WEBVTT - CBC Shorts: Comedian Roy Wood Jr. 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:04.680 Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:06.640 with Reason Choice Media. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:08.960 Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:12.400 Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody. This episode is a replay of 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.319 one of our interviews from our live stream as a 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:19.000 Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual Legislative Conference. If you want 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.440 to listen to or watch the full stream, check out 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.000 the links in the episode description. You can also find 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.360 a full list of all the guests we interviewed. Welcome home, y'all. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:31.480 I want to let the viewers know that the dinner 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:39.000 this evening will be hosted by Roy Wood Junior, amazing comedian. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.599 Radler absolutely and Sherry Shepherd. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:45.040 Evening. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.960 So, as Ryan's making his way to the stage, I 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:50.320 want to let you all know he has a new 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:52.560 show coming out on CNN. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:55.200 Have I got news for you. 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.040 He just taped his first comedy special, which I was 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.320 privileged to be there live in person to see to 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.000 a sold out packs audience. So give some love to 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:09.280 this Ratler great coming in. He and Andrew are kind 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.760 of dressed like, hello, my dear, We're. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:14.760 So happy you're good. I don't I don't have my 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:15.280 bow tie. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.880 I got the same color I see yet put it 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:22.000 on sooner or later? 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.080 So what what are we? First of all, Roy, how 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:25.560 you doing? We're so happy to see you host. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.399 I'm good, I'm good. I'm just happy my voice arvived 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.120 last week because that who was special and then prepping 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.000 for seeing in and then doing all the media for 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:40.080 that watching that way the dog who eating the doll? Yes, yes, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:44.280 but no, I'm I'm just happy to be you know 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.840 how I get around like black folks? Yes, because I 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.480 don't get it normally, Like it's I'm not all I'm 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.520 in like the mainstream world and they the Congressional Black Caucus. 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.520 This is like, what did you say over texts like 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.160 Professional Essence Fest? 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.200 Exactly as we said black prom nerve prom. 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.440 I'm going to call it political wakanda. I feel like 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.480 politically that's probably right. I like that too, That's probably right. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:11.400 I like that too. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:13.160 So do you do you change up? 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.960 How do you alter your approach when going into an 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.080 environment like this with people who are typically pretty serious 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.440 about themselves the world life? 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.760 I feel like, how do you prepare? I feel like 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:31.280 the advantage I have at a black event is that 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:34.720 they know me, and you kind of already know you 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:37.040 know my brand. You know, I'm not gonna say the 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.679 all the way wrong thing. But I ain't regal. I'm 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.560 not gonna be regal like I would argue though, of 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.959 everything that I've done this year, hosting that June teenth 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.960 concert at the White House, that was the hardest. That 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.600 was the hardest event. Because the issue with an event 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.160 like this, it is similar to June thing like the 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:59.079 White House Correspondence dinner. It's understood that I can say 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:00.680 the wrong thing, and I know to say the wrong 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.320 thing June tenth and something like this. We are revering 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:08.040 people who are fighting against very serious issues and going 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.360 hit to head against very heinous people. There are people 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.560 in this room tonight who get death threats on a 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.600 regular and for their work, We're going to, you know, 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:16.240 honor them. 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:16.760 That's right. 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.119 So the balance of joke and reverence and we must 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:26.359 also remember racism and racism and the joke like that 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:30.239 balance is more difficult to maintain in an all black 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.160 place because black people will hold you accountable in real 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.480 time if you went too far, you know, one way 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:37.960 or the other. 0:03:38.120 --> 0:03:40.840 So I was telling the girls yesterday about a story 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.760 with a well known person we know here who was 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.560 in my city, Tallahassee, and we're sitting next to each 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.520 other on the podium and the brother didn't stand for 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:52.240 the pledge, and about eight black women after it was 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.880 a black event, came up to them and they just 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:58.160 wanted to know why. But we had a debate about 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.839 whether we be offended about being corrected a place like that. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.720 But you've had experience, I'm sure. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.440 Yeah, you've heard more than what you asked for. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.040 Yeah, and and and at the end of the day, 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:11.520 with black people, it's a critique, it's it's a it's 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.840 still a dialogue. It ain't no battle, it's not disrespect. 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:16.960 But it's just a matter of when you're going up 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:19.039 at an event like this, how do you make sure 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.080 that you maintain the respect and the reverence for while 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.000 also doing humor. And I'm thankful tonight because I have 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.000 a co host. 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.239 So this Sherry Shepherd co hosting. 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.680 The other interesting you weren't listening to and clearly, but 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.760 the other interesting thing is Roy that the chair of 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.000 this year's event is Congresswoman Terry Sewell and you are 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.000 son of Alabama. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:43.880 So it is it is a. 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.200 Terry Sewell used to come on my Morning show in Birmingham, 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.719 and I got to give her props because she wasn't 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.360 just coming on when it was time to grab votes 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.960 and re election and blah blah blah. You know they're 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:03.160 there's a there's a connection, and I'm gonna talk about 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:06.520 it tonight before we bring out Fantasia. But you know, 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.200 we had an F five tornado that came through Alabama. 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.800 Tornado came from Tuscaluse to Birmingham, killed fifty people, and 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.839 it hit one of the blackest parts of town, super hard. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.520 Terry Sewell was in that thing before sunrise, before the 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:24.520 Red Cross pulled up. Same night Fantasia was supposed to 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.200 have a show, could have canceled easily. Hey, y'all had 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:32.240 a tornado. I'll come back another time. Stay did the show, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:37.279 donated every penn. So like the connections between you know, 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.279 Fantasia and you know, congress Woman Sewell and myself, I'm 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.279 just like even to be here with y'all, Like I 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:47.160 don't y'all don't understand, Like I don't go nowhere, I 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.320 don't talk, I don't get around people that I don't 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.800 rock with. So when I'm in a space where I 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.080 feel like I don't have to look over my shoulder. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.520 I don't have to wonder if this is being recorded 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:03.479 for some other plicitous thing, and honestly, working at CNN 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.440 and Angela, I might need to talk to you about 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:08.240 this because this has opened up a whole nother can 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.440 of how the energy that people have towards me simply 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:17.280 because of the network that it's a Saturday night, it's jokes. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.960 Yeah, yeah, and they'd be like ha ha, hell yeah, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:21.600 I get it. 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.520 We need premiere yeah anywhere near. 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.280 But I do want to know if you can give 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:28.680 oh sorry, go ahead, Andrew, No, I. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:29.760 Said, not in the same category. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.480 Yeah, I do want to know if you can give 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:36.080 us a little preview of a joke you might could 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.920 potentially teill on stage tonight. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.320 I don't know. Here's what it comes down to, and 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.880 this is a conversation I had with Sherry. If Biden, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.000 how soon until Biden comes in the room before he 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:53.760 speaks is kind of the deciding factor because I don't 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.000 know if anyone has been able to look the president 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.240 in the eyes and go, hey, thank you for what 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.640 you did, like they all did it at the convention 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.520 in their own way or whatever, but just to be 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.600 able to stand on the stage and look at him 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.640 and just go, you are better than me, because if 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:15.600 I put in my two months notice, I'm not showing 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:16.880 up for no more shifts. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:17.480 Baby. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.120 This is me trying to get you to let me. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:21.920 This is me telling you I don't want to come 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:25.720 to fleee fireman. So you know, to give them prop 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.760 because who you know put in they notice and then 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:28.480 keep showing up. 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.120 Right, A good point. I never thought about it. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.720 Although Trump did say at the debate he sleep till 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:34.320 four pm. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.320 He snuff that in. Nobody called that. That's the type 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.560 of joke though, that you can only do if he's 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.720 in the room, because if he comes up back to 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.120 the fact, that's the sucker move. I know Sherry is gonna, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.400 you know, have some conversation with the Divine nine in 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.160 the room as well. I think she's gonna make sure 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.600 they get their time. I'm not a member of the 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.520 Divine Nine. I did not have the grades. I didn't 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.720 I didn't know they needed two five. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.720 Boy, I don't think anybody we had we might have 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.320 had the grace. But none of us are dividing. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:07.880 Yeah, none of us are that crazy. 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.760 This is defind odds up here. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.480 People always see me and they're like, hey, so rouror 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:12.120 and always. 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.840 Have to. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.360 They definitely make sure you don't make any of their 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.320 sounds or designs on air. 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.760 I worked with somebody who did that. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.120 I just tried to go. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.240 It's a non. 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:34.440 I want to tell you Roy, because we texted, but 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.839 I didn't get a chance to look you in your 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.439 face and tell you how hilarious you were. I was 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.760 so honored and privileged to be at your taping. 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:41.840 You taped your. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.440 Hulu special, right, it was so what I loved about 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.400 your comedy. And I won't give anything away. You guys, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.120 please be sure to tune in. I'll let Roy tell 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.680 you win and wear. But I love comedy that makes 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.040 a point, but also that touches you, you know, and 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.360 I felt like I was laughing. But I also felt 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:00.679 when you talked about connection, I really felt that. 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.680 So I just want to tell you you don't talk anymore, like. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.240 We don't interact as a society, Like we get mad 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:09.640 if people call us. Every meeting at your job is 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.880 on a computer. There's no employees in the stores anymore. 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.600 What I tried to make chit chat on the elevator 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:19.000 one time, Never again, you were able to talk for 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.280 three four floors in the hotel. Don't nobody want to talk? 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:22.920 Yeah? 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.320 So I just that was what I really wanted to 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:29.840 drill in on because what I noticed in watching my 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.559 mom and I talk about her a little bit and 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.839 a special is that you know, my mom is seventy five, 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.000 she's been a higher edge and she was twenty five 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.760 years old still working at a black college in Alabama 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.679 to this day. Yeah, I ain't gonna never quit. And 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.520 I've always been trying to get my mom to quit 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.880 her job, not understanding that it wasn't just about work 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:50.040 for her. It's about maintaining connection with the community, with 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.440 her people, and so seeing how she's active, and you know, 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.400 she's had friends that have passed and you still, like, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.160 I hate to say it, next man up, who I 0:09:59.200 --> 0:09:59.920 need a new friend? 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:00.400 Yeah? 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.600 Hey, you y'all got a book club? Cool, I'm here. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:03.079 Yeah. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.160 So the idea of working to make connections, that's something 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.120 you have to actively do, the same as cardio every morning, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.439 the same as nutrition. So I just wanted to talk 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:13.320 about that a little bit. 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.040 You made that point, but you wrapped it beautifully in humor, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.080 like we were laughing. But we all kind of looked 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.120 at each other after like we felt really connected, just 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:22.560 because I don't want to forget. I want you to 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.880 tell the people win and where they can catch this special. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.960 Oh, the Who's special will be out sometime. I think 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.040 at near the end of the year. I think with 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.200 the low key, I think who was waiting to see 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.880 how the election goes to decide? Kind of yeah, because 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.120 what you expect of me is political political. So you know, 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.440 if we are a country in turmoil and riots, then 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.280 maybe you slide de roy Wood Junior specially down to 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.440 town a little bit after the riots came. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.320 You have a prediction on how you think the election 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:50.680 will go. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.040 Yes, riots, I'm not pro riot. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.640 I just I don't take that part seriously. I think 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.839 I don't think they're gonna show like they once did. 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.280 I do not think that Republicans are going to accept 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.320 the results of this election. I think that Kamala has 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:12.480 turned a corner with enough moderates and undecided voters. I 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:14.960 think most people at this point that are still undecided. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.000 You were intentionally undecided to some degree. This idea that 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.960 you ain't seen us say nothing about it, Go find it. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:28.320 You find everything else you found everything else in your phone, 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.920 So go find go find the policy that you care 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.760 about it and read up on it and make a decision. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:37.520 So I don't I just do not see when Dick 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.839 Cheney says that he came. Now you noticed in the 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.559 video he never said Kamala vot. He just said I'm 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.440 not voting for Trump. That's gonna be enough for some 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.600 of them old school Republicans and maybe they stay home, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.920 and even then in that regard, it's still a vote 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.840 for Kamala in my opinion. I just I don't think though, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.560 at the rate of which they're locking up jan six offenders, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.320 we're going to have a new January. There's not going 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:06.360 to be another storm the Capitol Number one. The National 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.079 Guard gonna be there at that time, and they won't 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.640 put that thie out in your ass. You come up 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:14.080 back and stupid. But I think that I think Kamala wins. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.600 But I think that we'll have another year of Trump 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:23.200 lawsuit nonsense in trying to decertify the election. And I 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.560 think the thing that we really have to look for 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.400 in this election is the voter intimidation that I hope 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.920 doesn't happen. And a lot of disenfranchised places, and you know, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.280 you started talking about the way they've redrawn all the 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:42.520 districts in these battleground states. To me, that's the bigger 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:45.560 factor in this election is whether or not people will 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:47.559 be allowed to even vote to the polls. 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:50.400 Yeah, it's interesting because there are like these laws and 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.360 open carry states that you know, you have like these 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:55.839 people guarding the election, and I'm like, I wonder how 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.120 it will work if a bunch of armed black folks 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.560 stood out in front of a vote the facility in 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.400 a white neighborhood and we just here to observe and 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.640 make sure things go well. I don't think that'll go 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.760 to I think that's the fastest way to change laws. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.320 What I want to shout you out also, Roy, because 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:17.679 you are a journalist by training and you see degree. 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.199 I don't want you to let's go hope with it, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.360 but I have a degree. Yeah, yes, yes. 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.760 And I but so it makes sense to me that 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.800 you would have a show on CNN, even if it's 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.280 a comedy show, because I think you bridge those two 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:36.439 things beautifully. And I just I have always been such 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.520 a fan of yours, but also just consider you a 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.960 personal friend. So I'm just so proud to see you 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.000 here hosting a dinner tonight, and prow to see your 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:48.120 comedy special and proud to see your new show premiere 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.719 on CNN. And it just feels like it's your season. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:57.040 And this damn thing, this has been one of my 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.559 favorite You know what's funny, I thought when I left 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.000 the Daily Showing, like, yeah, I'm done with Dina listening 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:04.920 to no more politics. I ain't got to keep up. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.360 All right, let me go and see what and them 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:16.240 talking about. Let me go the download another episode, let 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:21.480 me go on subscribe, subscribe the Native Land and Daily Show, and. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:30.120 I just keeping. 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.200 Android. Forget the haters. Man. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.720 The fact that you are bringing to a cable news network, 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.880 by and large, comedy says so much about who you are, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.800 what your record has been, what you've demonstrated that otherwise 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:51.680 pretty conservative network. If I say so, in my limited 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.520 time I work with him, would say, you know what, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.360 there's room enough to pioneer something new and and so 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.000 doing and taking this Rik. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.160 Let's find the best out there who can do it. 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.280 And I'm thankful for it. And the other beautiful thing 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.080 about how I got news for you is that it's 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:07.960 it's based on a British show that's been on for 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:08.840 thirty five years. 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:09.080 Wow. 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.800 So in the eyes of CNN, it's not a risk. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.280 It's just the office. Let's see what else in Britain 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.760 we can remix and you apply it to American politics. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.560 It's a quiz show where we don't keep points and 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.520 no one wins, wins money and we just talk about 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.640 the news. It's just questions about the news. So if 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.200 you like quizzes, if you like the news, you don't 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.080 know that it's a simple way to learn about the 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.400 week that was and infuse a couple of opinions in there. 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:35.320 I'm gonna get you all on it. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:39.800 So you expect and we like to know who the winner. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.280 Do you want to tell him who the latest winner was? 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.200 The latest winner? 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:49.800 For really, the most and thought unprovoking bet that. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.720 We accept was whether or not Trump. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:56.880 Take the bet and debate Kamala. 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.520 So we shouldn't have yeah. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.120 For for for a second, for second for com for 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.080 Vice President Harris and Donald Trump to meet on a 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.080 debate stage at all. I said, that's never gonna happen. 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.720 He'll find every excuse not to show up. And Andrew 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.480 was with me, and was like, no, I think it's 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.200 going to happen, and so we said, let's ben. So 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:19.720 Angel was one, not one, but two dinners because she 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.640 said no, no, no, I met both of you all. 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.360 So that doesn't mean that we go out. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.120 And the bill last night. 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.880 That just means y'all got to split another dinner. That's 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:31.360 what we said. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.040 We love you guys. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:34.760 I'm not going We did all your money. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:41.000 A black owned restaurant at a black moby month. He 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.520 accommodated us and don't so we were happy. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.840 Can be running up this man bill he got a hold. 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:55.520 I know, Jay, I'm sorry, but he lost the bet. 0:16:52.760 --> 0:16:54.120 Going over the credit. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.480 See I used the one get the bills, Jay. 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:00.720 It was me. I was greedy. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:01.640 I was very greedy. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.000 Ida everything on the menu because I won. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:05.440 That. 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:06.920 What is your prep time? 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:08.400 Like, what are you doing up there when you leave 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.480 us and go back to backstage? 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:11.200 Is there? 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.840 It's so much show tonight that there's not a lot 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.600 of space. Sharry and I have identified two pockets where 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.360 we can do maybe like two to three minutes of bits. 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.080 Everything else is getting the people on the stage honored 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.040 and keeping it moving so that people can get back 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.679 to mingling. Because What we also have to remember is 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.680 that for a lot of our elected officials, this is 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:31.240 the first time where they can just come sit and 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.240 kick back and just on some class reunion what have 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:37.440 you been up to this year type of stuff. So, yeah, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:42.960 this is the lowest level of prep I've done this year. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.760 I can't wait. I'm this is this is how chill 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:50.440 I am. I'm tempted to have a drink before. I 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:51.679 absolutely will not. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.920 Absolutely, I do want to let the folks know because 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.639 I don't know what they can see. But behind us, 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.200 it is a ball. It looks like a wakanda balls. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.119 As Angelis said, this is the what do you call it? Wakanda? 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:07.439 Oh? 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.720 Political political wakanda. It is a bevy of beautiful black 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:17.159 people in floor length evening gowns. You know how the 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:25.960 hair I member of the Congressional Black Caucus. President Biden 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.320 will obviously be here tonight Vice President Harris or President 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.000 elect Harris. If we want to speak it into existence, 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.840 we'll be here tonight speaking some of the members of 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.200 the press pool. We've already seen them arrive early anticipating 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:38.800 her arrival. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.359 Secret services all around us. 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.159 So I just want to bring you guys into what 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.520 we're witnessing and experiencing here tonight, because it really is 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:47.960 truly a night to make history. This will be the 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.800 first time that Vice President Harris addresses this crowd as 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.920 the nominee for the next President of the United States. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:59.239 Hosted then or hosted by comedian Roy Wood Junior, co 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.760 hosted with Sherry Shepherd, and it's just a night of 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.000 beautiful black excellence. And I'm so thrilled to share this 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.440 evening with my beautiful co host Angela. Got this dress 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.800 shipped in from Wakanda. It was a three week. 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:11.719 Back order and it's beautiful. 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:14.520 Andrew is where you by look black, but he and 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.160 Roy were in the same colors with navy blue and black. 0:19:17.240 --> 0:19:17.440 True. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.920 What a beautiful evening to be here with you guys. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.720 Before to Oscar her, yes, yes, yes. 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:28.840 Yes, how have you all been in terms of because 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:32.200 I know for the podcasts and the prep I imagine 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.199 you have to do. It's take in all of the 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.800 bad stuff and then decide what bad stuff we will 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:42.320 talk about and what bad stuff we will not. Have 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.080 you figured out a way yet to only consume what 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.760