Roy Wood Jr.

And I'd have my little Microsoft Word document, all caps, and rattle through them stories in under 90 seconds, man.

I was cold with it.

My co-host, the co-host of the show was a comedian named William E. Gilmore.

He's still my OG to this day.

Gilmore was the comedian on the show, cracked the jokes, do the skits, write the parody songs.

And I just got to sit and watch him.

I just watched him for two hours because I was only doing this.

This is the other thing.

I was only doing news on the 10 and the 40.

The rest of the time, I'm just shutting up.

I'm just I'm 19.

I'm just quiet.

And I'm watching two grown men just hold court with the community.

And and so Gilmore, because he was a school teacher, first bail is 830.

So 815, he out the door.

So from 815 to 10 a.m., it's just Van hosting the show.

And after a couple of months and Gilmore and I would start interacting in our news reports and knowing what I know now, it was him bringing me into the show.

It was him bringing me into the fold because instead of just doing a straight news in the WVHT News Center, I'm Roy Wood Jr.

Here's the news today in Tallahassee.

I would do a story and then Gilmore would be like, wait, wait, man, explain the story again.