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Roy Wood Jr.

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3544 total appearances

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

So I think that's the biggest difference.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

But, you know, I just think that if industries, if sports were to not take itself so seriously, it would take one quadrant.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

to not take itself so seriously, be it the journalists who don't want to be criticized ever, be it the fans, be it the players, be it the owners.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

One of those four corners.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

If one of those four corners lets off a load and goes, ah, we can laugh about it, then it would be okay.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

But it's too much money involved.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

It's way too much money involved.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

I was more inspired by Stuart Scott and Fred Hickman than I was my father in the beginning.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Cause my dad's work was more, he was a true radio news guy.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Like he went out and was embedded in wars, getting shot at with a tape recorder, Vietnam, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Now South African riots, civil rights movement, name a name, a riot in the sixties.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

So a man like that was,

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

who then matriculates into working in Chicago at WVON and starting, co-founding what we knew at the time as the National Black News Network, NBN.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

NBN was essentially a news outlet, a national syndicated news outlet that delivered news for Black people to let Black people know what's going on.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Here's the news that's relevant to us.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

And here's what this means for you.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

Here's what this policy thing means for us.

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Best of SBS: Roy Wood Jr.

You know, just being the news window between Black people and