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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom extra. This is Christopher.
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extra in case you missed anything on today's big show.
It's Roy Wood Junior. He's coming up in just a minute.
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Next Role with Vernon Davis, The transformative journeys of athletes,
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That's what I bring to every project.
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Ladies and gentlemen.
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Bar joke Once a recording.
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Hell a horse walks into a bar. The bartender walks
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It's just one perdact. No more Bob and Tom. This
is Bob and Tom ex.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
We're going to get hooked up by think in just
a second with comedian Roy Wood Junior. The man is
a fine stand up comedian and he's a sleep very there.
He is, Hey Roy now an author. The book is
called The Man of Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as
a memoir.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'm a couple hours in Roy.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I just got it yesterday on and you you did
the audible, you read it, and I enjoy the fact
that there are some.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Bad words in there, especially.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
You start even though it's about fatherhood and fathers, it
starts off with a lot about your mom and uh,
some of your adventures with your mom.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It's great stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I'm really fascinated by the background of your life in
a couple of exotic spots. You lived in a bunch
of different places. And I have a question I want
to ask right away about it, and it's about you
don't have an you don't have a southern accent at all,
and yet you were I.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Don't know what you got that they're from. What you
got to figure out Mia.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Because you spent the bulk of your time in Birmingham,
and then you were in Tennessee. You were in Mississippi.
And my question is is did you work on losing
your accent or did you ever have one?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
And I asked this.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I remember we spoke to Dan Rather once and he
was from Texas, and he said, when he started in broadcasting,
he had to work on getting rid of his accent.
And your dad was a famous broadcaster, and I've had
occasion to hear a lot of him lately. Your late
father some recordings of your dad, and he had an
(03:13):
amazing voice. Did that Was that part of the reason
you're so You had such a great speaking voice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think so. My dad would force me to repronounce words.
My mother is a college educator, My father is a
journalist who must always enunciate every word and use every
muscle in your thro So it just wasn't there. Then
I majored in journalism, and then they make you take
(03:41):
voice in diction classes. And I granted, I was learning
how to speak proper English in the Florida Panhandle, So
I don't know if I ever was taught proper English
in Tallahassee. But it slowly kind of just got dissolved away.
But I will tell you if you give me enough
liquor what data so the next thing don't come right
(04:02):
back and well you muld have pull it up. Man,
we had a right day.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I used to always notice that Barack Obama would sort
of shift gears in front of certain audiences with his voice.
One of the funny things you talk about in the book.
You had a very unusual, uh living arrangement with your
dad off and on. But he would drag you to
the radio station at five in the morning, which is
what I did to my sons for years. And you
(04:32):
would sit there in the air booth and watch him,
and if you made any noise, he'd whack you with
a newspaper.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I didn't know that that this noise is going out
over the air to millions of people in syndication. I'm
trying to enjoy a biscuit from Hearty's and my dad
could literally just be talking and then you could just
hear him in the W A, G, G, W and
N NewsCenter. I am roy Wood at the top. It's seven.
(04:59):
You can just here like a stutter step in. Oh.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
That was the slab, and we should point out Roywood
Junior was our guest. He's a very fine stand up
comedian and his father was a very distinguished broadcaster, a
very serious guy, very tight with a dollar. You tell
some great stories about your ability to earn money on
the side without telling him because he didn't want to
(05:23):
part with a dollar. But he was very well known.
And I went everywhere with the civil rights movement, went
to Vietnam, went to Africa, covered all kinds of stuff.
But what struck me is you mentioned that you would
follow him around on weekends and he would be doing
like lectures at churches, et cetera. And you said that
kind of reminds you of what your career has been
like standing in front of crowds. But maybe I'm not
(05:43):
deep enough in the book. Did your father have a
sense of humor at all?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, I don't think my dad ever laughed, Like he
might have laughed at the barbershop or something, but like
he never watched sitcoms either, Like when I really sat
and really reflected about my pops. Because you know, the
book is the essentially like, well, you need to know
who he is and know who I am. But he
died at sixteen. So I learned stuff from other people,
but what I really reflected my dad did nothing but
(06:09):
watch the news and Jeopardy. That's it. There was no chuckles,
not never. Well, you remember the Soul Training story. My
dad didn't know how to have fun. My dad could
have been a part of the Soul Train empire with
Don Cornelius and then told Don Cornelius, nobody wants to
watch black people dance for an hour. It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And your dad is the guy that's got Don Cornelius
into broadca Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
From the Chicago Police Department said hey man, you got
a good boy. Stop carrying a gun and come hold
this microphone. And Donna greed and built the whole empire.
So my dad did nothing but cover struggle and all
of the worst moments globally from the nineteen fifties, all
the ways saved through the Rodney Key riots. I just
(07:01):
think somewhere in there you just lose your ability to laugh.
I just I just think he lost it. And I
don't think he ever really knew smiling or happiness or
anything like that.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Did you ever do anything funny in front of him?
Obviously you didn't become a stand up comedian for until
he'd been long gone. But did you ever like do
a speech in front of him or a class anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No. Well, I got in dunking booth in the seventh
grade for my soccer team to raise money for uniforms,
and he came and catching me out at the bake
sale about you know you, nobody's fool and nobody needs
to be out here getting dunk in water for uniformed
You are being foolish.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
We're talking to Roy Wood Junior.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Roy's book is called The Man of Many Fathers, Life
Lessons disguised as a memoir. I'm a couple of hours
into that. I'm doing the audio book Roy and there's, uh,
there's there's a little bit of cursing in it, even
as a youth, but on yours on stage, you know,
you don't curse a lot on stage.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, not a lot. And I felt like if I
was quoting someone and something that they would have actually said,
then we're gonna let the customerd fly. We don't let
it fly here and there, just to just to add
a little bit of flavor to the book, a little bit.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
One thing I didn't know I may not have the
number right, but you were when you were born. Your
dad was what sixty something?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, my dad was sixty three when I was born.
But I had to give context to that because sixty
three is one of them ages that could look a
lot of different ways. My dad was sixty three, but
he looked forty five. You know. He was one of them.
He was one of them old players like that. My
mom was thirty or thirty one, I think somewhere in that.
So it's it was a different relationship. And I think
(08:55):
once you get to an age where your parents can
give you advice, if you have older parents, you don't
really get the same childhood. You don't get to play
catch and throw the ball and walk in the park.
You get people that are trying to prepare you for
life because they feel like they don't have a lot
of time left with you. And I think that's kind
of where my father and I his relationship got reduced
(09:17):
to him just kind of taking me around to grown
up stuff and him telling me about life as a
whole and less so about let's talk about who you
have a crush on.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
And your dad had a lot of lady friends, and
it was very complicated situation. I'll let people to read
the book find out about that. On a different note,
we were talking about the return of mister pib and
I was doing some homework and it says that a
guy named Roy Wood Junior is the voice of the
mister pib pitch out there.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I had no idea. That's pretty funny. Are you are
you a fan? Do they give you? Do you get
paid in like cases of mister pib for life?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Do you know what's crazy? They don't give you mister pibb. Oh?
I guess they figured we gave money, go buy it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I've always been a fan of mister pib and. I
have to give a shout out to wonderful Tallahassee named
Gloria ended up trying to keep my forward focus who
showed me how to put lemon in mister pibs the flavor.
I had never known that. Thank you, Gloria. If you
somewhere listening from prison.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
We're talking with comedian Roy Wood Junior. Roy has been
one of our favorites from the early days. Roy I also,
I don't know much about it. I saw a thing
you're gonna be would you say he's seeing some baseball
thing coming.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh yeah, the MLB Awards. Myself and Mookie Betts a
co hosting that. And it's the end of the year
awards show for all of baseball. You know, we celebrate
the Saigon's and m vps and Roberto Clemente Award win
there's all the old heads come back and we praised them.
It's gonna it's gonna be a really good time. It's
(10:57):
only their third year doing it, but it has grown
into something that's actually pretty cool. Man. I think baseball
players are like off camera and off the field, probably
one of the coolest, not as cool. Hockey players are
number one, but I think baseball is number two.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah. And by the way I was looking at I
just look at your book online.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Here.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
What are the reviews of Roy's book, The Man of
Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as a memoir.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
One of the reviewers is Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
But it's so Stephen that it's written down so you
can't hear him screaming. He says Roy didn't just write
a book, he left a mark. That's got to be cool.
Do you know Steven pretty well?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, we've met a couple of times when I used
to do, you know, like twenty twelve thirteen, I was
doing a lot more ESPN on a regular basis before
I got to Daily Show, And so we were cross
paths a couple of times, you know, in the ESPN always,
and like I always had a lot of respect for
him when he used to write for the Philly Inquirer
and he was covered now and I have assume when
(11:55):
he used to be on Fox Sports, and I know
that I know that he doesn't really a lot of books,
Like he's very selective about the books he chooses to
read rather and so you know, just it's one of
them things that hey, man, we'll be honest, if you'd
read my books and write a blurb and recommend it
to other people, I will see about that.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Roy Wood Junior is our guest once again. Roy's got
a book out there. One of the things that you
talk about is once again we're talking about Roy's book.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
We're talking to Roy Wood Junior.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Your father would, if I get this story right, would
never let you watch your TV. When you were at
his house. All he watched was the news, So it
was kind of forced on you. You didn't get to go
to the other room. And watch something on a different
TV set.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Am I getting it right?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah? Like, you just have to watch what I'm watching.
That's part of why I became a cub, saying because
they came on during the day when he was gone,
so I had actually watched the TV. But my pouts
will come in and he just he would we just
I guess we're watching Larry King live. I'm five years
old watching Larry King loud? Okay, cools. I'd go back
(13:05):
to school the next day, all my class mads of
talking about them. Oh, man, did you see a living
color last night? Like? No, but did you know Mikhail
Gorbachev be tripping? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
One more thing before we let you go Roy musically
and maybe you get to this later in the book.
When you were in the car with your dad or
you're even your mom on the radio, were you allowed
to listen to contemporary hip hop or rock or anything?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Or was it always news on the radio? Two in
the car.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It was news and like seventy soul line of Richie
Dion Warwick or jazz like I think I was the
only kid who had a favorite Diana Ross song, not
a knock on Diana Ross. But you know, I shouldn't
be humming. That's what friends are full. Yeah, in the
fifth grade, do you know the way to San Jose?
(14:05):
It's like, what are you talking about? Bro? You don't
have Hello cool Ja in your house. So no, I
had to wait until I got a walkman. Once I
got a walkman, Like I think sixth grade was when
I really kind of had some autonomy with music and
I went straight to easy.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Your book, you talk about the discovering the world of finance.
You get a rake leaving a rake of what is it?
Raking leaves business up and well, that's a great story.
Lots of great stories so far. I'm only part way
into the book. Once again, it's called The Man of
Many father's life Lessons disguised as a memoir. And now
you talk about your mom a lot and your dad,
(14:40):
and then you start meeting people that help you what
understand fatherhood because you're a dad.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. I just think if you look back at the
values you have, they didn't all come from your parents,
and there's probably some very interesting stories to why you
believe the things you believe, and like, if you can
go back and really think about that, I think knowing
why we are the way we are. It gives us
an opportunity to be a better parent. The other thing
I learned from this book is said, yeah, my pops
(15:08):
was in the streets, he had a lot of women.
You know, I'm the ninth of eleven kids. But to
be a really good father, part of you has to
let go of what you did not get As a father.
You can't be resentful for what your parents lack and
also be present at the same time for your kids.
So there's a degree of forgiveness that I had to
(15:29):
learne on the way too. Bro.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
It's a great book, and it's an really unusual thing.
You were kind of an only child, but as you said,
you were one of nine, you.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Were you pretty much.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You never had a brother or sister in the house
with you. Am I getting that right correct?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Never had one in the house, but they were always
kind of around and stuff, Like I just I don't know.
I had siblings who just come in like weird sitcom neighbors.
My dad Like, that's your brother's name's Jim, Meet you, Jim.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
There may be more your old.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Man, Yeah, Bro, When my dad was getting ready to pass,
like the month before you passed, and it was like,
really sick and they knew it was like it was over.
It's just like random women come in to the house.
I just want to say my good byes, and and
and the more I think about this is not in
the book, by the way, the more I thought about
it saying I think as a man, we all want
(16:22):
to have a pipe game. That's so good that young
girls from the past come to say goodbye to.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Then your pipe They're so strong a lot.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Roy has been one of our favorite comedians since he
was an opening app.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, you're gonna run me off like that in America?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
How dare you say? What was pipe job? What are
you say? Pipe game? How dare you say pipe game
on this show? Say goodbye to that me.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Next time you're around, Roy, come on in. It's always
a great pleasure. Well, congratulations on the book. It's really good.
I'm really enjoying it.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Man.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Pipe game. Yeah, the pipe game, the pipe pipe game.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Okay, so it's not a crack pipe noney, Sorry, thank
you wash.
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Welcome back. It's another Bob and Tom extra. This is Christopher.
Not only is The Bob and Tom Show live every
weekday morning, but every afternoon. We'll give you a little
extra in case you missed anything on today's big show.
It's Roy Wood Junior. He's coming up in just a minute.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Rocks.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Next Role with Vernon Davis, The transformative journeys of athletes,
artists and entrepreneurs.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
We have very special guests, Ladies and gentlemen, The Bob Franklin.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Whether it's the movies I'm doing, whether it's the TV.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Shows, just tap into the truth.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's what I bring to every project.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Isaac Key seep.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Away as how do you make it to the NFL?
How'd you get to act? There's a story behind all
of that. It's about whether you will to tell you
a story or not.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Next Role isn't about what's next, It's about why they
do it. Next Role with Vernon Davis. Follow and listen
on your favorite platform.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Hello, the Animal walks into a bar joke spotline. Here's
today's animal walks into a.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Bar joke Once a recording.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Hell a horse walks into a bar. The bartender walks
over and says, hey, Bud, why the long face? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (01:26):
It's just one perdact. No more Bob and Tom. This
is Bob and Tom ex.
Speaker 6 (01:35):
We're going to get hooked up by think in just
a second with comedian Roy Wood Junior. The man is
a fine stand up comedian and he's a sleep very there.
He is, Hey Roy now an author. The book is
called The Man of Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as
a memoir.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
I'm a couple hours in Roy.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
I just got it yesterday on and you you did
the audible, you read it, and I enjoy the fact
that there are some.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Bad words in there, especially.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
You start even though it's about fatherhood and fathers, it
starts off with a lot about your mom and uh,
some of your adventures with your mom.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It's great stuff.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
I'm really fascinated by the background of your life in
a couple of exotic spots. You lived in a bunch
of different places. And I have a question I want
to ask right away about it, and it's about you
don't have an you don't have a southern accent at all,
and yet you were I.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Don't know what you got that they're from. What you
got to figure out Mia.
Speaker 6 (02:41):
Because you spent the bulk of your time in Birmingham,
and then you were in Tennessee. You were in Mississippi.
And my question is is did you work on losing
your accent or did you ever have one?
Speaker 4 (02:52):
And I asked this.
Speaker 6 (02:53):
I remember we spoke to Dan Rather once and he
was from Texas, and he said, when he started in broadcasting,
he had to work on getting rid of his accent.
And your dad was a famous broadcaster, and I've had
occasion to hear a lot of him lately. Your late
father some recordings of your dad, and he had an
(03:13):
amazing voice. Did that Was that part of the reason
you're so You had such a great speaking voice.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I think so. My dad would force me to repronounce words.
My mother is a college educator, My father is a
journalist who must always enunciate every word and use every
muscle in your thro So it just wasn't there. Then
I majored in journalism, and then they make you take
(03:41):
voice in diction classes. And I granted, I was learning
how to speak proper English in the Florida Panhandle, So
I don't know if I ever was taught proper English
in Tallahassee. But it slowly kind of just got dissolved away.
But I will tell you if you give me enough
liquor what data so the next thing don't come right
(04:02):
back and well you muld have pull it up. Man,
we had a right day.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
I used to always notice that Barack Obama would sort
of shift gears in front of certain audiences with his voice.
One of the funny things you talk about in the book.
You had a very unusual, uh living arrangement with your
dad off and on. But he would drag you to
the radio station at five in the morning, which is
what I did to my sons for years. And you
(04:32):
would sit there in the air booth and watch him,
and if you made any noise, he'd whack you with
a newspaper.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
I didn't know that that this noise is going out
over the air to millions of people in syndication. I'm
trying to enjoy a biscuit from Hearty's and my dad
could literally just be talking and then you could just
hear him in the W A, G, G, W and
N NewsCenter. I am roy Wood at the top. It's seven.
(04:59):
You can just here like a stutter step in. Oh.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
That was the slab, and we should point out Roywood
Junior was our guest. He's a very fine stand up
comedian and his father was a very distinguished broadcaster, a
very serious guy, very tight with a dollar. You tell
some great stories about your ability to earn money on
the side without telling him because he didn't want to
(05:23):
part with a dollar. But he was very well known.
And I went everywhere with the civil rights movement, went
to Vietnam, went to Africa, covered all kinds of stuff.
But what struck me is you mentioned that you would
follow him around on weekends and he would be doing
like lectures at churches, et cetera. And you said that
kind of reminds you of what your career has been
like standing in front of crowds. But maybe I'm not
(05:43):
deep enough in the book. Did your father have a
sense of humor at all?
Speaker 2 (05:47):
No, I don't think my dad ever laughed, Like he
might have laughed at the barbershop or something, but like
he never watched sitcoms either, Like when I really sat
and really reflected about my pops. Because you know, the
book is the essentially like, well, you need to know
who he is and know who I am. But he
died at sixteen. So I learned stuff from other people,
but what I really reflected my dad did nothing but
(06:09):
watch the news and Jeopardy. That's it. There was no chuckles,
not never. Well, you remember the Soul Training story. My
dad didn't know how to have fun. My dad could
have been a part of the Soul Train empire with
Don Cornelius and then told Don Cornelius, nobody wants to
watch black people dance for an hour. It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And your dad is the guy that's got Don Cornelius
into broadca Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
From the Chicago Police Department said hey man, you got
a good boy. Stop carrying a gun and come hold
this microphone. And Donna greed and built the whole empire.
So my dad did nothing but cover struggle and all
of the worst moments globally from the nineteen fifties, all
the ways saved through the Rodney Key riots. I just
(07:01):
think somewhere in there you just lose your ability to laugh.
I just I just think he lost it. And I
don't think he ever really knew smiling or happiness or
anything like that.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
Did you ever do anything funny in front of him?
Obviously you didn't become a stand up comedian for until
he'd been long gone. But did you ever like do
a speech in front of him or a class anything
like that.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
No. Well, I got in dunking booth in the seventh
grade for my soccer team to raise money for uniforms,
and he came and catching me out at the bake
sale about you know you, nobody's fool and nobody needs
to be out here getting dunk in water for uniformed
You are being foolish.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
We're talking to Roy Wood Junior.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Roy's book is called The Man of Many Fathers, Life
Lessons disguised as a memoir. I'm a couple of hours
into that. I'm doing the audio book Roy and there's, uh,
there's there's a little bit of cursing in it, even
as a youth, but on yours on stage, you know,
you don't curse a lot on stage.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
No, not a lot. And I felt like if I
was quoting someone and something that they would have actually said,
then we're gonna let the customerd fly. We don't let
it fly here and there, just to just to add
a little bit of flavor to the book, a little bit.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
One thing I didn't know I may not have the
number right, but you were when you were born. Your
dad was what sixty something?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, my dad was sixty three when I was born.
But I had to give context to that because sixty
three is one of them ages that could look a
lot of different ways. My dad was sixty three, but
he looked forty five. You know. He was one of them.
He was one of them old players like that. My
mom was thirty or thirty one, I think somewhere in that.
So it's it was a different relationship. And I think
(08:55):
once you get to an age where your parents can
give you advice, if you have older parents, you don't
really get the same childhood. You don't get to play
catch and throw the ball and walk in the park.
You get people that are trying to prepare you for
life because they feel like they don't have a lot
of time left with you. And I think that's kind
of where my father and I his relationship got reduced
(09:17):
to him just kind of taking me around to grown
up stuff and him telling me about life as a
whole and less so about let's talk about who you
have a crush on.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
And your dad had a lot of lady friends, and
it was very complicated situation. I'll let people to read
the book find out about that. On a different note,
we were talking about the return of mister pib and
I was doing some homework and it says that a
guy named Roy Wood Junior is the voice of the
mister pib pitch out there.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
I had no idea. That's pretty funny. Are you are
you a fan? Do they give you? Do you get
paid in like cases of mister pib for life?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Do you know what's crazy? They don't give you mister pibb. Oh?
I guess they figured we gave money, go buy it.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I've always been a fan of mister pib and. I
have to give a shout out to wonderful Tallahassee named
Gloria ended up trying to keep my forward focus who
showed me how to put lemon in mister pibs the flavor.
I had never known that. Thank you, Gloria. If you
somewhere listening from prison.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
We're talking with comedian Roy Wood Junior. Roy has been
one of our favorites from the early days. Roy I also,
I don't know much about it. I saw a thing
you're gonna be would you say he's seeing some baseball
thing coming.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh yeah, the MLB Awards. Myself and Mookie Betts a
co hosting that. And it's the end of the year
awards show for all of baseball. You know, we celebrate
the Saigon's and m vps and Roberto Clemente Award win
there's all the old heads come back and we praised them.
It's gonna it's gonna be a really good time. It's
(10:57):
only their third year doing it, but it has grown
into something that's actually pretty cool. Man. I think baseball
players are like off camera and off the field, probably
one of the coolest, not as cool. Hockey players are
number one, but I think baseball is number two.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah. And by the way I was looking at I
just look at your book online.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Here.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
What are the reviews of Roy's book, The Man of
Many Fathers Life Lessons disguised as a memoir.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
One of the reviewers is Stephen A. Smith.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
But it's so Stephen that it's written down so you
can't hear him screaming. He says Roy didn't just write
a book, he left a mark. That's got to be cool.
Do you know Steven pretty well?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, we've met a couple of times when I used
to do, you know, like twenty twelve thirteen, I was
doing a lot more ESPN on a regular basis before
I got to Daily Show, And so we were cross
paths a couple of times, you know, in the ESPN always,
and like I always had a lot of respect for
him when he used to write for the Philly Inquirer
and he was covered now and I have assume when
(11:55):
he used to be on Fox Sports, and I know
that I know that he doesn't really a lot of books,
Like he's very selective about the books he chooses to
read rather and so you know, just it's one of
them things that hey, man, we'll be honest, if you'd
read my books and write a blurb and recommend it
to other people, I will see about that.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
Roy Wood Junior is our guest once again. Roy's got
a book out there. One of the things that you
talk about is once again we're talking about Roy's book.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
We're talking to Roy Wood Junior.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Your father would, if I get this story right, would
never let you watch your TV. When you were at
his house. All he watched was the news, So it
was kind of forced on you. You didn't get to go
to the other room. And watch something on a different
TV set.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
Am I getting it right?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah? Like, you just have to watch what I'm watching.
That's part of why I became a cub, saying because
they came on during the day when he was gone,
so I had actually watched the TV. But my pouts
will come in and he just he would we just
I guess we're watching Larry King live. I'm five years
old watching Larry King loud? Okay, cools. I'd go back
(13:05):
to school the next day, all my class mads of
talking about them. Oh, man, did you see a living
color last night? Like? No, but did you know Mikhail
Gorbachev be tripping? Oh?
Speaker 6 (13:21):
One more thing before we let you go Roy musically
and maybe you get to this later in the book.
When you were in the car with your dad or
you're even your mom on the radio, were you allowed
to listen to contemporary hip hop or rock or anything?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Or was it always news on the radio? Two in
the car.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
It was news and like seventy soul line of Richie
Dion Warwick or jazz like I think I was the
only kid who had a favorite Diana Ross song, not
a knock on Diana Ross. But you know, I shouldn't
be humming. That's what friends are full. Yeah, in the
fifth grade, do you know the way to San Jose?
(14:05):
It's like, what are you talking about? Bro? You don't
have Hello cool Ja in your house. So no, I
had to wait until I got a walkman. Once I
got a walkman, Like I think sixth grade was when
I really kind of had some autonomy with music and
I went straight to easy.
Speaker 6 (14:20):
Your book, you talk about the discovering the world of finance.
You get a rake leaving a rake of what is it?
Raking leaves business up and well, that's a great story.
Lots of great stories so far. I'm only part way
into the book. Once again, it's called The Man of
Many father's life Lessons disguised as a memoir. And now
you talk about your mom a lot and your dad,
(14:40):
and then you start meeting people that help you what
understand fatherhood because you're a dad.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah. I just think if you look back at the
values you have, they didn't all come from your parents,
and there's probably some very interesting stories to why you
believe the things you believe, and like, if you can
go back and really think about that, I think knowing
why we are the way we are. It gives us
an opportunity to be a better parent. The other thing
I learned from this book is said, yeah, my pops
(15:08):
was in the streets, he had a lot of women.
You know, I'm the ninth of eleven kids. But to
be a really good father, part of you has to
let go of what you did not get As a father.
You can't be resentful for what your parents lack and
also be present at the same time for your kids.
So there's a degree of forgiveness that I had to
(15:29):
learne on the way too. Bro.
Speaker 6 (15:31):
It's a great book, and it's an really unusual thing.
You were kind of an only child, but as you said,
you were one of nine, you.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Were you pretty much.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
You never had a brother or sister in the house
with you. Am I getting that right correct?
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Never had one in the house, but they were always
kind of around and stuff, Like I just I don't know.
I had siblings who just come in like weird sitcom neighbors.
My dad Like, that's your brother's name's Jim, Meet you, Jim.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
There may be more your old.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Man, Yeah, Bro, When my dad was getting ready to pass,
like the month before you passed, and it was like,
really sick and they knew it was like it was over.
It's just like random women come in to the house.
I just want to say my good byes, and and
and the more I think about this is not in
the book, by the way, the more I thought about
it saying I think as a man, we all want
(16:22):
to have a pipe game. That's so good that young
girls from the past come to say goodbye to.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
Then your pipe They're so strong a lot.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
Roy has been one of our favorite comedians since he
was an opening app.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, you're gonna run me off like that in America?
Speaker 4 (16:43):
How dare you say? What was pipe job? What are
you say? Pipe game? How dare you say pipe game
on this show? Say goodbye to that me.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
Next time you're around, Roy, come on in. It's always
a great pleasure. Well, congratulations on the book. It's really good.
I'm really enjoying it.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Man.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Pipe game. Yeah, the pipe game, the pipe pipe game.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Okay, so it's not a crack pipe noney, Sorry, thank
you wash.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
That's it for another Bob and Tom Show Extra. Catch
us on iTunes, google Play, and Stitcher For Bob and
Tom Extra. This is Christopher Take care everybody.
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