Roy Wood Jr.

the money in standup is exactly the same 50 to 75 to open a hundred to middle.

You might get 200 to be the last guy on stage.

If you want to call that a headliner, but gas is triple hotels or more.

The gigs are far and fewer in between.

So there, and then when I got to Birmingham, I started interning at a radio station there that ended up at for like 12 years.

If the gig was less than four hours, bro, I drove back that night.

because I need to be on air in the morning.

I'm trying to be Stuart Scott.

So I can't not, you know, I can't not water this plant.

So you find yourself just kind of living on both sides of the tracks at all times.

But when you're young and you're just driven and you're fueled by that, it's beautiful.

And then one day you're 44 and both of your industries that you're in are on strike.

Your show is in flux without a host.

And the economics of touring have changed immensely.

And you still have to get back out there with that same fever, that same, you know, passion.

And that's a very difficult thing to recreate when you have a child and you have responsibilities.

And I think that part of it.

You know, it's like Rocky three after Clubber Lane beat the shit out of Rocky.

And then Mickey sits Rocky down like, yo, man, you got rich.

You got comfortable.