Roy Wood Jr.

And you could stay and just dance and talk and just meet and interact with people.

And I met, you know, to work in the South on a weekly basis and make enough money to pay bills.

I'm talking if you're trying to clear anywhere from twenty five to forty K, which is kind of what I cleared eventually as a middle act before I moved up to a headliner.

We're talking 01 through about 05.

Correct, correct.

Now, they're not covering gas in between, and if you have an off night, you got to figure that out.

You can lose 50 at a hotel room or you can fly and jay it.

Sometimes I would go do day labor and use the money from day labor to pay for the hotel room wherever I was in that town.

So, you know, just get to the city a day early, show up at 6 a.m.

with some work boots on, do a shift,

Come home at 5, go get a hotel room.

And so, I mean, there were ways to make it, to put it all together.

But, yeah, those were good times.

And I met a lot of people and a lot of great comics that I got to open for, I got to work with.

And the thing that really is impactful about that now is that a lot of those people, they've either quit or they've died or they've made it.

Just like knowing those are the three things.

Those are the three lanes for comedian, some suicide, some bad health.

But, you know, depending on the comedian, you could almost akin quitting to dying.

If they didn't want to quit, you know, you whatever life thing happened to you and.

I'd say if we're going across all genres, all races, I'd say about 500.