that thing on CNN too. Yeah, where he does weekly quiz about the news.
I read, I haven't seen it, but I read that he also did a BBC version of that same show, also.

Speaker 2 So there you go. So he's all over the place.
Started off in morning radio. He did in Birmingham, Alabama.
Buck Wild. Buck Wild.
Is that Memphis or Birmingham, Alabama?

Speaker 2 I can't remember which one was the Buck Wild show. Yeah, I think it might have been Memphis.
God, that's got to be a really difficult job.

Speaker 2 He was a show.

Speaker 2 He was a writer on a morning show. A writer on a morning show.
That'd be like being a writer on the commercial break.

Speaker 2 How do you do that? Where do you even start? What are you writing about? I guess anything flies.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I guess you just like look at things, you know, look at the news and you have, but he's much more funny than we'll ever be. So there you go.

Speaker 2 But that's not, that's not an extremely high bar to get. There he is.

Speaker 2 So I don't know.

Speaker 2 But I did want to mention on a serious note, you know, Los Angeles is right now, as we're recording this, engulfed in flames.

Speaker 2 And they, by some accounts, may take weeks to kind of get all the hotspots tampered down. And let's hope that the Santa Ana wins are

Speaker 2 with the people of Los Angeles and that these fires settle down just a little bit. I'm going to put a link in the show notes to an organization that is helping people

Speaker 2 find shelter if they don't have shelter. There's a lot of people out there that have been affected by this that probably are not going to have a hard time finding shelter.
It's Pacific Palisades.

Speaker 2 It's a very rich,

Speaker 2 affluent, Ponce area, a beautiful area of Los Angeles. Such a shame because it really is very just out there months ago and man, we drove through the Pacific Palisades.
It's gorgeous.

Speaker 2 We have friends that live out there. People that work with the show live out there and everybody in Los Angeles is really scared right now.
And so we're going to put a link in the show notes.

Speaker 2 to an organization that is helping people find shelter if their homes or their apartments or whatever have been set on fire. This is the time when we all need to pull it together.

Speaker 2 I I mean, imagine if you live near a major metropolitan city, imagine that your city was just engulfed in flames with

Speaker 2 zero opportunity. I mean, you can have all the firefighters in the world.

Speaker 2 When flames are out of control like that, you just need helicopters to keep dumping water and hope that, you know, your house doesn't go up in flames.

Speaker 2 So our hearts are with the people of Los Angeles right now and our friends and family that are out there. And

Speaker 2 I really hope that these people find some relief because it's terrible. Quite frankly,

Speaker 2 I thought Roy lived in Los Angeles. He's in New York.

Speaker 2 We think. We don't know.
I mean, he's coming on the show, so I'm assuming he's not in any kind of danger, though. We have had guests that have canceled because they are in danger.

Speaker 2 So we know this situation is very serious. So, oh, and one more thing I wanted to shout out.
My wife sent this to me this morning.

Speaker 2 I think this will probably still be the fact when this comes out, just a couple days later, is that Airbnb is now offering free shelter to anyone that has been displaced by those fires.

Speaker 2 You can contact, you can go to Airbnb Airbnb website if you live in Los Angeles and fill out some forms.

Speaker 2 I think I went on there earlier and you fill out some forms and then they will get you in touch.

Speaker 2 No charge. There's no charge.
I don't know how long that's going to last for. That is an amazing thing, quite frankly, that Airbnb is doing.

Speaker 2 And while I've had my gripes with Airbnb in the past, I would say that if I was in that situation, I would be kissing the feet of Airbnb for allowing me and my family members.

Speaker 2 to have some shelter during this situation. It's crazy.
Yeah, it really is. And we're here complaining about snow.
We're here complaining about one quarter inch of snow. And, you know,

Speaker 2 it's apocalyptic in Los Angeles. I saw those flames over the comedy show.
The before and after

Speaker 2 of some of that stuff is just awful. I mean, there's quite a few landmarks that are just completely gone.
I know they're really like the Getty, I think, museum was

Speaker 2 around it got burned, but they were managed to save the museum from any kind of damage. Yeah.
It's scary. It is really scary.

Speaker 2 And, you know, know, I know they deal with this all the time out there, but it's, you know, you can predict a hurricane. You know what hurricane season is.
You know when a hurricane's coming.

Speaker 2 You can predict a snowstorm. You see it coming down the pike.
Even tornadoes, there's favorable conditions for this or that, even though there's a little bit more random.

Speaker 2 But earthquakes and fires, two things they deal with very frequently over there, there is no rhyme or reason. And once a fire gets going, remember Backdraft? the movie

Speaker 2 backdraft was this movie you can go watch a ron harwood ron howard film and they talked about in the the movie how the fire had a personality and it moved up the wall and it took on a life of its own.

Speaker 2 It was a change, this way, changed that way,

Speaker 2 go that way, and it could move like a person, and all this other stuff. And I thought it was kind of hanky-panky, you know, hokey-pokey bullshit when I first watched it.

Speaker 2 But I've come to believe over the years as I've watched some of these wildfires unfold on the news that it's true. Like, fire just kind of takes on a personality of its own.

Speaker 2 And then it, you know, dry conditions, wind, I mean, it can go anywhere. I think I talked about this when it happened, but when the Hawaii fire happened, when the Maui fire happened,

Speaker 2 our neighbors,

Speaker 2 his brother, which I won't get into too much detail, but his brother, they lived out there. Their house burned down.

Speaker 2 They were in a car with all of their young children driving through a nightmarish hellscape of fire all around them at as fast as they could to save themselves from burning and watching their home and their business go up in flames.

Speaker 2 And we had a chance just to talk to them briefly about this. And those, I don't know how the kids will ever recover from seeing that.

Speaker 2 And so anyway, listen, I don't need to dwell on the negative, but if you can do some positive, because we know the TCB audience can do some positive when we put our minds together,

Speaker 2 please go do that. We'll put links in the show notes.
Let's get on to happier things.

Speaker 2 Well, hold on. I have to say on the subject that Jeff and I were talking last night about it, and we were like, it got us thinking, like, if we had to get out right now, what would we take?

Speaker 2 And it's a good exercise in

Speaker 2 what's essential and absolutely necessary that you would,

Speaker 2 you know, we have a location. Stuff is just stuff in the end.
But we have a location in our house where we keep some stuff that is the stuff that I want to take if I can take it.

Speaker 2 And if I can't take it, I have a picture of it, a copy of it,

Speaker 2 and medications on standby if you need them to take them or like, you know, an EpiPen or whatever we have in a bag that we can, a go bag that we can, we can go.

Speaker 2 We have a little bit thought this through, but God bless. Thank God we're not in that situation.
We're actually going to be the opposite.

Speaker 2 Instead of running from our homes, we're going to be staying in our homes for the next couple of days as we try and get through, you know, whatever, snow apocalypse 2025 or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 Anyway, let's get on to happier things. Roy Wood Jr., former host, rotating host of the Daily Show.
You know him. You know Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr.

Speaker 2 is very famous and he's blessed us by agreeing to come on our show. And so let's do this.
Why don't we take a break?

Speaker 2 And when we get back from that break, through the magic of telepodcasting, we'll be in conversation. Telepodcasting.
You haven't noticed over all these interviews that that's how I say it.

Speaker 2 I have, but I'm just

Speaker 2 guts to show, just like Astrid. Chrissy is usually tuned out of everything I'm saying.
She's learned to tune my voice out.

Speaker 2 But the magic of telepodcasting, Roy Wood Jr., after these words, we'll be back.

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Speaker 1 Thanks for coming on the show, man. This is a honor and a pleasure.
We are big fans, and thank you for agreeing to spend a little time with

Speaker 1 these clowns over here. Hopefully you're not out in L.A.
Are you in LA? Yeah, that's the question. No, I'm in New York, thankfully, but I've got a lot of friends down bad out there.

Speaker 1 We're kind of still waiting for all the comedians to do a roll call. Yeah.
And we'll figure it out. You know,

Speaker 1 same as COVID. You know, there's a charity called Comedy Gives Back.
Yep. I remember.

Speaker 1 That did a huge telethon to make sure that entertainers, because you know, entertainment is the first thing to go when the world shuts down. So, you know, we'll look out for people.

Speaker 1 I know that they're, you know,

Speaker 1 there is the assumption of, oh, it's all rich houses. So they're all straight.
It ain't all rich people up there. So,

Speaker 5 yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 I was just out there a couple of months ago, or maybe like six months ago, eight months ago. It's not all rich people.
And even

Speaker 1 in rich communities, there are people who service those communities and people who work in those communities and people who live in the. Your job was in this place.
That building burnt down too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And that is a terrible thing. Those images are apocalyptic.
They really are.

Speaker 1 And to think that it's happening in a major metropolitan city, it'd be like if it'd be like the Great Fire of Chicago or something. That's right.
Stop looking. I stopped looking.

Speaker 1 And then the thing that got me mad about all of the fires in Los Angeles is,

Speaker 1 how can I put this?

Speaker 1 Do you remember when there would be a tragedy in this country? There would be a tragedy. And then we would all cry and the news would cover it.

Speaker 1 And then there would be all the magazine articles that show you all the bullets or photographs of the tragedy. And then we would move on from that tragedy.
And then about a year after that tragedy,

Speaker 1 then you would get the conspiracy theories. Then those people would come out and go, hey, man, what happened didn't really happen.
And you go, oh, tell me more. But now...

Speaker 1 The fucking

Speaker 1 conspiracies are happening in real time with the fucking information. Motherfucker,

Speaker 1 let people get through this shit it seems real fishy that there there's a laser beam in that fire did you see that

Speaker 1 bro the fire's still going people are still trying to get out of their houses i was reading disrespect it's crazy i was reading that fucking x which is a cesspool of shit right now i'm sorry i just got to say it out loud i'm sure everybody's thinking it if they're not saying it out loud but i still go to x when these events happen because you can see things in real time and a lot of times at least in my algorithm you know I've it's been tailored to me, so I some of the noises flirted out, but it's Jewish space lasers already, and it's this stuff, and I think you're right about this.

Speaker 1 Everybody is so keen to be sure that they know something that everybody else doesn't, that they're fucking special, that they understand something everybody else doesn't understand.

Speaker 1 They're a moron, yeah. Like, imagine having the discussion about the melting point of steel on September 12th.

Speaker 1 At least you got the loose change documentary. What was that, like three years after the fact? Like, it was

Speaker 1 way after. Now we can dissect government conspiracy, but now everything is happening at the same time.

Speaker 1 And I say all that to say that when you start trying to place blame mid-tragedy, then you were taking focus away from the recovery efforts and people even the compassion needed for people to have

Speaker 1 for those people. So

Speaker 1 I don't like that. You are so so right about this.

Speaker 1 In Los Angeles, this is affecting people

Speaker 1 who have platforms. So I think it's like, or some people who have platforms.
So it's kind of out loud. It's a megaphone.
But they're still people. They still have homes with families.

Speaker 1 And, you know, yeah, okay, maybe they're, maybe some of those people will be able to recover and financially they'll take less of a hit than other people. But everybody gets caught up in it.

Speaker 1 It's a major metropolitan city. It's a heartbeat of this country.
And we should all care about the

Speaker 1 exacerbation of these things because of the way that we're shitting on the earth. We're handling it.
I'm doing it for sure. It's just, it's fucking morons yelling.

Speaker 1 The mayor

Speaker 1 cut the funding on the fire department. Which, if you dig deeper, it's not even a goddamn truth.
And there's a lot of money still given to the fire.

Speaker 1 So there's no space for

Speaker 1 truth because we don't even take time to

Speaker 1 feel

Speaker 1 anymore. I know it's scary.

Speaker 1 We don't care about folks.

Speaker 1 How did you get such an you

Speaker 1 know, when you were on the daily show, which is, I think, when a lot of us connected with you, right? And I know you've been doing this for a long time. No, but that's fair.

Speaker 1 It's fair to say, it's fair to say. Yeah.
Unless you watched me on Last Comic Standing Season 10.

Speaker 1 Or heard your morning show. Or heard your morning show.

Speaker 1 Alabama, you didn't. Buck Wild.

Speaker 1 We're in Atlanta. We're close to Alabama.
Yeah. I could have been over to Birmingham.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We actually met in the radio business.
So we know a thing or two about radio.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 when I connected in the daily show, you have such an interesting perspective on things. It's smart.
It's quick-witted. It's sharp.

Speaker 1 It is, I think, gentle enough that, or you're soft enough sometimes that I think it can be received no matter which perspective you have. And I think that is a mix that doesn't come around a lot.

Speaker 1 Where did you get this kind of world view? Is this just like life

Speaker 1 under your feet? Is this miles under your feet that gives you this?

Speaker 1 I grew up reading newspapers. I'm the child of a radio news journalist.
Your dad was very famous, right?

Speaker 1 And so, yeah, my dad was, you know, for his era, he was the first black in a lot of strange newsrooms, and he traveled the globe covering various conflicts.

Speaker 1 Got shot at pretty much everywhere, including America. Got shot at a lot of places.
He was covering bullshit. So I grew up in a house where larry king live was always on

Speaker 1 c-span yeah always on you know and granted it was in the back room and my dad was recording it but it was on yeah um

Speaker 1 you know that shaped a lot of just being curious about the world and like i remember i remember fourth grade man in the 80s everybody Everybody could write a rap song. Like the teacher, I don't know.

Speaker 1 It was one of those, if y'all stop being assholes, I'll let you rap.

Speaker 1 The teacher was bargaining with

Speaker 1 the business. Yes,

Speaker 1 you know, one of those smart. One of those dangerous minds Michelle, who's the actress? Michelle Pfeiffer.
Yeah, one of those Michelle Pfeiffer. Hey, you black kids in the inner city.

Speaker 1 Stop being mean.

Speaker 1 And I wrote a rap song about Michael Dukakis running against George Bush. Oh, my God.
I remember that. Everybody likes, I'm rapping.
I'm the hip of the hop of the basketball. There's my favorite spot.

Speaker 1 Just vote. Vote for the caucus of Bush and Quayle.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 that's me. That's who I've always been.
And so, you know, when I look at the world now, you know, I majored in journalism. You know,

Speaker 1 I had an eye for more quirky, weird stuff. I always enjoyed watching pieces by Jenny Moose on CNN,

Speaker 1 Kenny Main as well.

Speaker 1 People were a little quirk, a little different, their approach to the a little more kaleidoscopic in how they view things.

Speaker 1 So that's kind of where it came from. Were you a fan of Anthony Bourdain?

Speaker 1 No, loved Bourdain. Like, Bourdain is the gold standard for any shows that are pitched after him.
I couldn't agree with you. The Bourdain for this, the Bourdain for this.

Speaker 1 The only person that I think was more ahead of the curve than Anthony Bourdain in a way is Dave Vattel who had a show in Colombia Central called Insomniac. Right.

Speaker 5 I always watch that.

Speaker 1 And Insomniac, he would go around third shifts, various cities, and it was kind of part Bourdain, part dirty jobs. You're right about that.
It was a brilliant show. Brilliant show.
And it really was.

Speaker 1 I was just talking to one of somebody that works here with us, like a booking agent, and I was just, she was talking about Dave Vattel.

Speaker 1 And I was like, Dave Vattell, to me, is one of my heroes because, as a young man growing up, that show was mind-blowing.

Speaker 1 The fact that he could sit there and go with the garbage man in Manhattan for two hours, three hours on his shift, or go under the city and the sewers or whatever, make it funny, make it interesting, but then teach you something along the way was,

Speaker 1 it just broke the moment. Heckling tattoo artists, mint needles.
Are they poking people? Like, this man is psychotic, but he's great.

Speaker 1 So, this exploration of the world and what's going on and why things are the way they are, I had that. I get at the Daily Show.

Speaker 1 And what changed was the Daily Show, when you look at any world issue and you're trying to mine humor from it, right?

Speaker 1 The more painful and terrible and horrific the thing is, there's not pain in the actual thing. The jokes come in the causation or the prevention.
So interesting.

Speaker 1 If you're looking at, say, the LA fires, we could go back and roll back the clocks and look at Mayor Karen Bass and her her policies regarding firefunding. Find truth in that or not?

Speaker 1 Or you can go on the angle of conspiracy theorists muddying the information pool when people are trying to evacuate.

Speaker 1 So those are two realms where you could crack jokes safely, and it's not at the expense of the people that are suffering the most. The victims.
Yeah, so the Daily Show gave me an eye

Speaker 1 for that. Because Trevor Noah,

Speaker 1 my comedy before Daily Show was very angry I was rooted in anger anger was the main ingredient from which I mined the humor where you can change anger into why is or have you ever noticed and you can go to the same places and people are more inclined to receive that

Speaker 1 I think

Speaker 1 yeah I think that's that's a really keen observation and it's a keen way of looking at things and

Speaker 1 maybe that is part of the ingredient that attracts me to your comedy: is that it's not, you're not coming at someone hot. There are comedians who do this

Speaker 1 really well, right? There are people, yeah, there are comedians who do this well. And I think, um, who is the uh Lewis Black, who was one of the black is great, he's great.

Speaker 1 We had Chang, yes, kind of like a new Lewis Black-ish in a way,

Speaker 1 agreed. He can get ranty.
I just, I can't do it. Also, I think my face is too round.
You want to

Speaker 1 Teddy bear face.

Speaker 1 So as we were recording this,

Speaker 1 Jimmy Carter's getting laid to rest. And Jimmy Carter, probably the best ex-president that ever lived.

Speaker 1 I think some people would argue that maybe not the best president that ever lived, but he certainly was a man who dedicated the second half of his life to charity, charity, charity to amazing things, right?

Speaker 1 We were watching, and I'm interested to hear your perspective. We were watching some of the coverage of this, and we see all of the ex-presidents are sitting there in the the first two rows.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's chuckling with Obama. And then

Speaker 1 Bush walks into the row.

Speaker 1 Obama stands up because Laura Bush is there with George. And so he stands up, I imagine, to let them in and to be a gentleman.
And Trump doesn't even look at them, nor does George Bush look at him.

Speaker 1 What, Roy, what is your take?

Speaker 1 I think it's so insane that even when

Speaker 1 petty bullshit and there are six people on this earth five people on this earth now that are alive that have been the most powerful quote-unquote men in the world

Speaker 1 and usually the funerals are where we can at least act like civilized fucking human beings for a minute but this guy can't even for two seconds swallow his fucking I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 Here's the bigger thing you missed as well.

Speaker 1 Michelle Obama's not there. Not there.
I thought that too earlier. I was like, she doesn't even want to be in the room with it.

Speaker 1 But if you know you got to sit by Trump and Belania, maybe you don't want to do it.

Speaker 1 You know, you're looking at the same thing the week before when Vice President Harris is swearing in all the members of Congress.

Speaker 1 And the husband of one of the Nebraska. Wouldn't shake her hand.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't shake her hand. Yeah.
This is your wife's first day at work, asshole.

Speaker 1 Why are you even here when they're giving out name tags? Yeah.

Speaker 1 It is unbelievably

Speaker 1 insane to me. What is your take? Are these the same people that go, we need to come across the aisle? We need to come together.

Speaker 1 We're going to go together. We're together.
You won't even shake my hand at another dude's fucking funeral. Roy, they can't even get in the same aisle together.

Speaker 1 They can't even shake hands when they're on the same aisle. It's become a totally dysfunctional.

Speaker 1 I mean, the government has been dysfunctional for a lot of people for a long time. It doesn't work for many people.
And I think that's part of the reason why we end up with a second Trump term.

Speaker 1 But what is your

Speaker 1 award shows? It's like award shows. I went to the BET Awards and they literally have the seat place signs the day before for rehearsal.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you're like, okay, we got to make sure 50 Cent can't be next to Ja Rul, but John can't be too close to Ashanti, but Nelly dates this guy. So Ashanti sits here.

Speaker 1 Looking with Nelly and a Shanti over here, but Jay-Z, he's not confirmed.

Speaker 1 Like, it's that weird thing.

Speaker 1 But with old politics, with old old white men,

Speaker 1 I think that we're we're in we're in a bad place. And I think even within Trump's cabinet right now, you're still seeing infighting and dismissing.

Speaker 1 So they can't even come across the aisle on the same side of the aisle. So

Speaker 1 I really think to a degree,

Speaker 1 a lot of this presidential term will come down to how efficient of a cabinet he has. Yeah.

Speaker 1 This isn't even about Congress or this, you know, Senate or the House coming together.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Can you motherfuckers at your private decide on what you're going to propose for the people to argue about in the chambers? I couldn't agree with you more. You can't do it, can you? No.

Speaker 1 Arguing about immigration. What's the best you got so far, motherfucker?

Speaker 1 Oh, let's buy Greenland.

Speaker 1 Change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Speaker 1 Imminent domain.

Speaker 1 That's what he voted for. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, I make Canada the 51st state, you fucking idiot.

Speaker 1 It's unbelievable. I don't even think Panama has the standing army.
I mean, you're picking a fight with someone that doesn't, I don't even think it has the standing army.

Speaker 1 I know, by the way, Mexico is building a better river dock machine. So I don't think the Panama Canal is going to be as valuable as Trump thinks it is.

Speaker 1 You did a special. I wanted to say this to you.
You did a special. I watched it a couple of months ago, and I was reminded before you came on of the very beginning of the special.

Speaker 1 You start talking about the national anthem and how uncool it is. And if you just made a cooler national anthem, maybe we could all stand for patriotism a little bit more.

Speaker 1 But don't you agree that this was done well one time, one time by Whitney Houston? The national anthem was sung in a way where we could all get the feels about the national anthem.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to say what I'm saying in an unpatriotic sense. I'm simply asking a question of

Speaker 1 why at fun shit

Speaker 1 do we have to sing the anthem and remember the punches.

Speaker 1 Don't forget America good.

Speaker 1 Now football.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 you should be singing this shit.

Speaker 1 I got audited. I've been audited three times by the IRS.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if you've ever been in a labor dispute with an employee over like wages and stuff where it gets really messy. and you have to go up to the Department of Labor in New York State.

Speaker 1 I had to drive up to Albany to prove I did not owe this fucking guy what he said I owed him.

Speaker 1 And I was very angry at how fucked up this country is that someone can literally just on a sheet of paperwork in a rumor without me even having an opportunity for discourse have all my shit fucking frozen so I can't even do business with the other people that are honest and that I want to pay.

Speaker 1 No way.

Speaker 1 Now you should make me stand for the anthem because I'm not feeling very patriotic. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 Because this country is fucked and the way you allow people to fuck each other and the Rockets red hair.

Speaker 1 Don't forget America is good.

Speaker 1 That's

Speaker 1 that's when you're at the DMV for four fucking hours. Yeah, before you leave,

Speaker 1 sing the shit. Yeah, I'm going to give you your license.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's a true.

Speaker 1 I understand the need for the anthem, but I just wish we would write a new one that was jamming a little harder. Just because something's old doesn't mean we have to keep doing it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I don't disagree with you. Yeah, I don't disagree with you.
I'm strive for more. And that was a funny, like, when you get into the idea of research and to your earlier question to me,

Speaker 1 journalistically, the idea of doing research on a topic I find fascinating. And it wasn't until I wrote that joke and I went, well, where did the anthem?

Speaker 1 We know Francis Scott Key made the flag, but who wrote the anthem? And then you realize the anthem is a remake of a British song. Oh, this is right.
You talked about this in a special

Speaker 1 fucking track. The shit we've been singing this whole time is based on a beat by the motherfuckers we whooped.

Speaker 1 I'm nominating you to come up with something new. Maybe we should have a new anthem.
And that was all that was. And thankfully, the real Patriots didn't get mad.

Speaker 1 They understood where I was coming from. Well, I mean, I think we can all agree that the national anthem, as a jam, is a little bit outdated.
As a jam, it's a little bit outdated.

Speaker 1 BTMs are too low. I know, but I still, every time I hear that, Whitney B2Mstrom,

Speaker 1 every time I hear that version by Whitney Houston, it gives me chills up my spine. I think that's the only version of the national anthem that has given me

Speaker 1 the 21 I would counter with Jimi Hendrix on the guitar. Oh, yeah, that's a

Speaker 1 classic. Woodstock, where he did, yeah.
Yeah, he did it at Woodstock, and they did the Montreal Music Fest, uh, Montreal Jazz Fest.

Speaker 1 Um, also, and there's two versions that float around. The one where he set the guitar on fire was the Montreal one.
But man, yeah.

Speaker 1 He said, give me that. Yes.

Speaker 1 But otherwise, just let the game start. We know America's dope.
I don't.

Speaker 1 You know, or maybe like after you, like when the McGrib comes back, maybe that's a commercial.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 you think this country's fucked up. But then the McGrib came like right after the election.
And that was perfect timing. You think it's not a coincidence.

Speaker 1 The mainstream media don't want you to realize this. See, they give us the food to pacify us.
We're going to get angry about the election. I saw a laser beam in the fire.

Speaker 1 The fire came right after they took the McGrib away. I ain't saying that the McGrib keeps us peaceful.

Speaker 1 And that guy have two million followers while I'm struggling to get three likes on a fucking TikTok. This is the fucking crazy shit, Roy.
We have been saying that.

Speaker 1 We've been doing this for five years. No bluster in these sales.
I'm just going to say it like it is. We tend to be somewhere on the near the up of the charts of the podcast universe.

Speaker 1 We've been blessed in our audio center. 2006.
We are on the struggle fucking bust to get anybody to pay attention to us on social media. It is the worst.

Speaker 1 The algorithm has put us in algorithm jail. My penis is small.
I don't know what's going on, but at YouTube,

Speaker 1 Instagram, and TikTok, it's just so difficult. But then I will see.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I will see an old white man with his shirt off, with big old man titties, flopping around to some song, and he's got 6 million followers.

Speaker 1 And anything that he does, he farts on the camera and then he gets 50,000 likes. It's unbelievable.
What? Yes. This is what's wrong with this.
And a brand deal.

Speaker 1 And then somebody drink or give him 100,000. Hey, I'm farting, man.
When I'm farting, I drink on game extreme murder water, whatever they call it now.

Speaker 1 Right, death.

Speaker 1 It's me, McKillika, Floppy Titties, here for Murder War.

Speaker 1 Mouth drone.

Speaker 1 He,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 when I, this is like,

Speaker 1 tell me about the daily show. Your take on leaving the daily show, to me, was...

Speaker 1 I think you said it best. I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I saw a number of places where you said this.
And I know this is a little bit old news, but I'm interested in it.

Speaker 1 You said, hey, listen, I know that I am dispensable because that's what happens in media. Everybody, all personalities are dispensable.
Everybody's dispensable.

Speaker 1 My brother works in media, we work in media, we know in entertainment in general. So, before somebody else has a chance to take control of my destiny, I'm going to take control of my own destiny.

Speaker 1 I'm going to call the shots. And I thought that was, I thought that was brilliantly said.
Do you feel

Speaker 1 not vindicated, but do you feel good about leaving the daily show? Has that been, does that feel like a good move? Yeah, Yeah. I mean, the, I think that,

Speaker 1 I think that when you look at people who make choices that people call brave or good or bold, you have to look at their assessment of fear and what they're jumping into.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I feel like in leaving the daily show, I was jumping into anything that I hadn't already been in before.
I've swam in these waters. What?

Speaker 1 Career uncertainty, not sure what's next, and trying to figure it out. Yeah, I know those waters really well.

Speaker 1 I've been in this place, but every other time I was in those waters, I was pushed in the pool.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So I can look around here and I can go, okay,

Speaker 1 there is no host.

Speaker 1 Hassan Minhodge is out.

Speaker 1 You don't know when or what.

Speaker 1 This is before John. I left before Jon Stewart was even a rumor.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 1 Jon Stewart returning, I mean. So,

Speaker 1 huh? Well, if you don't know what the the fuck

Speaker 1 I could stay for a little while but eventually it's gonna be what the fuck yeah yeah

Speaker 1 and I don't know I should probably start thinking about what I want to do next yeah because if I'm not careful and keep and keep in mind but keep in mind at that time that show had no host

Speaker 1 Correspondents were guest hosting, which was working fine for the ratings. I thought so.

Speaker 1 I thought it was good. Yeah.
Fine, but this company's in a merger.

Speaker 1 What if you merge and you don't want to do this show no more?

Speaker 1 And don't tell me that that's not a possibility. Oh, the show has been on, it's an institution.
All these shits is institutions. Until they're not.
Anything's possible. Until they're not.

Speaker 1 12:30 on CBS was an institution. That's right.
And then you're like, no, we're not going to spend that kind of money anymore. We'll do something that's cool and affordable and we'll do after midnight.

Speaker 1 Okay, cool.

Speaker 1 So, what is what is

Speaker 1 bulletproof when you're in an era where they will shoot a 30 million, a 50 million, a 100 million dollar movie and not even release that bitch

Speaker 1 because it does not make sense. Wow.

Speaker 1 So that's fucking expendable.

Speaker 1 So anything is fucking possible. So now, was that understanding of the landscape? And you're on a show that,

Speaker 1 and then you're looking at everything that's going on with media companies imploding. We're making less shows, we're laying off people.
The writer strike just ended.

Speaker 1 We're gonna pay writers more, but to offset it, we're gonna make less shows.

Speaker 1 So, I don't know what's going on, but I do know an election year is coming up.

Speaker 1 And I know what I do really well is talk shit about.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 So, if there's ever an opportunity

Speaker 1 to build a new place for myself, it is going to be now. And it is evident to me per my conversations with Comedy Central.
This ain't nothing to do with the daily show producers. This is above them.

Speaker 1 And I know for a fact within Comedy Central, y'all aren't trying to build any new fucking pedestals right now.

Speaker 1 You're not trying to put nothing on after Daily Show right now.

Speaker 1 And you got a child to feed, then

Speaker 1 you're probably smarter to leave now and figure it out. And you're blessed enough to be able to go and sell a special to Hulu and go sell a book and sell two TV shows.
And that'll kite you.

Speaker 1 That'll kite you. That'll get you to the next thing.

Speaker 1 Congratulations.

Speaker 1 So we're out and we got, it's not like a full parachute, but it's like that drag chute

Speaker 1 to start slowing you down. Yeah.
And hopefully you get a new one. You hopefully land somewhere.
Well, I would say, I mean, I've now seen the Hulu special promoted in a number of different places.

Speaker 2 It comes out on the 17th, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, January 17th.

Speaker 1 I think this was a good move because you're right. It's like, okay, you could keep on doing the spinny wheel thing.

Speaker 1 And, you know, John coming back made sense, I guess, in context for Comedy Central or whoever was doing that. And, you know, kudos to John for towing the line through the terrible election.

Speaker 1 But at the end of the day,

Speaker 1 you writing your own check. I think that's what I like about podcasting, if I'm being honest.
We all come from radio. You come from radio.
Radio is a place where you learn really quickly that you are

Speaker 1 the personalities are treated like such shit. Talent is not fostered.
It's not welcome. It's not loved on.

Speaker 1 Once you know that pedigree. Once you know that.
Once you know that. Yeah.
You know what to do. Doesn't that shit look weird? Yeah.
You go. Fucking gone.
Fucking gone. That's right.

Speaker 1 I'm leaving now because this shit looks weird. And I don't know what the fuck.
Yes. And I still have to say that.

Speaker 1 Oh, if John, if you knew Jon Stewart was going to be there, would you have left? No, I would have fucking stayed. That's Jon Stewart.
But I still would have been wondering, what's next?

Speaker 1 What's next, right? Because it ain't going to be hosting this. Yes.
Because it's fucking Jon Stewart.

Speaker 1 So now, if anything, being with Jon Stewart or some other, I would have stayed with Hawson too.

Speaker 1 Like, it would have, I would have bought some time, but that five months of the writer's strike gave me a moment to go, wait a minute, what the fuck? I need to be in control.

Speaker 1 control and i'm on two i'm eating at other people's tables bitch i got to build mine yeah so the idea of man i remember in radio man i've seen so many get fired so i hope we did too yeah me too but i mean you know you go home one night and they would change the format of the station the whole yeah slip

Speaker 1 at one in the morning yeah and then you come in and everybody'd be like well i guess we're selling spanish now i guess that's what's happening we had the reverse we We had

Speaker 1 AGG was 1320 and then it was like 680 La Mexicana. La Mexicana.
Priming Ham's number one for La Mexicana. And they was playing all the Latino shit.
And then one night, I'm just in the production room.

Speaker 1 I hear like

Speaker 1 and then And then at midnight on the nose, Jesus,

Speaker 1 you're the center of my joy.

Speaker 1 They will flip a format and email you motherfuckers in the dead of night until you don't come in. We've already boxed your shit.
That's going to FedEx it to you.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I'm not waiting for that when I know that's one of the possibilities right now.

Speaker 1 I think that's why it's so difficult to be in entertainment for someone like you right now.

Speaker 1 How many comedians we've talked to that say, well, listen, you know, the Netflix special is great, but I went to Veeps because I can kind of, you know, control my own destiny a little bit.

Speaker 1 Like, everybody has to make their own lane, and those lanes are getting smaller and smaller and harder and harder to define.

Speaker 1 And so you have nobody else to rely on except for yourself and possibly a team if you're lucky enough to have one. And that's it.

Speaker 1 But the good news is, I think, out of this, is that the world is evolving in a way, technology is evolving in a way, that we can make our own lane.

Speaker 1 And we don't always need the huge players in the game to kind of get from point A to point B and make a living doing this.

Speaker 1 but hey listen having a hulu special you know having a hulu a special on hulu or having the comfort of a daily show check or whatever it is is still a good thing right it's still a thing that feels good at night when you lay your head down and you go well at least tomorrow i go into comedy central and i get a nice paycheck on the 15th and the first that's it right and i work with great people and and talented i mean you spent what six years there was it six years eight years eight you spent eight years so i you know and and that was a great run but it was if whatever I'm going to do next, this is the year to go do it.

Speaker 1 This has been a great job and a great opportunity, but I know this is not permanent, regardless of Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Colbert.

Speaker 1 They all could have come back one by one and all had a respective day. Sooner or later,

Speaker 1 my time here is finite. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Your time in any place is finite. So if you want to do more,

Speaker 1 then you're going to have to leave.

Speaker 1 So when you leave it can either be up to you or it can be up to them and so i just chose to leave and i i'll figure it out i always have yeah i've i've i started this sleeping on the fucking bus so

Speaker 1 don't talk to me about oh there's a big chance or you're scared i know at minimum at minimum I can leave my house right now and there are 30 cities I can travel to where strangers will show me love and I will give them jokes in exchange for money and my bills will be paid.

Speaker 1 My son will be straight, his mama too. And that's all that matters.
That's all that matters. As long as I got that.

Speaker 1 All this other shit is extra gravy, bro. So

Speaker 1 I tell my wife, I tell my wife, I say, hey, listen, babe, in times of struggle, and there have been, especially during the pandemic, right when we're starting the podcast, in times of struggle, financial struggle, I told my wife, I said, babe, at the very least, I know I can pick up the phone and start shaking the tree and something will fall out of it.

Speaker 1 It may not be a brand new car or a beautiful big house, but it'll be food that we can put on the table. I know I'm smart enough to do that and I know I have the ability to do that.

Speaker 1 And in life, if I can give that to my kids, if I can give that same attitude and skill set to my kids to maneuver, to make it happen, then I will have given them the biggest blessing ever.

Speaker 1 Because in this life, you need to learn a couple things. And one of them is it's all on you.

Speaker 1 Ain't no one coming to save you. Not the government,

Speaker 1 sometimes not friends and family, even though they may want to do it.

Speaker 1 If you want to get something done, do it. Yeah, and I think you take the best attitude in the world about the Daily Show when you say, hey, listen,

Speaker 1 the tail is going to wag the dog on this one, and I'm going to make it. So the Hulu special comes out on the 17th.
Yeah. And you're doing what CNN.
It's on the 17th. And CNN, we're back season two.

Speaker 1 Have I got news for you? Great show. I'm excited.
You can stream

Speaker 1 the last couple episodes on Max. And all we're doing is doing a fake quiz show about the week that was in politics, but a lot of these issues are timeless.

Speaker 1 So I think it makes this show still very streamable.

Speaker 1 That's not a word, is it? We'll make it. We made it a word.
We just made it a word. It's a streamable.

Speaker 1 The stream attentivity

Speaker 1 is very hot. Streamability.

Speaker 1 Senior Floppy Tits on

Speaker 1 Streamability, Roy Wood Jr.'s brand new streaming platform.

Speaker 1 That comes in 2027.

Speaker 2 How was doing the White House Correspondence Dinner in 2023?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that must have been a highlight. That was chaos.
It's wild.

Speaker 1 You can do a political joke, look out, and you can see Caitlin Jenner staring at you with a scowl.

Speaker 1 And then you look two tables over, and it's Lester Holt.

Speaker 1 That's going to be wild.

Speaker 1 And not like a full-throated laugh, because these are still his colleagues joking about.

Speaker 1 But it was that, it was a black man giving me that encouraging.

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 that's the whole like you've been like when mr miyagi at the end of the first karate kid when daniel wins right

Speaker 1 he looks on at him and smiles

Speaker 1 that's great i think when you when you do the white house correspondence dinner you have officially made it when they ask you to get up there and roast them that's i you listen the white house correspondence dinner and jimmy carter's funeral the two places where we're supposed to be at least a little at least a little bit jovial and kind to each other.

Speaker 1 And we'll see. We'll see if they even have a correspondence dinner this upcoming year.
I mean,

Speaker 1 didn't it get canceled? Yeah, I hope they don't have to have some author or something.

Speaker 1 I'd really hope the

Speaker 1 Roy Wood Jr. for the White House Correspondence Dinner.
Trump's drinking. Slow down, motherfucker.
I didn't say I wanted to do that yet. I said it was a good time.
I just say I want to do it twice.

Speaker 1 Would you grab an award show?

Speaker 1 If you were given the option to do the Golden Globes or one of those,

Speaker 1 would you jump up there and do that? I'd say yes to all those shits. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And in fact, I would argue those are more difficult. Award shows are more difficult than a correspondence dinner because

Speaker 1 politicians and journalists don't necessarily take themselves as serious as actors. Yeah.
That's true. Politicians are not going to necessarily argue.

Speaker 1 They're not going to laugh at everything because of the politics of the room. Right.
But actors, how dare you make a joke about anything, man?

Speaker 1 And why would you make a joke about him? He is a stellar performer. Wow, that was a mean joke.
Like, it's a lot of that shit. So if you can make those people laugh,

Speaker 1 then

Speaker 1 that's a whole different world.

Speaker 1 I'd say the only room that's probably more difficult or an actor that I think does a great job hosting, I think is underrated is Anthony Anderson with the NAACP Image Awards.

Speaker 1 I think he's done some stuff with the Emmys, but

Speaker 1 when you're dealing with a room full of black folks and reverence and history and culture and how dare you and civil rights,

Speaker 1 and you can get them to laugh?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Anthony is really funny, by the way.

Speaker 1 And I thought Nikki did a good job with the Golden Globes, by the way.

Speaker 1 No knock on her. I heard she got paid

Speaker 1 pretty big.

Speaker 1 Astrid asked me and my wife asked me, how much do you think those people get paid? And I said, I don't know that they get paid much at all because it's just like raising their profile.

Speaker 1 You know, they get,

Speaker 1 but I was wrong.

Speaker 1 That's right, Super Bowl hosting. I don't know what Nikki got, but I know the Emmys pays dick, and I know that the correspondence dinner doesn't pay much.

Speaker 1 And I say not much in the sense of this is just enough to turn around and just pay your writers. Right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 She said on Stern, I think she said she got paid close to half a million dollars to do the hosting. Yeah, that's not a bad thing.

Speaker 1 That's a solid. Yeah.
That's a solid day. We have to do 200 episodes of this show to gross that.

Speaker 1 Roy Wood Jr.'s brand new special is out on Hulu just a couple of days from now. We're releasing this just a few days from when it comes out.
We'll make it Roy Wood Jr. Week.

Speaker 1 We're going to make sure we talk about it. We'll have the links in the show notes.
Bola, CNN season number two. Roy, you are welcome back anytime.

Speaker 1 It is honestly, we have been so excited about this since we agreed to it.

Speaker 1 And I have enjoyed watching you. get super famous and I hope you continue to kill it.
We're on your side. I appreciate it.
And next time I'm on, I have the right map where Africa's the right side.

Speaker 1 That's right. Thank you.
Thank you. I've been saying this.
And so has the West Wing for a long time. That's where I learned about it on the West Wing.
But anyway, that's for the next conversation.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Roy. We appreciate it.
Have a good one.

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Speaker 2 Okay, so like a little behind the scenes about Roy and our interview with Roy, 99999% of the time. Guest comes on through this little software portal that we have.
The magic of telepodcasting.

Speaker 2 We have the guests come on, we do a little chitty-chatty, we explain how the show goes and the structure of the show, and then we tell them, okay, we're now going to go into the interview portion.

Speaker 2 But we were so engrossed in conversation with Roy right from the beginning that we never even did that.

Speaker 2 You actually heard everything that had to do, every moment of the conversation with Roy Wood Jr., which is unusual, quite frankly, for us. But I think that's good.

Speaker 2 You know, you pointed out the new Severance podcast, which is on Odyssey, our network, and you can go download it for free, download the Odyssey app for free.

Speaker 2 And then you can listen to Severance or anywhere you listen to your podcasts. And I say this because I love Severance and ours too.

Speaker 2 And I say this because I love Severance, the show. And I am so excited that on the same day Roy Wood Jr.'s new special comes out, the next episode of Severance will be out.

Speaker 2 That's very exciting. Chrissy pointed out to me last night.

Speaker 2 She called me and she said, or she texted me and she said, hey, listen, did you listen to the Severance podcast where they were talking about podcast guesting?

Speaker 2 Like, who was the guest?

Speaker 2 What, on the Severance one? On Severance. Yeah, it was the guy that plays, I think his name's Zach.
Zach. But he plays Dylan.
Oh, that's right. Yeah, his name is Zach.
You're right.

Speaker 2 Okay, so Zach is on there with Ben Stiller and Adam Scott, and they are talking, and he is explaining that it's often a little uncomfortable with podcasts because they either have to be in the studio or on some phone call or video phone call for 30 or 40 minutes while the guests

Speaker 2 blabber on it. Talk like they're not even there.
Exactly.

Speaker 2 So weird. So the guy, the guy, Zach, was like, yeah, I thought I had more phone time.
Sorry. Wait, you're ready to go into it.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 I thought I had time to waste. Oh, you actually want to talk to me? Yeah.
Chrissy and I made a decision a long time ago.

Speaker 2 I'm glad we're not doing that. That the guests would probably leave immediately.

Speaker 2 While we had them, we just had to go in time. If they had to listen to us for 15 to 20 minutes before they actually came on.
So we don't make them suffer through that. Anyway, all right.

Speaker 2 So Roy Wood Jr., new special on Hulu, January 17th. Please do check it out.
What a good guy. I really had enjoyed my conversation.
Very pleasurable.

Speaker 2 There's some guests you see you could go out and have coffee or a beer with, and then there's other guests where it's a great conversation, but you're like, I don't know if I could sit.

Speaker 2 I don't know that we would get along had the lights and cameras not been on. Right.
Not got along, but had such a good conversation if it wasn't.

Speaker 2 I feel like Roy was one of those people you could go and sit and have a beer with, and you would feel very comfortable that you wouldn't run out of conversation.

Speaker 2 He's had an interesting life, he really has. And from radio to Last Comic Standing to Daily Show to now, you know, a man of the people.

Speaker 2 Yeah, yeah. I look forward to seeing what's next with Roy.
All right, so

Speaker 2 all the links in the show notes. Go check out his special, and we're going to catch you tomorrow on another episode of the Commercial Break.

Speaker 2 Sorry, Christina and I just

Speaker 2 doing both. Conversations with your hands.
Yeah, baseball hand signals to each other. You guys do need some signals.
We do. It's this.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 this. Yeah.
I just point over there when I want to end the show.

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We're up to past 5,000.

Speaker 2 Come on, let's keep the momentum. We're getting very close to 6,000.
And I will tell you this, not because of our listeners, but because of the Venezuelans. Exactly.

Speaker 2 That reel just doesn't know how to stop. It just keeps going and going.
Every time I open up, every time I look at Instagram, it's another 100 notifications.

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Speaker 2 we had a throwaway line? Anyway, speaking of Venezuelans, a special episode with our good friend and my brother-in-law Gustavo will be broadcast later on this week on Saturday.

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Nothing like talking to him about betting his sister.

Speaker 2 Well, it won't be the first time or the last time I've had that conversation.

Speaker 2 Thank God he's cool. That's all I got to say.

Speaker 2 Thank God he's cool.

Speaker 2 We have many kids. I think he knows what's going on.
You know what I'm saying?

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Speaker 2 Okay, Chrissy, that's all I can do for today. I think so.
I'll tell you that I love you. I love you.
Best to you. Best to you.
Best you out there in the podcast universe.

Speaker 2 Until next time, Chrissy and I will say, we do say, and we must say, goodbye.

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