Roy Wood Jr.
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Podcast Appearances
I got to, uh, shout out to Isaiah Yates and, um,
Brother Casas, I can't remember your first name, which I think is Roberto, but I don't want to be guessing on nobody's name.
And so we're at this game, Ray Costas.
So we're at this game.
You weren't going to stop until you got Ray Costas.
I had to remember because this is the first ever.
That was the other thing that is really dope that they extended their ballpark to black college grads and let us kick it and whatever.
And so Tom is there.
So Tom's foundation has raised like.
millions of dollars to send black kids to college.
And we're talking like 40, 50,000 children over the years, like unreal amounts of money.
And his syndicated show was so canon in black homes for so long.
And we got to talking about it and he talked about how he was scared to do it at first, like didn't even want to do it.
Didn't know quite what to do.
Then over the course of the years, you're the number one show.
You have all of these accolades and you're whooping ass.
And it was still people trying to tell him what to do.
It was still a tradeoff.
And, you know, the tradeoff worked for him.
But then I think about how little I think corporate respects talent now.