Roy Wood Jr.

About sports.

Do you think the do you think sports journalism has benefited more or less from the flood of podcasts from athletes?

I like it.

I think that some are better than others in terms of the journalistic structure and the conversations they're trying to have.

But I mean, I've kind of enjoyed seeing active athlete and it's predominantly basketball.

It's not really a lot of baseball stuff.

I think football had I am athlete, but I think they broke up.

Yeah.

But I think that I think a lot of the athletes, though, they tend to be more open with one another.

And I wonder if that's because they have a familiarity with the person across the table or if traditional sports journalists aren't always as chill because they are all default into button down mode.

which makes the athlete button up, which makes him not tell you the good stories.

Yeah.

So then how do how do news outlets compete with that?

Then how do you compete with an athlete giving more to a podcaster than to your own reporter?

Because some of that stuff is as the conversation on some of these podcasts are as good like some of the J.J.

Reddick that J.J.

gets out of my face.

It's as good as stuff that would be on a Sunday morning.

are there any athletes that you found that liked criticism?

Cause I know they don't like it.