Roy Wood Jr.
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You were headed down the possible.
I was on that Stuart Scott, Kenny Maine, Van Earl Wright, Jenny Moose type thing.
offbeat like that.
Those were the journalists that I respected.
But he's cool, but he's doing, he's talking about what I love, but he sounds like me.
He was the first person, because before that, before Stu Scott, it was Fred Hickman.
And Fred Hickman was the more buttoned down, more appropriate, more like my father journalistically.
And Stuart Scott, to me, was the evolution.
That's so funny.
Just look at him.
Correct.
Because he's from Ed Bradley.
Ed Bradley was probably Fred Hickman's OG, journalistically.
Correct.
As was Vanner O'Wright, who had CNN Headline Sports at the time.
People talk real crazy and talk and do the highlights real fast.
I just liked it.
I like it was different.
It wasn't the traditional box of conservative behavior that I was told that you have to adhere to.
So, yeah, so I get a job offer.