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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 3: Welcome, Welcome, Hey, everybody. This episode is a replay of
Speaker 3: one of our interviews from our live stream as a
Speaker 3: Congressional Black Caucus Foundations Annual Legislative Conference. If you want
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Speaker 3: the links in the episode description. You can also find
Speaker 3: a full list of all the guests we interviewed. Welcome home, y'all.
Speaker 4: I want to let the viewers know that the dinner
Speaker 4: this evening will be hosted by Roy Wood Junior, amazing comedian.
Speaker 2: Radler absolutely and Sherry Shepherd.
Speaker 5: Evening.
Speaker 4: So, as Ryan's making his way to the stage, I
Speaker 4: want to let you all know he has a new
Speaker 4: show coming out on CNN.
Speaker 2: Have I got news for you.
Speaker 4: He just taped his first comedy special, which I was
Speaker 4: privileged to be there live in person to see to
Speaker 4: a sold out packs audience. So give some love to
Speaker 4: this Ratler great coming in. He and Andrew are kind
Speaker 4: of dressed like, hello, my dear, We're.
Speaker 5: So happy you're good. I don't I don't have my
Speaker 5: bow tie.
Speaker 6: I got the same color I see yet put it
Speaker 6: on sooner or later?
Speaker 2: So what what are we? First of all, Roy, how
Speaker 2: you doing? We're so happy to see you host.
Speaker 5: I'm good, I'm good. I'm just happy my voice arvived
Speaker 5: last week because that who was special and then prepping
Speaker 5: for seeing in and then doing all the media for
Speaker 5: that watching that way the dog who eating the doll? Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: but no, I'm I'm just happy to be you know
Speaker 5: how I get around like black folks? Yes, because I
Speaker 5: don't get it normally, Like it's I'm not all I'm
Speaker 5: in like the mainstream world and they the Congressional Black Caucus.
Speaker 5: This is like, what did you say over texts like
Speaker 5: Professional Essence Fest?
Speaker 7: Exactly as we said black prom nerve prom.
Speaker 8: I'm going to call it political wakanda. I feel like
Speaker 8: politically that's probably right. I like that too, That's probably right.
Speaker 5: I like that too.
Speaker 1: So do you do you change up?
Speaker 7: How do you alter your approach when going into an
Speaker 7: environment like this with people who are typically pretty serious
Speaker 7: about themselves the world life?
Speaker 5: I feel like, how do you prepare? I feel like
Speaker 5: the advantage I have at a black event is that
Speaker 5: they know me, and you kind of already know you
Speaker 5: know my brand. You know, I'm not gonna say the
Speaker 5: all the way wrong thing. But I ain't regal. I'm
Speaker 5: not gonna be regal like I would argue though, of
Speaker 5: everything that I've done this year, hosting that June teenth
Speaker 5: concert at the White House, that was the hardest. That
Speaker 5: was the hardest event. Because the issue with an event
Speaker 5: like this, it is similar to June thing like the
Speaker 5: White House Correspondence dinner. It's understood that I can say
Speaker 5: the wrong thing, and I know to say the wrong
Speaker 5: thing June tenth and something like this. We are revering
Speaker 5: people who are fighting against very serious issues and going
Speaker 5: hit to head against very heinous people. There are people
Speaker 5: in this room tonight who get death threats on a
Speaker 5: regular and for their work, We're going to, you know,
Speaker 5: honor them.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 5: So the balance of joke and reverence and we must
Speaker 5: also remember racism and racism and the joke like that
Speaker 5: balance is more difficult to maintain in an all black
Speaker 5: place because black people will hold you accountable in real
Speaker 5: time if you went too far, you know, one way
Speaker 5: or the other.
Speaker 7: So I was telling the girls yesterday about a story
Speaker 7: with a well known person we know here who was
Speaker 7: in my city, Tallahassee, and we're sitting next to each
Speaker 7: other on the podium and the brother didn't stand for
Speaker 7: the pledge, and about eight black women after it was
Speaker 7: a black event, came up to them and they just
Speaker 7: wanted to know why. But we had a debate about
Speaker 7: whether we be offended about being corrected a place like that.
Speaker 5: But you've had experience, I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you've heard more than what you asked for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and and at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: with black people, it's a critique, it's it's a it's
Speaker 5: still a dialogue. It ain't no battle, it's not disrespect.
Speaker 5: But it's just a matter of when you're going up
Speaker 5: at an event like this, how do you make sure
Speaker 5: that you maintain the respect and the reverence for while
Speaker 5: also doing humor. And I'm thankful tonight because I have
Speaker 5: a co host.
Speaker 2: So this Sherry Shepherd co hosting.
Speaker 9: The other interesting you weren't listening to and clearly, but
Speaker 9: the other interesting thing is Roy that the chair of
Speaker 9: this year's event is Congresswoman Terry Sewell and you are
Speaker 9: son of Alabama.
Speaker 2: So it is it is a.
Speaker 5: Terry Sewell used to come on my Morning show in Birmingham,
Speaker 5: and I got to give her props because she wasn't
Speaker 5: just coming on when it was time to grab votes
Speaker 5: and re election and blah blah blah. You know they're
Speaker 5: there's a there's a connection, and I'm gonna talk about
Speaker 5: it tonight before we bring out Fantasia. But you know,
Speaker 5: we had an F five tornado that came through Alabama.
Speaker 5: Tornado came from Tuscaluse to Birmingham, killed fifty people, and
Speaker 5: it hit one of the blackest parts of town, super hard.
Speaker 5: Terry Sewell was in that thing before sunrise, before the
Speaker 5: Red Cross pulled up. Same night Fantasia was supposed to
Speaker 5: have a show, could have canceled easily. Hey, y'all had
Speaker 5: a tornado. I'll come back another time. Stay did the show,
Speaker 5: donated every penn. So like the connections between you know,
Speaker 5: Fantasia and you know, congress Woman Sewell and myself, I'm
Speaker 5: just like even to be here with y'all, Like I
Speaker 5: don't y'all don't understand, Like I don't go nowhere, I
Speaker 5: don't talk, I don't get around people that I don't
Speaker 5: rock with. So when I'm in a space where I
Speaker 5: feel like I don't have to look over my shoulder.
Speaker 5: I don't have to wonder if this is being recorded
Speaker 5: for some other plicitous thing, and honestly, working at CNN
Speaker 5: and Angela, I might need to talk to you about
Speaker 5: this because this has opened up a whole nother can
Speaker 5: of how the energy that people have towards me simply
Speaker 5: because of the network that it's a Saturday night, it's jokes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and they'd be like ha ha, hell yeah,
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 5: We need premiere yeah anywhere near.
Speaker 3: But I do want to know if you can give
Speaker 3: oh sorry, go ahead, Andrew, No, I.
Speaker 7: Said, not in the same category.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do want to know if you can give
Speaker 3: us a little preview of a joke you might could
Speaker 3: potentially teill on stage tonight.
Speaker 5: I don't know. Here's what it comes down to, and
Speaker 5: this is a conversation I had with Sherry. If Biden,
Speaker 5: how soon until Biden comes in the room before he
Speaker 5: speaks is kind of the deciding factor because I don't
Speaker 5: know if anyone has been able to look the president
Speaker 5: in the eyes and go, hey, thank you for what
Speaker 5: you did, like they all did it at the convention
Speaker 5: in their own way or whatever, but just to be
Speaker 5: able to stand on the stage and look at him
Speaker 5: and just go, you are better than me, because if
Speaker 5: I put in my two months notice, I'm not showing
Speaker 5: up for no more shifts.
Speaker 8: Baby.
Speaker 5: This is me trying to get you to let me.
Speaker 5: This is me telling you I don't want to come
Speaker 5: to fleee fireman. So you know, to give them prop
Speaker 5: because who you know put in they notice and then
Speaker 5: keep showing up.
Speaker 2: Right, A good point. I never thought about it.
Speaker 7: Although Trump did say at the debate he sleep till
Speaker 7: four pm.
Speaker 5: He snuff that in. Nobody called that. That's the type
Speaker 5: of joke though, that you can only do if he's
Speaker 5: in the room, because if he comes up back to
Speaker 5: the fact, that's the sucker move. I know Sherry is gonna,
Speaker 5: you know, have some conversation with the Divine nine in
Speaker 5: the room as well. I think she's gonna make sure
Speaker 5: they get their time. I'm not a member of the
Speaker 5: Divine Nine. I did not have the grades. I didn't
Speaker 5: I didn't know they needed two five.
Speaker 8: Boy, I don't think anybody we had we might have
Speaker 8: had the grace. But none of us are dividing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, none of us are that crazy.
Speaker 8: This is defind odds up here.
Speaker 4: People always see me and they're like, hey, so rouror
Speaker 4: and always.
Speaker 2: Have to.
Speaker 3: They definitely make sure you don't make any of their
Speaker 3: sounds or designs on air.
Speaker 2: I worked with somebody who did that.
Speaker 8: I just tried to go.
Speaker 1: It's a non.
Speaker 4: I want to tell you Roy, because we texted, but
Speaker 4: I didn't get a chance to look you in your
Speaker 4: face and tell you how hilarious you were. I was
Speaker 4: so honored and privileged to be at your taping.
Speaker 2: You taped your.
Speaker 4: Hulu special, right, it was so what I loved about
Speaker 4: your comedy. And I won't give anything away. You guys,
Speaker 4: please be sure to tune in. I'll let Roy tell
Speaker 4: you win and wear. But I love comedy that makes
Speaker 4: a point, but also that touches you, you know, and
Speaker 4: I felt like I was laughing. But I also felt
Speaker 4: when you talked about connection, I really felt that.
Speaker 2: So I just want to tell you you don't talk anymore, like.
Speaker 5: We don't interact as a society, Like we get mad
Speaker 5: if people call us. Every meeting at your job is
Speaker 5: on a computer. There's no employees in the stores anymore.
Speaker 5: What I tried to make chit chat on the elevator
Speaker 5: one time, Never again, you were able to talk for
Speaker 5: three four floors in the hotel. Don't nobody want to talk?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So I just that was what I really wanted to
Speaker 5: drill in on because what I noticed in watching my
Speaker 5: mom and I talk about her a little bit and
Speaker 5: a special is that you know, my mom is seventy five,
Speaker 5: she's been a higher edge and she was twenty five
Speaker 5: years old still working at a black college in Alabama
Speaker 5: to this day. Yeah, I ain't gonna never quit. And
Speaker 5: I've always been trying to get my mom to quit
Speaker 5: her job, not understanding that it wasn't just about work
Speaker 5: for her. It's about maintaining connection with the community, with
Speaker 5: her people, and so seeing how she's active, and you know,
Speaker 5: she's had friends that have passed and you still, like,
Speaker 5: I hate to say it, next man up, who I
Speaker 5: need a new friend?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Hey, you y'all got a book club? Cool, I'm here.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So the idea of working to make connections, that's something
Speaker 5: you have to actively do, the same as cardio every morning,
Speaker 5: the same as nutrition. So I just wanted to talk
Speaker 5: about that a little bit.
Speaker 4: You made that point, but you wrapped it beautifully in humor,
Speaker 4: like we were laughing. But we all kind of looked
Speaker 4: at each other after like we felt really connected, just
Speaker 4: because I don't want to forget. I want you to
Speaker 4: tell the people win and where they can catch this special.
Speaker 5: Oh, the Who's special will be out sometime. I think
Speaker 5: at near the end of the year. I think with
Speaker 5: the low key, I think who was waiting to see
Speaker 5: how the election goes to decide? Kind of yeah, because
Speaker 5: what you expect of me is political political. So you know,
Speaker 5: if we are a country in turmoil and riots, then
Speaker 5: maybe you slide de roy Wood Junior specially down to
Speaker 5: town a little bit after the riots came.
Speaker 2: You have a prediction on how you think the election
Speaker 2: will go.
Speaker 5: Yes, riots, I'm not pro riot.
Speaker 7: I just I don't take that part seriously. I think
Speaker 7: I don't think they're gonna show like they once did.
Speaker 5: I do not think that Republicans are going to accept
Speaker 5: the results of this election. I think that Kamala has
Speaker 5: turned a corner with enough moderates and undecided voters. I
Speaker 5: think most people at this point that are still undecided.
Speaker 5: You were intentionally undecided to some degree. This idea that
Speaker 5: you ain't seen us say nothing about it, Go find it.
Speaker 5: You find everything else you found everything else in your phone,
Speaker 5: So go find go find the policy that you care
Speaker 5: about it and read up on it and make a decision.
Speaker 5: So I don't I just do not see when Dick
Speaker 5: Cheney says that he came. Now you noticed in the
Speaker 5: video he never said Kamala vot. He just said I'm
Speaker 5: not voting for Trump. That's gonna be enough for some
Speaker 5: of them old school Republicans and maybe they stay home,
Speaker 5: and even then in that regard, it's still a vote
Speaker 5: for Kamala in my opinion. I just I don't think though,
Speaker 5: at the rate of which they're locking up jan six offenders,
Speaker 5: we're going to have a new January. There's not going
Speaker 5: to be another storm the Capitol Number one. The National
Speaker 5: Guard gonna be there at that time, and they won't
Speaker 5: put that thie out in your ass. You come up
Speaker 5: back and stupid. But I think that I think Kamala wins.
Speaker 5: But I think that we'll have another year of Trump
Speaker 5: lawsuit nonsense in trying to decertify the election. And I
Speaker 5: think the thing that we really have to look for
Speaker 5: in this election is the voter intimidation that I hope
Speaker 5: doesn't happen. And a lot of disenfranchised places, and you know,
Speaker 5: you started talking about the way they've redrawn all the
Speaker 5: districts in these battleground states. To me, that's the bigger
Speaker 5: factor in this election is whether or not people will
Speaker 5: be allowed to even vote to the polls.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting because there are like these laws and
Speaker 4: open carry states that you know, you have like these
Speaker 4: people guarding the election, and I'm like, I wonder how
Speaker 4: it will work if a bunch of armed black folks
Speaker 4: stood out in front of a vote the facility in
Speaker 4: a white neighborhood and we just here to observe and
Speaker 4: make sure things go well. I don't think that'll go
Speaker 4: to I think that's the fastest way to change laws.
Speaker 4: What I want to shout you out also, Roy, because
Speaker 4: you are a journalist by training and you see degree.
Speaker 5: I don't want you to let's go hope with it,
Speaker 5: but I have a degree. Yeah, yes, yes.
Speaker 4: And I but so it makes sense to me that
Speaker 4: you would have a show on CNN, even if it's
Speaker 4: a comedy show, because I think you bridge those two
Speaker 4: things beautifully. And I just I have always been such
Speaker 4: a fan of yours, but also just consider you a
Speaker 4: personal friend. So I'm just so proud to see you
Speaker 4: here hosting a dinner tonight, and prow to see your
Speaker 4: comedy special and proud to see your new show premiere
Speaker 4: on CNN. And it just feels like it's your season.
Speaker 5: And this damn thing, this has been one of my
Speaker 5: favorite You know what's funny, I thought when I left
Speaker 5: the Daily Showing, like, yeah, I'm done with Dina listening
Speaker 5: to no more politics. I ain't got to keep up.
Speaker 5: All right, let me go and see what and them
Speaker 5: talking about. Let me go the download another episode, let
Speaker 5: me go on subscribe, subscribe the Native Land and Daily Show, and.
Speaker 8: I just keeping.
Speaker 5: Android. Forget the haters. Man.
Speaker 7: The fact that you are bringing to a cable news network,
Speaker 7: by and large, comedy says so much about who you are,
Speaker 7: what your record has been, what you've demonstrated that otherwise
Speaker 7: pretty conservative network. If I say so, in my limited
Speaker 7: time I work with him, would say, you know what,
Speaker 7: there's room enough to pioneer something new and and so
Speaker 7: doing and taking this Rik.
Speaker 1: Let's find the best out there who can do it.
Speaker 5: And I'm thankful for it. And the other beautiful thing
Speaker 5: about how I got news for you is that it's
Speaker 5: it's based on a British show that's been on for
Speaker 5: thirty five years.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 5: So in the eyes of CNN, it's not a risk.
Speaker 5: It's just the office. Let's see what else in Britain
Speaker 5: we can remix and you apply it to American politics.
Speaker 5: It's a quiz show where we don't keep points and
Speaker 5: no one wins, wins money and we just talk about
Speaker 5: the news. It's just questions about the news. So if
Speaker 5: you like quizzes, if you like the news, you don't
Speaker 5: know that it's a simple way to learn about the
Speaker 5: week that was and infuse a couple of opinions in there.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna get you all on it.
Speaker 7: So you expect and we like to know who the winner.
Speaker 8: Do you want to tell him who the latest winner was?
Speaker 5: The latest winner?
Speaker 7: For really, the most and thought unprovoking bet that.
Speaker 3: We accept was whether or not Trump.
Speaker 5: Take the bet and debate Kamala.
Speaker 1: So we shouldn't have yeah.
Speaker 4: For for for a second, for second for com for
Speaker 4: Vice President Harris and Donald Trump to meet on a
Speaker 4: debate stage at all. I said, that's never gonna happen.
Speaker 4: He'll find every excuse not to show up. And Andrew
Speaker 4: was with me, and was like, no, I think it's
Speaker 4: going to happen, and so we said, let's ben. So
Speaker 4: Angel was one, not one, but two dinners because she
Speaker 4: said no, no, no, I met both of you all.
Speaker 2: So that doesn't mean that we go out.
Speaker 1: And the bill last night.
Speaker 8: That just means y'all got to split another dinner. That's
Speaker 8: what we said.
Speaker 2: We love you guys.
Speaker 8: I'm not going We did all your money.
Speaker 2: A black owned restaurant at a black moby month. He
Speaker 2: accommodated us and don't so we were happy.
Speaker 5: Can be running up this man bill he got a hold.
Speaker 3: I know, Jay, I'm sorry, but he lost the bet.
Speaker 5: Going over the credit.
Speaker 7: See I used the one get the bills, Jay.
Speaker 2: It was me. I was greedy.
Speaker 8: I was very greedy.
Speaker 2: Ida everything on the menu because I won.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 2: What is your prep time?
Speaker 4: Like, what are you doing up there when you leave
Speaker 4: us and go back to backstage?
Speaker 2: Is there?
Speaker 5: It's so much show tonight that there's not a lot
Speaker 5: of space. Sharry and I have identified two pockets where
Speaker 5: we can do maybe like two to three minutes of bits.
Speaker 5: Everything else is getting the people on the stage honored
Speaker 5: and keeping it moving so that people can get back
Speaker 5: to mingling. Because What we also have to remember is
Speaker 5: that for a lot of our elected officials, this is
Speaker 5: the first time where they can just come sit and
Speaker 5: kick back and just on some class reunion what have
Speaker 5: you been up to this year type of stuff. So, yeah,
Speaker 5: this is the lowest level of prep I've done this year.
Speaker 5: I can't wait. I'm this is this is how chill
Speaker 5: I am. I'm tempted to have a drink before. I
Speaker 5: absolutely will not.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I do want to let the folks know because
Speaker 4: I don't know what they can see. But behind us,
Speaker 4: it is a ball. It looks like a wakanda balls.
Speaker 4: As Angelis said, this is the what do you call it? Wakanda?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Political political wakanda. It is a bevy of beautiful black
Speaker 4: people in floor length evening gowns. You know how the
Speaker 4: hair I member of the Congressional Black Caucus. President Biden
Speaker 4: will obviously be here tonight Vice President Harris or President
Speaker 4: elect Harris. If we want to speak it into existence,
Speaker 4: we'll be here tonight speaking some of the members of
Speaker 4: the press pool. We've already seen them arrive early anticipating
Speaker 4: her arrival.
Speaker 2: Secret services all around us.
Speaker 4: So I just want to bring you guys into what
Speaker 4: we're witnessing and experiencing here tonight, because it really is
Speaker 4: truly a night to make history. This will be the
Speaker 4: first time that Vice President Harris addresses this crowd as
Speaker 4: the nominee for the next President of the United States.
Speaker 4: Hosted then or hosted by comedian Roy Wood Junior, co
Speaker 4: hosted with Sherry Shepherd, and it's just a night of
Speaker 4: beautiful black excellence. And I'm so thrilled to share this
Speaker 4: evening with my beautiful co host Angela. Got this dress
Speaker 4: shipped in from Wakanda. It was a three week.
Speaker 2: Back order and it's beautiful.
Speaker 4: Andrew is where you by look black, but he and
Speaker 4: Roy were in the same colors with navy blue and black.
Speaker 5: True.
Speaker 4: What a beautiful evening to be here with you guys.
Speaker 8: Before to Oscar her, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 5: Yes, how have you all been in terms of because
Speaker 5: I know for the podcasts and the prep I imagine
Speaker 5: you have to do. It's take in all of the
Speaker 5: bad stuff and then decide what bad stuff we will
Speaker 5: talk about and what bad stuff we will not. Have
Speaker 5: you figured out a way yet to only consume what
Speaker 5: you need in terms of what you want to present
Speaker 5: to your listeners or do you still have to take
Speaker 5: in every terrible thing, and if so, what's what's your system?
Speaker 5: What's your mental health?
Speaker 3: This is a really great opportunity to pub podcast that
Speaker 3: we did. We did a mini pod where we actually
Speaker 3: had a battle tip.
Speaker 8: And I have never gotten an argument.
Speaker 3: We got in an argument that day about whether or
Speaker 3: not we should put something out. I thought she was
Speaker 3: saying something she wasn't, but it was like, I feel
Speaker 3: like we need to listen to everything that's happening. It
Speaker 3: was about black Trump supporters, and I wanted to hear
Speaker 3: it because I thought it was I couldn't even wrap
Speaker 3: my mind around it, but it's the same thing for
Speaker 3: me that was like the trigger of the trauma of
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen. So I was like, we have to be
Speaker 3: aware of this because I was oblivious to it in
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen. And I think they Andrew and Tiff, who agreed,
Speaker 3: were both like, we don't have to go about it
Speaker 3: this way though.
Speaker 8: So it was a whole battle. But I think what's
Speaker 8: good about the battle is there are a lot.
Speaker 3: Of folks who have family members who have that same
Speaker 3: conversation in that same way every time they get together.
Speaker 3: Whether there was a picnic over the summer, if it's
Speaker 3: about to be Thanksgiving dinner, hopefully this man, well, I'm
Speaker 3: trying to be as nonpartisan as possible because it's the foundation,
Speaker 3: but in my personal capacity, I hope this man doesn't win.
Speaker 3: And that's, you know, kind of what we're up again.
Speaker 3: So we try to figure out every week. I think
Speaker 3: Tiffany does a good, bad, good job of challenging us
Speaker 3: to not sound like every other news network and making
Speaker 3: sure that we're providing information to our listeners who sometimes
Speaker 3: don't get those stories. They're below the fold or there
Speaker 3: in the B section or the Z section, meaning they
Speaker 3: did not get in there, and she will go and
Speaker 3: find them and make sure that we are talking about
Speaker 3: those things. I'm grateful for you, tip for you guys,
Speaker 3: and and.
Speaker 7: But I did want to say this to be very honest.
Speaker 7: It has evolved a number of times, and we've only
Speaker 7: done forty episodes up to this point around show format,
Speaker 7: how do we prepare and our preparation is very different
Speaker 7: in between the three of us. And then, if I
Speaker 7: could be even more honest, our show flow right now
Speaker 7: was like what you feeling, what you're feeling, and talk
Speaker 7: about it, and.
Speaker 4: Every time we do a call before the show just
Speaker 4: to check in with each other, and we're constantly saying
Speaker 4: we're potting, like, don't talk about this. I want, like,
Speaker 4: I want the audience to feel like they're in the
Speaker 4: room with us, and if we have people there with us,
Speaker 4: you know, if we are too prepared, then it doesn't work.
Speaker 4: And as a journalist, obviously, I'm still reading eight nine
Speaker 4: papers every morning, so I have not figured out how
Speaker 4: to only consume what I need. But I just have
Speaker 4: curiosity about a lot of things.
Speaker 5: I enjoyed reading local news, you know, I like reading
Speaker 5: local papers and local sections. But the problem now is
Speaker 5: that with with the way that local newspapers are being
Speaker 5: gobbled up by larger outlets, a lot of local stories
Speaker 5: are the same across that's right, So you might have
Speaker 5: three true local stories. You know. I have a friend
Speaker 5: that's a reporter for Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was talking
Speaker 5: to me how they cut down their local reporter pool. Yeah,
Speaker 5: an even lower number. And it's okay, Well, now who
Speaker 5: do you have have covering all of those stories? So
Speaker 5: it's just it's real.
Speaker 2: It's happening everywhere.
Speaker 4: That's why your show coming on CNN is so important
Speaker 4: because it makes you's accessible, your comedy special. Whenever it airs,
Speaker 4: we're excited about it. Well, thank you so and just
Speaker 4: everything that you have going on, Roy, your your previous
Speaker 4: pastors have not figured it out yet.
Speaker 2: I think they lost a gym when they lost you.
Speaker 4: But I'm just happy that your fans, and there are
Speaker 4: so many will get to experience and hear you on
Speaker 4: an ongoing basis.
Speaker 5: Well, every Saturday night, nine pm CNN, streaming next day
Speaker 5: on Max, we're talking about the news of the week
Speaker 5: and some of the hole on the way. And let
Speaker 5: me also stress lastly, the show is not just political
Speaker 5: news like it could be the debate. Yeah, but also
Speaker 5: Shannon Sharp was laying pipe on Instagram.
Speaker 3: Lot wow, Roy, And on that note.
Speaker 5: I'm just saying we are covering a range of topics.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, let me tell you what you go see
Speaker 6: going live on it lampid good luck tonight, we're soup.
Speaker 5: I couldn't make that joke later, so he gave it.
Speaker 3: He's like, I gotta throwing out before I go.
Speaker 5: Let me, let me I'm not God, let it go. Dignitaries,
Speaker 5: don't do that.
Speaker 9: Roy, Thank you right by yourself.
Speaker 2: You've got a crowd of people waiting for you up there.
Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, we are thrilled at this time. Thank you, Roy,
Speaker 8: We appreciate you.
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