Roy Wood Jr.
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Podcast Appearances
Well, then that comes at a cost to a degree, because now.
Certain clubs aren't going to book you or you're going to deal with certain criticism.
So that part of it has always been a weird balancing act.
But at the end of the day, if I'm not excited to talk about the stuff I want to talk about, then I can't I can't be up here.
I don't I don't know.
Like, that's a weird it's a weird question to answer because I just kind of got.
I fucked myself for lack of a better phrasing.
So when I was in college and we can go down this rabbit hole if you want, but like when I was in college, when I was 18, 19, I got arrested for stealing credit cards to buy clothes.
So we're buying jeans and shit and selling them on campus, whatever.
I get caught.
I think I'm going to prison.
That is what my lawyer told me.
That is what everyone said.
Well, these cases are usually adjudicated at a five-year sentence, but with good behavior, you're a young man with no priors.
Correct.
Correct.
So I end up somehow getting probation instead of prison.
So in that time, up until sentencing, I started doing stand-up comedy just because I had no friends.
I was sad.
I stopped short of saying depression, knowing now what people who are depressed deal with.