Reheat: Why Roy Wood Jr. Sees Pros To Bad Service And Confederate Flags

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Comedian and Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr. is known for his thoughtful and pointed takes on race. He joins us to discuss McRib conspiracy theories, the dangers of touring the South as a black comic, and the advantages of bad service and Confederate flags.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dan here. This week's reheat is my conversation with comedian Roy Wood Jr.
0:06.5	One of my very favorite comedians on the planet. We first aired this episode back in 2019
0:11.5	when he was still a correspondent for the Daily Show.
0:14.0	Last year he left the show.
0:15.2	He was hoping to be the permanent host of the Daily Show, but when he wasn't selected for
0:18.0	the job, he moved on.
0:19.9	And by the way, not that anyone asked me, but they should have picked him.
0:23.1	He was the perfect choice.
0:24.0	Anyway, he's now hosting a new podcast called Road to Rickwood.
0:27.6	It's about the oldest professional baseball stadium in the country, which is in Roy's home state of Alabama. Stadium has deep ties to the Negro leagues, women's suffrage,
0:35.0	and the civil rights movement.
0:36.0	The podcast launches on May 28th,
0:38.0	so I hope we'll check it out.
0:39.0	Now if you have an episode you like us to reheat in the future,
0:42.0	send me a message at hello at sporkful.com
0:45.0	One more quick note there are only two spots left on my culinary backstreet trip to Italy.
0:49.2	This pasta trip is going to take you to a lot of the same places I went to on my research trip.
0:53.0	You can eat pasta and Rome with Katie Parla, eat spaghetti, al-Sasina and bari with me.
0:56.8	It's going to be delicious, you're going to learn a lot.
0:58.9	Come hang out with me in Italy and eat pasta together.
1:00.8	It's going to be great.
1:01.8	Get more info and sign up at culinary back streets.
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