Roy Wood Jr.

You should enjoy this.

Yeah, but you don't.

Because you go to a room now, you know, back in the day.

There used to be rooms that were turned into a juke joint after the show.

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.