Roy Wood Jr.

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.

And Gilmore would have a joke.

So now we're kind of interacting a little bit.

So now this 90 second news break became two minutes, became two and a half, kind of became my own thing.

So when Gilmore left and would go to school, after I'd been established with the listenership and everything, Van would start doing what Gilmore did.

So in the eight o'clock and the nine o'clock hour, I started kind of co-hosting the whole show with Van.

And that night, that 830 to 10 a.m.

time frame, those air checks, which is for people don't know, that's like your audio resume when you work in television or any any form of broadcasting.

You send them an air check, which is just samples of you being on air, being good at your job.