Roy Wood Jr.

And maybe if the date went well, you could sleep on the couch.

Like it wasn't even about sex.

It was just, I need somewhere to stay tonight.

You know, the show is late.

If you're a good enough date, then maybe they'll offer.

You're going to get back on the road.

It's late.

And I couldn't like I don't that's why I could never tell anyone that like anyone in their late 20s, early 30s where they go, well, how do I do it?

You know, the way you like you can't.

I think that's one of the biggest fallacies in any career is thinking that you can do it the same way the people you look up to did it.

The game has changed.

Gas was also a dollar twenty nine cent a gallon when I started gas.

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.