Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.

I am Karen Hunter, and in this episode, I'm talking with one of my favorite comedians, Roy Wood Jr.

I think he's more than a comedian, though.

He's got a new book coming out soon.

It is called the man of many

fathers life lessons disguised as a memoir and oh my goodness some of the stories in here

lord have mercy well listen for yourself i was asking you off mike why you the ninth of eleven

became the junior why you why did you carry the legacy i don't know

my daddy died of 16 i should have asked them back then but i think that we like we talk about just

cheating right and like the idea of how certain men will move in a way that's just bold and they

don't care and when you move like, it's less of an issue.

I feel like between my pops and my mom's, because they were,

I got two younger half-brothers just for perspective, they were from an affair.

But my pops made moves in a way where it was just understood between him and my mom,

here's the line of disrespect, do not cross that, and I will not break your face.

And that's just what you have to do.

And I know my mom had her own reasons for why she didn't divorce him, and a lot of that is just financial.

But man, when you look at like this whole CEO thing, like with the Coldplay dude,

I understand how he could feel bold enough to just walk in a concert with his girl and figure

that nobody would know.

But men like my father, so I'm saying, my point is that men like my dad, and we're talking about black men of that civil rights era, you moved in public with your side piece a lot of the times. It was just understood Sunday is for the white. So this idea of the shame being attached to cheating, I feel like was a lot different. You look at Martin and Coreta.

Correa wasn't getting cheated on too, but there was rules to the game.

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