Roy Wood Jr.
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And I don't know if like black men just thought it made you look gay if you bought one.
Cause you know, you walk around, Ooh, I got a little iced coffee and you know, homophobia.
And I, so I,
I ain't saying this is true.
I'm just telling you what I was thinking.
I just feel like at the time, they're like, yeah, go get me one of them gay coffees that I like, that I don't drink in public, little Negro.
So I get the internship at Hot 105, and I'm now the newsman.
And on the days that I can't come in studio, I'm recording news reports from the house and emailing them to them.
The technology isn't what it is now, but it was garbled, but...
It was good enough for me to get the job done if I was absentee.
And I would pick three national stories from USA Today, two local stories from the Tallahassee Democrat, and a kicker story from wherever I could find something, some little chuckle story or whatever.
And I would write out my copy, bro.
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.